Combined Injured XI: Arsenal vs Manchester United
While usually we do a combined XI but the amount of injured players in this fixture provides us a unique chance of making a injured XI, of those players who will be missing this mouthwatering fixture at The Emirates today. At United with the incoming of a new manager this season training regimes were a certainity to change and hence the injuries.As Van Gaal is known to implement his training drills (You can watch training videos where Van Gaal is telling Rooney to take the corners in a particular way in pre season tour) and his mentality of football is every player should be able to defend and every player should contribute to the attack by keeping the possession which takes a toll on body and mind both to get accustomed to.Talking of Arsenal, nothing new over there only 6 injuries this time.Credit given to Arsene Wenger who transformed Arsenal with his training style and dietary plans from a team of alcholics to proper athletes but many a fans have raised their question on his training regimen where players get injured in the training leave the game alone. Arsenal have had a total of 889 injuries since 2001. Here is a list of best 11 injured players who if had played made a difference on the result and we’ll play a 4-4-1-1.Mouth watering fixture.
#1 GK -David Ospina
Ospina was selected as the main goalkeeper for Colombia throughout the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification competition. At the end of the qualifiers, Ospina conceded the fewest number of goals of the tournament. Such is the quality of Colombian international who was recognised for his shot stopping abilities this summer in Brazil as Colombia reached quarter final of the FIFA World Cup, so when the team reached Bogota they got hero like reception.
After Ospina's World Cup perfomances he was linked to many European sides. Despite being heavily linked to Atlético Madrid,it was announced that Ospina would depart to join English side Arsenal.Arsenal were handed another major injury blow as Arsene Wenger revealed that goalkeeper David Ospina will be out for up to three months with a thigh injury with an injury he picked up while playing for former club Nice.