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A Must Win™.
No more negative team selections or resting players. Just go out and beat teams we should be beating and build up another lead at the top of the table to make sure we have some leeway when another brutal run of fixtures comes up in February.
Szczesny
Sagna
BFG
Koscielny
Gibbs
Arteta
Ramsey
Cazorla
Podolski
Giroud
Theo
We play better away from home, have a good record against West Ham and need to start winning again. 1-3 (Theo, Ramsey, Podolski).
They've won 1 in the their last 10 or something.
Liverpool will lose to city.
We go back top.
Positivity will come back.
Get Podolski in the team.
1-2
playing podolski would be stupid IMO. not played a league game since august. bench for the moment, 20 minute cameos like with theo.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOëL
We've turned this into a crucial match - I hope we don't play that way.
West Ham are abysmal so a well earned :doh: if we don't win this one.
I think this is going to be quite a tough game. I would freshen things up a bit, bring in Flams for Arteta, Cazorla for Rozza and Bendtner for Giroud, yep that's right Bendtner for Giroud.
We'll beat the pub teams away from home (Sunderland, cardiff, Palace etc) so i think we will be okay for this one. Newcastle away is the one we could struggle with.
Szczesny
Sagna
BFG
Koscielny
Gibbs
Flamini
Ramsey
Cazorla
Gnabry
Bendtner
Theo
I am not keen to start Podolski now, better to slowly ease him into the team. :coffee:
I'd bench Ozil and put Cazorla back in the middle, where he was playing best before he got pushed out.
Szczesny
Sagna
BFG
Vermaelen
Gibbs
Flamini
Ramsey
Rosicky
Cazorla
Theo
Giroud
FFS Giroud has been useless for quiet a while now. Give Bendtner his chance. :coffee:
:haha:
No
No shite Jimbo. :coffee:
Even an off-par Giroud contributes more than an in-form Bendtner. Stop this madness.
Giroud starts and bring Podolski on as a sub so he gets some game time.
I would be reluctant to play a forward line like that. Too many players who play or have played too infrequently.Quote:
Originally Posted by milla
----------------Szczesny----------------
Sagna------Merkyl-------KOS-------Gibbs
---------Arteta--------Ramsey-----------
Walcott----------Ozil-------------Cazorla
--------------Olivier Giroud---------------
Giroud looks quite jaded these days . Give him a breezer to refresh his legs . Bendtner seems like someone who has a point to prove to the booing fans before he leaves Arsenal . Give him a chance and he will prove some people wrong . At the end of the day he is still a decent player . Only the media and the fans who hate him make him look awful . West Ham is definitely not beyond his reach . If he got a good service , Nicklas can easily score a couple against them . Especially in set pieces .
I think Bendtner is the most dangerous player in set pieces in the league . He has the deadliest header . No one matches it in the Premier league .
Giroud needs a break? Bendtner being the best "header" in the league? Hold back on the christmas partying :haha:
Giroud just had 9 days off before his last match, he's a full time proffesional athlete, if he's already "jaded" or needs to "refresh his legs", he should get fined for not being in shape :D
His catastrophic misses against Chelsea prove it . Can you tell me seriously which player you think has a better header than Bendtner ? I am not his fan by the way .I'm just being fair .Quote:
Originally Posted by JonasTC
Alpha, if I didn't know better I'd say you are on the wind up.
The only thing Bendtner is the best at is being a muppet. The guy is not the answer to anything, we got away with it against Hull because they're pure shit. If he was actually a viable option then Giroud wouldn't have been flogged to death.
Wenget knows full well he dropped a clanger with the search for a striker in the summer, Bendtner is only an Arsenal player in name, as soon as the opportunity to sell him comes up he will be gone.
We'll be lucky to even get shop window performances out of him he's that poor.
If we fail to beat west ham, it's all over. Top 4 at best. Wenger needs a striker in early, I live in hope.
My prediction 1-3
Can't see us scoring more than one. It is up to the defense. 0-1.
0-4
1-2
Agreed, Bendtner is probably the best header of a ball in the league and our best finisher too when he's on form. Which is never.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Arsenal team to play West Ham:
Szczesny,
Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs,
Arteta, Ramsey,
Cazorla, Ozil, Walcott,
Giroud
Verm captaining. He's been decent so far.
West Ham team to play Arsenal:
Adrian, O'Brien, Tomkins, Collins, McCartney, Jarvis, Nolan, J Cole, Noble, Diame, C Cole
Wonderful.
No Jussi to pull off save after save. :popcorn:
If you ever needed proof that narratives are followed blindly by braindead pundits, McManaman just informed us that City and Chelsea's amazing squads have led to them being currently "top of the pile".
Dear god.
0-3
Ozil hattrick
McManaman advocating West Ham kicking us, Urrrrrrrrrzil in particular.
What a man.
Fat Sam managing Real Madrid. :lol:
I want it to happen.
Phil Dowd the ref. Fuck sake.
Come on Arsenal. :bow:
Jarvis. :lol:
Pub team touch.
Come on Arsenal!
Well done Sajma.
Theo. :(
Stay onside!
:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by milla
Eek. Not greatly defending from that free-kick, at least initially.