Lars Sivertsen

I agree with what Lars was saying.

I thought he played a particular kind of game that Arsenal needed to play away from home in Europe.

And it was a battling game and he won a lot of aerial ball and he did the things that were needed of him.

And I think that those have been the settings where he has done better work for Arsenal.

And I think that I'm not just certain that's the kind of game they need at all against Fulham.

It's going to be a completely different kind of game.

You're going to need...

to play on the front foot against them.

Love Barry jinxing it there by saying I've never lost to Irvington for them because we know they can.

All these records are made to be broken.

But yeah, it needs to be a front footed performance.

And I'm not certain he's thrived in those settings.

So who does start up front given that Havertz isn't available?

I don't know.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's really boring to keep coming back to it.

But I did have this conversation with some friends, I've got them in my text still, like months ago, about how this Arsenal season just has such strong echoes for me of Inter last season, when Inter were significantly better than everyone else in Italy last season, in my opinion, which Arsenal aren't.

So the gap was bigger and Inter still managed to win nothing because they tried to do everything and they just wiped themselves out.

And the real problem for Arsenal right now, in my opinion, isn't actually about which players are in the starting 11.

It's the team looks burned out.