Fulham V Arsenal, Saturday Sep 12, 1230 KO

[Marc Overmars]

Last season was such a long drag it’s quite nice to be starting from a clean slate.

It’s Arsenal away from home though, so a disaster is never out of the question.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BT's programme starts in a couple of minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham: Rodak, Ream, Hector, Odoi, Bryan, Onomah, Cairney, Reed, Kebano, Cavaleiro, Kamara
Subs: Areola, Mitrovic, Knockaert, Cordova-Reid, Le Marchand, Christie, Anguissa

Arsenal: Leno, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney, Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Maitland-Niles, Willian, Lacazette, Aubamaeyang.
Subs: Macey, Kolasinac, Ceballos, Willock, Saka, Pepe, Nketiah.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Crouch and Rio are pitchside.

[Mac76]

Seen a few people float the idea that we might go with a back 4 today with Gabriel and Holding at CB - how would we feel about that? Is Gabriel ready? Is Holding strong enough at covering space?

The extra man in midfield would certainly be useful, if Fulham decide to sit deep.

I guess we have the options there to quickly change from 2 CBs to 3 CBs (and visa versa), so we could just see what kind of game it’s gonna be and then switch if we need to?

Was wondering the same thing but with it being the first game and away from home i suspect arteta will go with the back three

And having written that i've now seen the line-up - does look like a back three

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El neny and xhaka feels overly defensive - why not ceballos ffs?

He’s only been back for a week or two - maybe he’s not quite fit enough yet?

[Mac76]

Meanwhile foolham have put mitrovic on the bench - have both these managers bet on a defeat or something, wtf's going on - they do realise this a real game right, not a friendly?

[Mac76]

Nearly concede through a dodgy back pass

[Mac76]

Arsenal pub it in

[GP]

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to pub it in.