Arsenal rotated the squad and were knocked out of the Premier League Cup after losing to Brighton & Hove Albion. This defeat is just one sign of the thin Arsenal squad.
Arsenal lost 1-3 to Brighton at the Emirates Stadium, Thursday (10/11/2022) early morning WIB, in the third round of the English League Cup. Despite winning first through Eddie Nketiah, the Gunners were then broken into by Danny Welbeck, Kaoru Mitoma, and Tariq Lamptey.
Manager The Gunners Mikel Arteta rotated his team massively to give first-team players a chance to breathe. Last night, he played back-ups like Karl Hein, Cedric Soares, Rob Holding, Albert Lokonga, Mohamed Elneny, Marquinhos, Fabio Vieira, Reiss Nelson and Nketiah.
The defeat to Brighton more or less shows that Arsenal’s back-up is too far below the main players. That doesn’t take into account the number of options they have, with Arsenal only having 23 players in the team.
Their number of players is the fewest in the Premier League with Manchester City and Brighton. While Man City has a coating whose quality is not too far from the main players, Brighton does not have to play in European competition so that the physical burden is not as heavy as Arsenal.
This has not yet touched on the issue of injury. Arteta also hopes that the January transfer window will provide an opportunity to expand player options. Moreover, Arsenal are now competing for the Premier League title.
“We know where we are at the moment. We also know that we have certain injuries and the squad is very, very thin,” Arteta was quoted as saying. Metro.
“If all the players can play and no one is injured, we are in a good position, lah. But right now there are injuries, we know that. This is nothing new. I think I said it on the first day after the transfer market (summer) ).”
“January is an open window for us and we will have to discuss the opportunities we have, the capacity we have for change, and go into the transfer market for the opportunities that are available, because we don’t know what will happen in the last game before the end of the season. World Cup.”
“So there are a lot of options open,” added the former midfielder.
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