Ashburton Grove hosts the kickoff at 8:00pm GMT/4:00pm EDT/10:00am HST. Paramount+ has the moving pictures in the States. Need a win to guarantee top spot in the group and the resultant bye straight into the round of 16. Still, Zürich are bad, and with Chelsea looming on Sunday I’d be inclined to rotate heavily but stock the bench with the heavy artillery. Let’s be having ‘em. Up the Arsenal.
If by "heavy rotation" you mean 5 of 11 players, which is basically what we did last week for UEL at PSV, then I can easily imagine that. But much more rotation than that I would doubt, given Arteta's track record, plus the perceived importance of going directly to R16. One position I'm very curious about is GK. If Turner is fit for the squad, will he be reinserted to the XI??
Yes it is! I meant to add that to my last post. On my system it's on TUDN channel. I let my DVR record that automatically just in case I have some issues with P+
Lets ********ing go... as in, lets ********ing go with a young squad and give our key players a rest before our big match with Chelsea. 2-0 win, Marquinhos and Nketiah to score!~
To clinch top spot we need to match PSV's result. And since we have zero control over what they do, and unless they're down 0-5 at HT in Norway (unlikely), I expect we will go for a win, right from the off. We damn well better!
Didn't realise their GD was so good and ours was so poor in comparison. So a draw won't suffice, its a must win. That said, Zurich have been woeful. I just don't see how we lose even with heavy rotations. Right now we have Ajax, Leverkusen, Barca and Sporting dropping into the EL after todays CL results.
xhaka suspended means odegaard starts. the only question is whether he plays the 10 on the right with vieira taking xhaka's 8 or vice versa. saka's kick and marquinhos running out for the U21 last night means, we're probably looking at martinelli and nelson on the wings which puts nelson on the right even though i think he's the better LW when tierney plays. tierney is due his start on the left and the one thought i never thought i'd actually have: preferably cedric on the right. i don't mind white + tomi coming in after the hour to finish the game off but having them physically ready for chelsea feels a big deal even if zinchenko is being aimed for that game. big gabby partnering holding feels like the better move to me but i think, if pattern holds, it's going to be saliba.
Per Charles Watts, Arteta says Saka is fine and available for Zurich. Doesn't mean he will start, but doesn't mean he won't.
Sure it's Mikel we're talking about here, but if I had to bet I'd say Saka is left on the bench and if the game state dictates, he'll come in later. p.s. Although Mo & Alex are back in training, it doesn't seems like they're very close to playing, let alone getting into the XI.
Jesus hat-trick to build his confidence for Chelsea. Sambi plays the left 8. Nelson rewarded. Cedric still banished to the bench. Saka is spared.
Well, I got it right about Saka. But wrong about Elneny who's in the XI... surprisingly! Zinchenko on the bench... another surprise. But I'm really happy to see Xhaka get a rest for a change. So in that sense I completely welcome Mo. Jesus starting is not exactly music to my ears, but I guess it tells you how incredibly important he is to your offense, even if he's not sticking it in the net himself. So if he's gonna play, let's see him get back to scoring ways!!! COYG!!!!
Anybody else having problems streaming the match on P+? I was streaming the Golazzo show just fine but the match itself is horribly chopped up. Pretty much unwatchable. May have to resort to TUDN in Spanish.
I'm watching fine on TUDN... streaming from my DVR to my iPad. I've been asking Paramount to add a FFWD, RWD feature and it seems they just added it (today?). Perhaps that's related to their streaming problems. New GUI/features not well tested???
My P+ stream just restarted itself at 4:40 but the quality still sucks. Loads of dropped frames or freezes. Don't ya just love the wild west of streamers?
Paramount + has been awful all year. The app works intermittently on all my devices and their feeds are choppy. I feel like I’m watching this in less than SD and still can’t be certain Zurich aren’t playing in pennies.