22 Oct 2017 14:25:46
Xhaka once again. the most annoying thing is not that he lose the ball, but that he don't get up and fight.

1.) 22 Oct 2017
22 Oct 2017 15:35:17
It would do Arsenal and Xhaka a lot more good than harm for Arsene not to pick him again this side of December.
The lad needs to know what he's giving isn't good enough and see how he responds when his chance comes again at some point in the season.
It's sulky just to keep pretending he's good enough because the pundits and fans won't go along with it and thus will only make both Arsene and Xhaka. the centre of attention for the wrong reasons.
Do the right thing for the player the manager and most importantly the team and take him out of the situation for a bit.

2.) 23 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 13:55:28
I think that's harsh G62. Bench him after he watched Cleverly stroke the ball in unmarked yes, but not after the "mistake" yesterday. That was as much Mets fault as his, very poor pass, and after that Xhaka had a very good game. If anyone deserves to be benched for a while its Cech. If we want a sweeper keeper, then Cech comes last in the list of premiership keepers. However i do believe the trouble will always be that playing Xhaka and Ramsey as our two central midfielders will always cost us games, as neither have a defensive bone in their body. We either need a CD (from the 3) who steps up when we have the ball to make a 3rd DM or we need to go back to 4 at the back which would allow us to play a dedicated DM behind Ramsey and Xhaka, allowing Ramsey to play more attacking and for Xhaka to concentrate on his distribution (Kongogbia would be my choice, playing brilliantly for Valencia) .