Arsenal (N) FA Cup Semi Final pre match thread

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Arse will use a manic high press from the off and try to get at us all over our half. It won’t be pretty.

It’s a big pitch to press City over for 94 minutes, they will run out of legs.

We simply have to hold our nerve, trust the system and unless they are 2-0 up on 94 minutes our quality should see us through a tight game.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Pep went quite cautious for 60 minutes and drain them.

I think the Wembley pitch is slightly smaller than ours and the same as at the Emirates

 

[Mancity1980]

Hope the Goons roll over like they are doing against the Dippers tonight , bunch of wallflowers

I think you may regret that comment...:)

 

[hateutd]

Missed Aguero already....

 

[CrownPointBlue]

I think the Wembley pitch is slightly smaller than ours and the same as at the Emirates

As stated....it’s a big pitch.

 

[CrownPointBlue]

I thought the enforced break would help him but he's still way short of his best.

3 years of almost non stop high level football has burnt him out.

Pep has been warning of this for 4 years.

The vile racism slur won’t have helped.

 

[lionheart]

We may have to choose between winning the FA Cup or progressing in the Champions League. If we do beat Arsenal, we will have a really tiring final against the Chavs or Manure only a few days before we play Real Madrid again. I cannot see us winning both games.

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Useless Moss is the ref. Mike Dean for Utd v Chelsea

Arsenal v Manchester City - Saturday 18 July, 7.45pm BST
Referee: Jonathan Moss
Assistant Referees: Simon Bennett & Marc Perry
Fourth Official: Paul Tierney
Reserve Assistant: Nick Hopton
VAR: Craig Pawson
AVAR: Gary Beswick

Hopefully blind Pawson won’t rule a good goal out for Us this time round, like he did when he was ref when they beat us 2-1 in the semi final the other year

Jonathan Moss.....sigh

 

[waspish]

They’ll park the bus like they did last night.

 

[gkmcfc]

Think the outcome of this tie depends more on us than them. They got away with one last night against the dippers for sure so if we’re at our fluid best we should create plenty of chances. Bravo will start this one.

Bravo
Walker
Laporte
García
Mendy
Rodri
KDB
Foden
Sterling
Mahrez
Jesus

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

We may have to choose between winning the FA Cup or progressing in the Champions League. If we do beat Arsenal, we will have a really tiring final against the Chavs or Manure only a few days before we play Real Madrid again. I cannot see us winning both games.

FA cup final is on 1st August, Real Madrid is on 7th August, plent of time between games if we do beat Arsenal to get to the final.