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Thread: Arsenal v Valencia. 2nd May. 20:00

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Yes. In Adams' biography he talks about the time in the early 90s when we won a few cups but were nowhere in the league. In the "thoroughly enjoyable" 92/93 season in which we scored fewer league goals than we played league games we actually flirted with relegation although we were never in that much danger looking back. What Adams says though is they were good enough to raise it for the odd big cup game but they weren't good enough to do it week in, week out consistently. That's kinda where we are now. The difference is we do also now expect to be challenging for the top 4, that expectation is a legacy of Wenger's early time with us.
    Let's be honest, we've had some terrible defeats in this competition this year as well, by far our best result was against Napoli, other than that we haven't been that great, we've made hard work of it at times. Also you can't compare teams with the likes of Adams and co who had huge desire and focus on the pitch to this lot, you keep bringing up 92/93, but they entirely focussed on the cups then (which you repeatedly choose to ignore), we played weaker teams and didn't bother in the league, we have tried in the league this years, it's just that we've collapsed as we usually do because we don't have the right players.

    We've made it this far however and now we have a chance, we just need to be focussed on the task ahead, then if we get through it'll be a one off match against Chelsea which could go either way..
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    Coquelin and Gabriel to destroy us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost... View Post
    Coquelin and Gabriel to destroy us.
    Would have kept them over the likes of Elneny and Mustafi tbh
    Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..

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    Cech; Sokratis, Koscielny, Mustafi; Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Kolasinac; Ozil; Lacazette, Aubameyang.

    Subs: Leno, Elneny, Mkhitaryan, Torreira, Iwobi, Monreal, Nketiah.

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    Mustafi.

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    I don't know that much about valencia, i suppose their starting with gabriel is something, though who's to say he's that bad, i remember people thought he was decent at first but then he was wengerised.

    All i really know is that we need to be 100% better than the sh*t we've been producing lately

    Got to say i'd have preferred Torreira to start ahead of Guendouzi though

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    Is this to suffocate yourself with?


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    Valencia: Neto, Roncaglia, Gabriel, Guedes, Soler, Parejo, Diakhaby, Gaya, Rodrigo, Piccini, Garay

    BBC with their can't be arsed placing them in the right order again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost... View Post


    Is this to suffocate yourself with?

    Doing our bit for plastic waste...

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    Turpin might be worse than Oliver/Taylor/Dean/Atkinson/Moss.

    At least two clear pelanties denied and a red for Sokratis.

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