Morning all. A fast Monday weblog.
As an Irishman the much less stated concerning the soccer yesterday the higher, I suppose. I truly had the primary half on whereas I used to be making dinner, however turned off at 0-0. A clever choice, because it seems.
In the meantime, there’s speak this morning of a Leandro Trossard harm, which is simply what we’d like [sarcasm font]. I don’t understand how severe it’s, however he got here off within the first half so it’s clearly one thing. One other headache that Mikel Arteta is not going to want. He stated he was praying that after this Interlull he’d have a squad that was bodily prepared and in fine condition, he would possibly have to say a number of extra rosaries by the sounds of it.
He’ll little question be retaining a detailed eye on his different two forwards who’re away with their international locations, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli, and retaining every thing crossed that they arrive by their video games on Tuesday with out a downside. I do know soccer followers generally tend to see issues by the potential worst case state of affairs, but when we discover ourselves reliant on the objectives coming from Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling, we may have an enormous downside.
As for Trossard, I do know he’s had some iffy moments this season. The purple card towards Man Metropolis, the careless cross which led to William Saliba’s sending off, and a few performances which have been under the extent we all know he’s able to, however he’s nonetheless a participant I completely need match and out there. Maybe not as a starter proper now, however for those who take a look at this Arsenal squad and attempt to envisage somebody coming off the bench and making an affect after we want it, he’s about the one one who involves thoughts. So, let’s hope it’s nothing too substantial.
Right now, Arsenal gamers in motion are David Raya and Mikel Merino for Spain, and Jakub Kiwior for Poland. I sit up for tomorrow morning to examine how Merino’s shoulder truly got here off in an innocuous trying problem in midfield, flew by the air, and caught Raya straight within the face, blinding him in a single eye. In the meantime, again at base, a goalkeeper’s dinner and bonding session ended up with all of them struggling calamitous meals poisoning, leaving us with solely 14 12 months outdated ‘Billy Stopper’ out there for Saturday’s recreation towards Nottingham Forest.
Past that, there actually is nothing a lot occurring, so I’ll go away it there for this morning. There’s a model new Arsenal Girls Arsecast out there proper now, Tim and Jamie look again at Saturday’s 3-0 North London derby win, and take listener questions partially two.
And naturally, we may have an Arsecast Additional for you in a short time too. We’ve put out the decision for questions on Threads @gunnerblog and @arseblog and on BlueSky @gunnerblog.bsky.social and @arseblog.com with the hashtag #arsecastextra – or for those who’re an Arseblog Member on Patreon, go away your query within the #arsecast-extra-questions channel on our Discord server.
Pod needs to be out round midday. For now, have an excellent one.
