Arsenal (A) - Sun Oct 8th, 16:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[SSL2]

Akanji at defensive mid with Bernardo alongside

no chance - he is nowhere near good enough on the ball to play in midfield.

got caught afew times the other night and has in the past too.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Arteta will get away with being a cnut whilst Pep gets another yellow card for 'reasons'. On top of that the Tarquin's will be allowed to kick us with impunity, Ederson will get booked for time wasting, one of our centre backs will be booked for an early firm but fair challenge, and the ref will dish out a couple of late cards to them for stat-padding purposes.

Score: 1-3

I feel like I have seen this match many times before

 

[waspish]

I'm sure Saka will make a miraculous recovery for this, faking all these latest injuries just to make him look like superman against us, lol

Saka will play then limp off after 70mins then have a 2 week rest

 

[dadnlad]

arteta's already knows were playing for atleast 100 minutes
has he got lottery numbers for this week

 

[citytill1die84]

Saka is in contention again lol

Ederson

Walker Akanji Dias Gvardiol

B. Silva Kovacic Foden

Doku Haaland Alvarez

Martinelli is a big loss and looks like they will be testing Saka again if Saka isn't 100% then they've lost the threat of pace.

Come on City let's beat these fuckers.

 

[chaddblue]

Without any inside knowledge, I reckon Arteta is playing mind games and Saka is out. You don't recover from what clearly looked like a pretty bad muscle injury in 5 days

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Without any inside knowledge, I reckon Arteta is playing mind games and Saka is out. You don't recover from what clearly looked like a pretty bad muscle injury in 5 days

I agree, he’s let it be known he might be fit but wouldn’t comment on the injury sustained

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Same mate, he'll risk him - last game before an International break. Perfect time for him to recover! Flog him, make him miss England duty and then be fit again for Arsenal in a couple of weeks. Either way, early instruction would be to give the guy a booting!

My team would be:
Ederson
Walker
Dias
Gvardiol
Ake
Bernardo
Kovacic
Alvarez
Grealish
Foden
Haaland

Although I'd be tempted to have Doku playing wide right and exploiting Zinchenko.

This is our best line up, although some may argue Doku has done enough to displace Jack, who played well against em last year, think you’ve got it spot on, I hope Phil gets his shots away like midweek, there’s a little more scope for him to do it in away games

 

[super_city_si]

Sure as shit Saka will play. Arteta isnt fooling anyone

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

That cockney accent has taken a bit of a pasting over the years, glad to see the manc holding on to his correctly formed syllables.

Is it even a cockney accent anymore? The only cockney accent I hear from football fans is West Ham and most of them don’t live in London now.