EFL Cup | Arsenal vs Southampton | 30/11/16 | 19:45 (GMT)

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Martinez
Jenko Holding Gabriel Gibbo
Coquelin Ramsey
Iwobi Adelaide Perez
Giroud
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It's great to have options. I'm loving our strength in goal in particular, after years of dodgy keepers. Cech, Ospina and Martinez is a great group to select from.

Excited to see Holding play. Looks a very good defender and is comfortable on the ball. Hopefully Perez and Giroud are both fit enough to start, all the noises are they will be.

#COYG!

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

So, with giroud out and with walcott and Alexis unlikely to feature, who will start at CF? Lucas Perez is back? Who is first in line among the reserves/youngster?

We have Mavidi in the reverses who is currently doing very well. We may also try out Iwobi as a striker if no other opinions are available.

 

[Penn_]

Can see Alexis finding his way onto the bench for this.

 

[remains]

Ospina
Jenkinson-Mustafi-Koscielny-Monreal
Coquelin-Elneny
Walcott-Özil-Iwobi
Sanchez

just to wind up the forum

I'm very wound up by your lineup.

 

[Sykes]

Can see Alexis finding his way onto the bench for this.

Absolutely not. Alexis needs all the rest he can get.

 

[redanddread]

So, with giroud out and with walcott and Alexis unlikely to feature, who will start at CF? Lucas Perez is back? Who is first in line among the reserves/youngster?

Is Giroud definitely out?

 

[redanddread]

Can see Alexis finding his way onto the bench for this.

no way he plays in this game & thus doubt he'll b close to the bench. Maybe if it was the 2nd leg of the 1/2 final.

 

[redanddread]

 

[redanddread]

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

They're like 20 squid anyway .

Bastard could've at least parted for a tenner.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Olivier Giroud misses out with a slight groin problem, while Mathieu Debuchy has been sidelined by a hamstring injury.

“Mathieu has a scan today [Tuesday] but we don’t have the results yet,” Arsène Wenger told Arsenal.com.

“Lucas is in the squad and will will have a mixture of youth and experience, but still 90 per cent of the first-team squad.”

Read more at http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-ar...-lucas-giroud-and-debuchy#icljpd0mdf6ChulE.99

Giroud misses out with a 'slight' groin injury.

 

[razörist]

Lucas back in the squad! What a warrior. And right on cue, Giroud is out. Debuchy will probably out for a while, a.k.a. done when Bellerin is back.

 

[Sanchez11]

We need to win this with a perez brace!! my boy needs a rest!

 

[redanddread]

We need to win this with a perez brace!! my boy needs a rest!

I'm sure he'll get one, a rest that is. Would sign on for a Perez brace for sure...

 

[redanddread]

Hmmm....not liking the fact that we have no "fit" senior strikers again. Giroud's a big miss - shame as he would have started, I reckon.

 

[redanddread]

 

[redanddread]

 

[Sanchez11]

Fml i hope my boy is on the bench i know the saints are no mugs but the bloke needs a break!

 

[redanddread]

Fml i hope my boy is on the bench i know the saints are no mugs but the bloke needs a break!

100% sure he won't start & 90% sure he won't be on the bench. Thing is with Giroud out, Arsène may be tempted to have back up for Perez who surely cannot be anywhere near match fit.

Perez cannot last the pace for the full 90 - who else do we have? Mavididi?

 

[redanddread]

What do the bib theorists say?

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20161129/arsenal-train-for-efl-cup-quarter-final