Match Thread Arsenal (H) - 25 February

[J. James]

Rodgers clearly back to his old self...

He plainly sees things most people dont,

0-3 a good result with that line up imo.☹️

[Trumpet]

If anyone has a link to a stream and doesn’t mind sending it via pm, that’d be much appreciated.

[Larry_LCFC]

Starting Ndidi makes no sense whatsoever. Such a negative player. Mendy has been brilliant and is far more positive. I think we can all see what BRs intentions are in this game.

 

 

[Les-TA-Jon]

2 minutes ago, J. James said:

Rodgers clearly back to his old self...

He plainly sees things most people dont,

0-3 a good result with that line up imo.☹️

It’s the same team that beat Spurs, minus Maddison (illness) and Ndidi for Mendy

 

isnt it? 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

I thought the changes he would make would be Iversen for Ward...... Brendan clearly loves Ward. 

[ozleicester]

Just now, CrispinLA in Texas said:

I thought the changes he would make would be Iversen for Ward...... Brendan clearly loves Ward. 

or doesnt rate Iversen

[Strokes]

Not very confident without Maddison it’s hard to see where the goals come from. Let’s hope Nacho has one of his blinders and we might still have a chance. COYB 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Ndidi needs to buckle his ideas up and get going, he's been s*** for a year

[UHDrive]

3 minutes ago, Scotch said:

I would prefer he play deeper than Maddison usually does. Allowing Ndidi to play out and out CDM. 

 

It may isolate Nacho but that's when we will need a big game from Tete and Barnes. 

I agree to be fair but Rodgers has never played Praet in a deeper position unless we've had injurys out wide. I think personally he'll play him as a like for like for maddison which may just about give the midfield some cohesion that we didn't have last week as he's not as mobile across the forward third.

[Tielemans63]

I'd go as far as to say we have no chance with that side 

[weller54]

4 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

It’s the same team that beat Spurs, minus Maddison (illness) and Ndidi for Mendy

 

isnt it? 

Yer...so completely different 😂

[J. James]

1 minute ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

It’s the same team that beat Spurs, minus Maddison (illness) and Ndidi for Mendy

 

isnt it? 

Yep but ndidi for mendy is bizarre he's played well and the loss of madders is a killer.

Then there is ward....

[Lambert09]

let’s play the ‘how many minutes until wilf gives a penalty game’…. i’ll go with 14

Edited 25 February 2023 by Lambert09

[Chelmofox]

2 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

I thought the changes he would make would be Iversen for Ward...... Brendan clearly loves Ward. 

Amazes me anyone thinks he’s likely to drop Ward. Best we can hope for is Ward getting sent off. 

[Guppys Love Child]

21 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

So Praet & Ndidi, have been given the chalice…

 

If Ndidi can find his game of old, & Praet hold his own…Praet harder than Maddison,and can cover the field..We need Tete,Barnes Nacho, KDH, to step up to the plate…

Rodgers could by luck & little choice find a decent team that gives us that performance…

Harsh on Mendy, harsh on Rodgers if Ndidi doesn’t turn up…

 

I always look to the positive…absolutely no need to go looking for mr big bad negative. These are all Leicester players,who should be up for it..

OMG...this is a first.i actually agree with you...

 

well apart from the harsh on Rodgrrs bit.

He has seen (along with us fans) that Mendy is the better /in form player at the moment so if Ndidi has a shocker its all on him...

[SixtiesFox]

Playing for a point. I'd take that result but it won't be a fun watch. 

[martyn]

Expect Ndidi's job will be to stick to Odegaard and the midfield generally is a case of getting out highest energy players in there.

 

Harsh on Mendy given his individual performance level and given Ndidi has been way off, but I can understand the selection to a degree 

[FoxFossil]

3 minutes ago, SixtiesFox said:

Playing for a point. I'd take that result but it won't be a fun watch. 

So we'll concede inside 5 minutes then.

[SixtiesFox]

1 minute ago, FoxFossil said:

So we'll concede inside 5 minutes then.

Nailed on!

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Nacho to bag us to win 11/1 easy money. 

[Crinklyfox]

We're facing a team that are better all over the pitch so it looks like BR has set up for damage limitation.

[sdb]

Stream?? X

[Messi]

Stream would be most welcome please  

[ronnup]

Love a stream 

[J. James]

4 minutes ago, martyn said:

Expect Ndidi's job will be to stick to Odegaard and the midfield generally is a case of getting out highest energy players in there.

 

Harsh on Mendy given his individual performance level and given Ndidi has been way off, but I can understand the selection to a degree 

Lets hope Odegaard stays out of the box then!

 l just fail to understand the Mendy omission.