Fulham v Arsenal, 14:00 GMT (12/03, Sky Sports Main Event)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tough one, Fulham play quite well against the top sides, although not very many wins to go with them.

Palhinha being suspended helps though.

[Marc Overmars]

Yeah this will be difficult, especially off the back of an away trip in Europe. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if we dropped points.

Got to win though if we want the title.

12 cup finals to go. :pray:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

10 if we win the lot!

[Mac76]

3-0 Mitrovic hatter

[HCZ_Reborn]

Played 15 times at Craven Cottage in the premier league (actually not true, we’ve only played 13 times the other two away fixtures against Fulham were played at Loftus Road)

11 wins, 1 draw, 3 defeats

Haven’t lost to Fulham since January 2nd 2012 when they came back from a goal down to beat us 2-1

Won the last four matches there.

1-0
3-1
5-1
3-0

I think any win this time is likely to be more in the 1-0 variety than the large margins of victory we’ve had in the recent past

[GP]

Ramsdale
While
Saliba
Gabriel
Zinchenko
Partey
Xhaka
Odegaard
Martinelli
Saka
Trossard

Gabriel Jesus on the bench!

[Marc Overmars]

Jesus is back. :bow:

Hopefully he gets some minutes.

[HCZ_Reborn]

With everyone fit, we do have a pretty decent squad it has to be said. No it’s not of the strength of Man City’s but definitely the strongest it’s been in years

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Reed, Lukic, Pereira, Decordova-Reid, Solomon, Mitrovic.
Subs: Rodak, Wickens, Wilson, James, Diop, Vinicius, Francois, Harris, C Robinson.

Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Trossard.
Subs: Turner, Tierney, Jesus, Smith Rowe, Holding, Tomiyasu, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson.

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No Willian. :lol:

Palhinha was always missing this one due to suspension.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Reed, Lukic, Pereira, Decordova-Reid, Solomon, Mitrovic.
Subs: Rodak, Wickens, Wilson, James, Diop, Vinicius, Francois, Harris, C Robinson.

Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Trossard.
Subs: Turner, Tierney, Jesus, Smith Rowe, Holding, Tomiyasu, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson.

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No Willian. :lol:

Palhinha was always missing this one due to suspension.

Solomon and Mitrovic are the two danger men. We definitely need to do better defending set pieces today when it comes to the latter

[Marc Overmars]

Solomon and Mitrovic are the two danger men. We definitely need to do better defending set pieces today when it comes to the latter

If we defend anything like we have done over the past games we’ll struggle.

[Mac76]

good to see Trossard back, also Jesus obvs

[HCZ_Reborn]

If we defend anything like we have done over the past games we’ll struggle.

On the whole we tend to do better away from home defensively because I don’t think we over exert in attack and therefore we don’t leave ourselves so stretched at the back.

We’ve conceded three goals in thirteen games away from home after going in front…so scoring early would be good for us

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Mac76]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

:gp:

[Mac76]

Arsenal Free Kick Routine TM :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli boots it out of play for some reason.

[Letters]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

Agreed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Let's not have the Xhaka hospital pass making a return please.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

ROBINSON OG!!!

[Mac76]

got to say, great ball from Xhaka to Martinelli

[Letters]

ROBINSON OG!!!

It’s a sad day when my neighbour shouting through the wall is a quicker goal update than Maccy.

[Marc Overmars]

Own goal!! :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goal disallowed. Booo.

[Mac76]

offside - f**k

[Marc Overmars]

VAR chalks it off :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Commentary has gone. :lol:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Gabriel taketh, Gabriel giveth.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

GABRIEL!!

Disallow that one you cunts.

[Mac76]

YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Gabriel!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mac76]

White was offside but it shouldn't matter

[Marc Overmars]

GABRIEL!!

Get in!

[GP]

VAR can disallow these nuts

[Mac76]

Saliba! - not far over :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oof some effort from Saliba.

[GP]

MARTINELLI!!!!

Lets fucking goooo!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MARTINELLI!!!

[Mac76]

Martinelliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Come on!!!

What a start

[Mac76]

Arsenal fans singing "We shall not be moved" :lol:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Arsenal have put on a full on clinic in the first half hour.

[Marc Overmars]

Arsenal fans singing "We shall not be moved" :lol:

They were just singing “We’re gonna win the league” :sick:

Too early lads.

[Mac76]

Mick Jagger :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Don't let Solomon cut inside and shoot.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hit it Xhaka!

[Mac76]

how did Xhaka not score?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Awful touch

[Mac76]

Trossard...

[Xhaka Can’t]

Miss of the Day competition

[Mac76]

I hope we don't regret these misses

[GP]

Big Gabi is a colossus

[Xhaka Can’t]

Me too - should be 0-4 and a mm away from 0-5.

Instead - a fortuitous bounce away from it being way closer than it should be.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsdale is bored.

[Mac76]

Ramsdale fu*ks up but Pereira messes up too

[Xhaka Can’t]

Some sloppiness creeping into our game now we need to nip that in the bud.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great work from Odegaard.

[Mac76]

Zin sets up a Fulham counterattack but we manage to stop it

[Mac76]

Odegaard!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

ODEGAARD!!!!

Total domination.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Odegaaaaaarrrrrrddddd!!!!!!!!!!

[Marc Overmars]

What a half. Absolute clinic.

[GP]

No exaggeration to say it could be a thousand - nil

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-3 HT. :bow:

[Mac76]

great first half, totally played them off the park, only not 5-0 up due to our own sloppiness

That Xhaka chacne was a simply unbelieveable miss, though tbf he's been generally good this haf

[Xhaka Can’t]

Another 45 minutes like that and I may feel like (more) breakdancing!

[Marc Overmars]

Just manage the second half for 20 mins or so then get Jesus on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trossard was such a good signing.

[GP]

Masterclass.

We've been so, so good.

3 assists for Trossard, he's been such a good signing.

[Mac76]

Just manage the second half for 20 mins or so then get Jesus on.

plus we can make some other changes and really manage minutes - i want Saka off no later than 65 mins for a start

[Xhaka Can’t]

They came out like they meant business in a match that we as fans were very worried about.

Such a wonderful season these guys have served up for us.

But they better not concede early in the second half - twats!

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Quite a mature display, not as intense as we are use to but clearly that has worked to our advantage.

Just a few things, firstly if anyone wonders why some of us are so insistent that we should do better than Xhaka in that free attacking role, his miss says it all about his game ( all effort with a substandard outcomes when it matters).

Also I've always loved Leno as a keeper and I'm happy with his mini-renaissance at Fulham, but honestly once he gets beaten once, he becomes totally hopeless in standing up and being counted.. And though Ramsy has already pissed me off today with some of his unnecessary drama, the way he picks himself up after a mistake/goal is what is truly remarkable about him and will make most people choose him over Leno anytime.

Looks like an easy 3 points and looking forward to seeing Jesus and some other subs coming in.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Trossard was such a good signing.

Quickly taking a deserved place in top January signings ever, once we win the League, it'll be confirmed

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham after handball. :faint:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Well this wasn’t the start to the 2nd half I was looking for.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Is Ramsdale on drugs?

[Mac76]

Odegaard should have passed left then - his decision making is still suspect at times

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trossard shot saved.

[Mac76]

Saka too self-indulgent today - needs to be subbed for Nelson

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham now doing what they didn't bother doing in the first half.

Players are so weird.

[Mac76]

Saka just worked really hard to prevent an Arsenal corner :blink:

[GP]

Liquid football

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lovely move.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Good save by Ramsdale

[Mac76]

What was Gabriel doing there?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saka can't get anything going today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tosin heads on to the bar!

[Marc Overmars]

Don’t think Saka has been particularly good today. Would take him off.

[Mac76]

Don’t think Saka has been particularly good today.

Arteta's run him into the ground as usual

we need to sub him plus some others and bring on Tomi, Jesus and Nelson

[Globalgunner]

Complacency seems to have set in. Manager should make a few changes

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saka off, Nelson on.

Zinchenko off, Tierney on.

[Mac76]

Saka off, Nelson on.

Zinchenko off, Tierney on.

good to see

[Mac76]

A better team than Fulham would definitely have scored today

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pereira off, James on.

Solomon off, Wilson on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus coming back on!!!

[GP]

Early Easter

[Xhaka Can’t]

Jesus has risen!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Trossard off, Jesus on.

Martinelli off, Vieira on.

[Mac76]

Nelson should have crossed first time back there, great work from Jesus

[McNamara That Ghost...]

White off, Tomiyasu on.

[Mac76]

really good to see Arteta making these changes

[Mac76]

Partey :doh:

[Mac76]

Jesus straight against the keeper

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus back to missing golden chances. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That would have been some finish from Odegaard.

[Mac76]

Odegaard...

seriously we could have won this about 8-0

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shocking tackle from the grass on Vieira.

[Mac76]

0-3 FT - on we go...

:scarf:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-3 FT.

Training session really.

[GP]

Perfect performance.

Smashed them to bits. Clean sheet. Back to full strength too.

Love to see it.

[HCZ_Reborn]

3-0 FT

Not much to say about that, all pretty positive. Arguably bit wasteful but I think that says as much about our complete dominance when we win by three goals.

Jesus coming back is the icing on the cake. Couldn’t have timed his return much better. We’ve done well without him, but with an April that will decide our season we need him back.

[Marc Overmars]

Top class performance. The only shame is that we didn’t add a 4th.

11 to go…

[Marc Overmars]

Weird how we’re so much more assured away from home.

Palace then Leeds next at home. Given their ability to cause chaos I wouldn’t bet against those games being closer than they look on paper.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

100th win for Arteta, not bad.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Shocking tackle from the grass on Vieira.
:haha:
But seriously seeing an EPL player so weak is extremely infuriating

[HCZ_Reborn]

:haha:
But seriously seeing an EPL player so weak is extremely infuriating

Surprised no one has suggested iron supplements. He comes from a seafaring nation but he doesn’t look like he’s ever touched oily fish in his life