After Danny Welbeck enjoyed a dream return to the Arsenal
team with a goal after less than 10 minutes and an absolutely crucial and well
taken goal as well, I have been seeing various reports suggesting that the
England international is set to be rewarded for his role as super sub against
Leicester with a first start of the season against Hull on Sunday.
The Evening Standard goes even further and talks about the
changes to the Arsenal starting XI as though they have been granted special
knowledge from Arsene Wenger himself.
Along with Welbeck, the paper says that Wenger will hand
FA cup starts to Theo Walcott, Mohamed Elneny, Mathieu Flamini, Calum Chambers,
Kieran Gibbs and David Ospina but I am not so sure, especially about the shape
of our attack. The report claims that Danny is set to start in place of Giroud
with Wenger saving the Frenchman for Barcelona but would it not make more sense
the other way around.
Against Hull we are going to dominate the ball and have a
deep defence to break down and this is where Giroud’s strength, aerial ability
and link up play come into their own. Against Barca it will be Arsenal
defending for our lives and hoping to hit them on the counter attack which is where
the pace of Welbeck and Walcott could be crucial.
I do think that Wenger will save Alexis Sanchez to face
his former club and with those three up front and Ozil to feed them we have a
chance. Against Hull I can see Arsenal starting with Campbell and the Ox on
either side of Giroud and with Alex Iwobi in the number 10 role. That would
give us some pace but also good technical ability mixed with power.
Is this how you would line Arsenal up for these two
matches?
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