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Post by AlbertTatlock on Sept 10, 2015 14:59:09 GMT
Pick your team. Jack Johnson Geoff Muni Eric Shaq Whelan MVG Arnie Walters Diouf Gouranga.
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Post by thestokielad on Sept 10, 2015 15:02:11 GMT
I'd play Wilson instead of Muniesa and Walters must start
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Post by nutterpotter on Sept 10, 2015 15:23:05 GMT
Sounds like Arnie will be fine.
Diouf and Johnson are the main doubts.
Assuming Diouf and Johnson are both injured:
Butland
Cameron Wilson Muniesa Pieters
Whelan Van Ginkel
Shaqiri Ireland Arnie
Walters
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 10, 2015 15:29:18 GMT
I'd play Wilson instead of Muniesa and Walters must start Why must Walters start?
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Post by cobhamstokey on Sept 10, 2015 15:32:17 GMT
For me I'd go with
Jack
Glen Wilson Muni Eric
GCam Whelo
Shaq Ireland Arni
Diouf
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Post by kurt on Sept 10, 2015 15:34:46 GMT
Sounds like Arnie will be fine. Diouf and Johnson are the main doubts. Assuming Diouf and Johnson are both injured: Butland
Cameron Wilson Muniesa Pieters
Whelan Van Ginkel
Shaqiri Ireland Arnie
Walters (if Diouf and Johnson are injured)
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Post by kurt on Sept 10, 2015 15:36:44 GMT
For me I'd go with Jack
Glen Wilson Muni Eric
GCam Whelo
Shaq Ireland Arni
Diouf (if everybody is fit)
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Post by upthefud on Sept 10, 2015 15:37:00 GMT
Butland
Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters
Whelan Sidwell
Walters Ireland Shaqiri
Diouf
Right hand side is too open at Arsenal with Shaq and Glenn on one side so a slight tactical switch. Walters in as we need to wind Arsenal up. Also I think at the Emirates a solid base of Whelan and Sidwell could protect the back four better than MVG.
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Post by bounderboy on Sept 10, 2015 15:40:16 GMT
Arsenal looks like it might be:
Cech
Bellerin Mertesaker Koscielny Monreal Cazorla Coquelin
Ramsey Ozil Sanchez Giroud
They played Walcott upfront last match but think the Height of Giroud will be preferred..
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Post by pavel on Sept 10, 2015 16:15:45 GMT
Ooh a slight tactical switch that leaves Arnie out, how's surprising!! Yet you keep Diouf and Johnson who are more doubtful and bring a player straight back who wants away as well as moving a new player out of his best position. Classic!
Sidwell, well that takes the biscuit and in fairness I'm beginning to think BB talks more sense!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 16:19:40 GMT
I reckon Bojan will start
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Post by that's our Ric on Sept 10, 2015 16:21:51 GMT
Butland Johnson Muniesa Cameron Pieters Van Ginkel Whelan Walters Bojan Shaqiri Joselu
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Post by bounderboy on Sept 10, 2015 16:28:11 GMT
From Hughes press conference he mentioned Arsenals home record being poor recently - think they have failed to score in quite a few home fixtures recently..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 16:31:02 GMT
From Hughes press conference he mentioned Arsenals home record being poor recently - think they have failed to score in quite a few home fixtures recently.. heard on Talksport the other day it was something like 1 goal in their last 7 games or something along those lines
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 10, 2015 16:44:43 GMT
Butland Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters Whelan Sidwell Walters Ireland Shaqiri Diouf Right hand side is too open at Arsenal with Shaq and Glenn on one side so a slight tactical switch. Walters in as we need to wind Arsenal up. Also I think at the Emirates a solid base of Whelan and Sidwell could protect the back four better than MVG. A team geared up to lose 1-0. I wonder where you get it from. Sidwell? Lol, OK then.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 16:48:18 GMT
Doesnt look good with bans and now injuries
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Post by djralphy2k9 on Sept 10, 2015 16:48:45 GMT
Butland
Cameron Muniesa Wilson Pieters
Whelan Van Ginkel
Shaqiri Bojan Arnie
Joselu
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Post by LphPotter on Sept 10, 2015 16:53:19 GMT
I think Johnson and Arnie will make it, doesn't look likely for Diouf but hope he does. So i'll go for;
Butland Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters Van Ginkel Whelan Shaqiri Ireland Arnie Joselu
Bojan to get 30 minutes.
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Post by ayem on Sept 10, 2015 17:36:18 GMT
Just read what MH and Bowen have said over the break. My team:
Butland Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters MVG Whelan Shaqiri Ireland arnie Walters
If arnie and Johnson aren't ready
Cameron Wilson Muniesa Pieters MVG Whelan Walters Ireland Shaqiri Joselu
I'd like Joselu in either way, but Bowen mentioned he's not quite up to speed.
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 10, 2015 17:39:03 GMT
Walters stank the place out against Spurs for virtually every minute he was on. Why does he deserve a start? I don't get it, other than people like the fact he runs a lot. That and peddling the myth that he roughs people up.
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Post by numpty40 on Sept 10, 2015 17:59:43 GMT
Go for it:
Butland
Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters
Whelan MVG
Arnie Bojan Shaq
Diouf
If Johnson's unfit, Bards at right back and if Diouf is unfit Arnie down the middle with Walters right midfield!!
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Post by kurt on Sept 10, 2015 18:46:47 GMT
Ooh a slight tactical switch that leaves Arnie out, how's surprising!! I´m deeply shocked about this absolutely unexpected lineup from upthefud
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Sept 10, 2015 19:13:37 GMT
Is it mind games with Ireland. Dunno.
I'd go 4-4-2
----------------Jack------------- Cameron Wollscheid Wilson Pieters Shaqiri Whelan Van Ginkel Odemwingie -----------Walters Crouch----------
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Post by upthefud on Sept 10, 2015 19:56:32 GMT
Butland Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters Whelan Sidwell Walters Ireland Shaqiri Diouf Right hand side is too open at Arsenal with Shaq and Glenn on one side so a slight tactical switch. Walters in as we need to wind Arsenal up. Also I think at the Emirates a solid base of Whelan and Sidwell could protect the back four better than MVG. A team geared up to lose 1-0. I wonder where you get it from. Sidwell? Lol, OK then. You have Tony Pulis on the brain, please get some help.
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Post by upthefud on Sept 10, 2015 20:02:00 GMT
Ooh a slight tactical switch that leaves Arnie out, how's surprising!! Yet you keep Diouf and Johnson who are more doubtful and bring a player straight back who wants away as well as moving a new player out of his best position. Classic! Sidwell, well that takes the biscuit and in fairness I'm beginning to think BB talks more sense! Horses for courses, isn't that Hughes mantra this season? How do you know that Diouf and Johnson are more doubtful? Yeah lets burn Walters at the stake eh, N'Zonzi shouldn't have played for the last two years the swine. Bojan Arnie and MVG could be game changing subs depending on how were getting on.
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 10, 2015 21:34:24 GMT
A team geared up to lose 1-0. I wonder where you get it from. Sidwell? Lol, OK then. You have Tony Pulis on the brain, please get some help. And you have his 'footballing' philosophies on yours. A typical TP side, play it safe and minimise your loss. Imagine how many free kicks Sidwell will give away on the edge of our box. Sidwell 5 years ago maybe, not anymore.
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Post by upthefud on Sept 10, 2015 21:53:57 GMT
You have Tony Pulis on the brain, please get some help. And you have his 'footballing' philosophies on yours. A typical TP side, play it safe and minimise your loss. Imagine how many free kicks Sidwell will give away on the edge of our box. Sidwell 5 years ago maybe, not anymore. Pulls wouldn't go away to Arsenal with a proper footballer in the hole and a world class winger supporting a pacey able forward who could cause an ageing Mertasacker problems. Yes the inclusion of Walters is defensive minded, and likewise Sidwell will sit and offer a much more solid base than MVG alongside Whelan to allow the full backs the chance to bomb on against a side who will comit numbers forward when we get the opportunity to break. In an ideal world it'd be Cameron there but without Ryan he's too important at the back. Playing this way and keeping it relatively tight for 55-60 mins will get Wenger and the Arsenal fans a bit twitchy, get MVG and Arnie off the bench and we could well nick it. There's going for it and there's being clever in our approach.
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Post by knowles on Sept 11, 2015 6:29:38 GMT
I'm going with the hope that everybody makes it through fitness tests, but Arnie to come off the bench after drinking too much celebratory Red Bull after Austria's qualification: Butland Johnson Cameron Muniesa Pieters Whelan Van Ginkel Ireland Shaqiri Walters Diouf Here is a little look at our trip to A-R-S-E-N-A-L in letters... and a preview from three Stokies, including the legend that is JoeinOz.
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Post by FullerMagic on Sept 11, 2015 9:32:20 GMT
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Post by pavel on Sept 11, 2015 9:49:06 GMT
Ooh a slight tactical switch that leaves Arnie out, how's surprising!! Yet you keep Diouf and Johnson who are more doubtful and bring a player straight back who wants away as well as moving a new player out of his best position. Classic! Sidwell, well that takes the biscuit and in fairness I'm beginning to think BB talks more sense! Horses for courses, isn't that Hughes mantra this season? How do you know that Diouf and Johnson are more doubtful? Yeah lets burn Walters at the stake eh, N'Zonzi shouldn't have played for the last two years the swine. Bojan Arnie and MVG could be game changing subs depending on how were getting on. Where did N"Zonzi come from, who mentioned him and who is burning Walters at the stake. Walters has been unsettled by contract negotiations, is this the best time to play him and is it the best message to other players in the squad if he walks straight back into the first eleven? If we have no one else he should play and he should be on the bench anyway. Tactically I don't agree with your approach. Sidwell is a liability and has shown that on numerous occasions recently and as Pugsley said "5 years ago yeah, now, definitely not", anyway why would you drop MVG who is improving and was very focussed against West Brom. Starting Sidwell in preference to him is risible. Walters defensive capabilities are overrated IMHO, yes he harries players up the field but he rarely closes the opposing winger down sufficiently in the danger area around our penalty area and countless crosses get though. Anyway Walters was dire in his last game and doesn't deserve to walk straight back into the team before players who performed well in their last outing, but then again he doesn't have a fancy foreign name, so shouting his mouth off in public, handing in a transfer request and being gash in his last club game doesn't count!! To take your other points I think Hughes said this is a squad game which is subtly different and more, I think, more to do with with playing players in form and keeping them on their toes, something he has always done in his tenure here. Why are Diouf and Johnson more doubtful? Well I listened to Hughes' press conference and it was clear to me that he thought Arnie was the most likely to play, he actually said something like "hopefully he will be OK" something he didn't say about the others, he was more cautious. So in summery, you drop an improving new midfield player for one who has been shown to be a liability on numerous occasions, move our record signing from his favoured position to accommodate an unsettled one and try and "hold" Arsenal for 50 or 60 minutes, a tactic that has proved totally fruitless on many occasions and drop a doubtful but in form player immediately to the bench whilst retaining two players that are even more doubtful. If Arnie, is fit he should play as should Diouf and Johnson, MVG should start and Bojan should play a significant amount of time, if fit. It seems to me your tactics are more about shoehorning a favourite player in (and dispensing with one who has a fancy foreign name) rather than tactics per se.
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