Arsenal - pre match thread.

[mosssideblue]

2 up top has been a disaster so many times this season.

My preferred team:
................Hart......................
Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Clichy
.....Fernando, Fernandinho.........
...Navas,..... KDB,......... Nasri....
............Iheanacho..................

I really think Iheanacho should be played on merit ahead of Sergio based on both of their performances of late, but I can see Zabba, Yaya, and Aguero/Bony starting in smoe formation or other.

Zabbas crocked mate.

 

[DClarkMiamiU]

If he has yaya in a 2 and delph on the wing would anyone be surprised?

surprised...no
disgusted...yes

 

[lastmanback]

The three behind Aguero can be flexible and interchange at various points
It can also flick to a 4-4 2
Nasri won't help out defensively like KDB

KDB gives the ball away more than nasri and
Nasri tracks back more than him too.

 

[mosssideblue]

MP will be playing for a draw at best. He should have been sacked after the RM game.

wtf will he be playing for a draw?

 

[Gladstonian Liberal]

As an out and out Tarquin (I'm beginning to enjoy the name - sounds a bit surreal), I hope the negativity that permeates this thread carries on through to the Etihad Sunday with the happy outcome being a much merited Arsenal win due in some part to the self fulfilling prophesies of the Jeremiahs on here.

Ah ha!!!

Eureka!

At last a name we Gooners can adopt for you......Jeremiahs!

Well my fellow Jeremiahs, over to you from Tarquin.

Dontchya just love the name?

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Please don't bottle this. But at home, motivated surely you'll do them?

We only have 6 points out of a possible 39 so far against the top 8. And motivated? Haha our players are anything but motivated. We will get hammered.

 

[Andouble]

As an out and out Tarquin (I'm beginning to enjoy the name - sounds a bit surreal), I hope the negativity that permeates this thread carries on through to the Etihad Sunday with the happy outcome being a much merited Arsenal win due in some part to the self fulfilling prophesies of the Jeremiahs on here.

Ah ha!!!

Eureka!

At last a name we Gooners can adopt for you......Jeremiahs!

Well my fellow Jeremiahs, over to you from Tarquin.

Dontchya just love the name?

what the fuck have I just read

 

[paulchapo]

West Ham and the rags will both win you can count on that just to pile the pressure on.Arsenal will be relaxed a draw will do them. I have lost count the number of games we have all got excited about this season, how we have told ourselves "The team will be up for this one!" Only to be let down and I see this game being exactly the same.

Sorry to be so pessimistic but this lot are shot and the season can't finish quickly enough!

 

[DClarkMiamiU]

Random Q, since I've only been on this board during this campaign...

Were you all as miserable in 13-14 when City won the title?

Gloom and Doom 24/7/365.

 

[Pokes28]

Random Q, since I've only been on this board during this campaign...

Were you all as miserable in 13-14 when City won the title?

Gloom and Doom 24/7/365.

Doom and Gloom is the birthright of any City fan... Its been pounded into our mentality good and deep. I think it is what makes positive results so much more satisfying. But that said, how anybody can be anything but a bit doom and gloom at the moment is beyond my reasoning. Things in motion tend to stay in motion and all that...

This is the match of the season for us. We win, we likely finish 3rd and don't have to worry in the slightest about playing our way into the CL next season. A loss could very well put us in 5th or 6th and watching potentially 5 PL clubs play CL football next season. While Pep is a big draw for players in his own right, I don't believe he's as big a draw as immediate Champions League play.