Capital One Cup - Fourth Round ** Spoilers ** [27/28 October 2015]

I could be wrong here, but was it just my imagination or did the rule about players being down injured not change for this season? i.e if the opposing player is down, you don't have to kick the ball out of play anymore?

I still see this happening all the time. There was an Everton (fairly sure that's who it was) game recently where one of their players was down, they kept attacking, but when they lost the ball were screaming for the other team to kick it out.

I thought this was why the rule was changed, to stop these double standards and feigning injury.
 
WithMyApologies said:
I could be wrong here, but was it just my imagination or did the rule about players being down injured not change for this season? i.e if the opposing player is down, you don't have to kick the ball out of play anymore?

I still see this happening all the time. There was an Everton (fairly sure that's who it was) game recently where one of their players was down, they kept attacking, but when they lost the ball were screaming for the other team to kick it out.

I thought this was why the rule was changed, to stop these double standards and feigning injury.
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That's been the case for a while now, unless it's a head injury, but almost everyone ends up kicking it out anyway.
 
It's good news for the Arse to be fair, if they have any chance of challenging for the title they need to reduce the amount of games their made of glass squad is exposed to.

Early exits from all the cups and the CL is their best chance of challenging for the title.

And it's not a dig, I am being serious.
 
Clipsey said:
Well at least DM will be happy with the Arsenal game tonight :(
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Actually I would be, our pattern is win a game most expect us to lose, then lose the next game we shouldn't lose, not Everton but play like Sunderland and get thrashed. Losing to Wednesday qualifies, better than losing against someone in the league if this is our return 'screw up' to balance out the win at Bayern. Silly squad though, Wenger just doesn't use young players effectively.

We used to play a mostly youth squad with only a few senior players and that mean the youngsters had the confidence of playing with each other every week and knowing each other, the more experienced players better at dealing with a new team. Doing it the other way around has rarely ever worked for Arsenal. Particularly with Wenger's latest thing of taking a few reserve players to pre-season, putting them in the first team squad meaning they are often on the bench or not being played so when they finally get a shot they often haven't played in ages and look rusty and useless.

Less so this year because for a change we've had quite a bit of depth on the bench, most other years we'd have 2-3 less of our senior guys on the bench and 2-3 youngsters appearing frequently on the bench but almost never getting used.

Since the switch in the way youngsters are brought through we've had almost no one make it through our youth setup and very few stand out games in this cup from our youngsters. genuinely loved how much faith Wenger put in them for the entire Carling cup and early stages of the FA cup up till around 2006.

EDIT:- if you're going to use youth, a couple reserve players in defence and upfront or on the wing, replacing most of the midfield is nuts. They won't work well, won't protect the back four and won't link up well with the man upfront leaving us utterly pointless. Worst possible thing you can do is put in an all new midfield, doing that with the likes of Chambers, Debuchy, Flamini, Campbell as well who are no where near match fit or sharp because they've barely played.

Old squads were often one midfielder, a wide player and striker and a couple fullbacks but with 2 experienced senior midfielders to be an anchor point in the team, the offence being all young could work together well. Experience controlled the game in central mid, everyone else could do their work under less pressure.
 
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I would rather they stay in, but just use it for player likes Iwobi and Cambell etc to get a chance to play. But if they cannot beat Wednesday, then they do not deserve to continue on I suppose.
 
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