If we have an organiser in midfield we have a much better chance, our lads have been deathly quiet in Hendo's absence, but like us, Arsenal are a much better side than their points tally suggests this season, I've watched quite a few of their games, they've been like many of ours when they have dominated, played the better football, wasted too many chances and then made a mistake to cost them a goal or they've been on the wrong end of VAR decisions which would have seen them get a point and possibly more from quite a few games
Jurgen loves Fab, enough to break the golden rules of "The player who has the shirt" and "if it aint broken don't fix it" to accommodate him as he did last season when he returned and we'd been playing the best I'd ever seen us play under Jurgen in Fab's absence, as the results clearly showed, so given how potent Arsenal's left hand side is, with Tierney surely threatening Robbo's place as a starter at LB in the Scotland set up looking at the form of both, I expect we'll probably see
Alisson
Trent Phillips Kabak Robertson
Henderson Fabinho Wijnaldum
Salah Jota Mane
Could possibly work, but if Hendo's high pressing and Fab leaves their player for transition to get involved in that with both Gini and Hendo ahead of him, we will be in trouble
Plus sides are Hendo will help combat their left side and he can play the switches for Mane and Robbo, as can Trent, and he can put quality crosses in and play the attempted balls over the top including down the line for Mo, but as he was the player in the centre who orchestrated our press, counter press and a lot of the movement to support certain kinds of balls and he can't do that the same from RCM, I'd just rather have him at CM as all of that movement and automation desperately needs whipping back into shape
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