The Japanese international Takehero Tomiyasu has proved to be an excellent buy for Arsenal after arriving from Bologna last August. He took no time at all to settle into London life and has been practically indispensable for the Gunners in the first half of the season. He has started 16 League games since his debut back in September and certainly looks like he is going to be an integral part of Mikel Arteta’s plans for the forseeable future.
He was injured in our New Year’s Day fixture against Man City, and was perhaps rushed back too early for the Liverpool League Cup semi-final because of lack of options at right-back, but he finally returned to training with the squad on Monday.
After so long on the sidelines it was still uncertain if the Japanese international would be available for this afternoon’s game, but in the pre-match conference, Mikel Arteta has confirmed he is now available. “We are all good.” the Boss said. “The doubt was Tomiyasu, which is still not perfect, but he has trained the last few days so he is in contention and we can use him so that’s really positive.”
So now Arteta has a complete full squad to choose from today, except for the suspended Gabriel Martinelli, and we can only hope that they can all stay fit and well for the rest of the season to give us the best chance to finish in the Top Four…
COYG!
WATCH Arteta discussing Brentford, Tomiyasu and the brilliant home support
Toney is injured and Brentford’s left wingers aren’t good aerially, so Soares should be able to win the duels on the right side
Since when are wingers supposed to be good with aerial balls.most wingers are diminutive nimble players with quick feet.you always come up with crazy ideas about roles on the field .Thank God you aren’t our team’s coach
I thought I’m the only one seeing this
Before it was left footed right inverted Wenger
And many other 🚮
Some teams use their wingers to escape from the opposition’s high press, by receiving direct passes from their GKs. This escape method can be used if one of the wingers is strong enough to play with his back to goal or good in aerial duels
Arsenal have been using this method since Ramsdale came, by distributing the ball directly to Saka. Spurs also try to do it by signing Kulusevski
Aside from that, the teams also use their wingers’ or wingbacks’ aerial abilities to attack the opposition’s short fullbacks. For instance, Kenedy, Bernardo Junior and Marco Alonso had targeted Bellerin’s aerial weakness
Yes I understand that but it is a tactics that does not necessarily require air air dominant wing players but rather fast wingers with good positioning as such plays require the goalies or cbs using long balls to exploit spaces vacated by opposing wingback in their bid to do the high press.These long balls mostly come in form of overhead through ball for wingers to chase. Wing play is mostly about good positioning, running and good footwork ,hence why more than 90 percent of winger plays are short fast players with bags of tricks.I think in England top teams, apart from arsenal’s Tommy and taverns and United’s wan bisaka,most others are those kind of players I described above.
If Tomi really is 100% fit then ok. But if he is not ready don’t risk a key player with many big games still to play. Cedic should be fine v Brentford so I suggest we save Tomi for Wolves.
FF I THINK YOU ARE RATHER FOOLISHLY TRYING TO GIVE VERY BASIC LEVEL ADVICE TO A MANAGER , MA, WHO KNOWS FAR MORE ABOUT HOW FIT A PLAYER IS TO PLAY THAN YOU EVER WILL.
I realise you mean well but this sort of comment, even when well meant, massively disrespects our manager. And that applies to any fan of any clubs manager at elite level(and lower level too BTW!)
If he ain’t ready don’t risk a relapse. Upwards and Onwards. It’s time to Stink the bees!