PL: Arsenal v Tottenham | Sunday, March 14 | KO: 16:30 UTC | Sky Sports

[wolfkidultman]

Has to be our strongest team. Elneny’s goal has allowed us to do that and rest a few on Thursday. A win gives us an outside chance of top six. Anything less and we’re done. To give up by selecting a weakened team against our rivals would be utterly pathetic. Get the job done.

 

[Lidl_Reed]

"Horrible decision from an experienced player"

I see they haven't seen Mustafi play

 

[Lidl_Reed]

Finally, we can laugh at his howlers.

 

[A_G]

I’m glad we got rid of one of our error prone defenders.

 

[Plutarch]

We have no injured players. A rare occurrence. From Arsenal's website - "All players in the men’s first-team squad are currently available for selection."

 

[GoonerJeeves]

He knows my opinion.... "You're ****!"

 

[Hunta]

@say yes

 

[Legend14]

He really wasn't. Although I dislike Arteta as a manager, he was a great Midfielder for us. Very underrated player by Arsenal fans and the English media back then.

Regardless of how he is managing, he was not a great midfielder for us. He was an above average midfielder at Everton and average for us. When I think about great Arsenal moments Arteta does not appear anywhere.

 

[say yes]

@say yes

0 starts in 21 league games this season; binned in January.

"A man is judged by his deeds, not his words" - dunno

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Regardless of how he is managing, he was not a great midfielder for us. He was an above average midfielder at Everton and average for us. When I think about great Arsenal moments Arteta does not appear anywhere.

The Kevin Richardson of our times. Hopefully he'll be a better manager than Kevin, and I think he will....

 

[dka1]

0 starts in 21 league games this season; binned in January.

"A man is judged by his deeds, not his words" - dunno

Aye but this is reportedly after Mustafi turned down a contract extension.....jus sayin..

 

[Finesse]

@Finesse, you stated in the Arteta thread confidence in Pepe getting a start for this one, but I do wonder if because Arteta will recognise this NLD as important he will stick with his safe place of players he seems to trust more, as boxerrumble does here.

We will see. Maybe more rotation will come with a reasonably safe lead against Olympiakos, but that would also mean three matches (Burnley, Olympiakos first leg, and NLD) where there wasn’t much rotation which is not just a problem for players needing minutes to avoid rust but also increased risk with quite a few players starting three matches in a week.

It is the same sentiments I had when he was not used as a starter vs Benfica. He was used as a starter at Leicester. The NLD is important of course but we have an even important game with Olympiakos ahead. No reason why he should not start.

Safe place of players is the way you want to look at it. For me its more about players who he believes can play to the strengths of how he wants to deploy his tactics. Lately we have dropped points or come back from jail not because Pepe was not used or the selection of players was wrong. Simple individual errors remain the problem.

He has no choice but to rotate . Pepe and the rest will get minutes. I am waiting for the new areas fans will pick on when they do and let me not jinx it...we don't get the result desired.

 

[GDeep™]

When was the last time we beat them? Arteta has lost both his games against them, humiliated in the last game so needs something here I think.

 

[A_G]

When was the last time we beat them? Arteta has lost both his games against them, humiliated in the last game so needs something here I think.

The 4-2 at the Emirates in Emery's first season.

 

[GDeep™]

@say yes posting that Arsenal Defense League bollocks.

Weird.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Utterly dominant against this **** from the time Wenger joined until about halfway though his reign.

You can blame the move to the Emirates and the breakup of the Invincibles if you want, I blame the malevolent presence of Mikaël Silvestre.

A dark day when we signed that man.

 

[say yes]

@say yes posting that Arsenal Defense League bollocks.

Weird.

What are you rabbiting on about now? 3 of your weird tags in the last 30 minutes because I asked you if Kroenke owns a cricket ground in India ffs. Didn't even answer my question.

Do you think Kohli changes things up tomorrow or sticks with the same lineup?

 

[Iceman10]

It is the same sentiments I had when he was not used as a starter vs Benfica. He was used as a starter at Leicester. The NLD is important of course but we have an even important game with Olympiakos ahead. No reason why he should not start.

Safe place of players is the way you want to look at it. For me its more about players who he believes can play to the strengths of how he wants to deploy his tactics. Lately we have dropped points or come back from jail not because Pepe was not used or the selection of players was wrong. Simple individual errors remain the problem.

He has no choice but to rotate . Pepe and the rest will get minutes. I am waiting for the new areas fans will pick on when they do and let me not jinx it...we don't get the result desired.

Regarding tactical thinking, one possibility I see for him using Pepe over Willian here outside normal forced rotation is Spuds probably need to play this match with ambition to be in with a shout for Top 4, which could end up giving space for Pepe as a runner. Will see which way Arteta goes.

“Safe place” isn’t really derogatory. It is just that I see Arteta as trusting Willian more because you don’t always know what you are going to get with Pepe, and it is perhaps a bit like Mourinho being risk averse with players like Salah and KDB when he had them. It is just management style and traits I am seeing with Arteta.

 

[Finesse]

Regarding tactical thinking, one possibility I see for him using Pepe over Willian here outside normal forced rotation is Spuds probably need to play this match with ambition to be in with a shout for Top 4, which could end up giving space for Pepe as a runner. Will see which way Arteta goes.

“Safe place” isn’t really derogatory. It is just that I see Arteta as trusting Willian more because you don’t always know what you are going to get with Pepe, and it is perhaps a bit like Mourinho being risk averse with players like Salah and KDB when he had them. It is just management style and traits I am seeing with Arteta.

I want Pepe to make it here if you look at the investment we made for him. If this is what he has to sail through to impose himself like Saka , ESR etc have done , then that will be the route. Every manager wants to be sure of what they get from a player , especially the very tactically dependent ones.

I just think there is a lot of nit picking with the Pepe issue over Willian issue. Willian has been bad for the first few months on his time here and compare that to Pepe who has never been what we expected for 2 seasons and 3 managers now. We have been very patient with him. Even the Manager was critiqued for not getting the best from him or coaching him into a top player. We read many reports of Pepe and Arteta spending so much time in training etc. I am wondering now, since we all see he is picking up and looking like what we want him to be, who gets the credit? The Manager too?

 

[Hunta]

Hope Sp**s hammer us, see how the Arteta fanatics spin that one.

Won’t be watching anyway.