Place: Carrow Road Time: 1500 GMT/1000 EST/after an England batting collapse in the Boxing Day test for @And_ROOS TV: Peacock Premium Couple of good home games in a row, followed by an easy enough league cup win. Let's continue this away from home and continue Norwich's march to relegation.
Lets get a big win to keep the GD growing. Would love a 4 or 5 to 1 win. Confidence is up, system is working, keep the good times going baybehhhh. Also boxing day will be a hard slog, will be casually obese from xmas, up to watch the cricket til late and then 2am on the 27th is the Arsenal match.
No Tomiyasu, looks like White at RB unless it is a back 3. And Patino makes the subs bench. 🚨 TEAM NEWS! 🇧🇷 Martinelli starts🇳🇴 Odegaard in midfield🇫🇷 Lacazette up frontLet’s do this, Gunners 🙌#NORARS pic.twitter.com/UCdhUzcpKw— Arsenal (@Arsenal) December 26, 2021
Looks like 4-2-3-1 to me, with Laca up top. Good lineup me thinks. With that slight wrinkle of Holding in as CB and White moving out to RB as you highlighted. Interesting the ESR hasn't made it back into the XI yet, but it should be a good enough team to take 3pts at Norwich. COYG!!!!
Takehiro Tomiyasu, Cedric Soares and Ainsley Maitland-Niles have all tested positive for COVID, Arsenal confirm. #AFC— Chris Wheatley (@ChrisWheatley) December 26, 2021
Watched the Bruges derby this morning (because I'm a slave to the groove). The rest of my day is spoken for. Have a great boxing day.
1-0 Arsenal. Good play by Tierney to win the ball. Thought Odegaard should have shot and not passed, but Saka's shot found its way in.
13' and so far Martinelli has been an animal at winning 50/50's or 40/60's... shouldering his opponent off the ball. A GREAT feature to see in his game.
Small sample size but given how White looks today I could see us easily finding minutes for Saliba next season with White rotating with Tomi at RB.
That's a good idea. As long as White is deft at switching back and forth between roles. But I don't know if it's in Arteta's DNA to do this though. He seems to really like to keep consistent lines and pairings... game to game.
Random question... anyone know what is up with players having holes in their socks on their calf? Noticed that Martinelli has them today. When we played Southampton I noticed 3-4 Saints that had 1-3 holes on the back of their socks.
Efan Ekoku seems to be in one of his trademark bad moods today. So sour in color commentary. I would be too if I was working today, I get it, but sheesh.
Cedric isn't ideal as backup RB, Arteta has to change the way they play if Tomi is out. White is much more of a like for like sub.
I think Tomi/White rotating at RB and Gabi/White/Saliba rotating at CB makes too much sense. Probably more so then the White at DM that was suggested in the other game thread. You keep Holding around as the 4th CB for cup matches and depth in case of injury.