Morning all. A fast Monday weblog.
As an Irishman the much less stated concerning the soccer yesterday the higher, I suppose. I really had the primary half on whereas I used to be making dinner, however turned off at 0-0. A smart resolution, because it seems.
In the meantime, there’s speak this morning of a Leandro Trossard damage, which is simply what we’d like [sarcasm font]. I don’t know the way critical 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 good condition, he may must say a number of extra rosaries by the sounds of it.
He’ll little doubt be holding a detailed eye on his different two forwards who’re away with their international locations, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli, and holding all the things crossed that they arrive by way of their video games on Tuesday with no downside. I do know soccer followers tend to see issues by way of the doable worst case situation, but when we discover ourselves reliant on the targets 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 crimson card towards Man Metropolis, the careless go 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 obtainable. Maybe not as a starter proper now, however when you have a look at this Arsenal squad and try to envisage somebody coming off the bench and making an influence after we want it, he’s about the one one who involves thoughts. So, let’s hope it’s nothing too substantial.
In the present day, Arsenal gamers in motion are David Raya and Mikel Merino for Spain, and Jakub Kiwior for Poland. I stay up for tomorrow morning to examine how Merino’s shoulder really got here off in an innocuous trying problem in midfield, flew by way of 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and bonding session ended up with all of them struggling calamitous meals poisoning, leaving us with solely 14 yr outdated ‘Billy Stopper’ obtainable for Saturday’s recreation towards Nottingham Forest.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 obtainable proper now, Tim and Jamie look again at Saturday’s 3-0 North London derby win, and take listener questions partly two.
And naturally, we can 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 when you’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 one.
