Unai Emery is aiming this season to become the first ever manager to win four Europa League Trophys, so he will be looking to put his name in the history books with in his first year with Arsenal. He has already admitted that the Premier League must be the Number One target when he said yesterday: “The Premier League is the first competition because it’s giving us a big responsibility, maybe bigger than the others, in the season. There are 38 matches, so your first analysis is like this. Other competitions are very important too. Today, we are only thinking about giving our supporters the first performance and a good 90 minutes on the pitch at the Emirates.”
But he must have a driving force to speahead his attempt to get his 4th Europa trophy as well, as he went on to say: “In my career, the ambition is very important for continuing to improve and continuing to achieve the objectives in my career personally and with the team. I want to play for every title going forward.”
So how does he balance these ambitions? The Gunners have now won three games in a row in the League, and he is unlikely to want to tire our Top strikers like Aubameyang and Lacazette against such lowly opposition but how can he make sure they score lots of goals this evening? What are his options?
The two other acknowledged strikers in the top squad are Danny Welbeck and Alex Iwobi, and they could both be in the team tonight, but neither of them are renowned for being prolific hitmen. Mhkitaryan is also a possibility on is previous form at Dortmund, but the player I want to see is the youngster Eddie Nketiah. He scores for fun with England and the Arsenal reserves so he is made for this game as far as I am concerned, and I would like Emile Smith-rowe to play alongside him. Another possibility is Joe Willock, and just a week ago all three were on target when the U21s beat League One Coventry in the Checkatrade Trophy. They are used to playing with one another so maybe they should all start together tonight? Surely Vorskla are not much better than an English League One side?
Who do you think should be Emery’s three front-men tonight?
Sam P
Mkhitaryan . Smith-Rowe . Iwobi
…………………Welbeck
Can’t wait to see welbeck and iwobi strutting their stuff against the mighty vorskla,what a Thursday night treat after a long day working in the rain
Iwobi strutted his stuff against Chelsea unlike our big money signings who failed to show up. People so quick to attack Iwobi and Welbeck when the reality is they fail no more frequently than a lot of our starters.
True how many goals have laca and auba scored this season? Fans always criticising Danny and iwobi.and then the mighty Ozil who looked sharp and scored against the Newcastle (now he can hibernate for the next 34 epl matches)Ramsey the Welsh Messi, xhaka and mustafi keep me praying for 90 + minutes for things to go right , belerin Socrates OMG this arsenal teams a joke beter give game time to the reserves
Good to see this comment..
Some fans are so quick to escalate average or bad performance from iwobi,welbeck and El nenny whereas Auba,Xhaka Ozil et all have been bang average with higher number of minutes on their belt so far this season.
Thank God Emery is the proactive type,he’s ready to bench anyone who’s not showing up regardless of who you are.
Just play Leno. Czech is finished
How exactly?
Front three? Laca, Auba and Welbz.
My line up for tonight with the substitutions:
LENO
LINGEL HOLDING MUSTAFI MONREL
ELNENY TOIREIRA
SMITH
MYLKI WELBECK IWOBI
60 MINS SUB: LACA FOR IWOBI, NKETIAH FOR MYLKI
75 MINS SUB: GOUL FOR TOIREIRA
I LONG FOR GOALS FROM MYLKI, IWOBI AND WELBECK
AT LEAST ONE ASSIST FROM SMITH TO BUILD HIS CONFIDENCE.
I WISH THE LADS BEST OF LUCK
Watching Cazorla playing now against Rangers. Miss him so much.
Hope he has a good game ?
He had a good 1st half vs Rangers, lets keep watching
How I miss Cazorla, He is playing really good it’s a shame he had to leave lets go Villareal :P.
My Starting 11
……………Leno
Lich….Must….Hold….Monr
……….Torr….Elne
Welb……..Mhki…….Willow
……………Eddie