Benjamin White: Big Ben Is Back

[Yousif Arsenal]

He will go from playing no minutes to overplayed he basically will have to play all games until Saliba back

 

[boonthegoon]

quietly having a good comeback run. People wrote him off too easily.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

quietly having a good comeback run. People wrote him off too easily.

White is quality you don't write him off his struggle was fitness not sure what people expected from guy who had minimum games and had serious injury too all 2024-25 season

 

[Batman]

I'm really gutted for him. This was extremely predictable though. You have to find solutions beyond running a player just back from injury into the ground when his fitness clearly isn't what it was.

 

[MikelHadADream]

I’m not that physio guy on twitter but pulling up like he did when running in a straight line surely suggest he’s in the red zone or whatever they call it?

Scandalous really after only just regaining some level of fitness after a year off.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I’m not that physio guy on twitter but pulling up like he did when running in a straight line surely suggest he’s in the red zone or whatever they call it?

Scandalous really after only just regaining some level of fitness after a year off.

It's likely hamstring and been coming he gone from zero minutes to not stop playing but again we got no choice because of injuries

 

[MikelHadADream]

It's likely hamstring and been coming he gone from zero minutes to not stop playing but again we got no choice because of injuries

Could have played MLS instead of him today.

 

[berric]

Started his 4th game in 10 days after a long time out, and people will defend it? Was stupid as ****.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Could have played MLS instead of him today.

MLS performance not encouraging i don't blame the coaching staff

 

[Axel9090]

This is on us, no two ways about it. MLS was there. Now we must buy in January.

 

[skience3]

MLS performance not encouraging i don't blame the coaching staff

It's Wolves at home. We should be able to manage with our LB not being encouraging recently rather than risking another injury.

 

[ThisFather]

Instead of overplaying track record injury prone players who are bound to get injured for months, surely it's better to manage their game time so we can actually make use of them as backups/rotations?

 

[RunTheTrap]

That Tomiyasu contract and Timber getting an ACL have completely derailed White’s Arsenal career. He was playing the minutes meant for three players and look at him now.

 

[BBF]

Honestly, what's going on here? He has been a complete ironman his whole career until now.

 

[Rasmi]

So he played 105 minutes in 10 games being mostly on the bench. Then plays
90 minutes v Brentford
3 days later 90 minutes vs Villa
4 days later 83 v Brugge
3 days later starts against Wolves and breaks down 30 minutes in

From hardly playing to being thrown in deep end like this is crazy. Shouldn’t have started today

 

[Red London]

Literally when the lineup came out I was livid to see him there rather than Arteta just trusting MLS at LB.

I think it’s important to not conflate it all as the same thing, as our injuries this season are a disgrace and bad luck, but this one is all on Arteta.

 

[Barry]

Tomiyasu remontada incoming?!

 

[HattoriHanzo]

So he played 105 minutes in 10 games being mostly on the bench. Then plays
90 minutes v Brentford
3 days later 90 minutes vs Villa
4 days later 83 v Brugge
3 days later starts against Wolves and breaks down 30 minutes in

From hardly playing to being thrown in deep end like this is crazy. Shouldn’t have started today

If he can't play with this schedule, he should go to other club with less pressure and less games.
Few weeks ago people were complaining why he doesn't play, and now he played too much.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Injuries crisis does this do managers. Force them into bad decisions. We also apparently took a risk with Saliba this game.

 

[Rex Caudillo]

If he’s out for about two - three weeks it’s not the worst time for it happen because we only have two league games in the next two weeks.

I’d consider Nørgaard for Palace in the Cup though because the backline is still at barebones ffs.