David Raya starts for Arsenal in the UCL champions league tonight. It’s kind of surprising to see that Ramsdale has been dropped to the bench. However it’s great to see Arsenal exploring their options with different goalkeepers! It keeps the competition healthy and pushes everyone to bring their best to the pitch. Then again, Raya didn’t come here at Arsenal to sit on the bench. He came to give Ramsdale some competition. And I’m all for it.
This is as expected. Ramsdale was too erroneous in goal and I'm sure that was a matter of concern fir arteta even if he only says it was just a normal substitution and that there would be rotation. I knew this was just to calm suspicious but in the long run if Raya keeps up his performances, Ramsdale will see a lot less game time. Despite having a strong defense, any team that wants to actively compete for trophies needs a solid keeper as a last line of defense and Ramsdale just isn't it.