That is a pretty good team tbf… should be enough to take care of the Merry Men. Hope Willock gets more minutes and looking forward to see more of Lucas and Xhaka.
Dont mind that selection but I want Ozil Sanchez etc on the bench.
If your saying and I agree we wont win the league or CL why not give this a decent go.
I for one will be pissed off if we go out here.
Our record in the League Cup is risible, even if Wenger has reduced the yoof experimentation aspect of this competition in recent seasons, you still know we aren’t winning it.
A couple of finals in the last decade or so granted, but typically we’re allergic to going beyond the last 16.
We should be 3-time winners anyway, Birmingham was a fucking shambles. A fairly seismic day in shifting a lot of AKBs over into more neutral territory.
Emi is way too good to be rotting on the bench as a 3rd GK, no idea why he wasn’t sent on loan…it seems like whoever was in charge of loaning out our young players this summer to get them playing time took the summer off.
Giroud out for tomorrow, hoping to see this team, though I expect/worry Wenger will put Iwobi or Theo in there unnecessarily:
Pérez
Willock-Jeff-Ox
El Nene-Xhaka
Gibbs-Holding-Gabriel-Ainsley Maitland Niles
Emiliano
edit: shit, just realised Akpom will certainly play