Arsenal (H) - Wed 26th April, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Didsbury Dave]

Strangely calm about tonight, which is probably a bad thing. I'm usually a pessimist but really fancy us later. Feels like momentum has swung our way, and we're in great form whilst they're stuttering. Add to that the fact that we've won our past 12 league meetings, and have home advantage, and it's hard not to feel confident. Can't really think of the last really big game at The Etihad that we lost?

Liverpool and Spurs in the Champions League.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Got a load of work to smash through then it’s a mid afternoon pint for me and go from there.

Can’t wait. So buzzing for this game.

 

[Chippy_boy]

All the pressure is on them as well. They simply MUST win, or realistically it's over for them. if they were to lose, then that would mean even if they win all their remaining games, we could lose one of our games and still win the title. We'd probably win it on points if we drew 2 of our remaining games. And that's assuming Arsenal win ALL of their remaining games, which considering who they have next, is hardly a foregone conclusion.

We need to not lose tonight, but even if we did lose the title is not over. I think Arsenal will be too desperate and will make silly mistakes and we'll pick them off. 4-0 City.

 

[TonyM]

I'd be tempted to play Foden instead of Gundogan. Gundogan is a master of keeping us ticking but Foden is faster to help us defensively and be effective on the counter.

..............Ederson..............
.... Akanji ...Dias ...Laporte...
.......Stones .......Rodri........
Bernardo KDB .Foden ..Grealish
.............Haaland...............

 

[Ric]

Liverpool and Spurs in the Champions League.

Yeah, you're probably right and they were both years ago (and we technically won the Spurs game!).

 

[TonyM]

I hope Dias lets the fancy stuff to the others and concentrates on just being a warrior in defence.

 

[willipp]

Resident Gooner in the office didn't sleep a wink last night ha.
In fairness, he hasn't gloated all season, just played them down but this morning he is full of "we're gonna get battered tonight" comments

To be fair, away from the social media dickheads associated with Arsenal, most of the ones ive talked to have always played their title challenge down. Most normal fans do, its those who feel the need to be seen and heard on social media. Combine that with the medias desire to see City fail and it gives a very false impression of most fans.

 

[burning blue soul]

Is Pep doing his usual “bigging up” the opposition?
not sure why he does that other than giving the opposition belief…

And yet, still we win lots of stuff?

 

[jimharri]

Not too bad at the moment, nerves wise. I'll probably start to deteriorate after 5 this evening, though.

 

[MCFC1993]

Nerves aren't as bad as they were again Bayern, I think we're the better side and we'll show it tonight.

All the talk seems to be about whether Arsenal can do it, not much talk about how good we are and how a win for us sets the league up nicely for us.