Ostersunds (A). Thursday 6pm. BT Shite.

[Cripps]

:tumbleweed:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lacazette to start.

[Niall_Quinn]

Lacazette to start.

It's his fault we lost to Birmingham in the cup final that time. He let Wenger down.

[HCZ]

Charlie Nicholas thinks we will win this by a three goal margin

Interesting

1-0 defeat

[Marc Overmars]

I hope we don’t continue with the false economy of resting players.

Especially as we have the weekend off.

[HCZ]

Lacazette out for up to six weeks after knee surgery :haha:

[GP]

Time for Eddie.

[HCZ]

It’s bizarre he’s had a long standing knee complaint and yet we decide to have it sorted when we need him the most

[Marc Overmars]

Relying on Welbz to get us through.

Wonderful.

[Marc Overmars]

It’s bizarre he’s had a long standing knee complaint and yet we decide to have it sorted when we need him the most

Had a chance to make this tournament his own and bottled it I say.

[HCZ]

Had a chance to make this tournament his own and bottled it I say.

The timing stinks, this is apparently an issue that’s been known about for a while

[Niall_Quinn]

Time for Eddie.

That's what I'd do, chuck a mix of the kids and some experienced players in and tell them to go for it, outscore the opposition. Give the crowd something to watch.

We have Wenger.

His stupid system doesn't use Laca anyway so it probably won't make much difference. As well we have Welbeck who can tap it around.

[Cripps]

Why don't we start Giroud?

[fakeyank]

Agree on Nketiah. Give that kid a chance. Looks miles better than Welbeck.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Trouble is he has already played his one match a season to start out with according the 'wengerbot, master-computer, player-organiser programme'

He also out did himself by showing signs of being 'good' and scoring two goals when we were on the brink of failure, that is too much confidence for a young player to have.

We won't see him again until around February 2019 :coffee:

[Marc Overmars]

Eddie will probably have a few loans spells before quietly slipping out the back door just like the majority of our youth.

[Goonermerree]

I read that Wenger always gave youth a chance because someone took a chance on him when he was young, but he seems to overlook some of our promising stars now It's all or nothing with Wenger - usually nothing tbh

[HCZ]

No koscielny or Wilshere tonight

My best guess at a line up

Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Mhkytarian, Welbeck

We’re going to lose this aren’t we? :haha:

[Cripps]

Wenger on team news: "Wilshere, Koscielny, Cech, Aubameyang left behind & everyone else has travelled. One or two had recent problems, like Koscielny with his Achilles. Wilshere was more precautionary" #Arsenal https://t.co/6JDXkU8E8J

[Marc Overmars]

No koscielny or Wilshere tonight

My best guess at a line up

Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Mhkytarian, Welbeck

We’re going to lose this aren’t we? :haha:

-4 at kick off.

Can we do it on a cold Thursday night in Ostersund? The mark of true champions.

[selassie]

No koscielny or Wilshere tonight

My best guess at a line up

Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Mhkytarian, Welbeck

We’re going to lose this aren’t we? :haha:

I wouldn't be surprised if we did.

Jeeez our line-ups really do look weak a lot of the time these days...gaping holes all over the team in terms of quality etc.

[HCZ]

Depends how they play I suppose

If they try and close us down we will create nothing for an hour

I think they are more likely to stand off us

[Ralpheroo72]

If we lose over two legs, will the Board be forced to only offer Wenger 2 more years instead of 5?

[dostoy]

The only thing that is important at the moment is to get Wenger out.

If that means a loss tonight and in the return match, then so be it.

The more defeats the better until that fucker leaves.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sub-zero temperatures playing on an artificial pitch. What could possibly go wrong?

[Cripps]

Imagine the absolute banter if we lose this :lol:

[Goonermerree]

Sub-zero temperatures playing on an artificial pitch. What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing.:unsure:

[Özim]

No koscielny or Wilshere tonight

My best guess at a line up

Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny, Xhaka, Ozil, Iwobi, Mhkytarian, Welbeck

We’re going to lose this aren’t we? :haha:

Make you realise how rubbish our squad is when you have a lineup that looks like that. Really weak looking line-up, with Xhaka, Iwobi and Welbeck all in the line-up is the equivalent of playing with 8 men on the pitch. Hopefully Ozil has a good game.

Our squad is shocking, nowhere near good enough to challenge for the big prizes, to think people thought we had a good squad.

[HCZ]

I think we do have a decent squad but like with any squad without it’s better players and without a manager that knows how to get the best out of the players it doesn’t work

Wilshere, Bellerin, Mustafi, Ozil, Mkhytarian, Lacazette, Aubemeyang are all pretty good players

Plus there’s so much dross in other teams squads as well

Look at the amount of shite United have

Darmian, Rojo, Jones, Fellaini, Young etc

[Marc Overmars]

There's no way we should be a distant 6th, I think we have the players to be way more competitive than we actually are and we know who's door that blame lies at.

[KSE Comedy Club]

It's all up to Mhiki tonight then.

He has to play all over the pitch and little bit up front to see us through.

[HCZ]

Not sure of the formation but AMN starts, presumably in central midfield with Elneny

No Xhaka!!!! Woop

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Mustafi, Monreal, Elneny, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Welbeck.

Subs: Macey, Holding, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Willock, Nelson, Nketiah

[Goonermerree]

Come on, let's do this.

[Globalgunner]

Mustafi is always reckless. a slight mistime there and he could have been red carded.

[Master Splinter]

Welbz :doh:.

[Master Splinter]

MONREAL!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Monreal scores

This is a training game :lol:

[Globalgunner]

Monreal the goal machine. He and Welbz should just swap places.

[Master Splinter]

Keita :haha:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Monreal best striker in our history?

[Globalgunner]

Monreal best striker in our history?

deffo, best striker available now? Better than Welbz or Iwobi

[Marc Overmars]

Christ, they’re making us look like Barca at their tiki taka best.

[HCZ]

That surface looks like Snooker Baize

[Globalgunner]

Christ, they’re making us look like Barca at their tiki taka best.

Wenger will be pleased. he will say we were better than the Spuds against that Italian rag-tag mob the other day.

[Marc Overmars]

Own goal :haha:

[Master Splinter]

Another Mkhitaryan assist :bow:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Some unpronounceable with the OG.

[Goonermerree]

OG I'll take it.

[Marc Overmars]

Welbz :lol:

[Goonermerree]

Will we keep a clean sheet?

[Master Splinter]

Welbz :haha:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

FFS Welbz.

[AFC Leveller]

Ospina makes a decent save.

[Globalgunner]

OG is now playing for Chelsea, remember.?

[Marc Overmars]

If our attack was any good we’d be 5 up by now

But we have Welbz

[Master Splinter]

We turn nearly every potentially good counter-attack into a comedy of eejittery.

Welbz is so poor.

[Master Splinter]

Lacazette could have double the amount of goals if Wenger had given him some games in this competition.

And now when he definitely would have played and probably got five in this tie alone, he's injured.

WUMger has ensured he'll remain Lacashite.

[Globalgunner]

Props to the away fan who made the journey. Fkn hell!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

0-10 please.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ostersunds: Keita, Mukiibi, Papagiannopoulos, Pettersson, Widgren, Edwards, Nouri, Mensah, Sema, Ghoddos, Gero

Teki is on for Nouri though.

[Marc Overmars]

Welbz’s touch :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Welbz can't even contribute in the build-up these days which was his one redeeming feature.

Well that and his smile.

[Goonermerree]

It's funny to see Welbz playing, he's usually out injured.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

No pel against us, right decision I think.

GLaDOS. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Ozil scores

[McNamara That Ghost...]

OZIL!!!!

[fakeyank]

Can we get that Nigerian wonderkid on in place of Welshit?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can we get that Nigerian wonderkid on in place of Welshit?

Iwobi?

[Master Splinter]

It's taken WengBOT this long to finally give AMN a game in midfield.

Nketiah will get a meaningful runout next September.

[Gooner23]

Maitland-Niles has made some mistakes but it's good to have a centre mid with pace to recover. A refreshing change to Xhaka plodding around.

We are a really average team though, no chance we're winning this competition.

[Master Splinter]

Wonderful touch to bring the ball out of the air by Ozil.

Worth the 350k IMO.

[Goonermerree]

They've gifted us 3 goals.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They've gifted us 3 goals.

We should give them back on principle.

[Marc Overmars]

Quite telling that despite complete dominance, Welbz has barely had a sniff.

[Goonermerree]

We should give them back on principle.

Nah, they go some way to making up for the ones we been gifting all season.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Monreal off, Kolasinac on. :unsure:

[Cripps]

Absolute sunday league :haha: :haha:

[LDG]

....And on that day, not one single fuck was given....

[Letters]

:lol: They are almost literally a pub team

[Master Splinter]

Welbz is offering nothing, we're already through to the next round, but WengBOT still refuses to give the young players some valuable gametime.

[Penguin]

AMN looks a bit too weak for midfield

[Cripps]

:lol: They are almost literally a pub team

:faint:

[Penguin]

Welbz :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

Welbz well and truly hauled off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nketiah is on!!!

:faint:

[Master Splinter]

Welbz off.

Eddie on.

Osterunds devastated.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mkhitaryan off, Nelson on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We might just well advance from our first knockout European tie since 2010.

TWENTY TEN. :doh:

Not including qualifiers.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Welbeck was shit the whole game. I hadn’t realised quite how pointless he has become :shrug:

[Marc Overmars]

Penalty for Ostersunds :haha:

[Cripps]

Welbz another one destroyed by WUMger

:rose:

[Thierrymon]

Bellerin that was idiotic. Ospina saves penalty.

[Marc Overmars]

Saved!

Cech :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pel to those farmers.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ospina. :bow:

What a legend.

Another one of HCZ's hate figures.

[Penguin]

Ospina :bow:

[Cripps]

Ospina > Cech

[Master Splinter]

Cech :rose:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ospina > Cech

I thought Cech finally saved one?

[Niall_Quinn]

89 mins gone?

I may have pretty much missed this. Why was it on at 6PM FFS! What a stupid time for a footie match.

[Goonermerree]

I thought our clean sheet was out of the window, but no, Ospina saves it, woohoo

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Spuds. :haha:

Couldn't win away in Europe.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

89 mins gone?

I may have pretty much missed this. Why was it on at 6PM FFS! What a stupid time for a footie match.

This was an open day.

[Penguin]

Painful to watch that match. Do people still think we could win this thing? :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Painful to watch that match. Do people still think we could win this thing? :lol:

Being only the 17th best team in Europe is well within our capabilities.

[Penguin]

Being only the 17th best team in Europe is well within our capabilities.

Being the 17th worst team in Europe is also within our capabilities.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Being the 17th worst team in Europe is also within our capabilities.

We've made the knockout round so it can't be. :unsure:

[Cripps]

Penguin

:rose:

[GP]

We’re going to lose this aren’t we? :haha:

Yes

[Xhaka Can’t]

....And on that day, not one single fuck was given....

I only remembered this was on after seeing Letters post on Facebook.

[fakeyank]

Iwobi?

Kanu