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We have our first choice back four for the FIRST time this season. That is worth putting in caps if you ask me. Either Rosicky or Cazorla will play wide left in attack. Interested to see how Calum does in midfield. A good performance from him could be make Arsene reconsider buying in that position... I can feel the trembling from all the way over here.

Carvalho told a Portuguese publication that his dream is to play in the Premiership – “My dream is to play in England. I know some clubs are interested but my agent Jorge is looking after it”. Sporting are ready to sell the youngster for £20 million, with many clubs showing an interest. However, Arsenal are closest to finalising the deal with the star's agent confirming the possibility of a London-bound transfer in the next 2 weeks

Alexis is likely to play as centre forward and it makes sense that Oxlade-Chamberlain starts on the right. Arsène could move Cazorla to the left of attack and that would be a familiar position to the Spaniard and would also aid us when it comes to wrestling some more control on the game. Tomas Rosicky could then replace Cazorla in the middle of the pitch. Trouble with that is you would be moving arguably our best player in recent weeks from a position where he has played his best football for some years. Even though the left of attack isn't ideal, I'd rather leave Cazorla where he is and start Rosicky on the left which should cause less disruption to the rest of the team

Six points out of six for the crisis club Arsenal. Elliot, Paul and James take a brief trip back in time to our victory against the QPR before dissecting our professional display at inform West Ham. This after some rambling words of my own. We talk Santi, the back four, Coquelin, Giroud red card and plenty more.

Like to suffer do you? Well you are at the right place. Why not go back over the 2-2 draw at Anfield with @YankeeGunner, @GoonerFanatic49 and @Poznaninmypants. What went wrong, how do we improve? The guys give us their views so get listening.

Strangely enough though, I thought we had defended pretty well for the most part given the context of the game. It was our lowest amount of possession in the Premier League since August 2003. We also conceded the most amount of shots in one game since that same time period. I suppose you'd need a breakdown of where those Liverpool shots were taken to get a better idea of how we defended but we kept them down to the Philippe Coutinho strike, which was a very good goal as well I should add.

Anfield stirs up plenty of memories, both recent and past. In fact it is rare to find one of these fixtures that was devoid of incident. The obvious, if not the most enjoyable place to start is what happened last season and I need not go into detail about what took place that day. I would say though that like most of our big defeats I didn't think we were any worse on paper, perhaps that is a touch of the red specs syndrome, although I stand by that. I still believe that the issue was how we

So Monaco have had to strip themselves of stars on big money. It would also be tempting to judge them on our pre season meeting against us when they were the better team on the day, especially in midfield but as you know, we were far from purring early in the season. In fact we've only just a few