Marseille vs Arsenal LIVE

Arsenal starting XI vs Marseille:

Szczesny, Gibbs, Koscienly, Mertesacker, Sagna, Flamini, Wilshere, Ramsey, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud

Bench:
Fabianski, Vermaelen, Monreal, Jenkinson, Hayden, Akpom, Miyaichi.

La compo de l'OM:
Mandanda - Fanni, N'Koulou, Mendes, Morel - Romao, Imbula - Payet, Valbuena, A.Ayew - Gignac

OM Subs:
Samba, Mendy, Cheyrou, Lemina, J.Ayew, Thauvin, Khalifa

Napoli XI v Dortmund (4-2-3-1)>>
Reina; Maggio, Albiol, Britos, Zúñiga; Behrami, İnler; Callejón, Hamšík, Insigne; Higuaín.
Dortmund also 4-2-3-1>>
Weidenfeller; Großkreutz, Subotić, Hummels, Schmelzer; Bender, Şahin; Błaszczykowski, Mkhitaryan, Reus; Lewandowski

Good team. We can do the job. HAVE to finish any chance we make. If Marseille score first, the game is as good as gone. They don't concede. Specially after taking the lead.

Crucial we get 3 points.

From Sam's preview, I figured that their defense is their weakness right now. I'd bank on us scoring away.

However, our defense is known for being shaky, albeit the good run we've been on since Spuds/Bayern games last season. The OM attack will provide a strong test of our credentials before the considerably stronger attacks of Napoli and BVB come calling.

Flamini is crucial in this match. Ramsey's engine and form is a big plus too. How Jack/Mesut deal with Valbuena and combine with Gibbs on our left will be the other key battle.

Bench:
Fabianski, Vermaelen, Monreal, Jenkinson, Hayden, Akpom, Miyaichi.
 

The spirit is very high, we can do this.

Our bench has 1 goalkeeper, 4 defenders and 2 attackers. Its good if we grab a lead and are able to throw in the reinforcements to defend it.

If our starting eleven can't do a job of it, stay rest assured that we have nobody of note coming off the bench as a super sub. Injuries

We are almost there, need to get few results till Arteta/ Oxlade and Podolski return. 

Arteta, Podolski, Cazorla, Rosicky are expected to return in October. Ox back in January?

We have quite a few games to go till then.

I forgot about Cazorla and Rosicky. 

GROWW (Giroud, Ramsey, Ozil, Wilshere, Walcott) to tear Marseille up

Come on Arsenal, important 3 points

Hayden is a midfielder Sri.

Not doing much, need to improve.

I can only find crappy streams of this match ... so frustrating.

Boring first half, looked neat and tidy but haven't offered anything in the final third. Need a better to step things up in the second half.

AnJl wrote:Hayden is a midfielder Sri.

Thought he was playing CB/CDM in the youth/reserves.

EL Patron wrote:Boring first half, looked neat and tidy but haven't offered anything in the final third.

Neat and tidy how? Every time my stream wasn't getting struck, I only saw OM attacking the crap out of us

We sustained their pressure quite comfortably, only once did they get better of Gibbs and got through but Mert cleared the ball beautifully. They committed more bodies in the middle though and Ozil struggled with 2 on him all the time, Jack needs to circulate the ball a lots more faster, he lost the ball 3 times trying to dribble.

Imbula is so raw but dude is a beast physically.

srigooner wrote:

EL Patron wrote:Boring first half, looked neat and tidy but haven't offered anything in the final third.

Neat and tidy how? Every time my stream wasn't getting struck, I only saw OM attacking the crap out of us

When we have had the ball, we have been neat and tidy but haven't done much with it. You have to give OM some credit, they are working really hard defensively to stop from creating anything.

Also Sagna's crossing  

Imbula is killing our midfield

Got lucky there  

Gignac is worse than Adebayor when it comes to offsides  

Our fullbacks have been shit in the final third, come on ffs

Ffs walcott