Here are the headlines.
* The FA have just confirmed that Watford's Christian Kabasele has had his card in the Carabao Cup rescinded on appeal.
* Janmaat is out for about 6 weeks.
* Some good news on the home front, as Sokratis is back in full training after limping off against Everton with what turned out to be a dead leg.
* Watford tomorrow will be our 4th home game in a row. 4 of the following 5 are away.
* Current form has Arsenal with 4 wins out of 4, while Watford come into this game on the back of a decent start that has somewhat ran into a bit of traffic lately.
* Looks like our old friend Deeney is also out to prove a point. While I still believe that Andre Gray poses more of a threat, here's what Deeney had to say.
"I have to have another injection, this time in the ankle, for the weekend so I’ll be ready for Arsenal. There’s a bit of ligament damage in there [but] nothing a few injections can’t help. It’s going to take more than that to stop me playing against Arsenal."
* As far as our expected lineup goes, Emery's been pretty consistent with his selections.
Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Nacho, Torreira (?), Xhaka, Ozil, Ramsey, PEA, Lacazette.
* Predictions? Arsenal 2-1 Watford
Watford At Home
posted on 28/9/18
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Deeney loves playing against us cause Mustafi was very soft last season. This will be a test for him.
Mkhi deserves to start ahead of Ramsey tbh.
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I'd love to see Mkhi in a starting XI. Preferably on the right. If only to mix things up a bit.
It's getting a bit ridiculous to see the whole squad basically spend 90 minutes stepping on Xhaka's toes, while Bellerin is left to patrol the entire right side of the pitch alone, with only the equally isolated Mustafi as his sole source of support.
posted on 28/9/18
Given the big talking point of the week, hopefully Emery benches Ramsey in favour of Iwobi.
Have to start planning for life after the Twitter King, and hopefully starting to sideline him early will make him keener on a January exit, where we can get at least one tin of beans for him.
I mean, everyone likes beans, right?
posted on 28/9/18
Yep would play Mkhi/Iwobi over Ramsey
posted on 28/9/18
I'm honestly not on the wind up but are no Arsenal fans concerned about the lack of English players starting games for you in the league?
I know you aren't the only ones but I can't help but feel it's a sad state of affairs when it starts happening.
posted on 28/9/18
No cos we had loads of English players who all turned out to be shiiiit
posted on 28/9/18
Alot of your history and previous successes were down to English/British/Irish players.
In my opinion, clubs should have an obligation. But until the rules truly reflect that then I understand you aren't doing anything wrong. As I say, other clubs do it too. Just interested to see what fans thought. I think club fans tend to not give a fack to be honest unless it's another team doing it
posted on 28/9/18
Don’t care about the nationality really. The only chance of us having English players in the team if we get them at a very young age ie Maitland Niles, Holding, Smith-Rowe or if they aren’t very good ie Welbeck.
Any half decent English player will cost stupid money. Exact same scenario with Spurs, the difference being is they’ve scouted well with their young English players ie Alli, Dier, Rose or got lucky (Kane).
posted on 28/9/18
I'm honestly not on the wind up but are no Arsenal fans concerned about the lack of English players starting games for you in the league?
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No. We went down that road and it didn't work out too well.
posted on 28/9/18
Not much we can do about this i'm afraid. We can't produce our own of the sufficient quality, and sure can't scout British players too well. If any British players are any good, they'll go to utd or city and then to the bench or own loan.
We did try a few years back under Wenger, with Ox, Chambers, Wilshere, Theo, Welbeck etc, didn't really work out the way we hoped.
posted on 29/9/18
We have a good crop of English youngsters coming through.
Reiss Nelson (scored on his bundesliga debut on loan at hoffenheim)
Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Emile Smith Rowe
Eddie Nketiah
The last 3 in particular look mentally strong aswell as talented.
Add in the likes of Rob Holding and Alex Iwobi (chose Nigerian nationality but been here since he was four). I'm not too concerned about our home grown quota. They'll get game time if/when they're good enough.