Jurrien Timber

What do you have here? David Raya in goals.

Jurrien Timber, Konsa, Magalhães, and Myles Lewis-Skelly, of course, playing at left back.

The midfield was Bruno, Declan, and Mikel Merino.

Didn't think that worked.

Hope she makes a very, very quick recovery.

Uh, David Raya in goal, I think absolutely we're expecting that.

Uh, question here, is Jurrien Timber or Ben White at right back?

I think it'll be Ben White, Ben White, I think.

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Jurrien Timber.

Yeah, he's in there in the Crystal Palace midfield.

Mm-hmm.

Raya in goal.

I think White comes back into the starting lineup for this one, just swapping and changing with, uh, with Jurrien Timber.

What a blessing that is, by the way, to have those two right backs being able to cover the workload, share the workload at right back.

Konsa, Gabriel, uh, I think Calafiori comes back in.

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The first question, Eberechi Eze or Madueke, who starts on left wing, and Jurrien Timber or Ben White, who do you start at right back? Please let me know your answers.

I would love to try and gauge the opinion of the fan base, uh, of the people who watch this video.

The answer for left wing for me is quite easy, but that doesn't mean Mikel Arteta will see it that way.

I think they're at times both as good as each other.

I've always said going forward Ben White's better.

Defensively, Jurrien Timber's better.

Now Jurrien Timber is becoming far more capable going forward, and we saw in one of the most recent games that Jurrien Timber's at times the most dangerous player going forward.

... and literally came back firing.

Timber came back from injury.

You saw the quality goal he scored.

I'm just so happy that we have the squad depth-

Yeah, yeah

... clear chances.

So that's why I think, you know, we're countering all the haters and saying, like, "We can score all over the p-" Did you see J- J- Jurrien Timber's goal?

Yes.

So I think there has to be a place for him.

But what's so frustrating about him is that it's set against all of these moments where he's caught offside, he... overhits across you know he is such a wasteful player sometimes and for all of the kind of stats that do the rounds about his box entries and his willingness to shoot there is a market change in this xg race chart uh you know our after 60 minutes which is roughly when the subs came on obviously we get our goal um and in fact it was noni madaweke i i i think it was noni madaweke with the assist yeah um So Nani Madaweke pulls it back for Jurrien Timber, who to be fair, like again, another player who is sort of, and actually different to Madaweke because he's a very steady player, a very consistent player, but somebody who sometimes struggles in the final thirds to make an impact.

Great first touch and then a really subtle dinked finish.

Regardless, around this time here, the subs were warming up and then, of course, Saka comes on.

It's very, uh, deliberate.

And yeah, the, the defense is, is just brilliant, as is Jurrien Timber, who I've just written next to his name.

What a footballer.

I mean, we miss Jurrien Timber when he's not here.

Although I've made videos saying about when Jurrien Timber comes back, please let's not disrespect Ben White.

Ben White, in my opinion, is still a better attacking right-back.

Now Jurrien Timber put a massive asterisk next to that with his last performance, and I would hope to see that continue going forward.

Unbelievable attacking performance.

So the Man City game, which they also, which, which they still lost, is the only game where they've ran more than the opposition, which obviously makes sense given how much possession City had.

Um, and everyone just keeps going back to that interview, uh, Jurrien Timber's with Rio Ferdinand pre-season where he talks about-

about-He didn't frame it as a lack of intensity, but he basically said the preseason was much more relaxed and didn't involve as much kind of physical conditioning as he's used to.

Yeah.

I think actually it was Jökerish coming on up front and just changing the dynamic of how Arsenal were playing, allowing someone like a Guimarães space so he doesn't have to sit back defensively where he's not comfortable like he did against Brighton.

He was actually able to get forward to get on the ball.

Timber as well was superb when he came on driving forward.

So, um, yeah, strength in depth is unparalleled in this Arsenal squad currently.