Arsenal (A) - Wed 15th Feb, 19:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Bluemoon9909]

Best pubs for tomorrow blues?

 

[timperleyblueboy]

If haaland is out I'd be temped to go back to last season with Foden as a false 9, either that or play barnardo and de bruyne as the double false 9 as he did against utd away last year. I don't think there defenders are cleaver enough to know where to position themselves. Either way I fancy us, I think we are well up for it and a few players looked like they had a spring back in there step on Sunday.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Okay, let’s have it!
Let Arsenal have the most possession
Let Arsenal have the most shots on & off target.
Let Arsenal have the most corners.
Let Arsenal have most touches in apponemts box.
Let us have 1 shot on target and score.
Arsenal 0-1 City

I want to know how this feels for once

Then we can sing, This is how it feels to be City to them :)

 

[GX Blue]

Ederson
Walker Dias Laporte Ake
Rodri De Bruyne
Mahrez Bernardo Foden
Haaland

 

[kaz7]

Pep Guardiola remains coy on Erling Haaland fitness ahead of Arsenal showdown

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has remained tight-lipped on the fitness of his star striker on the eve of their trip to face Arsenal this week.

cityxtra.co.uk

 

[LongsightM13]

i agree tolmie id go with phil over mahrez. But then again doubt pep will because he hasnt played phil jack haaland in same team since manchester derby although id love to see it.

That in itself is madness

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Oh sorry I assumed it’d’ve been posted by now

What did Pep say about slippery

 

[kaz7]

What did Pep say about slippery

Said him slipping , was that our fault too

 

[SWPISHOME]

I might get some stick for this on here but I couldn't give a shit.

Anyway, I'm actually glad Pep apologised for the comments he made about the Gerrard slip. His comments seemed to be more of a dig at Gerrard than it was to anybody else. Although we all knew what Pep was trying to refer to with his comments. As much as I don't like Slippy it did seem to be a dig at him when in reality this all boils down to much more than that and Gerrard got the brunt of it.

Pep showed balls coming out to apologise for his comments, He will admit when he's wrong. Look at his press conference at pre Aston Villa, Not a single apology was made by Pep after what he had said and rightly so! But on this occasion he has and fair play to him.

 

[CC1]

Great from Pep that. Nobody cared and there were no stories regarding Gerrard being upset but there were plenty regarding his comments on Levy and the 9 clubs. Quite pointed to apologise to Gerrard and nobody else

Actually, Pep wasn’t having a dig at Gerrard per se. He was using the matter to stress how we get blamed for everything - sarcastically suggesting that surely we were responsible for Gerard’s slip as well as everything else. But the irony has been lost & he is clarifying that he was not trying to belittle Gerrard.
This point will be lost in the gleeful reporting!!