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Trossard was vital for Arsenal in Man City win and must be a starter every game

The Community Shield pitted the Premier League champions Manchester City against Premier League runners-up Arsenal to kick off the 2022–23 football season. I’m sure you know that Arsenal beat City yesterday, but who stepped up to give Arteta his second Community Shield?

The first half wasn’t as eventful as many hoped it would be; it ended goalless, and both teams going to the break were confident of winning.

The Premier League defending champions started the game strongly in the second half, but Arteta’s boys also raised their game. Mikel Arteta made a brilliant substitution in the 75th minute, substituting Gabriel Martinelli for Leandro Trossard.

The ex-Brighton defender gave Arsenal’s assault new life; he was lightning quick with his fantastic dribbling every time he got the ball at his feet. His tactical executions, exceptional ball passing, and dominating possessions effectively prevented the Gunners from falling victim to Manchester City once more. Trossard delivered a tremendous shot in the dying minutes of the game that was deflected into the back of the net for penalties, which Arsenal won easily, denying Manchester City a chance to win the Community Shield for the third time in a row.

Trossard was classy against Manchester City.

In only 28 minutes vs. Manchester City, the Belgian dazzled, putting up a man-of-the-match performance. He had 89% pass accuracy, 12 touches, 8 passes completed, and 2/3 ground duels won. 1 goal.

Arsenal fans believe that Arteta should always start him in all competitions whenever he is fit. I bet Mikel Arteta has something to do to make sure he taps into Trossard’s brilliance this coming season.

Darren N

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  1. Trossard is not getting the fair crack of the whip he deserves. His omissions last season were detrimental to our team and he should be getting far more game time. His stats for actually creating or scoring are the best in the team, since he joined. And thats on reduced playing time. We need to wake up and realise how good he is.

  2. I made that point about Trossard on social media and was surprised by the responses.
    -he is our super sub
    -who would we bring on if we need a last minute saviour…
    I think it’s unbelievable! let’s not forget that it was MA number 2 who pushed for his signing,could this play a part in it?

    1. Assistant coaches don’t push for moves they only give opinions on a given target then it’s up to the manager to sanction or not and you can go back to MA comments when Leo signed for us. I think his cameo appearance is down to the fact that he reads the game well and his trickery style of play can unlock defences he had studied while on the bench as we saw yesterday doing what martinelli failed to do NOT because MA didn’t fancy him in the first place.

      1. People can’t just let it go. They will keep trying to make up nonsense in order to convice themselves that their misconceptions regarding Arteta are true.
        Now Trossard is next in the line. May be Arteta hates, doesn’t rate or want to play him because he was not his choice. 🤥
        Is there a player in our current team that Arteta likes? Because from what we have heard and keep hearing is that he hates a lot of players.. He mistreats nearly everyone.
        A list of players that felt the full brunt of Arteta’s hate or mistreatment. Poor souls.
        Ozil
        Auba
        Laca
        Martinez
        Guendouzi
        Saliba
        Martinelli
        ESR
        Mav
        Nelson
        AMN
        Balogan
        Tierney
        Etc

        Now Trossard too is being smuggled into that group? 😊👌

        1. MA claims to pick players based on their forms.if it was really the case,Trossard should start,no?
          Or is it of his not so”non-negotiables”?

      2. I agree with you on one thing.it is true that intelligent players learn,can see weaknesses in an opponent while sitting on the bench.however,in Trossard’s case,he showed that he could influence/decide games by being a starter.yesterday,he did what Harvertz couldn’t do in 80 minutes.maybe Trossard should start and then bring Harvertz on towards the end of the game,no??

        1. I agree on Trossard starting with Havertz coming in for the 2nd half,
          What I don’t understand is why we condemned Martineli, the guy literally tried to push the citizens back but Havertz wasn’t flowing on that frequency,
          IMO, Martineli should be the false 9 alongside Trossard and Saka.

    2. This has been on my mind for a while

      I think he wasn’t Arteta’s personal want, that’s why we see this unfairness

      I think if we had gotten Mudryck we would have been seeing that guy playing week-in, week-out whether he was performing or not

      And those that say who will be our plan-B if he starts

      Maybe Guardiola should start benching DeBryune & Haaland for plan B
      Maybe Ten-Hag should start benching Rashford & Casemiro for plan B

      With the amount of impact DeBryune had after his substitution in the Community Shield, I honestly don’t think the game would have panned-out the way it did if he and Foden started
      ++ Haaland would not have been that quiet

      How did putting the best on the bench work-out for us in the last Euro Cup ?

      Even Nelson can make an impact from the bench & there’s still Smith-Rowe, Fabio, Kai

  5. Darren, you are really getting carried away in your adulation for Trossard who I acknowledge is a very good ,versatile forward.As for his “tremendous” shot, I actually thought he miss hit the ball which, luckily for us, deflected off Akanji.No player should be guaranteed a starting position but Trossard is certainly banging at the door and may start against Forrest at the expense of Martinelli.

  7. There is no need to fill two DMs against the weak teams. Trossard will probably take the no. 8 position but I prefer him to be the false 9. His shooting is quite fast & dangerous with minimal backlift.

  8. Arsenal now have three different tactical options up front.//First of all, Tossard is better at supplying our wingers opportunity to score and scoring from distance as well as inviting the wingers to run outside the wall against park the bus sides. He did well with his opportunity ( although a little fortunate ) with his mid distant shot against Man City as they were defending in numbers to hold on to their lead, he will give Arsenal lots of goals.//Second, i would say that Nkeita and Jesus is another tactical option and will score more goals when closer to the goal with timed runs( fox in the box type strikers) getting on the end of low crosses and quick one two passing movements as well as close control nearer the goal area, their high energy and goal opportunities will prove vauable against lesser opposition.// Our third tactical option upfront is the Rotation between Kai or Balogun playing as a Tall Targetman, to give us that needed physical strength upfront against stronger opposition defences, like the Man City game. Although Kai did not score, he did win all of his aerial duels with his back against a strong Man City defence, which also gave an outlet for Ramsdale against a high pressing team and worked well for the counter attack. He was unlucky not to score. The first shot was on target when the ball was actually played behind him and he had to turn and shoot on the blindside. His second shot was also on target but had to go through a Man City wall of defenders close to goal. Unlucky with both shots on target. That is why Arteta will keep Balogun in the hope he can rotate with Kai in these important big games. A Tall Target Man would cost Arsenal over £60 million, so it looks like Balogun will be staying unless they receive a bid of at least £60 million. Anyone disagreeing with that is either foolish or they are pretending to be an Arsenal fan in the hope that Arsenal sell him on the cheap.

    1. Anyone disagreeing with your opinion are not true arsenal fans or foolish!! Which one would I fit into then, not that I care. Balogun gets no game time unless we have massive injury issues or it’s an early cup game. Sold is the best outcome for all and I expect to happen. He isn’t the player some arsenal fans seem to think he is and has made a couple of bad statements that questions his attitude.

  9. I think Arteta the Gunners boss who is in charge of the team is the one who authoritatively decides on which Gunner start Arsenal games. But no one else at the club is allowed to do that. Let’s trust his sense of gudgement in this regard in as much us Gooners want to see our darling Gunner or Gunners start games for Arsenal such as Trossard. For, Arteta can only start 11 Gunners and have 9 others on the bench for any Arsenal game at a time. So therefore, let us accept and respect the manager prerogative rights starting XI decisions making whenever he has made them. For, he has his reasons for making those his games starting XI decisions.
    I think against Nottingham Forest in the Epl on Saturday at the Ems. There is the likelihood of seeing Arteta repeating the same staring XI team he started for our last CS match against Man City at Wembley last Sunday. Why? So that he’ll give his £67.5m player Karl Havertz another starting chance to prove to his doubters that he can hit barn door open by snoring at least a brace and provide an assist for Arsenal in their Epl match at home against Nott For. An Epl match in which i strongly believe the Gunners will undo Forest to a serious walloping in the match. So as to begin their quest to win the Championship this season on big strong foot. Like Arsenal 5-0 Nott For. Happening despite that Matt Turner the former Arsenal’s shot stopper could mann the goal for them

  10. He’s been on form ever since he’s joined. The evidence that he’s one of our best players is really mounting. It’s strange because we should be praising arteta/edu for signing him, but more people are probably wondering what he has to do to start.

  11. Of course, Trossard deserves to be a starter.

    The problem is, he didn’t cost 70M and not being paid over 300 pw. By far the best ball striker on the squad, (from both sides too), Trossard can be the real impact player in midfield, on the wings, and at No 9 and 10.

    Still, he will struggle for game time behind Havertz. That’s the way it is. Sadly.

  12. I think Arteta the Gunners boss who is in charge of the team is the one who authoritatively decides on which Gunner start Arsenal games. But no one else at the club is allowed to do that. Let’s trust his sense of gudgement in this regard in as much us Gooners want to see our darling Gunner or Gunners start games for Arsenal such as Trossard. For, Arteta can only start 11 Gunners and have 9 others on the bench for any Arsenal game at a time. So therefore, let us accept and respect the manager prerogative rights starting XI decisions making whenever he has made them. For, he has his reasons for making those his games starting XI decisions.
    I think against Nottingham Forest in the Epl on Saturday at the Ems. There is the likelihood of seeing Arteta repeating the same staring XI team he started for our last CS match against Man City at Wembley last Sunday. Why? So that he’ll give his £67.5m player Karl Havertz another starting chance to prove to his doubters that he can hit a barn door open by scoring at least a brace and provides an assist for Arsenal in their Epl match at home against Nott For. An Epl match in which i strongly believe the Gunners will undo Forest to a serious walloping in the match. So as to begin their quest to win the Championship this season on a big strong foot. Like Arsenal 5-0 Nott For. Happening despite that Matt Turner the former Arsenal’s shot stopper could mann the goal for them

  13. He deserves a start because he’s making a difference but there’s no ‘must’ about it. We’ve got 2 wingers that had phenomenal seasons last year. They’ll hopefully get rotated more this season though

    1. Well said Revilo ,Martinelli and saka IMO are vital to how we play ,it’s the players that have been added that need to play to their strengths.
      The problem I see is that we have so many wingers – attacking midfielders but no proper goal scorer ,that’s why I find the Havertz signing odd as he offers nothing more than say Trossard ESR except form his height ,money should have been spent on a top class Striker

  14. First of all,I never said that MA didn’t like Trossard,I was just asking a question.if you had read reports,you would know that MA had reservations about Trossard and that his Dutch number 2 vouched for him.secondly,could you explain something to me. last season,Trossard was on fire(7 goals,1 assists in 7 games) and we were winning games.somehow he had to make room for a returning Jesus.did that make sense to you?how did that work for us?lastly,why do you think we signed Runnarsson ?our GK coach had worked with him before and recommended him to MA,which tells me that MA listens, values his staff input and that they fo have a certain influence on his decisions.

    1. MA or anyother manager do listen provided they agree with their staff, you only got to know about the ones recommended by MA coaching staff because he gave the greenlight and was completed i bet there were numerous others he disagreed on.

  15. I have been vocally angry with Arteta to see Trosaard on the bench again when from preseason he’s clearly in top gear already

    Then he doesn’t bring him in till 75 mins
    AHHHHHH! Does Arteta have a thing against Trosaard

    But someone said Trosaard can’t mark (with our LB) like Martinelli does and might be better to bring him in against bigger teams

    And that actually made sense

    Since we already know our rightside will be the core of our attacking moves

    We can’t go against Big Teams and have both sides flying into attacking modes

    That will make it easy to pick spaces at our defense

  16. Siamois, I can as well argue there were games trossard started and failed to influence until he was subbed that does’nt make him a bad player it just lies on the fact that opponents vary in quality and set up which can see a player shine or struggle, so it’s up to the manager to select who he deems fit to start a particular game while accessing strenghts and weaknesses to develop a plan B where the subs are introduced to come execute.on sunday it was clear we need a towering presence upfront to deal with city’s CB’s aerially and hold up play (a profile trossard does not possess hence havertz) which was carried out successfully except of course the missed chances.the midfield consisted of partey,rice and the captain which was the best combo against a team of city’s quality.Trossard starting from the bench because of his game play study ability was the best idea rather than start and risk being beaten while we can’t maintain possession of the ball.

  17. No one should start every game. With more fixture congestion than last year we will need to rotate players regularly.

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