Moyes and Benrahma – Arsenal game may tell us lots

Said Benrahma – beyond scoring a goal – looks a good player to me!.

But thus far there have been some odd and perhaps not entirely required public comments coming from the manager on the guy.

His latest was to tell him that he needed to shoot below the bar rather than over it. “Insulting” is too strong a word – a better one would be “unhelpful.”

Prior to that – if memory serves – he commented  that he had told him that he believed he had signed a goalscorer and on another that he needed time to sort out his game to Premier League level.

Moyes has a track record for making semi critical remarks about players as will be remembered when he had a pop at Declan following his performance away at Arsenal during his first spell.

Jesse Lingard will be back for sure against Arsenal and  if we assume Mark Noble and Ben Johnson on the bench that will mean one place remains available.

I, for one, will be very interested to see which way the manager goes if the choice is between Benrahma or Lanzini who looked pretty bright against Man U.

If that’s the choice Moyesie has to make it’s gonna tell us quite a lot perhaps.

My bet is his team will look like this: Fab; Coufal, Diop, Dawson, Cresswell; Bowen, Rice, Soucek, Lanzini, Lingard, Antonio