To be honest ridiculous that by next week United will be playing catch up. The league should have started next week. We shouldn’t be penalised for going far in Europe.
Arsenal looked impressive [after moving to three in defence].
It looks like Mikel Arteta has a formula that works for his players and they look comfortable doing it.
They look soild and tough to beat, which are words we haven’t often used about Arsenal for a while now – and that’s why he’s sticking with it.
As an arsenal fan I’m glad mitrovic is on bench. sort of. He’s good in the air and physical and it’s well known our defence usually struggle. I’d be a lot more worried if he had started. That said, I needed him playing for my bet
Neil Moriarty: Here we go, me and every other Gooner thinking we know a better line up than Arteta, as we did Wenger and Emery before him
“We have a special situation in goal. The transfer market is open. We know rumours [about Emiliano Martinez leaving]. We made the decision to play Bernd today.”
On starting Gabriel: “Everyone says we have a lot of centre-backs. But we have a lot of issues in recent weeks. He needs to start today. He’s been preparing really well. Hopefully he will be fine.”
On Willian: “We play slightly differently to Chelsea. He’s a tremendous player, high quality, knows the league really well, so hopefully he can start performing today.”
You can imagine what it would have been like for the fans of these [promoted] clubs. Playing at Elland Road, Fulham and West Brom – they’ll miss the fans there.
As a player, you feed off what the fans are giving you from the touchline and the terraces and they’re not going to have that.
There’s no doubt about it that the smaller clubs will be at a bit of disadvantage at home.
