City Vs Arsenal Pre match Discussion Thread

[FredTilson]

Everyone on the arsenal forums seems to be berating Giroud. Havent seen much of Arsenal this season. Has he really been that bad? Looked decent at the start of the season. Anyways, they should be knackered after the Napoli game while most of our starting XI will be fresh, Nasri, Silva/Navas, Toure, Aguero Negredo should make them run as much as possible early on and then find the space to score easily. If we play the pressing style that Pellegrini wants, we should win.

They had quite a decent record against us at the Etihad in the last few years, but since we are playing a completely different style, its hard to see them continuing it.

 

[alky313]

Giroud is just knackered. It seems like Wenger has played the Ozil/Giroud partnership in every single match. s.

IF we don't beat Arsenal, we don't deserve to win the title. End of.

 

[Champions2012!]

They actually made that

 

[penalty spot]

If there's one team I want to see us twat this season, it's these

Pant
Zabba Kompany Lescott Kolarov
Yaya Fernandinho
Navas Silva Nasri
Aguero[/quote Swap lescott for Demechellis and thats my preferred line up too.

 

[Pokes28]

God I hope not. Feel a lot less comfortable when I think of Hart in goal.

Perhaps we've been watching two different keepers over the last 2/3 weeks. Hart deserved to be benched at the time. However, he's been pretty much rock solid (aside from a shaky start versus BM) since he came in. Pants has gotten good results against crap teams but hasn't looked exactly rock solid. His will I won't I routine in deciding to step up and collect isn't a one game thing.

So while some say that he needs to stay in goal until he loses the job, I'd say that not keeping clean sheets in a couple of those matches makes a lot more sense. Kompany got some of the blame for mishandling a roll out from Pants instead of clearing it. However, that pass shouldn't have been made to him in the first place.

Lastly, I have to believe that having Hart back there with Kompany makes a lot more sense as they've played how many matches together?

David Harrell

 

[Turfin]

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What we can learn from this friendly match?
What we should do better?
What we must change that this wont happen again?

 

[pee dubya]

I'm worryingly confident about this one.

 

[york away to this!]

I'm worryingly confident about this one.

...now look what you've done...

 

[steviemc]

http://www.goonersworld.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=26564
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Their pre match threads

couldn't see goon-er2 in there anywhere.

Too true mate. It's a very tolerant forum this one ;-)

 

[aguero93:20]

They actually made that

hah wengers after totalling his shitty little car trying to catch kun, he's even lost a wheel!
that's what he gets for being such a tightfisted git.
we'll see a lot of this on Saturday morning, just replace Wenger and his clapped out shitheap with a clapped out mertesacker.
is anyone any good with these pics? Photoshop sheikh mansour flying past Wenger in a supercar and post it back where it came from please.