It’s Champions League night. A loss against Bournemouth was devastating and a win today will wash out a bit of that. We are playing Shakhtar Donetsk at home, and a win today will also bring us back in the top 8.
Playing XI is out. Mikel has fixed 2 of my complaints with whatever was available. Trossard makes into the midfield in place of Merino, so we are not going with three DMs today. Martinelli is back into the team with Havertz up top and Jesus in place of Saka. Sterling should be a ‘give him 15 min in a 2-0 game’ option, not a starter.
Line up looks okay to me.
European nights are always nervy. There are upsets but we should be winning against Shakhtar comfortably and I am hoping to see all 3 of our forwards scoring today. I hate to say it but a 1-0 win is not going to fix our confidence. We need the attacking football back today, we need to be in control for the whole 90 min, we need to show that we can win without making any errors.
And the seniors needs to take that responsibility. Trossard has played enough game, Jesus was brought for his huge experience and was believed to mentor the likes of Martinelli and Saka And Thomas Partey needs to keep control of that midfield. It’s Champions League night, couple years back – these same set of players were dreaming of these nights and when you got one, you need to show that with your actions.
Right, there is one more very important thing I have been talking about. We need to finish in top 8 of the group stage at any cost. I don’t want us to see playing 2 qualification games later in the stage.
It’s too early to say anything but there is some serious competition. And the fact that Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid are on the same points with us and are going to compete for the top is going to make our life difficult. What can we do? Win the easy ones and put fights against the best teams in Europe.
We have an easy one today. Lets go out in red and white and WIN this. Lets beat them 4-0 and get back our confidence.
See you during the match. #COYG
We’re doing that thing where we score and sit back. That will not stand.
What a delivery with Kai asleep.
More to come me thinks
He’s got to score that.
Looks that shoulder hasn’t healed yet.
WTF was Kai doing on the front post?
Tony
Havertz ducked out of clearing the ball.
Alexander Arnold making his CV to Real .
Delivery was inch perfect
Meanwhile Harvetz proving LiR guys right
Havertz is a flopping pussy with a tendency to duck during crucial moments
Saka is Captain and the outstanding guy on the field.
Salah is off pace
Fortunately Rat -face Jota is not available
Timber needs support with Salah
Arsenal is playing normal and not tentatively like 3 years back since all players started ignoring ElB pointless gesticulation on the touch line
Marc
Havertz doing a Xhaka
That’s 2 Havertz misses he should be scoring
There’s little doubt that Slot has worked on countering our set pieces, so we had better keep our wits about us
it’s all a bit scrappy, just not sure who that fancies more
What a time to score your first goal Merino
Another set piece – give the set piece coach a rise!
Nice game to get your first goal in.
Gary Neville’s looked at the replay and called the right decision meanwhile VAR are deciding what cupasoup they fancy at halftime.
Get the fuck on with it.
Marc—maybe he should be the manager, considering how reliant we’re becoming on set pieces…mind you if we keep this up MA will assuredly give him the axe, as you know how much he hates sharing the spotlight
TRVL
Don’t even go there.