So here we go again. Another must-win game for the Gunners, and Arsene Wenger will be taking very few chances at a venue which has traditionally been a banana skin for Arsenal in the past.
We already knew that Mustafi was not available and I’m not surprised that Per Mertesacker is put in his place to help deal with Charlie Austin’s threat in the air..
So here was my predicted team this morning and (surprise!) I actually got it right for change!
Cech
Koscielny Mertesacker Monreal
Bellerin Xhaka Ramsey Kolasinac
Alexis Ozil
Lacazette
CONFIRMED team just out…..
This should be enough to give us the three points today, as the Arsenal go marching in to St Marys!
Admin
Not bad, wilshere should start the next game though.
Wilshere could start if either Sanchez or Ozil is injured.
Hey, well done Admin, you got your team prediction spot on for once ?
May not be too many Gooners at the game even though no snow in Southampton but loads in london and Home Counties. We are snowed in here in Hemel with roads closed and abandoned cars everywhere. Travel safely if your going.
Predictable and risky … Mert is poor in the air and will be bullied by Austin and in boffal and tadic they have a couple of nippy and skillful forwards who will trouble the defence … Much will depend on whether this very average midfield can control enough of the game to allow the attack to do their job their defence is solid but if the three are on form it should be enough to see them off.. Another poor game from xhaka and that migh be curtains for the 40m dollar man
Who were the 5 s@@@ heads who thumbed down the obvious ?
with the fingers crossed………hope for nothing but 3point
Fkcu Xhaka.. Wilshere should start.. Guy has been MOTM in europa leagues..
Xhaka is a DM Wilshere is an attacking player. Xhaka comes of for Coquelin not Wilshere.
Xhaha is no DM as he repeatedly shows. Jack cannot be as bad as him.
Very difficult game IMO. Southampton is disciplined and pretty skilled, not something we do well with when we are considered the favorites or the better team.
The easiest or best case scenario would be for us to score an early goal to force Southampton to come at us.
As always it depends on which Arsenal shows up and if they play for 90 minutes. We have seen many times including last weekend, in the PL you can not expect to win if you only play for 75 minutes or even 85 minutes. You switch off for 5 minutes in this league and you can be toast.
We can’t afford a draw, we can drop 5 points in 2 games. A must win game IMO.
this is gonna be tough, dogged resilient Southampton team
can they do it on a cold night in sto…erm day in Hampshire?!
coyg
This game will tell us a lot about how the rest of the season is going to go. Hopefully we can get the right result
We’re in trouble, we’re in blue COYG
2 minutes and losing altready, wtf is wrong with our defence?
two words.
can u guess?
Arsene Wenger
Wtf, stupid BFG
Our CBs are stupid
Get Mert off already
haha mertesacker still playing in 2017
wtf almost two nil
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUUUUUUUUU 4 MINUTES IN!!
Omg fkn idiots
Is this arsenals Sunday pub team.
Bs we losing 5-0 tiday
Yep it Is!!!!!
an hit the post
WERE GONNA GET DESTROYED
WENGER DO YOUR FECKING JOBBBBBBBB
NOWWWWWWWW
Could be 3 nil down already
What a way to make a statement.
Useless defending as well as attacking.
No doubt he will get a bumper new deal at the end of his current contract.
Win, lose or draw.
Play well, play badly or play absolutely terribly.
Wenger will always get a new deal.
Because Arsenal have no standards whatsoever..
O’Mert,O’Dead Wood
If we count how many games we lost because of him in 5 years,it is not les than 20.If we add draws,it is about as much.We actually would of won 2 league titles,if he was out.He is slow and dumb.Period.
For two years Koscielny and Mertsacker were the top CB duo in the PL.
Blaming him for not winning the PL is ridiculous. Saying if he was out we would have won 2 premier league titles is nonsense. Blame Wenger.
He has also helped us win Trophies ie this year’s FA Cup
Another mistake as usual
Slow sideways passing, because this always works ?
Yey we are the we concede in the first 5 to 10!
Let’s make a song up!
Muppets!
Sorry but Holding should be in for Mustafi.
Pantomime season has truly begun.
Except Arsenal is not funny or entertaining
Arsenal are being held back by an old fool long past his best who puts his own needs before the club.
One step forwards and another back.
Omg wtf , what a poor touch laca
The descent of bellerin is pretty dramatic …he should bot be a starter in this team ..
Coincided with the change in shape, no? Maybe he’s not a wingback and would prefer a back 4?
Every other teams fans are watching and laughing at us, kos and Monreals confidence looks shot!
But the worst is xhaka … He is an embarrassment to this team
can you really blame ozil and sanchez for wanting to leave this sh!t team and sh!t manager
Playing alongside Ramsey and xhaka and mert and bellerin I can fully understand them
Ramsey is the only one closing down in midfield and ozil is back to being shit. Open your eyes.
Can’t blame them at all for wanting to leave.
No defense no wall or blocker in front of the defence xhaka not the answer!
And no balls, why wasn’t somebody shouting and rallying the players to tell them to wake up no one!
Mert get of the pitch!
Can anyone remember the last time bellerin passed the ball forward? Or even took a defender on?
The change in shape has changed his performances.
Enough is enough. Weegor gtf
Just forfeit the game and save us the embarrassment.
Soton might win this
What a mess !!
Sanchez hasn’t made a run in-behind in 4 Weeks. Just sits in the same pocket and tries to scoop balls over the top.
One of a million reasons we need to go back to 4 in the back and use wingers in their natural position.
Mert shouldn’t be starting, neither should Xhaka (the left footed Mikel Arteta at the end of his Arsenal career.
A mess is being kind.
At least Ozil looking good again, now rest of team must step up.
We make Soton look like effing Brazil. We are crap!
No defence hapless midfield .. How the f@@@ dies wenger think the front 3 can perform
Bereft of belief with ruined confidence.
Dreadful
Get fing xhaka off the pitch …
I agree. He can’t tackle, can’t track attackers and is a physical coward.
Is Belerin fit? It don’t look it.
Arsenal go behind.
Arsenal are now “pinning the opposition back”
Wait for us to go further behind now.
Despite all of the current problems leading to one person no one can see what the problem is.
At least not at Arsenal anyway…
This is a game for Jack I’d ever I saw one. Someone in the middle of the park with some grit who can calm and control
We must change formation and get mert off.
Bring in extra midfielder like coq
This team is just useless!!
Get mert off please before it’s too late.
xhaka is gonna destroy our season
an wenger is the cause cos he plays him regardless
Wed be better starting the europa league side here this lot all look shot to pieces!
Is mert drunk?
Or high
The air up there is prob thin.
No,just usual:slow and dumb.
Well I’m feeling inspired at the moment, I’m off for a poo!
Haha!!
mert off xhaka
coquelin jack need a shout here
wenger u can turn this game around at half time
how good are you
show us, show us a tactician, a coach a manager
show us
That is probably the worst 45 minutes I have watched arsenal play in a long time … On the positive side how we are only one down is a miracle xhaka and bellerin off wilshere and debuchy on .. Our best 2 players on Thursday … Leverage it you utterly fraudulent idiot manager
Absolutely sh*t
Go to back four, take mert off for coq , xhaka off for wilshire
People disagreed with me about giving the reserves a run in the league, and this is why I said it. Yet again, another shocking first half, and some of the worst defending you’re likely to see! And Xhaka…what a signing!
Maybe you’re right!!
We should revert to 4-2-3-1
Think December is fast becoming our new November (our worst month in the league)
The worst comes January/February.
Woke up for this, oh my dog, end to end and it’s anyone’s call on the next goal. People have a point here about Xhaka, he’s not what you need when you are pushing forward like this, Niles might be better suited if Coquelin not match fit. Beilik would be good if he’d grow up already.
Pleeease Arsenal get the next goal and raise your game, you owe us after last weeks debacle.
Mertesucker is a big stupid clown. Embarrassing!
And he is gonna be in charge of the Academy.
Should of been released after first season,just like Scilacci.
from used to winning every game in 2002 to used to losing every game in 2017. fml
Xhaka out . Wilshire IN .
Xhaxa mert playing 4 Southampton lol both drunk…
During preseason I was thumbed down incessantly for saying we needed to abandon the back 3 to ensure proper balance. Glad it’s only taken half a year for all to see how this shape doesn’t benefit us. Hell it doesn’t even benefit Chelsea anymore.
The only way we will make top 4 is for Liverpool and spurs to be worse than us not us being good haa No
One thing’s for sure.. west ham will fancy their chances on wednesday!!!
Surely when they go into the dressing room someone’s got to go mental and throw some sh1t around! Who’s the one that reacts?
What the f@@@ is the point of having Sanchez playing further back than Ramsey … Wenger is a coward
Arsenal showing a masterclass in how to pointlessly pass in areas that don’t trouble the opponent
Alexis forcing and missing passes all over the place. I’m pretty sure he turns the ball over more than any other player on the team
The only positive I can possibly takeaway from this
first half is Arsenal is potentially one half closer to a
a new manager by Xmas.
Losing to West Ham twice and Liverpool before the return of Jolly ol Saint Nick should be the end of
the Wenger era @ the Emirates. Arsenal should
NEVER, EVER find themselves this far out of the title race at this point in the season.
In Wenger we……..
SUCK
Lateral is easy to defend .. No one running at the defence … Make an fing change
We have made a very average team look really good …
good closing down there of romeu
disgusting from our defence
we dont belong in top 4
let alone title charge
Please, mr Wenger, don’t bring on Wilshire yet, if you do he might actually have a chance to impact the game. If you wait another 10 minutes you can rest assured he will have little chance to turn this game around.
Everything is probably going according to your plan.
bertrand should have finished
should be 4 up southampton
How lucky we are Bertrand is have a stinker.
Mertesacket can run then!
Get him off and stay off!
Sanchez can’t be arsed can we blame him.
We look tired and lacking ideas.
Jack time.
I heard we didn’t even bring holding or chambers
Panto time has comes early … Wenger’s refusal to take of xhaka tells me the man is not only a failed manager but one in need of medical treatment …
jack coming on-
jack man if u ever wanted to make a comeback – this is it
this aint bate borisov
this is real situation- proper game
come on jack
we will still win d league 15 point is noting, just 4 loses and 1 draw, am still optimistic we just need to buy right in January, I hope Wenger does well in d transfer market ,DMF, and CB
????
Thanks for taking Laca of. God forbid he gets a chance to play in the last 20 minutes when defenders are tired. This will prevent him from getting overconfident.
Come on jack take your chance. Give xhaka a spell in the bench
Bellerin suddenly become a league 2 player #LOST
Bellerend is bloody dire.
hhahaha
using that , great name flip
Why do we dominate possession and not even come close to scoring. Should be 3-0 now.
Because 75 per cent of that possession is lateral or back wards
Alexa – find Arsenal a new manager.
3 points lost
get rid of Sanchez. he’s annoying me. ozil any day over him
Pass completion stats for this game will be shocking.
that final whistle will put us out of our misery
Anyone thinks wenger can win Europa league is utterly delusional
WTF are we paying these guys for, not worth 10k a month never mind a week.
Sanchez has made a statement today … He wants out …ma shocking performance
we really are dire. can’t even get a cross past the first defender…ever
We are so slow and boring