Why no Kante? Is he still injured?

...and Willian?

Kantes out for the season,and Willy will be on the bench.

Kante's not out for the season.
Kante is currently in light-training, on-course to start Europa final.

I meant to say that Kante will be out until next season,it will do him good to have a rest anyway.

Worst case scenario Kante makes the bench, pending on his fitness level if he is able to start

Think it’ll be

Kepa
Azpi Christensen Luiz Emerson
Kante Jorginho Barkley
Willian Higuain Hazard

Shame no RLC, with him we would start as faves

Kante should make it

comment by CFC: FFP Champions (U20729)
posted 4 hours, 11 minutes ago
Shame no RLC, with him we would start as faves
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It is certainly a massive blow - especially as the alternatives are Barkley or Kovacic. Really sad for RLC.

Kovacic will score his first goal this final.

comment by High Fist (U1097)
posted 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
Kovacic will score his first goal this final.
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Now that would be something

I think it might be better if Kante doesn't play, for his own well being.He mustn't be rushed back.

comment by harlequinHebdo (U16981)
posted 6 minutes ago
I think it might be better if Kante doesn't play, for his own well being.He mustn't be rushed back.
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With Cheeky out we may need to risk him

Really the Euromick has become an ok to win thing now....obviously I don't want Arsenal anywhere near it & this is the principle driver towards winning it for me.

I have a feeling Arsenal will win this.

comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 9 minutes ago
I have a feeling Arsenal will win this.
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I strongly fancied us with Kante and Ruben in midfield, now we will have our Sarri ball midfield out

Maurizio's first trophy ?,come on mate show us you can !

I suspect Giroud will also start, I'm sure he's started pretty much every EL game and is the top scorer.

Doesn't really matter who it is up front, both will be missing in the game.

comment by CFC: FFP Champions (U20729)
posted 14 hours, 36 minutes ago
Shame no RLC, with him we would start as faves
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You are still favourites even without him.

With Hazard in your team, and Kante expected to be fit for it, as well as you finishing above us in the league, you are still favourites.

I'd say it's 55-45 in your favour at the moment.

I want us to win of course, but I am not expecting us to.

The facts that you have two good strikers to our none, two of our best three midfielders are likely to be either out or barely back to fitness & that you need to win so much more than we do, only points to a goonz win.

You can't afford to lose basically

Your midfield and defence is better than ours. The only area we excel is attack, which is important, but there's no point scoring 3 goals if we're conceding 4 or 5.

It's potentially Hazard's last game for you, which means he will want to leave on a high, and as I've said before, there are a lot of Arsenal players that I still don't trust to deliver when the pressure is really on.

Also, I seem to remember two years ago where you had won the league and we were both in the FA Cup final. We were coming into the FA Cup final with a depleted squad, and Chelsea were overwhelming favourites, yet we still ended up winning (somehow).

You may have injuries/players lacking full match fitness, but you could still put in a performance and result like we did in the last cup final with a disjointed group of players.

Don't get me wrong, we need to win this and I want us to, but I can see us slipping up.

comment by Samir - Bottlers FC (U2630)
posted 4 hours, 7 minutes ago
Your midfield and defence is better than ours. The only area we excel is attack, which is important, but there's no point scoring 3 goals if we're conceding 4 or 5.

It's potentially Hazard's last game for you, which means he will want to leave on a high, and as I've said before, there are a lot of Arsenal players that I still don't trust to deliver when the pressure is really on.

Also, I seem to remember two years ago where you had won the league and we were both in the FA Cup final. We were coming into the FA Cup final with a depleted squad, and Chelsea were overwhelming favourites, yet we still ended up winning (somehow).

You may have injuries/players lacking full match fitness, but you could still put in a performance and result like we did in the last cup final with a disjointed group of players.

Don't get me wrong, we need to win this and I want us to, but I can see us slipping up.
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Normally I would fancy us as we are good in semis an finals.

We even played well against Spurs and City in Carling this season.

But no Rudi Kante CHO Ruben we will be tip tap Sarri gonna get the sack