Given that there seems to be a lot of question over whether Wenger knows what his best side is, imagine a scenario where everyone is fit who would be in your first choice XI.


Mine would be

Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs, Xhaka, Elneny, Ozil, Sanchez, Perez, Walcott (the front three would be interchangeable as all can drift from wide to playing up front and i think this works for Liverpool).

The only pick i wasn't sure about was Elneny and whether depending on the opposition I would play Cazorla in there instead

I would also favour playing Cazorla in the Ozil role as we know when played in a more advanced role, he is a goal threat and he would be a more traditional CAM than Ozil. That wouldn't be about dropping Ozil it would be about squad rotation and picking a side that works not only to our strengths but the weakness of the opponent (something alien to Wenger who just wants to shoe horn his favourite players into position).