The Arsenal v Leeds Utd, Saturday April 1, 3pm

[Mac76]

Let's hope we're not April Fools eh readers? :rimshot:

The first of our ten 'cup finals', against relegation-threatened Leeds, us without Saliba, we need a good start, 2-0 up by HT please lads

oh and...

0-3 Bamford hatter

[WMUG]

Come on Liverpool :pray:

[Marc Overmars]

Should win but Leeds always have the capability of making things a bit chaotic.

Nerves kicking in for every game now. :sick:

[Letters]

Come on Liverpool :pray:

:gp:

[fakeyank]

Wenger Out

[Marc Overmars]

Ramsdale, White, Holding, Gabriel Magalhães, Zinchenko, Partey, Odegaard, Xhaka, Trossard, Jesus, Martinelli.

Subs: Turner, Tierney, Saka, Smith Rowe, Kiwior, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson, Walters.

Saka benched. :rose:

Could do with Jesus finding his scoring boots again here.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Saka benched today, Holding (ugh) starts as does Jesus and Trossard

[McNamara That Ghost...]

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

Leeds: Meslier, Kristensen, Ayling, Firpo, Struijk, Koch, Roca, Summerville, Aaronson, Sinisterra, Harrison.
Subs: Robles, Cooper, Gyabi, Gray, Greenwood, McKennie, Rodrigo, Georginio, Bamford.

[GP]

Heard arumour yesterday that Saka was ill so it's no surprise.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Save from Ramsdale after a minute. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Nervy start.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus header over.

[Marc Overmars]

Very ordinary so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsdale saves from Summerville.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsdale saves from Harrison.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

PELANTY!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus has to take it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

JESUS!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Hasn’t been great but thank fuck for that.

Hopefully we wake up now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Bit more authority in the second half please. A fragile lead thus far.

[GP]

WHITE POWERS IT IN!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Was a bit late so WHITE 2-0!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

JESUS!!!

[GP]

JESUS IS RISEN!!

ALSO ME TOOOO!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jesus off, Saka on.

Partey off, Jorginho on is the other one I presume.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Us keeping clean sheets at home. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

XHAKA!!!

[GP]

Goal machine Granit Xhaka

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal 4-1 Leeds, FT. :bow:

[Letters]

8 points from St Totteringham’s Day :cool:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Much the same reaction as against Palace. Good result, slightly marred by not keeping a clean sheet but ultimately comfortable victory. We’ve scored 42 goals in 15 home games. Been a good couple of years since we were getting that kind of figure.

[Marc Overmars]

Another goal laden win.

We’re really motoring at the moment but there’s quite a big road block next week.

Come on you Gunners!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three goals away from the amount we scored in 03/04. :blink:

[Letters]

I’m loving this team’s steely determination to get the job done.
I’m worried about City. We all were anyway but today was one of their “difficult” games and they sailed through it. We need them to start slipping up. They need us to of course and we are sailing through our tests too

:scarf:

[Letters]

Three goals away from the amount we scored in 03/04. :blink:
I was surprised when I looked back at that season to see how few goals we’d scored. I guess there were a fair number of low scoring draws.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I was surprised when I looked back at that season to see how few goals we’d scored. I guess there were a fair number of low scoring draws.

Also Won a lot of games 2-1, especially at home

Tottenham, Bolton, Charlton, Everton, Leicester, Chelsea and Man City

I think I went to four games that season, two at home (Villa and Middlesborough) and two away (Villa and Blackburn - was at university at Keele at the time so relatively easy to make the journey)

[Marc Overmars]

After the title was won the last 4 or 5 games became just about not losing and were god awful performances, which I guess skewed how dominant we were overall.

I think defenders were able to get away with a lot more back then too. Attacking football is rewarded much more now.

[Mac76]

Great performance and result, Liverpool's shakiness at the back v Citeh gives me more hope than I had before that we can get something there, I really think we need to as I think we'll get nothing at Citeh

[LDG]

Martinelli today was fucking awesome, as was super Benny Blanco