Quote Originally Posted by Kano View Post
Gunnerblog on the Arsecast made a great point about why Xhaka is probably sitting it out right now, what with Mustafi bedding in just behind him, it's a risk to then try a new partnership directly in front of that at the same time, while the same is happening in central defence. Which makes a lot of sense to me. Xhaka is making it very difficult to keep leaving him out though.
Don't buy it, especially when you consider the space other teams are being able to get because Coquelin is not playing well, pointless Conservatism from Wenger taking an unnecessary risk in pursuit of being risk averse.