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  • #16
    Originally posted by John Bunnell View Post
    Raya has to start. It's a trophy. It's against City. He HAS to start.
    I must admit. I would probably start him.....

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Peter View Post
      I must admit. I would probably start him.....
      You don?t get to a final only to fall back on your second string keeper. If we went 2-0 down with Kepa between the sticks on the first half, the blow back on Arteta would be huge.
      Why would Arteta invite that kind of criticism at this stage of the season

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      • #18
        Originally posted by 7sisters View Post
        You don?t get to a final only to fall back on your second string keeper. If we went 2-0 down with Kepa between the sticks on the first half, the blow back on Arteta would be huge.
        Why would Arteta invite that kind of criticism at this stage of the season
        That is fair. But that is Arteta looking at it from his own perspective, his own reputation. That shouldn't be an issue.

        I'd start him because he's a better keeper and we want to win the game.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Peter View Post
          That is fair. But that is Arteta looking at it from his own perspective, his own reputation. That shouldn't be an issue.

          I'd start him because he's a better keeper and we want to win the game.
          We've got a 31 year old keeper who's won the CL twice who joined us for just 5 mil and is happy to play back-up. Hopefully we can keep him and Daveed for ages so we don't have to worry about the position. If the quid pro quo is that he starts all LC games, including the final, I'm happy with that. I think he deserves it for doing us a favour.

          I'm trying to think if there was a previous occasion where we played the 2nd 'keeper in all the other rounds but our no.1 in the final.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
            We've got a 31 year old keeper who's won the CL twice who joined us for just 5 mil and is happy to play back-up. Hopefully we can keep him and Daveed for ages so we don't have to worry about the position. If the quid pro quo is that he starts all LC games, including the final, I'm happy with that. I think he deserves it for doing us a favour.

            I'm trying to think if there was a previous occasion where we played the 2nd 'keeper in all the other rounds but our no.1 in the final.
            Certainly we've discussed this before, though no memory of how it was resolved.
            "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

            "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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