It is vital for Arsenal to carry on where we left off before the latest international break and I am sure that Arsene Wenger will have been making that point as often as possible to the Arsenal players. The boss and the lads will have been heartened with the perfect result of a draw between two of our main Premier League rivals Liverpool and Manchester United earlier but they now have to make it count.
Wenger has had the boost of getting a few players back from the treatment room but has also lost one of his first choice defenders after Mustafi did his hamstring playing for Germany, and with some of the Arsenal stars coming back late or in a poor state of mind after their World Cup hopes were dashed this was always going to be a tough selection job for the Frenchman.
Cech
Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal
Bellerin, Xhaka, Elneny, Kolasinac
Iwobi, Lacazette, Welbeck
subs: Ospina, Holding, Coquelin, Ozil, Wilshere, Walcott, Giroud.
So Wenger clearly feels that the failure of Wales and Chile to qualify for Russia has had a negative effect as neither Ramsey or Alexis Sanchez is in the squad never mind the starting XI. The good news is that Kolasinac is better after his hip problem so Arsenal can stick with the same sort of system.
What do you think of the Arsenal team Gooners?
Bob.
Top marks to Wenger for picking a hard working team. We can’t keep on carrying mercenaries like Sanchez and Ozil
I hope we’ll be creative enough today!
Hope Wenger brings Wilshere on early in the 2nd Half!
Yes, the team looks good. I like the hardworking attackers and Elneny selection, I think they deserve it.
But whoever the starting players are, it would not matter as long as Arsenal still cannot pass well. Klopp and Guardiola showed Wenger how a four defender formation is supposed to be used.
Guardiola’s Manchester City is what Arsenal is supposed to be, had Wenger could manage his team better. Arsenal should have shown an entertaining football match with open play goals, not with penalties and set piece goals like Mourinho’s team.
Wenger is useless
Which big team subs their no 9 like we do can’t he Play Giroud and Lacazette?
See Ozil he’s beging to sign , see clear goal he should have scored
What exactly does xaka do for Arsenal, some one pls educate me
Until Wenger leaves Arsenal can go forward
Cech is useless… watching from home I knew Deeney would go right…how does a world class keeper not even go the right direction for one penalty kick
Oo now wer Two goals down , Wenger is doubly useless
And to think that Stoke gave us a beating.. are we still in the title race or just escorting Man city to their beloved trophy?
Dude are u seriously putting arsenal in same sentence as title race
Lol must be joking
Hehehe sorry guys ??
Manu drew with them by getting the luck that Lacazette didn’t. Away, which does make a difference. We broke a record v stoke for chances created. City are the form team. Stoke obviously gave up the ghost and City took full advantage.
I don’t get when people say if they beat them then this means that, it’s two different time periods with different refs and it’s at different grounds. When Madrid lose to a lowly Spanish side it does not mean that that lowly team could rule Europe.
God bless you mate…
Number of times a team has scored 5 or more goals in a PL game in 2017:
6 Man City
2 Tottenham
1 Chelsea, Everton
NONE by Arsenal.. until we start winning big against the lower teams the bigger teams wont feel threatened
The only good news from Man City scoring 7 is that why do they need Alexis ?!?!?
Or it will only make Alexis want to join them..
Make him want to join them?
He’s already had his house painted blue
And has oasis on repeat
We lost to Stoke and City are thrashing them 7-2
And so???
what about Crystal palace beating Chelsea as we speak??
I know it is painful when we lose and we want our team to win and win nicely at all times but common that is never possible…
You think City will carry this form all through the season? time will tell
All am saying is, in as much as we dont want our team to lose, it is inevitable and when it happens, there is no need for over reactions or stupid, negative comments.
I think Palace have not won any game this season and are now beating Chelsea, if it was Arsenal…hmmmm
Remember it is just a football game and fans dont have much gain…
I think you are reading too much into my comment. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously
Relax and enjoy the match
…its not inconceivable that citeh could carry their form throughout the season but we need to keep our momentum so as we have a big say too. and in all honesty i don’t know how we let kevin de broyne slip through the net, i’m looking at our scout system with an eyebrow raised.
your deluded..we havent had a big say since u last got laid…u know…the nineties 🙂
but not about de bruyne…that season he was insane at wolfsburg…but also pricey -no one was paying 65 for him
That Manchester City team is what could happen if Arsenal play under Guardiola’s guidance, or under any manager with Barcelona’s system. Arsenal could never win the major titles as long as they still cannot pass well.
Good selection.
Alexis not on the bench at the very least is either poor judgement or else he’s at risk from an injury. I hope it’s the latter because Liverpool last season should have thought him a lesson. The lineup still looks a capable one but I’d worry a little about the final ball.
As for the line-up, it is a bit defensive and IMO, the front three is not strong enough…Iwobi has a big task on his young shoulders today, lets see if he swim and not drown.
The lineup is good enough to win. The defense seems solid (Koscielny, Holding, Mertsacker, Bellerin, Kolsanic) and at least we have lacazette up front. Iwobi and welbeck will need to step up a notch.
A bit worried about Eleny and Xhaka but hopefully they will have a fantastic game.
All in all, I’m quite positive
COYG
So happy with Chelsea losing! Come on Arsenal please don’t let me down!
Alexis and Sanchex(70m) should be sold (50m). What a good deal of business
Get in Lemar and Draxler.
My team will be a killer. Especially when we bring in Sterling and Martial on loan or mayybe a buy. We wont need players forthe next two seasons except for a striker. BEnzema tho
I meant to say Alexis and OZil
…alls i know is we’ll score – it’s inevitable and i can’t wait !!
Lacazette to score 1st goal
i’m a believer Arsenal_G
Its boring to watch, where is my old Arsenal?
Gone ..long gone
Arsenal is so GD boring to watch
Xhaka and El Neny bring Absolutely NOTHING to the midfield
Sanchez and Ozil might be mercenaries who are desperate to leave the club but Arsenal have no offensive creativity or impetus without them.
Xhaka our best player in first half
This game is made for Jack. I know I’ll get thumbs down for this but he is fit and playing on form
forget about ozil leaving we are stuck with him because no one else will give the over rated, lazy git the ridiculous salary we give him.
We need ozil in this game
No creativity at all…
If Vidal plays for Bayern, am going to pissed at wenger, no imagination up front..
bullet header from BFG
1-0 to the arsenal.
We’re a power team now.
Yeah the power of wengers small pee pee
…mertesacker to the rescue…
said no one ever
Nice one Big F*****g German!!!
Mertsacker’s experience is invaluable
Hes a World Cup champion too
THANKS MERT
Arsenal just too blunt! Side passing without any penetration.What does Bellerin offer offensively?
THIS KIND OF PERFORMANCE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, PATHETIC JUST
Arsenal have scored more from set pieces than any other side in the league, big improvement, when did this happen. Alexis might have a little to do with it.
Delighted for Mert, now we need concentration.
Iwobi is so s**t
Laca needs to be subbed, not his day today.
guess whos injured….
il give u two guesses..ul only need one….
..alexis is being spared for games we should win (like this): and ramsey has messed up my fantasy football points by being injured – anyway, i wish both a speedy recovery.
… oh S*** you mean Welbeck (again).
Can we finally close the door on Welbecks career?
Join Diaby in the All Arsenal Infirmary 1st team
Laca off as I called it
Bell end is shiiit
…we elevated his status much too quickly. He should really be made to compete with debuchy imo
how did ozil not score that?!
great now a penalty fffffffffssssssss
yep world class
Sorry my bad, cheating diving Watford twat
The ref has been conned football is finished when cheating player dive I I MEAN CHEATING
wow he takes all our speed off the pitch
now we got no player who can sprint 100meters under 20 secs
Silva made adjustments to get back in the match
Wenger made adjustments to loose this one.
2 more years of this….
oh we’ll 1-1 …seems we’ve a habit of making things hard for ourselves.
And now they score .im lost for words ,spend 50 mil on a player who looked dangerous and keep taking him off around the 65 th min ,,now we need a goal
cheating dive it was.
but why are we struggling to retain 1 goal against watford
levels lads…man city beat them 6-0 away few weeks back…levels
if theo, ramsey or giroud had a chance like that and hit it straight at the keeper, fans would have been calling for their heads but because its ozil, no problem.
We need a goal and we still got xhaka and eygpt on ..dont get it
What happened ti Bellerin? he so sloppy these days! And I think Ozil is a liability than an asset. We are not serious at all!
The man has gone senile. Getting dominated, put wilshere or walcott on. Sitting like a dumb man. Removes lacazette. Wenger out now.
Laca has been Shiite today
Kolasinac not far behind him
Wtf has gone wrong?
Kos injured again!
…i’m peeping from out my curtains (again); we’re meant to distinguish ourselves against minnows. woops perhaps we’re minnows as well – we’ve mediocrity throughout our side. we will need to enter the transfer market if we want to be taken seriously.
Must of been an epic halftime talk by our $8M joke
of a manager.
Dominated in the 2nd half by a Watford team that was annihilated 6-0 by City a few weeks back.
Gutless, typical Arsenal display
This is how bad we have become. Those central midfielders are so dull. Can anyone remember a pair of central midfielders worse than these two? I’ve been watching since 79 and can’t recall two????
10 million now -Kroenke thought he was doing such a good job, he gave him a 25% pay rise.
I still Can’t understand what Arsene wenger brought in Giroud to do.
Clueless coach. Remove your most dangerous 50 mil target man for a liability that can’t even run or trap a damn ball. SMH
What a total fcuk up!!!
A joke club!
Lol typical..
Thank God I’ve cancelled bt can’t keep watching this utter rubbish… Sky sports to follow……
Get out of our club Kroenke
I’m speechless
so much for an international BREAK
Wenger lost us the game.
He can’t motivate the team to make a 100% effort, and to put Ozil on so we have both him and Iwobi on at the same time is so f…… stupid. 2 players who can’t defend, and Watford run straight through us. How many times do we have to take it?
ózil and sanchez don’t really have to play alongside these lot – if we’re being honest.
We will lose sponsors as I doubt the TV people will want to cover us any longer with this abject rubbish
We ain’t winning sh1t this season what a joke this club I SUPPORT has become ?
No real tactical play by Wenger. No penetration in play. Xahak really now annoying me.should have injected pace and creativity after half time.Man Wenger is lost and making us suffer.
If Watford hadn’t cheated it would have been a draw.
we should have ripped watford to shreds they’ve only been in the prem for 5mins… no excuses
guess we’re kidding ourselves that we’re too good for the europa – it’s our real measure. 1-nil up only to go 2-1 down and at watford as well. i’d resign iwobi, bellerin to the bench while we look at bringing in extra quality to the side… we are sending out the wrong messages. we needed only to draw and we can’t even do that. #wenger isn’t the answer (anymore), where’s carlos ancelotti ?
Hello lads?
Some people here where sayinh Arsenal is now on top form Arsenal is this….Arsenal is that.forgetting we were playing average teams at home.I told u guys wait until we play Watford bfor making noise.
Arsenal is shiiit..imagine Arsenal defending against Watford with just 1 goal up.
I hv always told u guys not to get carried away because Wenger is still in charge.
4 away matches no win just one point.
and Wenger wants to win d league.
Wenger can never win the league for Arsenal.