[Eplel]

Good news disguised as bad news.

 

[mav_9me]

We are fecked because McT is not starting?

And Eriksen is. He doesn't have the legs.

 

[redIndianDevil]

As I think Fergie once said, it’s not that some players are lucky and avoid injury, they just have a higher pain threshold

feck that. No one has to play through pain.

 

[Judas]

Can people stop quoting the Martial bollocks.

 

[Red Rash]

Brace coming from Hojlund then.

Brace for Martial too... unfortunately the wrong type though.

 

[NLunited]

0-1, Martinez to assist Lindelof. Nearly happened last week, try again lads.

 

[Eplel]

And Eriksen is. He doesn't have the legs.

Ok, McT has the legs, he doesn't have anything else in his game though.

Shit passing, shit defending, shit positioning.

 

[daveskimufc]

Worried about dalot Vs saka

 

[Mike Smalling]

We have too much mediocrity in that side to expect anything other than a loss. Dalot, Lindelof, Antony, Martial, Eriksen, etc.

 

[The Original]

Was not expecting an injury crisis to start the season. Wow.

Shaw, Malacia, Varane, Mainoo, McT, Mount and now Sancho? Martial of course only a matter of time.

Martial is injured.

 

[doomy20]

No matter how you twist and turn, bad signs and mood everywhere around the team. Midfield needs to run their fecking legs of, 12km for both at least. Antony needs to stop producing 1/10 performances and whoever gets the 2 or 3 chances up front HAS to be clinical. If all that happens plus no individual errors from the back line, then we might get something out of this.

 

[MackRobinson]

Saka is the only player Im trully worried about.

odegaard?

 

[mu4c_20le]

We have too much mediocrity in that side to expect anything other than a loss. Dalot, Lindelof, Antony, Martial, Eriksen, etc.

Lets hope Ramsdale has a short memory

 

[Berbasbullet]

No matter how you twist and turn, bad signs and mood everywhere around the team. Midfield needs to run their fecking legs of, 12km for both at least. Antony needs to stop producing 1/10 performances and whoever gets the 2 or 3 chances up front HAS to be clinical. If all that happens plus no individual errors from the back line, then we might get something out of this.

When was the last "1/10 from Antony"?

 

[bosnian_red]

Yeah very pessimistic for this. No legs in midfield or attack, no Shaw or Varane at the back... Will be tough.

 

[klsv]

Brace for Martial too... unfortunately the wrong type though.

 

[crossy1686]

odegaard?

By far their best player but Saka is going to turn Dalot inside out today

 

[Damien]

Sancho, amrabat, mctominay, shaw, malacia, varane, mainoo, mount all unavailable/injured that’s over half a bloody team at the start of the season

Amad too, and van de Beek - though in vdB's case that has been for most of his time here.

 

[crossy1686]

I remember the last time I felt like this about playing Arsenal, I was sure we were going to lose, then Rashford popped up with 2 goals and despite having no business winning the game, we did.

 

[Ekeke]

Worried about dalot Vs saka

Same but I think he'd still be the worry even if all our leftbacks were fit

 

[Hester_manc]

And Eriksen is. He doesn't have the legs.

Eriksen is typically one of our players who runs the most kilometers per match.

 

[crossy1686]

Same but I think he'd still be the worry even if all our leftbacks were fit

Yeah he ruined Shaw last time, Dalot better hope he's got cover today

 

[Pexbo]

feck that. No one has to play through pain.

Guess we know what type of player you are.

Nobody has to play though pain. Players that tend to be successful and have good injury records and therefore good careers tend not to have an issue with it.

 

[avgp_1]

Gabriel and Zinchenko are back for them to cover their weaker left side of defence, but still need Antony to have a good game today if we have to come back with something.

Not so sure about Eriksen, he really was abysmal on our last visit back in January but atleast he has Casemiro this time alongside instead of McT and also Arsenal look a bit light in the midfield

 

[justsomebloke]

ETH stubbornness is gonna cost us. In what world does anyone think Eriksen and Casemiro is a match up to their midfield?

The real one? You are aware that we basically never lose when those three are starting in midfield? We have 42 pts from the 17 games they all started.

 

[doomy20]

When was the last "1/10 from Antony"?

You know what I mean, he just needs to produce way more, doesn’t matter if it’s 1/10 or 4/10, it’s not enough

 

[Alemar]

Amad too, and van de Beek - though in vdB's case that has been for most of his time here.

VDB is not injured

 

[arnie_ni]

We are fecked because McT is not starting?

He'd be handy off the bench today. We are basically guaranteed eriksen playing 90 mins

 

[Offside]

ETH stubbornness is gonna cost us. In what world does anyone think Eriksen and Casemiro is a match up to their midfield?

Just remember our first goal against Arsenal at OT last season…

 

[Frank White]

When was the last "1/10 from Antony"?

1/10 is harsh. He's more of a consistent 4/10 player with the odd 6/10.

 

[AndySmith1990]

I remember the last time I felt like this about playing Arsenal, I was sure we were going to lose, then Rashford popped up with 2 goals and despite having no business winning the game, we did.

That's the beauty of football, any team can fluke a win. But 7 or 8 times out of 10 the superior team will win, which in this case is arsenal. Just gotta hope we get some luck

 

[arnie_ni]

Worried about dalot Vs saka

Will it actually be useful he's right footed? He'll be defending on his good side all day with saka cutting jn

 

[saivet]

Any idea why Sancho and McTominay aren't in the squad?

 

[Donut]

Easy win for them. They’re levels above us currently.

 

[Telsim]

God help us. They will be out of sight by halftime.

 

[Chip]

ETH stubbornness is gonna cost us. In what world does anyone think Eriksen and Casemiro is a match up to their midfield?

Would you prefer that he started Hannibal or Gore instead?

 

[George Owen]

Worried about dalot Vs saka

I would be more worried with Shaw there.

My worry is our midfield will get run over and bypassed easily.

 

[Sara125]

We have no business winning this match

 

[Irrational.]

Can’t see us winning. The only way we avoid losing is if we avoid a poor sluggish start which appears to be the hallmark of ETH’s season so far.

 

[Damien]

VDB is not injured

Post I quoted said unavailable/injured, I didn't say Donny was injured, just that he was unavailable for this match.