Arsenal vs Brighton predicted XI: Just pretend like it never happened

Fullbacks

There’s no reason to change anything here. I don’t want to sound like a broken record player, but without David Luiz’s mistakes, I really do believe that we’d have hung in that match. Once he was sent off, Kieran Tierney had to shift central to play centerback and the fullback situation was ruined, but for the little bit of time we did get to see it, it was beautiful.

Don’t expect that to change. Tierney will be back out there, with Hector Bellerin joining him on the other side. The combination is to die for, it has tremendous attacking and defensive potential and I can’t wait to see it again, when it doesn’t have to be cut short by forty minutes.

They were moving and flowing and connecting so well with the wingers and even when they were hemmed in by the City attack, they were handling themselves so well. There was hardly a flaw to be found between the two of them.

More of it, please. I love Sead Kolasinac, but there’s no reason to bring him into the picture yet.

On to the centerbacks.