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

[PabZabb]

Zinchenko used to get caught out by the diagonal pass in behind him when he was here. Expect Laporte/Gundogan to be pinging it out to Mahrez’ on rushing left peg whenever possible

 

[phargrave]

Need to smash these Tarquins tomorrow evening to show them who the Champions still are.

And the Premier League……

 

[Indaparkside]

Where your 2 points gone
Where’s your 2 points gone
Var Var away

 

[Blue Theatre]

Hope we win this one with a controversial late goal, so I can watch Arteta spontaneously combust.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

We are still not at our best , but we have the experience and nous the Goons do not have , no doubt VAR and the officials and the whining Goon fans will have an influence but we have played dozens of these "make or break" games over the years and we rarely come up short.
Really cant see us cocking this up , my only fear are the officials on the night , the rare occasions we do f*ck up the big games invariably have been decided to some extent by the men with the whistles, flags and VAR with their wavy lines.

 

[cookster]

Where your 2 points gone
Where’s your 2 points gone
Var Var away

Unfortunately the VAR screw up will be on the mind of the officials. Expect us to get nothing from the officials tomorrow night.

 

[cookster]

We are still not at our best , but we have the experience and nous the Goons do not have , no doubt VAR and the officials and the whining Goon fans will have an influence but we have played dozens of these "make or break" games over the years and we rarely come up short.
Really cant see us cocking this up , my only fear are the officials on the night , the rare occasions we do f*ck up the big games invariably have been decided to some extent by the men with the whistles, flags and VAR with their wavy lines.

Disallowed goal at Anfield, Offside goal given at Old Trafford. Expect the same tomorrow.

 

[Jack Hackett]

A mix of views here, some bullish, some cautious. Me? I haven’t a clue, I hope for the best but fear the worst.

 

[SWP's back]

Can we have our 2 points back against Man Ure too please.

Can Wolves be put back in the FA cup and their goal allowed now too.

Are you still in the ‘70’s? It’s 3 points for a win now bud.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Really hard to call this one. Arsenal will try and start aggressively to try and get the crowd going and grab an early goal. They’ll try to make an intense emotional evening and get through the match on adrenaline.

As it’s away from home we’ll probably aim for control. We need to figure a way through the Arsenal press. We struggled with our build up in the cup game. They also pressed us well in the corresponding fixture last season. We could do with an early goal to dampening the crowd and make them doubt Arsenal.


On other issue is that our away form this season hasn’t been great either. We’ve dropped 16 points away this season plus another 4 in the champions league. Chelsea away is our only significant result on the road. Could really do with adding another this evening.