The first NLD of the season comes in the league cup. Spuds have been performing to their usual standard of averageness, whilst we've suffered two disappointing defeats. Admittedly the Capital One Cup is of reduced importance, but it's a derby, so of course we want to win... not only win, but absolutely smash them.
Team News
- Wilshere out- Hairline fracture
- Welbeck out- Knee injury
- Rosicky out- Knee injury
- Mertesacker 50/50- Illness
- Cazorla out- Suspended
- Gabriel out- Suspended
- Coquelin out- Knee injury
Ospina
Debuchy Mertesacker Chambers Gibbs
Arteta Ramsey
Chamberlain Özil Campbell
Giroud
Debuchy Mertesacker Chambers Gibbs
Arteta Ramsey
Chamberlain Özil Campbell
Giroud
Subs: Huddart, Monreal, Koscielny, Flamini, Reine-Adelaide, Iwobi, Walcott.
Prediction: 2-4
I think more first team players will be used due to injury, plus this is a game we could really do without losing. Hopefully we take our chances, as historically we tend to concede in this fixture. Fancy us to win, Giroud with a brace, Özil and Ramsey with goals too.
COYG!!!