Carabao Cup 3rd Round: Arsenal v Brentford | September 26, 2018 19:45 BST

[m-due]

Llorente is still at Sp**s, wow.

 

[Sanchez11]

Never in doubt about Laca!! Bring on Watford

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

I'm single.

Same bro. We'll go on the pull soon x

 

[MLK79]

Decent

 

[A_G]

Penalties, time for Sp**s to Sp**s this up

 

[Lady_Gooner]

This guy can’t be ignored. Seriously what’s wrong with him?

 

[Tir Na Nog]

We’ve got two of the top 5 strikers in the league.

You could throw Auba in there too!

 

[m-due]

Capoue, dang you.

 

[A_G]

You just knew Capoue would miss

 

[MutableEarth]

Not a much of a youth developer so far into his Arsenal career but that might change when he finds out that there is actually a very limited founds for the transfer market.

Hopefully Nketiah and Willock can get loan after new year! They need game time at higher level than u-23.

As much as I hate the loan system, they definitely should have gone. U23 football has nothing for them now, Ljungberg' s coaching being the only upside.

Emery will be vindicated as long as we are winning and I'm very happy with that. A few squad players are better since his arrival so that is a plus too. The lack of presence of the likes of Nketiah however remain the only disappointment for me outside of the lack of a convincing strategy (which I do believe will improve). I am now of the belief that they won't get the chances needed this season so at least I won't be disappointed as much when they don't play!

Saying that, at least Emery likes Smith-Rowe and he seems to be the kind of pressing AM that Emery wants going forward.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Decent

Forgive me Eden when i said Alexis better than you

 

[MLK79]

Capoue playing double agent.

 

[El Duderino]

Decent

 

[Trilly]

Contrary to some who would like to see more academy players, I think it's absolutely right to give game time to first team bench players like Iwobi, Welbeck, Elneny, Leno, Holding, Mkhitaryan and field a relatively strong XI. Not cause of the competition. But I think it's been one of the big downfalls of Wenger to give exactly these guys not enough competetive game time and field disjointed teams in the cups with lots of youngsters. The only time he kind of did give the bench lads a stroll out was in the EL.

At times guys like Elneny, Welbeck or Iwobi would play maybe 30 minutes over the span of 4 or 5 weeks - 10 mins here, another 15 there, etc. Then when they were actually called upon to start and perform they were shockingly unsharp and uncompetitive. I don't think that's a surprise if over the course of a couple of weeks you'd only have had say 25 minutes of competetive game time. One or two youngsters is alright, the rest have to be the guys not regularly starting to keep them in shape and form.

All other big teams have fielded good starting XIs yesterday and tonight. It's sort of traditional at Arsenal to give the youngsters a shot in the League Cup, but I think too much of it was detrimental to the form of bench players.

Giving Nketiah 90 minutes tonight doesn't help the club in any way. Giving Welbeck 90 and the confidence of 2 goals scored will make the difference if he's called upon on the weekend.

I remember a time on here when your view point wasn’t popular, many of us felt that Wenger was wasting minutes by giving them to dross at the expense of a young player fulfilling his potential.

Think the true solution is a bit of both and we’ve made this easier by increasing the base level of player we have. Everyone seems to have a chance of starting so they are no longer viewed as a waste of minutes, and we’ve sent off our two prospects in most need of minutes away on loan. Basically having our cake and eating it.

Don’t know if it was bound to happen or done by design but it’s good squad management if the latter.

 

[berric]

This guy can’t be ignored. Seriously what’s wrong with him?

They even cut out the misplaced pass that initiated this whole charade.

 

[Trilly]

Nobody ever hated Lacazette mate. How is Sp**s doing anyway?

I wasn’t specifically targeting you, guilty conscience?ops:

 

[El Duderino]

They even cut out the misplaced pass that initiated this whole charade.

Probably failed at it because he was to lazy to give Per a call and get a live tutorial.

 

[Aevi]

Penalties, time for Sp**s to Sp**s this up

You just knew Capoue would miss

Which is it then lmao

 

[Mo Britain]

As much as I hate the loan system, they definitely should have gone. U23 football has nothing for them now, Ljungberg' s coaching being the only upside.

Emery will be vindicated as long as we are winning and I'm very happy with that. A few squad players are better since his arrival so that is a plus too. The lack of presence of the likes of Nketiah however remain the only disappointment for me outside of the lack of a convincing strategy (which I do believe will improve). I am now of the belief that they won't get the chances needed this season so at least I won't be disappointed as much when they don't play!

Saying that, at least Emery likes Smith-Rowe and he seems to be the kind of pressing AM that Emery wants going forward.

We will never know but I don't see why we wouldn't have won this game if Nketiah, Willock and Mavropanos had been on the pitch.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Lack of cojones from Watford.