Basel Vs Arsenal [Champions League M6]

Basel Vs Arsenal
6th December 2016
St. Jakob-Park


More or less a dead rubber match. But still we need to win this. Interesting to see what team Arsene puts. Can expect a bit of rotation but nothing heavy.


----------------------Ospina----------------------------
Gabriel-------Koscielny------Holding(pls)--------Gibbs
------------Xhaka--------ElNeny---------------------
Oxlade-------------Ramsey-----------------Iwobi
------------------Giroud----------------------------

Can't see that team but I won't mind it.

Interesting that Wenger selected Lucas Perez over Giroud. Good team and a strong bench.

YES HOLDING

It's a really interesting selection. It's our first time seeing Xhaka and Ramsey together iirc, and Lucas likely starting from the right, giving us a left footed player cutting in, which is something we don't usually have.

Don't think we need to play Ozil or Alexis, though. It's a dead rubber. Makes me wonder how fit Giroud actually is currently.

The match is not totally useless, PSG can top the group if Arsenal dont win.

PSG WILL top the group. That's why it's useless.

0 chance PSG will drop points to Ludogorets lmao

PSG top the group unless they lose and we win.

If PSG can lose 3-0 to Montpellier then it can drop points to Ludogorets

Well this is fun.

Can't keep a clean sheet ffs :lmao:

What a performance. Loved how fluid the team was.

TOP OF THE GROUP

Unfeckinbelievable

Best game all season, moment of ridiculousness from Doumbia notwithstanding.

Class performance.

Are we actually starting to play well now?

That was a really enjoyable peformance. The passing was top class throughout the team and we scored some nicely constructed goals. That fourth goal, from back to front, was excellent. Koscielny's pass out

Lucas had a ridiculously clinical game. Hardly involved in the build-up but scored three goals off three shots. That might have earned him a start against Stoke.

Also PSG Amazing how that's happened. We actually won the group.

Solid.

Arsenal won Group A and will play a group runner-up in the last 16.

They cannot play an English side, or PSG, so that leaves:

Benfica, Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund or Real Madrid, Porto or Copenhagen, and one of Juventus, Sevilla or Lyon.

Thoughts on Gabriel at RB? Fake form or he is actually legit there?

RealGunner wrote:PSG WILL top the group. That's why it's useless.

0 chance PSG will drop points to Ludogorets lmao

RealGunner wrote:TOP OF THE GROUP

RG, never change

So that November curse is real or what, the moment we got out of that month, we exploded.

Both matches vs Basel were fun to watch for large parts

now lets hope we actually perform in 1st leg away from home-whoever that we get

rincon wrote:The match is not totally useless, PSG can top the group if Arsenal dont win.

rincon wrote:If PSG can lose 3-0 to Montpellier then it can drop points to Ludogorets

This performance was such a breath of fresh air. I actually felt happy watching. Had almost forgotten what that felt like.