Dan’s World Cup diary by Dan Smith
You don’t need to be an expert in body language to recognise when standing for his national anthem, Messi was feeling the weight of expectation on his shoulders. In fact between the players, manager and fans in the crowd I’m yet to see an Argentine crack a smile at this World Cup.
It is World Cup Preview Day on Just Arsenal and we will be forecasting who will finish where in each of the Qualifying Groups. Let’s go….
World Cup Finals Group A Predictions by Dan Smith
Arsenal have Mohamed Elneny playing for Egypt
Danny Welbeck has been at Arsenal for 4 seasons, and although he scored a record 5 League goals for us last season, he only has a total of 15 in 80 games in four years. Hardly the figures of a top striker!
You cannot help but feel sorry for the Arsenal and England international midfield star Jack Wilshere, unless of course you are one of those Tottenham supporting spuds from down the road, or perhaps Jordan Henderson who would probably be the player to miss out if Wilshere had not had to pull out of the latest two England friendly games with a minor injury problem.
As usual we have loads of Arsenal players out on international duty during the interlull, and there are ten of them with the senior sides and many more off with the younger squads. So who will you be watching on TV tonight?
Arsene Wenger must be very worried about Arsenal’s striking options ahead of next week’s visit to Manchester United. Lucas Perez, Chuba Akpom and Danny Welbeck are out injured with little hope of a return for any of them before Christmas. The latest news from Chile about Alexis Sanchez’s hamstring is very very worrying, and Yaya Sanogo is …. well, Yaya Sanogo!
Arsenal loanee Jack Wilshere has been selected to make his return to international action next week.
England are set to take on Scotland at Wembley on Friday evening in the World Cup 2018 group qualifiers, before taking on Spain in a friendly match the following Tuesday evening.
A couple of Arsenal stars were in action yesterday in World Cup qualifying matches, while on-loan Joel Campbell appeared for Costa Rica in a friendly match.