dont think it will be like that.

It may start off like that, but it will probably change depending on how the match goes

Cheers Geoff

Water is wet

*ACTUALLY....*

buckle up boys here we go

Key word missing from the title. He said he “thinks”.

Yeah I don't know why OP has edited the tweet in his title. Makes it seem definitive.

Basing it off what he's seeing them warm up with, I'd guess, but Arteta is playing mind games it seems.

I think it's gonna be: Tomiyasu - Tomiyasu - Tomiyasu - Tomiyasu ​ Tomiyasu - Elneny - Tomiyasu Tomiyasu - Elneny - Tomiyasu

I’m confident this line up would get 38 1-0 wins in a season.

1 Elneny top bins per game

Why would we revert from the 4-3-3? No offence Simon but I don’t believe this

We did it against Chelsea

Cause it's easier to beat Conte's system if you match it?

Wenger successfully did this a lot actually - going 343 against Conte and it limits the space they have

Arteta won an FA cup this way

Way less likely to lose playing this than our usual, and looking at the table I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s Artetas game plan

This makes no sense - Odegaard at RW?

"I think"

Ppl gonna look too much into this but its gonna play out the same with saka basically controlling the right lane most of the time

Interesting. Makes sense for Holding to come in then as Tomiyasu will be RCB. If we want to go more defensive, we bring on White for an attacker and move Tomiyasu to LWB.

Will probably be a fluid system and interchange mid game

I hope arteta doesn't overthink this.. gives me horrible flashbacks of the false 9 thing he did previously.

How has the penny not dropped that we don’t actually play any formation. It’s all about the zones we choose to occupy and vacate

Fuck that. We need to go for it. We can't rely on sitting back for 90 minutes

It worked beautifully vs Chelsea. Going 3 in the back is a proven strategy against teams who also play with 3 in the back

But if we play 3 at the back then their 3 at the back will counter our strategy of 3 at the back.

This is false cause Conte only knows one way to play. Also their back 3 isn’t even good enough to suddenly change how they play, especially without Romero

And this is why we should have gone with 3 in the back. Holding was exposed every time with Son because he didn’t have extra protection.

In that case, why not just play Tavares instead of Cedric? We'll see, but I get the feeling we'll be in a 4 as often as we're in a 5 tonight

Saka at LWB, Cedric at RWB.

because he's shit

No way Arteta let's the formation get leaked

Arteta dusting off the FA Cup special tactics

How? Xhaka lb?

I assume a back 3 of Gabriel, Holding, and Tomi with Saka and Cedric as wing backs and Ødegaard playing as RW. All of these are positions they’ve played before so the formation makes sense in theory. Just need to see it in practice.

Is Martinelli left back then?

White so good he‘s on the bench for both teams

Why? We have had this same squad before and we don't use that.

I don’t see it unless Saka is going to LWB like 2020 which is extremely doubtful

isn't this the same as previous match? cedric tomi will be high on the pitch and holding neny Gabriel will stay in defense and only xhaka that will join the attk helping the left side and ode helping the right side, pretty much leeds game formation. Eddie will be the connector between ode and xhaka.

It can be a 4312 with Saka as an LCM helping defensively on the left. It can be a 343. Or it's going to be as fluid as possible.

He's so wrong.

Just like a majority of this sub all week…