Carabao Cup Quarter-Final: Arsenal v Tottenham | December 19, 2018 19:45 GMT | Sky Sports

[bingobob]

The team selections and substitutions has nothing to do with Wenger

Well they do. Because aside from four of the players in the squad the rest were inherited from Wenger.

 

[krengon]

I’d have fathered Elneny, who has shown he is as much of a liability there than Xhaka, yet isn’t as important in midfield

Not sure if you are joking or not, but I agree. Even Elneny as cb would have been a better option than Xhaka..

 

[rich 1990]

It works both ways mate Özil has to make some fvcking effort on the pitch as well don’t you think? This situation didn’t materialise out of thin air.

What Özil can produce far outweighs whatever Mickey and Iwobi can do, no matter how much they might sweat. Point is, you can phase Özil out once you have the players to do it. Otherwise, you'll just lose games you could have won.

 

[NieThePiet]

Auba scored more goals and played better as LW in a 4-2-3-1 than as a striker with Mikhitaryan and Iwobi behind him.

 

[OnlyOne]

Mkhitaryan is ****ing rubbish. Can’t wait to sell him.

You say sell him as if it's in Emerys plans, currently we're selling Özil and that guy is un droppable. Weird af.

 

[HBL]

Mkhi was better than any other attacker that played for us tonight with the exception of Ramsey.

 

[asukru]

Obviously a horrible game to lose but I would rather we finish above them in the league and beat them at Wembley. Hoping we can also capture the EL cup!

One to forget that's for sure, I still have belief in Emery. it's when the going gets tough that we need to see Emery pick us back up and I am confident he will! Back the man and the team!

 

[ptrcopp]

Oh really. He has no options seriously? Whats the point of Leaving Özil out here?

Iwobi has zero chemistry with Auba. Miki is out of form. In the second half, laca also didn't get any service. Foolish team selection.

. As well as this @juice man he reverted to 3 at the back which we have shown to be impotent with. These are at leat two choice he got wrong

 

[say yes]

Think the nketiah sub killed the game but otherwise can’t really fault the tactics, especially with our injury problems.

We created more chances than Sp**s and generally had the better of the game. The difference between the sides: Son, Alli and Eriksen **** all over Mkhi, Iwobi and Ramsey/Özil.

In other news: AMN and Eddie were poor. Koscielny and Cech need to retire.

 

[OnlyOne]

Ima make the Burnely thread, we need a win.

 

[Mo Britain]

Then your boat already sank in November 2010 which means there is no said boat anymore to be floating around.

Seriously, with the loss at Southampton and our injury issues, coupled with today's conversion rate up front, this game was always going to be tough to win.

It was but it still hurts.

 

[krengon]

Mkhitaryan is ****ing rubbish. Can’t wait to sell him.

I had a meltdown when we were first linked to him lol, knew he was rubbish, but wanted him to be good and some of the posts here convinced me otherwise so I came around.. Had it right the first time.

 

[Mo Britain]

Well they do. Because aside from four of the players in the squad the rest were inherited from Wenger.

He doesn't have to play them. When we went 22 games unbeaten I didn't see many posts praising Wenger for Emery having inherited most of the team from him.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Hopefully emery back to him mind and start playing Özil Laca Auba from start.

The positive news is bellerin and mustafi could be back that's mean xhaka Torreira back where they belong

 

[celestis]

If emery could choose a different player to have a beef with then that would be nice. I know he got embarrassed by Neymar at psg but he doesn’t have to take it out on Mesut

Glad I'm not the only one who has thought about this .

 

[nas7232]

I think having lacazette wide and aubemayang centre works better since laca is good defensively tracking back. They work well when they interchange their positions; world class. I just dont understand why everh game this happens for 20 mins only with people like amn, iwobi and mikhi constantly losing the ball. At least mikhi has some attributes, the other two wont make any starting line up in the top 10 at least

 

[Goonerozil33]

That's what happens when you have backline that's barely played together with a DLP shoved in there. No communication

I beg to differ. First one was Xhaka and monreal back pedalling instead of compressing the space. The second was koscielny running back. Both times the players moved in the opposite directions. With no pressure on the player with the ball. That is a system problem. Even with musthafi this would have happened

 

[Sanchez11]

Think the nketiah sub killed the game but otherwise can’t really fault the tactics, especially with our injury problems.

We created more chances than Sp**s and generally had the better of the game. The difference between the sides: Son, Alli and Eriksen **** all over Mkhi, Iwobi and Ramsey/Özil.

In other news: AMN and Eddie were poor. Koscielny and Cech need to retire.

I agree for the most part but this 3 at the back bollex needs to stop.

 

[Aevi]

I had a meltdown when we were first linked to him lol, knew he was rubbish, but wanted him to be good and some of the posts here convinced me otherwise so I came around.. Had it right the first time.

I remember when there was some Mahrez vs Mkhi debate a while back and people were shocked that I said Mahrez was better. The overwhelming opinion was pro-Mkhi.

 

[HBL]

Ima make the Burnely thread, we need a win.

Please do