Gabriel Martinelli, Thomas Partey and Rob Holding have all been dropped by Mikel Arteta for Arsenal's huge Premier League clash against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium tonight
Mikel Arteta has explained why he has dropped Gabriel Martinelli, Thomas Partey and Rob Holding from Arsenal's starting line-up that will face Chelsea tonight. The Gunners are looking to return to the top of the Premier League table with a win at the Emirates Stadium.
All three of Arsenal's January signings - Leandro Trossard, Jorginho and Jakub Kiwior - have been brought into the team to face Lampard's side tonight. Speaking to Sky Sports, the Arsenal boss explained: "There are players that deserve to play minutes and that is Leo for sure, for the performances he’s had.
"We’ve been winning games with him and he’s been knocking on the door every week. For sure he [Jorginho] is prepared, for sure he gives us something very different to Thomas [Partey] and hopefully he can dictate the game the way he wants.
"We have to change things. We were conceding too many goals," Arteta continued when asked why Kiwior starts ahead of Holding.
"We have to shake it up, we have to give other people opportunities that they fully deserve, and today was the day to that in my opinion," he added. Arsenal have conceded 11 goals in their last four Premier League fixtures, failing to win any of those games as they lost valuable ground in the Premier League title race.
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lumdorstyz
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If Arsenal can't get a chill Trophy they may settle with 33 tonight
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Miockmnt
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Chelsea is weak, playing reserve is enough
Nuhbdimnoz
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There's really need to shuffle players when results are not coming the way you want. yo can't just stick with 11 players when even us supporters can see that some of the players now have tired legs. Give players opportunities some games are won by the little known players. I'm sure ts the reason why we lost 6 gud points against less competitive sides. it hurts when we gave away the league the way we(Arsenal) did
Ophab
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If Arsenal can't get a chill Trophy they may settle with 33 tonight
Soeabklr
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is playin Chelsea now a huge challenge? I guess Arsenal women team will still win Chelseas senior men's team
witeinopuz
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How can we just relegate Chelsea at this point because we Chelsea fans are suffering too much. So we can start from beginning.
zekckpru
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Arteta should have done this in January to keep his team fit and ready for any injuries
gunnerfc
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we could have started this against cty
not sure it would have change anything but he should started this side against Southampton, West ham was the warning sign
jndaka
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we could have started this against cty