Arsenal (a) pre-match thread (Game given go ahead 1350hrs)

[worsleyweb]

There was only 24,500 at the Spurs game last night. Fcuking hypocrites.

Won’t be many more at the emirates tonight.

 

[SWP's back]

Don't fancy us. Gundo doesn't do the hard yards as it is, never mind Fernandinho's.

Fear a response from Arsenal going for it, but that will level us plenty of gaps.

Were you always such a wet blanket or is it just this season? Is it one of those “I said we’d lose a game and we won so I’ll carry on doing the same” things?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Anyone hear Keown giving it to Ashton on BBC 5 Live?

He asked if he’d been drinking and then said you didn’t last long on Sky did you?

I likeeeee

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Heard it Keown was seriously angry!!

Keown to Ashdon:

"have you been drinking?"

 

[dave_blue12]

We are way too good for these !

 

[Pam]

They have only lost one at home in the league and that was that fluke game against Utd when they really should have won.

They'll be extra-motivated tonight as well

I can't make my mind up as to whether they'll be extra motivated or totally demoralized and lacking in confidence. I know people are saying that a few days after winning the League Cup vs Liverpool in 2016, we got battered at Klanfield but when we won the FA Cup vs Stoke in 2011, we beat the same Stoke side again a few days later and it was comfortable. We'll see.

BTW, a draw would be fine by me tonight. It would take us to a 14 point lead with only 10 games to play. That should be enough. And even if we lose, we maintain a healthy 13 point gap. That said, I keep thinking about the last six games of 2011/2 and how we hauled back an eight point deficit. It's not quite the same but you know what City can be like. We were always a soap opera club.

Come on City. Please get it won by April.

 

[RandomJ]

Were you always such a wet blanket or is it just this season? Is it one of those “I said we’d lose a game and we won so I’ll carry on doing the same” things?

It's fucking weird. He spends all summer hyping up our transfers and saying what an amazing team we are gonna have and then once we signed those player and have the amazing team he spends all season saying every team is gonna do us in.

 

[kaz7]

I just turned it on,have they talked about us at all?

ground looks empty right now

 

[zandvoort blue]

If the pitchside pictures on NBC are live the stadium is virtually empty

 

[MarsLlama]

This could go one of two ways:

a) Their attacking line-up gels well and, desperate for revenge, they outfight us to claim a battling 2-2 draw that pundits call 'redemption' and 'a turning point'.
b) They don't show up again and we destroy them as our ingenious midfielders outsmart their weak central pairing to score four or more goals.