It's the big stage, the Champions league(CL), which is no place for the faint hearted. It's not as if under Mikel Arteta, it's been 2 or 3yrs of excellence in the Champions league, so what gives the club such a confidence?
I refer to the last match in the Champions league, versus Slavia Praha. It's the early days of the CL when you should endeavour to win your first 5 matches no matter how small the opposing team. The was only the 4th CL match day.
The 3rd choice left back, that has never started for you in the CL, is who youu pick to start.
Their captain has been injured, yet you benched the guy who has been doing an impressive job deputising for him.
Your chief striker is injured, and you even saying something like, he should use that injury as an opportunity to rest.
The Brazilian star winger is injured, you comfortably turn to the academy.
Wow
A 15-yr old comes in as a sub. Is it the Carabao cup? Another 17-yr old who really looks like his bones are still not fully developed, also comes in.
There was even time for Ben White to enter the fray.
Ben White being a defender leads me to a defensive matter in this discourse. What's going on with Arteta? He wants to invert everything in this world?🙂
Saliba operated in a libero/inverted centre-back role to aid ball progression. Meaning he was a midfielder too yesterday.
In Zubimendi's absence, Arteta brought out another trick from his bag.
In shielding Rice from a yellow card, so he won't miss the Bayern game, Arteta made Rice's work lighter by changing Saliba's role– meaning he was also in midfield helping Norgaard.
Wow!
You think it's a home match? No please, it's an away match in the fiery stadium of Slavia Praha in Czech Republic. You needed to have seen hundreds of male fans in the stadium with bare upper bodies on their feet, chanting in support of the home side. It was that serious.
Who does this?
YET WINS 3-NIL
THIS IS ARSENAL!!!
🙂💪
