100% agreed.

It’s European too. Liverpool have it. Chelsea, United. City have it too. Even Spurs have some

Arsenal don’t

Arteta should’ve learnt from last year about squad rotation. He hasn’t. ESR is the perfect example of someone you can bring in. Guys like Nelson, Eddie and Vieira need to move on as they’ve never been good enough. Partey too, Rice was supposed to be rested but Partey has been awful on the fitness front. Then you come on to our defence-Ben White seems to play every game as do the two CB. But defensively the back ups haven’t been fit all the time in all fairness.

The youth players need to be blooded in.

I actually thought he was doing a good job before the international break, but since the break he's not done so well. Maybe because we couldn't blow teams aware early on, but I think that coming into this game we had a few players who needed more rest and some places that needed more minutes to get sharp.

I think tonight he probably started the right team, but having Partey, Martinelli, Saka, Jesus, ESR all sharper could have helped a lot.

Minutes for Arsenal this season
Saliba - 3962 (pretty sure that is the most of all PL players)
Gabriel - 3822
Rice - 3734
White - 3565
Odegaard - 3514
Saka - 3435
Havertz - 3304

To put that into some context, Liverpool only have VvD with over 3100 minutes (3442). After last nights extra time City only have 4 players who have more minutes than Havertz.

Then we have
Martinelli - 2454 and Trossard - 1830
the only position with real rotation.

At left back it is
Zinchenko - 2031, Kiwior - 1496 and Tomiyasu - 1220

Up front
Jesus - 1787, Nketiah - 1392

Nelson - 639
Vieira - 462
Smith Rowe - 453
Partey - 461
Cedric - 124
Elneny - 95


Oh, and Ethan Nwaneri - 13...

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 21 minutes ago

Minutes for Arsenal this season
Saliba - 3962 (pretty sure that is the most of all PL players)
Gabriel - 3822
Rice - 3734
White - 3565
Odegaard - 3514
Saka - 3435
Havertz - 3304
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Wow. Compared to most other players this is a lot of minutes.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 8 hours, 10 minutes ago
Minutes for Arsenal this season
Saliba - 3962 (pretty sure that is the most of all PL players)
Gabriel - 3822
Rice - 3734
White - 3565
Odegaard - 3514
Saka - 3435
Havertz - 3304

To put that into some context, Liverpool only have VvD with over 3100 minutes (3442). After last nights extra time City only have 4 players who have more minutes than Havertz.

Then we have
Martinelli - 2454 and Trossard - 1830
the only position with real rotation.

At left back it is
Zinchenko - 2031, Kiwior - 1496 and Tomiyasu - 1220

Up front
Jesus - 1787, Nketiah - 1392

Nelson - 639
Vieira - 462
Smith Rowe - 453
Partey - 461
Cedric - 124
Elneny - 95


Oh, and Ethan Nwaneri - 13...
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These are great statistics D’Jeezus, it highlights the mismanagement perfectly, I don’t dislike Arteta, but his inability to see the need to rotate (especially when 3-0 & dead rubbers !) is a MASSIVE blind spot.