Of course we Arsenal fans are a lot more concerned about the fitness or injury situation of our big name players on international duty, with Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud, Laurent Koscielny and Santi Cazorla of particular concern as they appear for the respective national teams. So it would be nice if these Arsenal stars are used sparingly, although it is pretty unlikely to be honest.
But there are quite a few fringe players and young Gunners that have been called up and the situation is different with them, as they could do with the playing time and the valuable experience gained in international matches. Hopefully we will see Gabriel for Brazil, Szczesny for Roma, Alex Iwobi for Nigeria, Serge Gnabry for Germany under 21s and David Ospina again for Colombia.
Three young Gunners have already played, with on loan midfield starlet Gedion Zelalem playing the whole of the USA under 23 side´s friendly defeat to Brazil on Wednesday and he should feature again for them on Sunday.
And last night another on loan Gunner Chuba Akpom played 70 minuted for the England under 21s in Bosnia. It was a useful but unproductive game for our promising young striker as the game ended with no goals, but that was a much better result for our centre back Calum Chambers, especially as he played the whole 90 minutes.
So while we bite our fingers and hope that the first team Arsenal internationals either don´t play or at least come back fit and fresh, we can relax and enjoy the international exploits of the other Gunners.
do you guys always see how other clubs ridicule our players.
Its only cech who has been given respect.
Szczesny for poland*
“Ryan Bertrand the best left back in the premier league”
Ha! I think not #Nacho
the only english footballer who knows how to keep hold and use a football from the middle is wilshere…delph carrick llana are clueless at best
why is ozil not in the german team??? injury?????
Just watching England and in particular Raheem Sterling. I can’t fathom how one can say he is better than Ozil. like in what world is Sterling (Potential) better than Ozil ( A world cup winner, Assist King and the best No 10 in the world) someone please explain that observation for me. It doesn’t make sense.
England pundits have always been against Arsenal because our standards of football are on par with Spain’s instead of Mourinho’s. Just look at all the hate Wilshere gets because ALL the best midfielders of Xavi’s generation rate him. Adding on to that, today proved how much quality Jack offers, without him England are CLUELESS with the ball, Wilshere practically carried England to qualify for the Euros hence why he won 4 MOTM in a row.