Brighton vs Arsenal 04.01.2025 - KO: 17:30 GMT
The last game between us caused a bitter taste in my mouth, in that I strongly believe that at least part of the reason the referee sent off Declan Rice was because of the screaming Brighton players trying to deflect from the fact that, that unpleasant thug Veltman had kicked the ball at Rice and then scythed him down.
That in my view was an abundant act of cheating.
I’m also not looking forward to this game because Brighton are in a horrible run of form but I fear that they might suddenly get back to winning ways against us. Not having Timber available to us certainly doesn’t help, and of course Arteta will go with his horrendous instincts by playing Partey there rather than Calafiori or Lewis Skelly.
We’ve won three out of the last four league games at the Amex (in fact tend to do better there than we do at home against this lot) but just have a nasty feeling. Then again had that nasty feeling last season and we won 3-0, and it was the next game against Villa that proved to be the sickener.
Hopefully Havertz is back, we need more attacking options. Being reliant on Jesus makes me deeply uncomfortable
