Morning all.
It’s one other difficult away journey in the present day, as we face Brighton simply three days after beating Brentford. At the moment’s opposition have had a few additional days to relaxation and put together for this one, in order that’s one other difficult facet of this encounter.
When it comes to the staff, we’re with out Jurrien Timber who picked up a suspension on Wednesday, so the plain decide to switch him is Thomas Partey. I don’t assume there’s every other answer actually. I can’t see Mikel Arteta enjoying a left-footer on the proper, and with Declan Rice and Jorginho obtainable to come back into midfield, he’ll go along with the participant who has crammed in there loads of occasions this season.
I do assume that has a knock-on impact on our proper hand aspect, but it surely’s the absence of Bukayo Saka that may influence that essentially the most. Ethan Nwaneri was excellent there towards Brentford and could possibly be referred to as up on once more, however in his press convention yesterday, the supervisor made it clear he’s going to must rotate with some frequency throughout this hectic month:
There’s not one participant that’s going to play 9 video games in a row in that place, it’s unattainable. So, once we take a look at that and we take a look at the opposition as effectively, particularly the way in which they defend, the way in which they occupy areas, sooner or later a pure or inverted footed, can be extra helpful.
With Kai Havertz again from sickness for in the present day’s recreation, there’s scope for Mikel Arteta to do one thing a bit completely different together with his ahead line. Maybe shifting Gabriel Martinelli over to the proper with Leandro Trossard on the left? That mentioned, together with his present kind, you most likely need to hold Gabriel Jesus within the staff too. What I’d say is that with a cup semi-final on Tuesday, and so many video games in January, there are going to be some staff choices that look a bit odd, and I do surprise if in the present day could be a type of.
In midfield, assuming health isn’t a problem, I feel we’ll see Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard and Mikel Merino (about whom I wrote yesterday), with the supervisor backing the summer time signing to ship extra:
We anticipated a really quick integration as a result of he’s performed within the league, he’s such an clever and skilled participant and he suits very effectively. He had an harm and one other little niggle, and he had no pre-season as a result of he performed for Spain as effectively and it took him only a whereas to begin to get set, however now you possibly can see the influence he has within the staff, his intelligence and the objective risk that he presents to the staff. Then, increasingly more will come as a result of he’s a pure chief as effectively. As he grows within the function, I feel we’ll see far more from him.
It’d be a great recreation too for the captain to offer some finish product. I don’t assume he’s been fairly proper of late, maybe that ankle continues to be a problem after the harm and the current arrival to the family could be enjoying an element, however he’s been rather less impactful than you’ll count on. It appears like he may gain advantage from a objective and/or an help (or two, three – I’m not grasping).
I’m additionally curious to see how we strategy this recreation. In opposition to Brighton final season we performed a really courageous/dangerous recreation, urgent them excessive up the pitch which left some area in midfield, but it surely labored out effectively with a 3-0 win. Whether or not Arteta sees that as the way in which to go towards this present iteration of Brighton stays to be seen although. They’ve loads of attacking expertise to be cautious of if we give them an excessive amount of room.
Lastly, I feel there should be a little bit of ‘additional’ for our gamers going into this one after what occurred within the house recreation. The Rice crimson card was a real shame, and I feel it price us two factors that day. The Brighton supervisor’s feedback afterwards had been very annoying too (though I feel that comes very naturally to him), so if there’s some further motivation due to what occurred again in September, let’s lean into that. Each little counts and so on and so on. A Rice winner can be a little bit of justice.
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Till then!
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