• ArsenalThePhoenix@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    if he doesn’t get benched now that Partey is back, then it’s more obvious than ever before that he wasn’t benching Gabriel for tactical reasons at the start of the season…

    My theory is that it was because of the saudi interest. A real shame, coz I had him in my fnatasy team and got 0p haha

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      1 year ago

      Gabriel will start now because zinchenko is fit. If he chooses to invert with partey at rb then you will see Gabriel and zinchenko getting dropped on the bench with tomi and partey starting in their place. It’s clear he wants a pair of overlapping cb/fb hybrid on one side and an inverter on the other. If Gabriel could do what white can when he play rb then Gabriel wouldn’t have been dropped.

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        1 year ago

        but Timber is like-for-like with zinchenko. And gabriel was benched in that first game of the season despite timber playing in zinch’s stead.