Carabao Cup Final pre-match thread

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I think our players will be better focused following the defeat on Monday so it might actually help us.
 
The next three matches hold the key to the success of our season Arsenal Cup final Arsenal Away Chelsea Home Three victories and we have cup and on course for a title Cannot help but feel since our title win of 2014 with just 1 trophy won the LC. we have massively under achieved i realize most if not all the plaudits about us being the best the prem has seen have come from outside our club, but until we start amassing trophies we cannot truly be considered as one of the `greats`
 
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Aside from bravo (peps clearly made his mind up) let’s get our strongest possible 11 out there.

Bravo
Walker Otamendi Laporte Zinchenko
Fern
KDB Silva
Sterling Aguero Sane

No fucking about now. Strongest lineups from here on out if there is anything to be learned from Monday.
 
Pep needs to play his strongest line up for the cup final against the Arsenal, and in every game between now and the end of the season. When we should be playing Brighton either take the players away for a much need break in the sun, or give them a few days off.
 
Peggy's a blue said:
Totally agree, the whole defence play far more confidently with him in the team. In a sane world he would play, I do not understand what is so sacrosanct about the goalkeeper, many posters talk about permutations of - Stones, Laporte, Kompany and Otomendi, even attacking midfield permutation, but not goalkeeper. It has to be Bravo, I think a lot of guys are having their judgement Cloudiod cos he can save pens, thing is, we have to get to pens against Arsoles, this is not Wolves remember.
With Eddie we win with Bravo, lap of the gods.
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as you can see in the future u must be fed up winning all the worlds lotteries, so if your feeling benevolent, any chance you could give me the numbers for Friday.
 
Peggy's a blue said:
Totally agree, the whole defence play far more confidently with him in the team. In a sane world he would play, I do not understand what is so sacrosanct about the goalkeeper, many posters talk about permutations of - Stones, Laporte, Kompany and Otomendi, even attacking midfield permutation, but not goalkeeper. It has to be Bravo, I think a lot of guys are having their judgement Cloudiod cos he can save pens, thing is, we have to get to pens against Arsoles, this is not Wolves remember.
With Eddie we win with Bravo, lap of the gods.
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we'll need 3 goals at least,if it gets to pens then we will not have played a good game
1 for their first shot on target
1 that he throws in and the 3rd to win it
we may not win,our whole game is different without eddie
make that 4,staying on his line instead of being brave,can't recall him putting his head in when there's a boots there
 
karen7 said:
this,i'd risk it with sane but not a defender,nico and eric for me
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Ota and Kompany for me. I want a leader on that pitch. Last cup final v Liverpool, Kompany was brilliant and had only been back 3 games.

Laporte not played enough games to be starting cup finals for me.
 
TBooksbluearmy said:
Pep needs to play his strongest line up for the cup final against the Arsenal, and in every game between now and the end of the season. When we should be playing Brighton either take the players away for a much need break in the sun, or give them a few days off.
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Not sure how much spare time but that will be a mini mid season break recharge and get ready for the final push. Yes strongest team except against the Herb until the league is won.
 
mosssideblue said:
as you can see in the future u must be fed up winning all the worlds lotteries, so if your feeling benevolent, any chance you could give me the numbers for Friday.
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It’s not a question of seeing into the future, it’s called, an informed decision made after a suitable evaluation, my evaluation did not take long to deem Eddie far and away superior to Bravo, therefore Eddie should play ;-)
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Ota and Kompany for me. I want a leader on that pitch. Last cup final v Liverpool, Kompany was brilliant and had only been back 3 games.

Laporte not played enough games to be starting cup finals for me.
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That was a long time ago,not sure i would fancy vinny for this one but you may be right that nico and vinny are the better fit,vinny has looked very shaky on the ball, i thought he would play v wigan actually,i think he would have been good leading john,i hope pep picks our strongest team,nothing is more important than a cup final,no time for tinkering or out of form players
 
karen7 said:
we'll need 3 goals at least,if it gets to pens then we will not have played a good game
1 for their first shot on target
1 that he throws in and the 3rd to win it
we may not win,our whole game is different without eddie
make that 4,staying on his line instead of being brave,can't recall him putting his head in when there's a boots there
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It beggars belief we are having to debate this, it’s such an easy decision, you play your best players in a final. Therefore Eddie should play.
 
bravo is key and pep can not drop him after saving our bacon in the rounds so the best 10 outfield players must start and no holding back. time for the show to begin its showtime and the biggest stage is waiting for the best team to show up and play like we know and if we play then we are in for a show. forget all the fa cup downs was we ever really going to win everything ????? don't thinks so and the media hyped us up and fans have lapped it up big time and yes it was nice but the media are scum and love nothing more than rubbing our noise in it saying it was the fans and club bigging up all 4 titles and saying we are going to win the lot. we must not fear the reaper (the ref) just go out and smash it from kick off and put it to bed early let arsenal have it put them on the back foot
 
Ederson
Walker Otamendi Laporte Zinchenko
Fernandinho
De Bruyne Silva
Sterling Aguero Sane

Tough leaving Bernardo out but him on the right means Sterling playing worse on the left.
 
Mondays game, the result, the incidents and the reactions from the wider sporting public should have galvanised us, the club and the fans into one belief... we need to win as much silverware as possible and not be humble in victory about it. Count our trophies, reflect on how good we were and then dig out all these incidents starting with the Walker and Sterling head-scratching sending offs at the start of the season and say to them: "Look at what we did IN SPITE of all the bullshit you tried to pull to slow us down... we smashed you all out of the park, suck it up you bitter fools!".

Also we owe Arsenal for a good pasting last seasons FA cup anyway.
 
Father Paul said:
Not sure how much spare time but that will be a mini mid season break recharge and get ready for the final push. Yes strongest team except against the Herb until the league is won.
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hope we pull our players out of the stupid international friendlies,long haul travelling for our south americans,the injury risks that we get with a different training regime,we seem to lose someone every time
 
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