
Originally Posted by
IBK
No - but you can play them more sensibly. Wenger is not bold enough to rest Kosceilny by playing Vermaelen - who might have been kept fresher and more interested by being played a bit, even without injury. Wenger kept playing Ramsey - even when he was clearly in the red zone - when an Ox experiment in the middle with Ozil still controlling our shape might have been a better introduction than lately. Gnabry - who had done nothing wrong when he did play - could have been used to relieve the first teamers. And you can rest players by judicious substitutions, but you ain't going to do it at 70 or 80 mins with the team under pressure....