Predicting what team Unai Emery will pick is an art form

The Arsenal manager remains an enigma when it comes to team selection.

Before every Arsenal game, we try and predict what team Unai Emery will select, badly I will admit. But we are not alone, many try and very few succeed.

Today we predicted what team Emery will select for the Sheff Utd match, this is the predicted team

Leno
Tierney
Luiz
Sokratis
Bellerin
Guendouzi
Torreira
Xhaka
Saka
Aubameyang
Pepe

I am fairly convinced this will be very close to the side Emery sends out. However, it seems others are not.

FootballTalk agrees with ten of my picks, they believe Chambers will start ahead of Bellerin.

Talksport also agrees with ten of my eleven, however, their difference is in midfield. They reckon that Ceballos will play instead of Torreira.

90maat predict a very different defence and predict that Kolasinac, Chambers and Ceballos all start.

Goonertalk has Ceballos and Chambers starting ahead of Torreira and Bellerin respectively.

And on it goes, it does not matter if it is a high brow publication, an Arsenal blog or a generic football site, very few agree on the same line-up.

Not many managers do what Emery does and completely confound pundits and fans alike. The Spaniard has turned it into an art form that very few have yet to master.

The silver lining is that if so many struggle to second guess Emery then so do the opponents.