CONFIRMED Official Arsenal team at Southampton – BFG in for Mustafi

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!

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140 Comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. this is gonna be tough, dogged resilient Southampton team

    can they do it on a cold night in sto…erm day in Hampshire?!

    coyg

  5. 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

  6. 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..

  7. 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.

    1. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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!

  11. 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.

  12. 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…

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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!

  17. 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.

    1. And he is gonna be in charge of the Academy.
      Should of been released after first season,just like Scilacci.

  18. 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.

  19. 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?

  20. Arsenal showing a masterclass in how to pointlessly pass in areas that don’t trouble the opponent

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. good closing down there of romeu
    disgusting from our defence

    we dont belong in top 4
    let alone title charge

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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 …

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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.

  30. Come on jack take your chance. Give xhaka a spell in the bench
    Bellerin suddenly become a league 2 player #LOST

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