Arsene Wenger has preferred to play three at the back this season, with Hector Bellerin and Sead Kolasinic or Nacho Monreal operating as wingbacks in a 3-4-3 formation this season, but it hasn’t exactly worked wonders in recent games.

The Gunners were torn apart defensively on Sunday in the League Cup final against Manchester City playing out of a three-man defence, as Shkodran Mustafi was completely out of position for Sergio Aguero’s goal and Callum Chambers was outflanked too easily for David Silva’s finish to make it 3-0.

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The four-man back line has had its issues too, with it featuring in Arsenal’s 3-1 loss to Swansea at the end of January and February 10th’s 1-0 defeat to Spurs.

Arsenal fans came out strongly in favour of the latter tactic in our poll though, with 76% of them saying that they wanted their team to go back to having four defenders at the back for tomorrow night’s revenge clash with City in the league.

Here’s the full results of our poll: