We are playing away to Bodo/Glimt in few minutes from now, and Mikel has decided to shuffle the playing XI to maximum. There are 7 changes in the line up from our last game.
Turner will most likely be our GK for the rest of Europa league. Tierney gets back to his LB position, and Holding gets a start after some time. Gabriel Megalhaes has been playing a lot and needed some rest. Saliba and White keeps their places.
Midfield is an interesting one. Partey and Xhaka are on bench, and Vieira and Sambi takes up their places. I’m guessing Sambi will play a DM role similar to Partey and Vieira will be allowed to move forward like Xhaka has been doing more recently. Odegaard and Saka keeps their places in the right side.
Jesus got a much needed break, Eddie starts and I’m rooting for him; always liked him and I am hoping he will score a few today. Reiss Nelson gets back in the team at LW.
I’m short on time today, and will be back tomorrow. Hope we see a good game, no injuries, score few and keep a clean sheet.
#COYG
Test check
Local lad Odegard is playing.
Except Sambi looks a full strength squad. Tierney too
It’s kind of frustrating Europa is streaming on a different platform now. It was much easier when everything was on Tele. Pay a fix amount and you get all channels (movies, sports, etc).
Streaming sites are banned here, so I’m gonna go and pay for it anyway, but this subscription models is becoming a problem they wanted to solve initially.
Hoopah
Yep, Sambi looks similar to AMN. Flashes of brilliance but never really convincing. Hope he turns it around with regular game time in Europa.
It still makes me laugh people debated in favor of our absenteeism from Europe last season.
Bi do seem to be playing very randomly. So Arsenal can’t figure how to react.
A quite boring match so nothing list is anyone not watching
And Saka scores 😅
Both Champions as well as Europa are there on Sony Liv. Reasonable subscription and good resolution.
Took EPL on Hotsstar which has Premium giving 4k resolution
Goal by Saka. 1-2 usual
1-2 meaning passing for goal
Champions League streams are easy to find :))
Bought the Sony one anyway, ain’t much for CL / Europa games.
Europa League is of teams who could not qualify for Champions League and it shows. Reviewed all the matches going on and only Fiorentina match was watchable. Mourinho and Roma are losing. Villareal playing kicking the ball. Even the team I run ( in local Professional League) play a more watchable passing game.
Barcelona will surely make it a bit more interesting haha
But yeah, it’s a stale game. Martinelli / Jesus would have eaten them alive in that first half.
Though they should have scored in that 1v1 situation and a good team would have scored on the ball Lokonga gave away near the box.
Agree with you Ambarish. Expected at least some sparks from Eddie.
We missing our 2 cannon, but can’t play them in a game of this type with chance of injury
Hi Lads
We’re doing OK here. We’ll get stronger in the second half as they tire. Bodo have an outstanding home record in Europe.
I don’t agree about Sambi – I think he’s looking neat in the middle. Good to see that through ball for the assist too. It’s Turner that concerns me – too runnarson-esque. Matt Ryan was a better option in my view but that ship has sailed.
Hope you’re both well and not working too hard.
Couple of near goals from Bodo, they are making the second half interesting for sure. We need to calm things down as soon as possible
Mikel acknowledging it by bringing in Xhaka and Martinelli to get control of the game. Nelson did not do any justice to his start.
Fuckin’ hell, Is Tierney playing as a #10 today? What is he doing so high up in the middle of the pitch!
Oh, and Turner is doing OKAY in my opinion.
Job done – if we’d beaten them easily, I think we might be worrying that we’d shot out bolt before Leeds on Sunday. Not as assured as we’d have liked but that game will be forgotten about by tomorrow.
It probably won’t happen ut if Zurich can get something out of the game in Eindhoven tonight, we’ll be just about there already (with 2 home games to come).
This week has been absolutely fantastic for me Arsenal won, Napoli in the CL knockout stages and Barca virtually in the EL in two weeks to be confirmed. What could make it better?
Another AFC win to stay top of the table, Everton beating Spuds, Villa beating Chelsea, Newcastle victorious, Pool beating City. That would be perfect but I take a combination of those.
Finally take 12 to 15 points from the 5 games before the WC and be top of the table come Nov 13th.