Our first pre season friendly against AC Milan kicks off in just over half an hour
Team is mainly first team players with Zinchenko (going to be hard to shift on his wages) also starting
Norgaard starts as does Nwaneri in the no10 role (a role I think he’s better suited to than on the wing, not that he’s not good on the wing but he likes to cut inside a lot)
Zubimendi on the bench
From Sky:
Arsenal team news
Team to play AC Milan: Raya, White, Saliba, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Norgaard, Rice, Nwaneri, Saka, Martinelli, Havertz.
Subs: Kepa, Setford, Rojas-Fedoruschenko, Nichols, Kiwior, Salmon, Lewis-Skelly, Zubimendi, Lokonga, Copley, Merino, Dowman, Odegaard, Kabia, Nelson, Trossard, Harriman-Annous.
From Sky:
AC Milan team news
AC Milan: P Terracciano, Tomori, Thiaw, Pavlovic, Bartesaghi, Ricci, Loftus-Cheek, Musah, Saelemaekers, Leao, Pulisic.
Subs: Pittarella, Torriani, F Terracciano, Okafor, Chukwueze, Colombo, Comotto, Dutu, Bondo, Gabbia, Magni, Liberali.
Dowman coming off the bench should be interestingOriginally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
Hope Dowman comes on for a bit, though Nwaneri won't be too pleased if he needs to give way for a 15yr old
Looking at our lineup I suspect Arteta might be doing his 3 at the back thing again, with Zinchenko playing in the middle and likely going to suffocate Nwaneri.
Well can't complain, pre-season is for experimenting.
That or he’s trying to interest people in signing Zinchenko, not entirely convinced watching him play will be the best way to achieve that
I think more than likely he will go out on loan (as possibly Jesus will do when he comes back to full fitness - if he comes back to full fitness)
Seems very similar pattern to last season, lots of possession in their territory but they are able to get back and snuff out danger. And Norgaard looking like he could expose for pace a lot
You obviously aren't serious about this comment.
Like I said earlier, I wonder WTF we were thinking booking this as a friendly.
There has been absolutely nothing "friendly" about the challenges and its a miracle we don't have a player seriously injured yet.
Spurs are deservedly ahead as they've hit the post like 3 times thanks to embarrassing defending when it comes to attacking crosses.
We've probably been the better team but we've not made their keeper work at all (my stream has been a bit unreliable so I might be wrong).
Same old Arsenal for now, though we've lost our superiority in the air, both when we're attacking and defending.
We'll only probably get back into this game due to some sort of cockup from them or they relax a bit and actually start playing like it is a friendly.
What do you think is behind the lack of aerial security? Not having Gabriel?
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