European and Domestic Cups Discussion 2017/2018

The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 23 February 2018, 13:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The first legs will be played on 8 March, and the second legs will be played on 15 March 2018.

Arsenal's potential Europa League round of 16 opponents:

AC Milan
Athletic Bilbao
Atletico Madrid
Borussia Dortmund
Dynamo Kiev
Lazio
Lokomotiv
Lyon
Marseille
RB Leipzig
RB Salzburg
Sporting Lisbon
Viktoria Plzen
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Milan

Unless we play our strongest team, we are out.

Should be picking our strongest eleven anyway.

Really really need Lacazette for this. Ramsey too.

Auba cup tied right?

Yea

Nice

Jay29 wrote:Should be picking our strongest eleven anyway.

You would think lol

Unfinished business

As long as Arsene plays the strongest XI it should be fine, Milan aren't at Arsenal's quality overall

Ostersund just beat us at home and just imagine what Milan can do.

Raptorgunner wrote:Ostersund just beat us at home and just imagine what Milan can do.

milan will win for sure. the matches are telecast so late here il sleep probably.

Milan tie massive for Wenger's future
think we will progress

May sound crazy but I would rather not win the Europa if it means another year of Wenger managing the team.

Ideally Wenger would be sacked now and an interim manager can try to inspire this team for the rest of the campaign.

I feel that Milan will be very aggressive in the first leg and turn us over because we won't be expecting it, thus leaving too much work to do in the home leg. Just like 2012.

But even if we do get past them, there's absolutely no way we're winning this competition unless we get a ridiculously easy draw. And as Ostersunds proved, that's not even that easy for us.

i have never seen a club win a league without playing a proper defensive midfielder. No matter what style of football your team plays you need to have a balanced midfield i.e the main area arsenal lack.

No team other than Atletico are winning the EL

Just realised Milan is this week

Please please tell me Lacazette is close to coming back

Danny *bleep* Welbeck leading the line is an automatic defeat. Rather play Ramsey upfront.

Unfortunately he isn't. Welbeck is being rested apparently so he is 100% for Milan

Milan are in really good form, they are unbeated in the last 13 games. Just 3 goals conceded in 2018. We on the other hand are terrible all around and Welbeck will be leading our attack against this strong defensive team.

All we can hope is that this incoming loss will be the final nail in the coffin for Wenger.

so this is it. our season defining moment if wenger plays xhaka on Thursday against ac milan might as well sleep and not waste time watching the match

Problem is who else are we going to play in that position?

Why hasn't Bielik been prepped fully to compete for a starting position in this team?

Elneny is basically dead average, and probably just as poor as Xhaka defensively.

We could play a Ramsey - Wilshere midfield and risk being run through in midfield.

So see there's really no other options apart from seeing it out until the summer. Get a new coach, sell Ramsey, Xhaka can decide if he wants to play League Cup games or not, keep Wilshere, and then reinvest in a complete new starting midfield.

elneny is not given a proper chance in his preferred position he played as a centre back. he has the ability to defend and put pressure on the opponents when needed. he is also fresh player as compared to rest. he is also full of running and can play long balls if needed. I THINK HE IS MORE SUITABLE THAN XHAKA.Wenger needs to show courage and drop xhaka like mourinho did the same with pogba

Sina wrote:Unfinished business

Lets do it this time

LADSSSSSS

Disgusted tbh.