19/09/19 | Eintracht Frankfurt 0-3 Arsenal | Europa League

[Angelito]

Thursday 19th September 17:55
Commerzbank-Arena

[Royal Gooner]

Gunners invading Frankfurt, not for the first time!

[Godlop]

Martinez
Mustafi - Chambers - Holding - Kolasinac
Xhaka - Willock
Nelson - Mhiki - Saka
Martinelli

less easy line-up

[CrimsonGunner11]

Assuming no Bellerin, Holding, Tierney:

Martinez
Mustafi Chambers Luiz Medley
Xhaka(c)
Willock --- ESR
Martinelli --- Jules --- Nelson
Subs: Leno, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Torreira, Ozil, Saka, Aubameyang

[Ach]

Assuming no Bellerin, Holding, Tierney:

Martinez
Mustafi Chambers Luiz Medley
Xhaka(c)
Willock --- ESR
Martinelli --- Jules --- Nelson
Subs: Leno, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Torreira, Ozil, Saka, Aubameyang

Not sure if serious

[Yago]

Unleash ESR.

[CrimsonGunner11]

Assuming no Bellerin, Holding, Tierney:

Martinez
Mustafi Chambers Luiz Medley
Xhaka(c)
Willock --- ESR
Martinelli --- Jules --- Nelson
Subs: Leno, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Torreira, Ozil, Saka, Aubameyang

Not sure if serious

Obviously depends on the fitness of the players mentioned. But if they're nowhere near ready, then I'd rather take the L for this game, than lose key players to injury

[Ach]

Play the first team bar Xhaka and get the win

We might get injuries. We might not. That's football.

Not fussed about the league too much this season. Need to go all in for Europa.

[Angelito]

Not fussed about this pointless competition. One of Dortmund or Inter are winning it regardless.

I really wanted us to win this trophy. We have poverty levels of European heritage, so this was always welcomed. But over the past two seasons, the EL has messed up our league form. It's also overtly long and screws up our schedule.

Hence, I'd rather focus on getting into the top-4 and winning the FA Cup.

Ideally, I'd love it if we won the EL. But we most likely won't and the schedule and length adversely affects our league form.

So, don't really care about this competition this season.

[CrimsonGunner11]

Play the first team bar Xhaka and get the win

We might get injuries. We might not. That's football.

Not fussed about the league too much this season. Need to go all in for Europa.

We have a better chance at qualifying for the CL through the league than the EL given the state of some of our competition, imo.

You may or may not get injuries if your best players start but one thing that is 100% certain is that you have 0% chance of injuries to your best players if they don't feature. Besides, we have a better chance at winning the other fixtures in this group than this fixture so I wouldn't risk our chances in the league just for a possible three points here. Our focus, for now, should be completely on the league imo

[Ach]

Play the first team bar Xhaka and get the win

We might get injuries. We might not. That's football.

Not fussed about the league too much this season. Need to go all in for Europa.

We have a better chance at qualifying for the CL through the league than the EL given the state of some of our competition, imo.

You may or may not get injuries if your best players start but one thing that is 100% certain is that you have 0% chance of injuries to your best players if they don't feature. Besides, we have a better chance at winning the other fixtures in this group than this fixture so I wouldn't risk our chances in the league just for a possible three points here. Our focus, for now, should be completely on the league imo

Rather win a trophy than be top 4.

We've improved in this last year from the previous and if we improve again we win it. Of course we don't know which CL teams are coming down but unless there's a shock and one of the big boys fail in the CL and enter this then nothing really to fear. 2 seasons ago we met the Argentinian allardyce in the semi and we had a manager who was awful and past his sell by date and couldn't beat a 10 man defensive team who had no intention of attacking.

Last year we had some great wins but f knows what happened in the final. Our record v English teams in Europe is horrific. We'll beat all the European teams we face

[CrimsonGunner11]

Play the first team bar Xhaka and get the win

We might get injuries. We might not. That's football.

Not fussed about the league too much this season. Need to go all in for Europa.

We have a better chance at qualifying for the CL through the league than the EL given the state of some of our competition, imo.

You may or may not get injuries if your best players start but one thing that is 100% certain is that you have 0% chance of injuries to your best players if they don't feature. Besides, we have a better chance at winning the other fixtures in this group than this fixture so I wouldn't risk our chances in the league just for a possible three points here. Our focus, for now, should be completely on the league imo

Rather win a trophy than be top 4.

We've improved in this last year from the previous and if we improve again we win it. Of course we don't know which CL teams are coming down but unless there's a shock and one of the big boys fail in the CL and enter this then nothing really to fear. 2 seasons ago we met the Argentinian allardyce in the semi and we had a manager who was awful and past his sell by date and couldn't beat a 10 man defensive team who had no intention of attacking.

Last year we had some great wins but f knows what happened in the final. Our record v English teams in Europe is horrific. We'll beat all the European teams we face

I want to win a trophy too but this right here is all the more reason we should not jeopardize our chances of qualifying for the CL via the PL. The fact that we missed top 4 last season by one point should be reason enough to show that every point matters in the league. We also have a second team for a reason and if they can’t at the very least give Frankfurt a good game then they have no business being at the club. If our chances of winning the EL improves later in the season then we can shift our focus but right now there’s too much uncertainty for our best players to be playing in this competition.

[Zenith]

Frankfurt have just signed André Silva on a 2-year loan from Milan whilst sending Ante Rebic out on loan to Milan, also for 2 seasons.

[Royal Gooner]

I'll be there for my first European away. Should be a good start for the Gunners.

[Nuggets]

Play the first team bar Xhaka and get the win

We might get injuries. We might not. That's football.

Not fussed about the league too much this season. Need to go all in for Europa.

This, I would rather win the Europa trophy than be top 4.