DiamondGooner wrote:BrunelGooner wrote:Anyone just seen the latest injury news?
Mustafi won't be back for full training until next week.
Bellerin won't be back for full training until 2 weeks time (massive blow).
Mavrapanos still not returned to training in December when December is almost over.
Mkhitaryan and Kolasinac being assessed ahead of Burnley tomorrow.
This isn't good.
Sounds to me like we could be seeing Xhaka, Sokratis and Kos as a back 3 again.
If Emery does this again, I will be fuming. It quite clearly doesn't work. One of those players isn't a centre-half (and it shows!) and the other is a 33-year old crock who isn't reliable.
The likes of Barnes, Vokes or Wood will have a field day if we field a defence like we did against Spurs/So'ton.
What I'd like to see (though it's not ideal):
Leno, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Medley, Monreal/Kolasinac; Xhaka, Torreira; Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang, Lacazette.
Agreed.
Was watching AFTV and Claude actually made a really good point, Xhaka has been playing well partnered with Torreia, so why weaken the midfield and reduce Xhaka's performance by putting him in a 3 man CB defense?
Just play fkin 4 at the back and put Xhaka in midfield, just instruct Torreia to make sure he stays deep when we're out of possession to help the CB's.
I don't know why he's obsessed with 3 at the back all of a sudden?
Agreed, and the match stats proved it. Our midfielders have made ten final third entries in the first half and then zero in the second half.