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Draw UEL R16 1st Leg: Sporting CP 2 - 2 Arsenal | Thursday, March 9 | KO: 17:45 GMT | BT Sport
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Country: USA
Player:Saliba
I think it’s more how leggy we looked. Been conceding a lot of chances and soft goals of late too. Like Mustafi/Kola-esque stuff.
GLITCH
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Will be a tough game, but they won't have Palhinha. Small advantage.
lamby22
It's Not Lupus
Country: Scotland
We went through a spell where we were really good now we've just reverted to type. Was it 17 or 18 we took against Bournemouth and zero to show for it.
Sniper Mik
Not a Closet Sp**s Fan
What do you mean? 2 of our 3 goals came from corners.
sub_sub
Active Member
We are short of options, who else would play striker for us? I'm not sure ESR can play a whole game.
Country: Kosova
Player:Saka
This thing of conceding from set-pieces has become worrying. And now we have a beanpole in Mitrovic to contend with on weekend.
boxerumble
Baked Canadian
Country: Canada
Bank on Willian to roll back the years and Leno trying to prove teta wrong by turning into primo Buffon
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
That’s huge
avenellroad
John Radford’s son
That’s a big loss for them. He’s got quite a few goals for them this season
avenellroad
John Radford’s son
If we want to compete in the CL next season we need our first 11 to juggle playing in Europe and then Saturday/ Sunday well. That is the expectation with Arsenal.
Look at United today in the EL. Their main first 11 is playing and have played the most games out of any team after the World Cup
Uncle Good-Advice
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Not a popular opinion, however I think that Saka should be on the bench against Fulham and used as a supersub if needed.
I'm not saying that I'm going to underestimate Fulham but we're good offensively even without Bukayo and second leg against Sporting is far more important than Craven Cottage.
I'm not saying that I'm going to underestimate Fulham but we're good offensively even without Bukayo and second leg against Sporting is far more important than Craven Cottage.
Country: England
Ours might be more because we are mainly competing for this and as we need a response after last weekend.
If we were in Arsenal’s position in the league, I wouldn’t want Rashford and Casemiro starting an EL game.
Arteta seem not happy with easy goals we conceding and we should improve
Synical
Miss Superstitious
Country: England
Player:Saliba
Tired game. Mix of first teamers that needed a rest and bench players who are rusty. Martinelli and Saka needed to not play all of that. Ben White looked exhausted. Not great.
Need Trossard, Eddie and Jesus back ASAP
Need Trossard, Eddie and Jesus back ASAP
I'll take the draw. Martinelli, Saka, Xhaka, Saliba and White only starters to play a full match.
Of them only Saka hasn't had rest lately. Xhaka sat down last match. Martinelli was sat down for Trossard and Saliba barely played early Europa games. White been resting also.
Saka the only player playing all the minutes, but he seems like he can handle it.
Kiwior and Turner looked rusty. ESR looks like he is getting sharper at the right time. We need our 3 forwards back.
Of them only Saka hasn't had rest lately. Xhaka sat down last match. Martinelli was sat down for Trossard and Saliba barely played early Europa games. White been resting also.
Saka the only player playing all the minutes, but he seems like he can handle it.
Kiwior and Turner looked rusty. ESR looks like he is getting sharper at the right time. We need our 3 forwards back.
Tom Mix
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Arteta only has himself to blame. He is overplaying key players and stifling others with lack of opportunities. There is a coldness required to prioritise and not be sidetracked which he is not showing.
Yeah sure next year we will have to juggle PL and CL and you know what? We won't win either. But this year we have a chance to win the PL for the first time in 19 years and we owe it to ourselves to give that our best shot. The likeliest outcome if we don't do that is that we won't win anything.
lamby22
It's Not Lupus
Country: Scotland
Should have made myself clearer, I mean a clean connection on a corner where we've scored. Like Saliba tonight. The Bournemouth ones were more clearances which could have landed anywhere.
Player:Saliba
I dunno, maybe White's carrying a knock but been a bit off for a while and seemed exhausted at the end of that game
Definitely agree on needing forwards back. Both for rest and success
Yeah and it absolutely shows that United played the most games out of any time after the World Cup.
You just have to look at the league table. They're 14 points behind us LOL
To win the League Title, you either need to have a massive squad like Man City. Or you need to dump all the other competitions.
Can't you see that the only season where Liverpool won the League Title ahead of Man City was the season where Liverpool got eliminated in the second round of the Champions League and then the League fixtures were SUSPENDED for a short while because of COVID-19?
Every other season they had no chance! Because Liverpool couldn't juggle a League campaign with other trophy campaigns as easily as Man City can with their oil-funded massive squad.
Please use your brain
Jurgen Klopp tried to remedy this last season when he increased the size of the squad and even bought Diaz in January so he can compete on 4 fronts - but they fell short in the two major trophies (Premier League and Champions League) and only picked up the two minor ones.
What's the lesson that needs to be learned? Think!
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