Get well soon captain fantastic. Tonight and Sundays game. I think party wording jordi one of those with Rice. Bring in Sterling and Calaflori. E.N out young man should get some big minutes ahead of Bolton in the cup. Coyg's win win and win is my prediction. 🎉
Hi Charles I think for our game tonight, I'd agree with 3 changes to the starting lineup like others, but hopefully we can get into a position where we can take off key players. I think drop Timber, Saka and Havertz to the bench to bring in Calafiori, Sterling and Nwanieri. If we can get into a good winning position. I would sub White, Gabriel, Rice, Trossard and Martinelli so they can hopefully be not too tired for sunday (If all those players start that is). Hopefully if you read this out tomorrow, everything went smoothly and we came away with 3 points 😁 Keep up the good work Dennis
This injury may be a good thing for Arsenal. We shouldn't be reliant on one man and we may have become a little predictable with everything going through Odegaard. Perhaps Nwaneri will be that breakthrough person who will offer something a little different.
With this injury we have to criticize Edu , leaving ourselves short has cost us big things in the past and yet we've done it again this season , Edu has to get a lot of criticism for this
Critisize him on what basis? Squad depth? We just won one of the toughest away games of the season without 3 key midfielders and didn't have to use the two midfield youngers who are with the first time squad. Your comment is insane, we have a lot of a depth in midfield.
Think we need to keep kiwior involved in the squad. There’s no reason for him not to feature at some point in this game. Keeping him involved at the very least gives us more leverage when we want to sell
Very sad news, and unfortunately ligaments usually take a long time to heal. I would be surprised (but very happy) if we see him on the pitch this side of Christmas.
This is the only reason why kloop invented the gen gen pressing..he doesn't depend on a 10 or a player to dictate the press or the pace..but its ok..we will do well till Martin comes back
Morning all.. Odegaard probably out until after the 3rd international break, would mean the Forest game on Nov 23, can’t see how it’s sooner after listening to Arteta.
Sounds like Martin has a grade 2 partial tear on his ligament which is about 3 - 6 weeks. The only problem is that you don’t really know if you need an operation until you’ve given it a few weeks- to see if it improves. If after a month or so your symptoms haven’t improved, surgery might be necessary- either: Do an operation now and he’s out for 3 months. Wait and he’s back playing by Nov. Or wait and he still needs an op so he’s out for 4 months.
I done my ankle ligaments and was out for 6 weeks…Grade 1 Sprain: Slight stretching and some damage to the fibers (fibrils) of the ligament. Grade 2 Sprain: Partial tearing of the ligament. If the ankle joint is examined and moved in certain ways, abnormal looseness (laxity) of the ankle joint occurs. Grade 3 Sprain: Complete tear of the ligament. COYG❤
We are Arsenal and Gooners and we are going to support OUR team through this difficult time, there are enough good players in our squad to fill the void in this temporary set back, So the key is SUPPORT OUR TEAM.
No and he is injury prone himself. He has a different character as well as skill set. I tbink reason he has never been tried there. Not even in pre season i think
Still think the transfer window was above average? Pffft... fail to prepare, prepare to fail and the failure was not getting replacements for ESR or Vieira. It's a TOTAL fkk up
This is a game we can afford to draw. I would take this opportunity to blood nwaneri. He is young, didnt play a lot of minutes and should be fresh. I know we only saw him for a cameo against Spurs, but I loved what I saw from him. He was cool under pressure and his first thought was get the ball forward. He made a couple of good forward passes that didnt work out, but if he got them right, Spurs could have been in a little trouble. We will need him to step up now the Odegard is out. This could be a great test for him. I hope Arteta is thinking like this. I suggest you go back and watch every touch Ethan had against Spurs. In fact, he also had an excellent block. Minutes played 4, Accurate passes 3/4 (75%), Touches 8 successful dribbles1/1 (100%), Passes into final third 1, Dispossessed 0, Tackles won0/0 (0%), Blocks 1, Clearances 1, Headed clearance 1, Defensive actions 2, Recoveries 1, Duels won 1, Ground duels won 1/1 (100%),
fully agree. Hope Ethan gets the start. It will be a pressure environment but not as a high as spurs or city away, and we can afford to draw or even lose this match and still very comfortably quality from the leauge phase, which is much more forgiving than the old format.
Its true, Martin Ødegaard is such a unique footballer, but I can't help thinking what would've been if Arsenal had pushed to boat out and signed someone like Eberechi Eze
Defensively Odegaard is useless so I don't think it will be catastrophic without him. Of course he's a key player but top teams figure out a way to continue to move forward when soldiers are down
Not ideal of course but injuries happen. We have plenty of players who can step up, the key one being Gabriel Jesus. If he stays fit during Ødegaards absence we’ll cope fine. Havertz can drop slightly deeper and Jesus can lead the press from the front.
You cant just say "injuries happen" without asking "what did the management do to prepare for every eventuality?" And the obvious conclusion is 'not enough' coz we do not have a proper CAM to replace Odegaard even if everyone is fit. How the EFF does that happen after 5 years of squad rebuild? Trossard, Zinny, Havertz, Ethan can POSSIBLY fill in but that is NOT an answer Injuries happen...pfft and there's nothing that coulda been done to prepare? Fkkkofff
1st Champs league game and you choose to do your other show, which many of your subscribers have no interest in (Stats don't lie on the 2 blokes opining show. Simply yawn). Will propose again, for the benefit of your subscribers, referring to your viewing stats, when uploading your ticks or benge editions which do not appeal to all - Will you also upload an episode of the Inside Arsenal daily show - which does appeal to all. (Kerching, more shows / hits - everyone benefits). Thanks for content.
Hopefully we have Jesus training in that attacking midfield position. Jesus always presses and does the little things, he just can't finish in the box.
I hope this isn't a career curtailing injury. Ankles and knees. So sad but annoying when you watched him left on far to long then off to international he shouldn't have been at. I worry the continual progress he has made will be stalled and maybe stopped. I hope not; that would be horrible. This season is secondary. We won't win tbe league or CL but top 4 and quarter min of CL sti very much on.
These international fixtures are killing the players. There were 3 casulties in the likes of Martin Odagaard, Calafiori, and Zinchenko during the latest international. I really dread these meaningless international fixtures for the players. The sense of humour from the Norwegian head coach after Martin Odagaard's ankle injury was extremely insulting. It just epitomises an individual attending a wake and passing negative remarks about the deceased.
Charles so playing that unnecessary useless Int is now probaly going to cost us lge this year it pisses me off sick of int breaks sid be playing players on fringes to assess them, to many games wat wiv clown refs. As u say just cant replace him he glues it all together so this news is just bad and totally avoidable hope it costs Norways FA a packet wiv his wages now.
Arteta should have taken him off against Brighton much earlier instead of painkillers. He should then pulled out internationals but he got a knock in first. Not the same injury but its all connected. I could feel it coming
