He's been involved
in match day squads throughout but only took to the field twice during the final few months of the season, and those appearances were in games the Hornets had already won comfortably.
Because of all the injury problems Arsenal have been beset with recently, including to Mesut Ozil and young Serge Gnabry, the Gunners have just two Germans
in the match day squads at the minute.
With Alex Iwobi most recently making the transition from the Under 21's to the first team, Zelalem is more than likely to be in with a chance of being included at the very least
in some match day squads next year, especially in the earlier rounds of the league cup competitions.
Spare a thought for Real Madrid — they only have one recognised striker
in their match day squads, Benzeman.
Arteta is fit again but has not been included
in the match day squads so does this tell you that he will be off as well?
If I remember clearly, Le Coq is just one yellow card away from a suspension; I wouldn't want him missing
in our match day squad against Chelsea.
However, I would not be at all surprised to see the talented midfielder named by Arsene Wenger
in the match day squad for the home game against West Brom.
When we're signing them we can say you won't be
in the match day squad and we will use you in case our other players get injured.
Since he's not been involved
in the match day squad.
Mertesacker's injury means that he has lost his place
in the match day squad, after becoming a regular feature of the side for the last few years.
Why is did we buy Elneny and still have Flamini
in our match day squad?
Because of the skill of Campbell to scheme & wriggle past defenders, I am starting him on the bench to come on at a stage in the game and I'm giving Welbeck a complete rest from the match till the Palace game when he could be
in my match day squad.
As for Akpom, I can't make my mind up, I'm not convinced he has what it takes to be a regular
in the match day squad, so loan him out for 18 months and see how he progresses.
Fellow summer signing and Germany international midfielder Leroy Sane has been included
in the match day squad but will not start for the Citizens.
Let him train by himself & don't include
him in the match day squad
Since we love labelling who is a striker and who isn't just to be able to shovel shit however we see fit, Sanchez ain't a striker, neither is Walcott etc blah, blah — Real Madrid, UCL champions, have one striker, KB, (or what people on here would call a striker if I am hearing correctly)
in their match day squad.
With Abou Diaby still not fit enough to feature
in the match day squad, Arsene Wenger's options are almost non existent.
Because even though our Czech Republic international keeper Petr Cech is fit enough for a place
in the match day squad today, the boss has not brought him back into the starting line up.
Huddart is yet to make his Arsenal debut with the first team, although has been named
in the match day squad on a few occasions, most notably in the Champions League ties against Dortmund and Anderlecht.
We do not yet know whether Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain will be
in the match day squad and if so whether he will be able to start or just make the bench.
I wouldn't expect to see many, if any, of these names appear
in a match day squad, but at least Arsene Wenger has them available if really desperate times hit us.
Like last season, who is fit is
in the match day squad.
Also, Sami Khedira is back
in the match day squad, but is not expected to play, according to Allegri himself.
It is a well - known rule in the English Football League that only five players on loan from other clubs may feature
in a match day squad of 18 players.
It's almost become a cliché for Manchester United to feature a new emerging youngster
in their match day squad this season and their Premier League clash with Watford was no different, with yet another personal landmark reached by one of their academy's prospects.
30 of them were on his own team to lose though he wasn't
in the match day squad (LOL!).
This smacks off a signing that doesn't upset the apple cart, a senior player with reasonable abilities but no ego to pee off his contemporaries when not
in the match day squad.
Phillip Billing is continuing his road back from injury following his knee injury and is available to be involved
in the match day squad.
The youngster played 45 minutes for the Southampton Development Squad in a 1 - 1 draw against Reading and could find
himself in the match day squad this weekend.
Chris Smalling was named
in the match day squad at the Bernabeu a few weeks ago and was impressed with how fondly Cristiano Ronaldo responded to his fo...
Not exact matches
With just over a
day between that reserve game and the Man City
match, no player involved would be recovered
in time, so I think Campbell's absence means that he will be
in the
squad tomorrow at the very least.
The 25 - year - old striker scored just one goal
in 16 Premier League appearances last season and hasn't even featured
in Liverpool's
match -
day squad this season, with new signings Christian Benteke and Danny Ings effectively ending his career at the Merseyside club, and is clearly a player Brendan Rodgers would happily offload.
It's worth noting that Benzema was left out of Real Madrid's
match -
day squad for their opening La Liga fixture of the season, against Sporting Gijon, and Rafa Benitez's side drew a blank
in that fixture which could leave the Spanish giants realising just how important a member of their Bernabeu
squad the French international really is.
Nevertheless, after performing well both
in training and on
match day, Blind looks as though he'll stay at Old Trafford despite Mourinho being keen on trimming his
squad.
And to my surprise, Walcott's goal provider
in the Watford
match — Campbell was excluded from the Boss»
match day squad.
However, his exclusion from the
match day squad entirely this weekend was a surprise, although as noted by freelance injury analyst Ben Dinnery
in the tweet below, Pochettino has now revealed that the Tottenham midfielder picked up an ankle problem
in midweek
in the League Cup win over Barnsley.
After leaving Balotelli out of the
match -
day squad to face Bolton Wanderers
in the FA Cup on Saturday, Rodgers was quoted by the Guardian as saying: «Mario is the same as any other player, there is no special treatment for anyone.
you guys should watch Chile V Uruguay
match the other
day and you will see how good Vidal is specially playing with Sanchez they connect really well, we have been missing a animal
in our
squad like Rooney type or even strong like Patrick Vieria
Campbell was seen to be much more impressive than the likes of Walcott and Oxlade Chamberlain last year, however the Costa Rican was unable to maintain a regular spot
in the team and was often left out of
match day squads all together.
The powerful striker looks certain for a summer exit after Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp dropped Benteke from the
match day squad against Arsenal
in their first Premier League game of the season.
It was footballing genius and I think that Tomas Rosicky, drafted
in because of the injury nightmare keeping Ramsey, Wilhere, Arteta and the Ox out of the
match day squad, deserves a huge round of applause for his contribution.
In turn, the replacement has a summer transfer window to freshen his
squad, and a pre-season campaign to evaluate his playing staff without the pressure of competitive
match days.
Sanchez should not even be included by the Boss
in his 18
match day squad for the Man City game at the Ems on Monday night.
off the field is far more important for me there's
days leading upto
matches which a captain should be involved
in certain things which I'm sure arteta was and mertesacker is there obviously well respected within the
squad.
The 30 - year - old was not even
in the
match -
day squad for today's big game at Stamford Bridge, with Conte going instead for youngster Andreas Christensen
in defence.
However
in the latter stages of the season, Campbell again returned to the bench and was eventually relegated out of the
match day squad altogether.
Giroud just is not good enough and thats the facts here, we would have been three goals up with a real world class striker, regardless of Ozil and sanchez current form if we had brought
in a real DM player then we'd have won points at other games and this would be just a blip, teams do loose games and they do have off
days, the real problem lays
in the fact that Wenger has no real top notch choices to mix and
match with is he has slumps with his current
squad.
It has been a couple of weeks now that the Arsenal
match day squad has had Theo Walcott
in it, but so far the pacy front man has only been given just over 10 minutes on the pitch, at the end of the comfortable win over Burnley.
Loftus - Cheek has made more frequent appearances
in Hiddink's
match -
day squads, and scored as a substitute
in their routine 2 - 0 victory over Scunthorpe United
in the last round.
if Ozil, Sanchez, Walcott all played together for a while we the Arsenal could
match Chelsea any
day but as Sanchez said we need the wining mentality, if anyone
in the
squad don't want to be there we should get rid of them
in the summer and sell no one
in January.