Arsenal Vs Leicester

Well...we could go 3rd and 2 points off the top if we win this.

Leicester are always dangerous on the counter and have goals in them so they will be a tough match.


---------------------------Cech----------------------------------
Bellerin---------Mustafi-------Holding----------------Monreal
-------------XHAKA----------Torreira---------------------------
Ozil------------------Ramsey--------------------Aubameyang
-------------------------lacazette-----------------------------

xG>2 & xGA<1 Needed tbh

Lacazette hattrick needed imo

So if we win 21 from 9 matches would be most points since 13/14

Team:

Leno; Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Lichtsteiner; XHAKA, Torreira; Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi; Lacazette

Subs: Martinez, Medley, Guendouzi, Smith Rowe, Ramsey, Welbeck, Aubameyang

Don't know what's happened to Monreal and Kolasinac. Medley on the bench for the first time.

Monreal has a tight hamstring. Kolasinac apparently didn't train yesterday, so probably has an injury as well. Sokratis came back from international duty with a bruised ankle.

18-year-old Medley is our only defensive cover.

Never heard of Medley before ffs

Interesting team though.

CAPTAIN OZIL

Always had the confidence (and still have) that we would turn it around. Feelsgoodman.jpg

Ozil looking good.

Torreira and Iwobi positives
we played like bleep mid-table team for most part of this half

Ozil masterclass

Fair play to Iwobi for turning his career around.

El Gunner wrote:XHAKA back to his old bum self (:
Guendouzi can't come complete soon enough

Elite performance from LB

pls respect

El G will see the light with XHAKA soon I reckon.

He’s the biggest fighter in the team.

That's why he is still XHAKA

MOTM Ozil though. What a performance.

Auba scoring 2 off the bench.

Great night

Captain Mesut

Sina wrote:xG>2 & xGA<1 Needed tbh

2.92-0.93

ultimately another poor 1st half followed by much better 2nd half
some good stuff but also lucky not to go down again before subs

Thing is though...teams like Liverpool would actually score all those chances these smaller teams miss.

I don't think we can be lucky against bigger teams. But as we said before. Doesn't matter if we drop points against top 3-4 teams. As long as we win our other games we should be strong contenders for 4th.

But of course PL is coming home. 2 points off the top.

Despite the crap first half, this wasn't a lucky win. So that's something.

We started slow and really struggled to get Mkhitaryan into the game. Leciester's shape was very good, and they were sharper to the ball than we were.

I think part of the problem was that Lichtsteiner was limited in his passing by being on the wrong side of the pitch. We couldn't create the same angles we would with Monreal there, so it was harder to circulate the ball in Leicester's half.

Once we started favouring the right hand side, we looked more dangerous. Ozil and Lacazette shifted over to that side and put some great combinations together. This helped get Bellerin into the game, and he made the first goal.

Second half, Emery makes the bold choice of taking off Lichtsteiner and moving XHAKA to left back. XHAKA had no winger to go against him, and his passing really helped us get attacks started (see: that wonderful third goal). This allowed us to get Guendouzi on as well. We were able to move the ball much better after that, with Guendouzi, Torreira and XHAKA forming triangles. It created all sorts of space for our attackers.

So yet again, Emery has proven he can change the game with some smart subs. Now if only we could start well from the beginning.

We did have a few decisions go our way though, so there was an element of luck in the mix.

Holding's handball, on another day, could've been a second yellow and a penalty. Leicester also hit the post once. We just had that tiny bit going for us in key moments like that.