Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Ganpati willing, Gabby M will provide cover there. It's why MA prefers starting him and bringing Leo off the bench - his defensive work.
It's why he took B off at City after Leo's red and left Gabby M on. He's got the best defensive work of all our wingers - which he's needed to develop with our LB inverting most of the time. He can play almost like a wingback. He wouldn't have lost the Palace guy for their first goal.
Quite right.
"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."