Zinny in midfield, who leads the press with tireless running?
There were so many chances that Arteta could try Zinny as left 8 (or permanent midfield) but he did not. Zinny is not a midfield for Arteta (convert fullback is different).
Havertz
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Fucking hate these shitty internationals so early in the season. Hopefully isn’t as bad as it looked 
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Yep.
well… we all know… you can’t press with just one player.
Our pressing is good because we have multiple players that are willing to and capable to press.
One Ode or one Kai cannot make it.
This why these Mickey Mouse international breaks are not only boring but too disruptive to prpper football.
The clubs pay the players wages and then the international managers overplay the best players and send them back injured.
What real supporter genuinely cares about these pointless competitions over club football?
So we have zero creativity for this weekend.
It’s a bummer, but it seems like we just didn’t have the funds to get adequate backup in the key areas needed, despite shipping out Vieira et al.
Stacked on full backs and GKs though.
Maybe cheeky set pieces is all we need to beat Spurs this weekend?
But I imagine Odegaard misses the City game, in which case we’re fucked.
Looking forward to the lineup though. Gonna be a make shift midfield that’s for sure.
I don’t think we should go with Partey and Jorginho together imho (but likely), I feel they’re both way too slow and will get overrun.
It’s never one player.
We defend in a 4-4-2. One midfielder joins the striker and they press together.
We’ve seen combinations of Odegaard with Havertz or Jesus, and we’ve seen Havertz with Jesus or Trossard.
Be honest, if our midfield does not have Ode, Rice and Merino… it doesn’t really matter anymore for me.
Even if we play Jesus, how many minutes he can last? 60?
Seems like Arteta really needs to change his tactics a bit.
Merino hasn’t played a single minutes for us, what are we talking about here?
Odegaard is a big loss and we felt it last year when he was injured for a game or two, the issue was never defensively though, we were just not threatening enough.
Haven’t felt this bad going into a match against Spurs in a few years. Fuck.
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if not injured, it is about time for Merino and Calafiori to get some minutes here.
I think the expectation was that Merino would be out till mid-October.
yeah, so unfortunate… disgracia 
OMG. Odegaard suffered the same injury I did few weeks ago (cries).
From the video it seems to be a lateral ankle sprain. You would HOPE it’s a sprain, if so, he has a strong chance to make it to the Spurs game and recovery within a week. Definitely not a fracture since he was walking.
If ligaments (which happened to me), for a footballer with all the facilities available, 3/4 weeks, but for a standard person like me, it’s been 5 weeks and I’m still in the recovery phase lol.
And hopefully some blood spinning or PEDs.
I did the same a month ago and just about recovering now. Thing about ankle injuries is they need to be like 95% recovered before you can play again. Can’t be putting stress on your ankles till it’s ready. Praying it’s a minor twist, as a sprain could be like 3-4 weeks out - even more if ligaments are damaged.
saw it coming
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Anyway, latest from their manager:
https://twitter.com/VipArsenal/status/1833391863597805734
What’s he talking about what we will do? Send the guy back to London ffs.
Don’t do anything other than put him on a plane home
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