Win Premier League: Arsenal 2 - 1 Nottingham Forest | Saturday 12th August | KO: 13:00 BST | TNT Sports

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Likely starting XI

Prediction
Arsenal 3-0 Nottingham Forest

 

[remains]

Switching off and conceding these **** goals at home is what we did all of last season. Will cost us eventually.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Also mikel need to do basic stuff not against different systems but let's not treat teams like Nottingham like we play manutd or Liverpool

 

[2Smokeyy]

He didn't put a foot wrong today. People just want him to fail so they can say they were right. He and the team will be fine.

Thing is for £65m we’re expecting a lot more than just not doing nothing wrong. The same energy will be applied to Mason Mount by our fans, so it’s only fair game to do it for him too.

Havertz was a ghost for large parts of the game. He needs to do a lot more for me.

 

[Riou]

Still feel our defence looks uneasy with Gabriel back there, he's the only one who organises in the backline...hope he's back fully fit for Palace.

 

[Riou]

I don’t think havertz will be bad for us, just such a random & lowkey pointless signing

Ah, so he's the @Oxeki of Arsenal football club then.

 

[bingobob]

Thing is for £65m we’re expecting a lot more than just not doing nothing wrong. The same energy will be applied to Mason Mount by our fans, so it’s only fair game to do it for him too.

Havertz was a ghost for large parts of the game. He needs to do a lot more for me.

He had an opportunity to shoot inside the box and he passed it off. Don't like that mentality.

 

[GLITCH]

He didn't put a foot wrong today. People just want him to fail so they can say they were right. He and the team will be fine.

I don't want him to fail at all. It's in the team's best interest if he does well. I'm just not seeing much at the moment.

 

[baccy_man]

We played that game like we were in second gear for most of the match and when we got the goals we seemed to slow down even more, I'm not too pleased with the way that Partey, plays he is so slow bring the ball forward and then gives the ball away far too much I would not mind seeing him get replaced while the window is still open,
We need to play with a higher tempo we have done it before during last season and we cut teams open as soon as we were playing the ball faster,
As we have got new players in the team I suppose it is going to take a bit of time for them to settle in,
Hopefully Timber has not picked up a serious injury it did not look good the way he pulled up.

 

[avenellroad]

The way I look at it, we can only concede about 38 goals this season if we want to win the league. White’s defending on that counter attack was really poor, nowhere near aggressive enough to put a block on the shot

 

[GDeep™]

People have already made up their minds. Happens with every player, most people are guilty of it. Agenda-Mania.

He’s been crap for 3 years. There is no agenda.

 

[lomekian]

First half we should have scored 3 or 4. Second half we started well, and then went totally passive after Timber's injury, and failed to react to Cooper's subtle tactical shift at that point. That passivity allowed them to build before they threw on attacking players, and Forest's striker is, along with Toney, the most physically impactful in duels in the division - you literally can't move him.

Great counter goal for Forest too. Weak from us but excellent execution from them. Forest will be better this season. Good coach, better squad than usual at that level.

Hopefully this wakes us up. We can't stroll against motivated opposition while we are still working out our new system(s)

 

[blaze_of_glory]

People really think we looked shaky at the back? I thought we were very solid.

That Rice shot goes in snd I think everyone sees this game very differently tbh

 

[2Smokeyy]

He had an opportunity to shoot inside the box and he passed it off. Don't like that mentality.

Signs of a player very low on confidence. That’s why I was against the signing tbh.

For that sort of fee, you’d expect someone to come in and hit the ground running rather than trying to save him from the streets.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Tbf I get why Gabriel got benched. As good as he is, decision making is still rash & gave away that pointless free kick at the end

He wasn't benched for performance reasons lol, this is a guy who started like 70 PL games in a row

 

[SteveEvets]

We've got lots of of quality but it'll take a few weeks to work out the best way to use it all. Only real disappointment was the way we basically did nothing for over 30 minutes in the second half, at least in the first half we were constantly probing and they were always on the back foot.

Hopefully Timber's injury isn't too serious, I was shocked he wasn't taken off at HT.

 

[BaZZe]

I'm surprised no one has brought up the possibility that Gabriel wasn't 100% fit given the earlier reports?

 

[celestis]

People really think we looked shaky at the back? I thought we were very solid.

That Rice shot goes in snd I think everyone sees this game very differently tbh

Forest should have scored in the first 5 mins though

 

[DJ_Markstar]

Never a pen but TNT show the replay endlessly and have Rio nodding along to how much of a pen it is.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Hopefully Timber has not picked up a serious injury it did not look good the way he pulled up.

That did not look positive. Hopefully it is just that he has pulled a muscle or something!

 

[DJ_Markstar]

I'm surprised no one has brought up the possibility that Gabriel wasn't 100% fit given the earlier reports?

Obviously if Gabriel plays then Arteta is a cvnt for risking him, A-M playing both sides of every argument as per.