Arsenal Team PL Champions Talk/Gossip/Rumours 25/26!

I agree with this. Hincapie has probably been our best defender the last few months but would like to see the switch.

Mosquera will come in right back if Timber out and they slightly shift over I reckon to allow Calafiori more freedom going forward.

Eze needs to start for sure. Odegaard needs to be dropped

Yeah fair shout

supposedly he was getting treatment at end of first half. Dont know if it had any bearing on the sub but we will need a lot of mins from him over next 5 (hopefully 6) games

I just can't stand RTE's pundits and I can guarantee you they'll be micro-analysing all of our players in the World Cup with every dig thrown in. It's going to be insufferable.

Think he's urging players to a) press/close 2) drive forward especialy/occassionally when we are 1 and not sit back up d) or move into specific areas when the opp are in possesion but think the guys should know where they should be whether they actually see him or react is another question. Never hear any negative reflections on Simeone when he's going ape on touch line BTW.

that not walking on the crest is absolute nonsense. If you put the crest in the middle of a walkway someone is going to step on it. It’s one of those things that started because social media showed people respecting it.
if it’s on the ground on the way to the pitch it’s meant to be stepped on.

was 100% a pen. No attempt to play the ball and he clearly clipped Eze. The real issue though is it was not a clear and obvious error and VAR should not have intervened. We were scammed and I hope it doesn’t cost us a place in the final.

The bias seems to be from the Arsenal haters.
Many ex players and refs have said it was a clear pen. Just listened to Shearer talk about it, he was raging about it and VARs intervention in particular.

OK I’ve heard some ex pro’s say it was ultimately the right call (minimal contact, a dive - take your pick) but again I’d argue that it wasn’t a clear and obvious error by the ref so VAR should have stuck with the on-field decision.
Anyway it’s done now so it doesn’t matter.

The very fact that there is so much debate about it is pretty much concrete proof that in awarding the penalty that ref did not make a clear and obvious error. The VAR had no business intervening. Ref absolutely bottled it. There is nothing he could have seen in the replay that made him think he made a clear and obvious error and needed to overturn his decision. We were done out of a penalty.

per UEFA website.

The VAR team will check all match-changing situations, but will only intervene for clear and obvious mistakes. The referee can hold up play while a decision is being reviewed. If the VAR review provides clear evidence for a serious mistake in one of the game-changing situations, the VAR can then ask the referee to conduct an on-field review. The final decision can only be taken by the referee.

If Villa come back and beat Forest and go on to win the Europa League, finish fifth in the leaue then the sixth placed team will qualify for the Champions League next season. The commentator said that last night. They may have to go through a qualifying round though or could go straight through to the league phase. Thankfully the sides we have to play are in the bottom half of the table.

every team will be up for it against Arsenal no matter what their reason even just for bragging rights

I read earlier this week that there is a scenario that could quite conceivably develop whereby Brentford need to go to Liverpool on the last day of the season to lose in order to qualify for CL. Mental if true.