Unai Emery needs to find a solution sooner because I think our best two strikers should start each game apart from average matches like some Europa League group games and League Cup games.
Lacazette knows our squad and can recognise there are some players who are getting more minutes than him even though he got more quality than them. Our rivals play their best eleven, but we sometimes do not. I could understand why Lacazette and Ozil are frustrated with Emery.
Unai Emery is a top manager, but the last few games have been strange. He still does not know his first eleven. Our best striker is Aubameyang closely followed by Lacazette. Our best creative player is Ozil and no one comes close to him.
So i don’t get it why we can’t just stick with these three in our first eleven?
Our best games this season were Leicester, Spurs, and Fulham. You can just write off Fulham because every team was smashing them before their manager was sacked. Ozil was man of the match against Leicester. The football was stunning that night.
How about trying this line up? Since we don’t have quick wingers who can attack from the flanks we might as well play 4-3-1-2 formation and give Ozil the freedom to feed Lacazette and Aubameyang. Then, we will have more protection in midfield with Xhaka, Torriera, and Guendouzi playing there.
.............................Leno..............................................
Maitland-Niles....Sokratis....Koscielny/Mustafi....Kolašinac..
.......Xhaka.........Torriera......... Guendouzi..............
.....................Ozil.........................
....Lacazette.........Aubameyang..........
Our Best Eleven
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posted on 31/12/18
Not far off the XI that absolutely smashed Spurs at the start of the month.
posted on 1/1/19
Think he should give ozil a go again. I totally get why he’s not picked, but he is literally our only creative player. We don’t have a player in our squad who can come close to his ability to pick a pass to unlock a defence like he can. Dropping ozil makes sense in some game, but there’s no one else in our squad like him in a creative sense. He should be involved a more for rest of season, then we can see about replacing him with a more hard working creative player after that
posted on 1/1/19
We used to have Santi who would come in and do a better job than Ozil when required.
Due to the lack of quality in the squad at the moment he has to start
posted on 1/1/19
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 4 hours, 15 minutes ago
Can't play Guendouzi and Torreira in the same team
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Why not? Played well many times together. Good partnership.
posted on 1/1/19
comment by Ace (U18814)
posted 7 hours, 53 minutes ago
.............................Leno..............................................
Maitland-Niles....Sokratis....Koscielny/Mustafi....Kolašinac..
.......Xhaka.........Torriera......... Guendouzi..............
.....................Ozil.........................
....Lacazette.........Aubameyang..........
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Seriously, that is sheite.
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I don't expect anything better from a (put pressure on team) fan.
posted on 1/1/19
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 5 hours, 50 minutes ago
We used to have Santi who would come in and do a better job than Ozil when required.
Due to the lack of quality in the squad at the moment he has to start
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Many creative players have left the club and we haven't replaced them. Wilshere, Rosicky, and Cazorla are all part of the list.
posted on 1/1/19
He still does not know his first eleven.
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How can he when at any one time there are three of our better players injured.
What we can tell from his selections are that Leno, Torreira, Sokratis, Xhaka and Bellerin are starters in every situation.
That depending on the opposition Aubameyang or Lacazette or both will play. For example today they will both start. Same with Guendouzi, easy home game so he starts. Same with Ozil.
Koscielny, Mustafi, Kolasinac and Iwobi look like they will become squad players.
It is a two year process.
posted on 1/1/19
For me, if Lacazette and Aubameyang aren't starting together then it should be Lacazette who starts. Aubameyangs early influence from off the bench was part of the reason we were able to steam roll teams in the second half so well. Lacazette has an unbelievable work rate and better all round game imo.
I wouldn't start Ozil in a front 3 with Gwen, Xhaka and Torreira behind them. That midfield is just mindnumbing for me. Two of them only and then Ramsey or Ozil in the AM position.
posted on 1/1/19
Ozil in the centre of the pitch just gives everybody too much to do to compensate. At least out wide his lazily weak defending is contained. I wish people would just get it through their heads that Ozil costs as many goals as he creates, in the PL. Yes he'll have the odd great game but that's one in 10 performances and the rest of the time he's just a stone around the team's neck.
We aren't about to go and pay for the quality and stature of DM and CM, plus other positions, to make Ozil's laziness have no effect on games. Heis/has been an epic fail in PL terms and the club's biggest wage leech the last few years. I want him sold this month or if not, then at least not in any PL games. In particular, nowhere near the last 10, when we have to fight for every point.