The Arsenal Thread XXIV

Cazorla has missed 7 league games, Sanchez 9, Coquelin 9.
Aguero has missed 7 league games, Silva 9, Kompany 16.

You can't just go throwing around assumptions based on a players game time like you just did, because you are completely wrong.
Kompany is obviously the exception, and yes I agree they would be far better for his presence in the team but I think the difference either way in favor of who has the better starting 11 is getting to be a pedantic argument, there is not much in it.
You are basing your statement about their starting 11 being comfortably better than ours based on the amount of money they spend in comparison to us. 11's comparison (pedantic):

Cech>Hart, Monreal>City's LB's, Bellerin>Sagna, Mertersacker=Otamendi, Kompany=Koscielny, Coquelin>Fernandinho, Ramsey<Toure, Walcott<De Bruyne, Sanchez>Sterling, Ozil=Silva, Giroud<Aguero.

There really isnt much in it ffs

Bellerin isn't better than Sagna, Ozil is better than Silva and KOS trumps that fat head. Don't let nostalgia fool you, he's been **** since 11/12, I don't care if they didn't concede in their first 5 games with him this season.

Cazorla has missed 7 league games, Sanchez 9, Coquelin 9.
Aguero has missed 7 league games, Silva 9, Kompany 16.

You can't just go throwing around assumptions based on a players game time like you just did, because you are completely wrong.
Kompany is obviously the exception, and yes I agree they would be far better for his presence in the team but I think the difference either way in favor of who has the better starting 11 is getting to be a pedantic argument, there is not much in it.
You are basing your statement about their starting 11 being comfortably better than ours based on the amount of money they spend in comparison to us.Main players comparison (pedantic): Cech>Hart, Monreal>City's LB's, Bellerin>Sagna, Mertersacker<Otamendi,
Kompany=Koscielny, Coquelin>Fernandinho, Ramsey<Toure, Walcott>Navas, Sanchez>Sterling, Ozil=Silva, Giroud<Aguero. There really isnt much in it ffs

Only decent team city faced with kompany is palace. And they barely got a result there and should've lost it. Vincent is a myth.

Everton away? United away (we'd scored 3 goals in 4 of the 5 leading up to the City game)?

They aren't assumptions. I looked at the minutes played, rather than games played which is a poor way of doing it. For example Silva has 2 games where he didn't even play 20 minutes, Kompany has 1 where he didn't even play 10, but you're counting them as equal to a full 90 minutes?
Kompany has played 729, Silva 903, Aguero 972. Coquelin 889, Sanchez 1101, Cazorla 1203.
"completely wrong"

16 goals conceded in 8 without Kompany vs 1 conceded in 8 with him ffs, ignore Aguero and Silva and that change alone would put them a few points ahead of you.

A player to player comparison doesn't take into account the importance of each position. Striker is far more important than full back for example (see Liverpool nearly winning the league with Johnson/Cissokho/Flanagan as fullbacks simply because their strikers were so good, for example).

Them being only 3 behind you despite the worse injury list (and slightly harder fixture list) says it all.

Context is key here. 3 goals at home to Ipswich (lol), at home to a pathetic Sunderland, 3 lucky goals away at Soton.

You were also shut up by Middlesbrough at Old Trafford in the very next game for God's sake and have only managed to score 17 goals in 16 games since. CONTEXT.

No not Ipswich, I'm talking league games only: Everton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Southampton.

We started none of Rooney, Martial, Young, Mata, Herrera vs Middlesborough so that's irrelevant really.

Kompany, Aguero and Toure are League title winners they know what it takes having done it twice before that's what gives them the edge I'm not sure if Arsenal can handle the pressure

You mean the same Wayne-no-goals-Rooney United fans have wanted dead over the last few months? Great addition to the argument there, and apart from Martial the rest are absolutely laughable.

16 goals in 16 games after doesn't lie..

Lol look at it the other way round then, our forward 5 were Fellaini, Lingard, Pereira, Depay, Wilson

16 games (3 months) later is kind of stretching it a bit in terms of relevance. How about 5 games either side, which gives us 17 in 10.

Anyway this is all a bit of a tangent. The original point that the games Kompany has played in are significantly easier than the ones he's missed was pretty laughable, classic atom

Yaya doesn't care and wants out due to guardiola's arrival next yr, Kompany's perma injured, Aguero could go one of 2 ways...