Can see this going to extra time and killing all the players, making them ready for the mauling at Munich.
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Can see this going to extra time and killing all the players, making them ready for the mauling at Munich.
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I'm going to this.
This is a huge game, particularly now as we know we're unlikely to progress in the CL and fading in the league.
A win here will keep interest alive, a defeat would leave our season hanging on by the finest of threads and a poisonous atmosphere will ensue.
Oh and there's no extra time FY, goes to a replay if it's a draw.
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Lukaku is back annoyingly.
Replay?! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Oh dear lord, might as well. We are not winning the CL or the league anyway!
We have to win this - don't even care if we go to ET in a replay. The FA Cup is the only show in town now.
An obvious line up should be,
scezney
Sagna
Mert
Kos
Gibbs
Flamini
Rosicky
Cazorla
Oxlade
Sanogo
Gnabry
However Wenger will definitely go with his default eleven of,
Fabianski
Sagna
Mert
Kos
Gibbs
Arteta
Wilshere
Ozil
Podolski
Giroud
Cazorla
:gp:
Well, Oxlade has to play every game he can from now on. He's made a difference in every game he's played this season. A few of us noticed that he looked different in pre-season and his output on the pitch seems to confirm he's made a step up. Just a shame it had to be delayed by a bastard injury and couldn't coincide with Ramsey also having his breakout.
On the subject of Ramsey, come back please. :pray:
Wilshere and Rosicky are seemingly alternating between excellent and terrible performances. Cazorla, despite his goals, has been poor for the most part. He's probably been worse than the hounded Ozil. Giroud wasn't great against Stoke, but what can he do with no-one near him or running beyond to link up. He's just as much a victim of a lack of pace, runners and overall cohesive forward play as Ozil supposedly is. When we play quick football, he links up well and contributes.
Anyway, we have to play a strong team, which mainly means our first choice back five these days. And a balanced front six, which is a lottery with Wenget at the moment. Anything less than a win here would be criminal really. A mildly competent, non-corrupt referee would be welcome too.
Hopefully something like:
Fabianski
Sagna
Mertesacker
Koscielny
Gibbs
Arteta/Flamini
Rosicky
Ozil
Oxlade
Sanogo/Giroud/Podolski
Gnabry
Prediction: 2-1 (Oxlade, Koscielny).
Wenger may well throw this one in terms of the team selection and then hope for the best. Everton will be up for it, that's for sure. A negative approach to preserve energy may well have the opposite outcome. Depends what the stats package spits out I suppose.
International friendlies midweek. Arteta and Flamini to start I'd guess.
Our last chance to show some progress. Hard to call.
That's got to be a joke?Quote:
International friendlies midweek
When is this international so-called football going to be knocked on the head? Can you imagine any other sport allowing shit like this?
0-1 our attack is blunt. Sunderland were muck last week, and a Sunday league team would have beat them.
Tony?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralpheroo72
No, but cant see any reason to be positive. You think if we turn up the same way we did today, the result could go in our favour? I'd bet that Wegnet plays a weakened team for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Only realistic hope of a trophy this season and a win would take us to the semis so we should play our best team and really go for it.
The home game against them showe dus that we cannot start on the back foot, we need to go at em nice from the off like we did against bayern and set the tempo.
2-1 if we play properly, 0-2 if we play like we have all season.
Bar the odd decent performance v Sunderland and Liverpool we have been woeful since Xmas particularly away. Think we will win this but as city are in the cup and we wont play at home thereafter we wont win it.
I told you before, Tony the Tiger is off working on a new flavour of cereal FFS! :fury:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Yup I agree, we've been really lacklustre, no conviction and have scraped a lot of wins. We started to run out of steam in December and ever since then our form in terms of performance has been poor, eventually it was going to catch up with us, it has in the last few weeks and now we have another difficult run coming up and we're exhausted and totally out of form and heading for another collapse as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by pmakgreb
Yeah we certainly need to play well otherwise we will lose this game.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Its our only hope of a trophy, but IMO a distant hope seeing as City are still in the cup, I rate our chances of beating City at pretty much 0% TBH.
0%? :lol:
Yeah I know I thought it was overly optimistic too!Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
And it wasn't funny then either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Much like your attempted jokes then, hey look we have something in common :coffee:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
If you've ever seen football before you'll know that one poor result/performance does not necessarily mean the following game will go similarly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralpheroo72
3-0
Ozil hattrick
;)Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
:gp:Quote:
Originally Posted by She Wore A Red Ribbon
:ilt:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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Fabianski
Gibbs
Kosc
Merts
Sagna
Flamini
Rosicky
Cazorla
Ozil
Ox
Sanogo
Unfortunately I have watched football before, one other poor/result performance that springs to mind, was in the not too distant past e.g. Liverpool away. I would be more optimistic if the Stoke game was a blip, but it wasnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Well we got past Liverpool during this sequence of shite. Everton are nowhere near the same calibre of opponent.
You hit the nail on the head. 0-0 at home to Everton in the league was another bore fest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve French
It should be noted that it's no coincidence that our poor run of form has coincided with the emergence of fake yank as a match thread starter.
#freemastersplinter
I fancy us as it is pretty much all there is left for us. If you can't get it up for Beyonce you may as well be courting sheep. If you will excuse the analogy (as she is a married woman!).
I don't think there is quite the air of excitement and fairy dust surrounding Everton as there was earlier in the season either and I'd be amazed if the snuck into 4th and was never convinced they would to begin with.
Negro, whatchu talkin' bout? Bruv, all my recent match threads have been Vins for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeebus
I think we'll probably win this, I don't however think we'll win the cup, City winning the CC on Sunday will give them belief they can win this as well and they have a better team with genuine matchwinners, even when not playing well.
It's an early kick-off, so concentrating on 4th place it is <_<
Amazing what a billion quid can do for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
0-4 after 20 mins as well probably :(Quote:
Originally Posted by PGFC
They have genuine match winners some of the time. Toure was abject shit in that game until he swung a boot, nailed a do it 100 times score once fluke, and cunts like Jamie Redknapp whipped their knobs out and started thrashing and screaming. On other occasions though, their match winners have been conspicuously absent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
You say that but Wigan beat them last year, money doesn't always guarantee victory, heart and desire and sometimes luck earnt by stubborn defending and hard work triumphs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Football isn't always about money, sometimes it's about the collective and the will to win.