Manchester City v Arsenal, 20:00 BST (26/04, BT Sport)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We've lost god knows how many games in a row to Man City, they haven't lost on a Wednesday in the league in god knows how long.

[Marc Overmars]

Could possibly be our greatest ever PL result if we won.

I don’t think there is a human being alive who can make a compelling case for us taking 3 points though.

Personally I’m expecting a very heavy loss but meh, you got to live in hope I guess.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hope they send an emergency alert out if we are winning this one going in to injury time.

[Mac76]

6-0 Haaland double hatter

[HCZ_Reborn]

Had we got the extra four points we should have got against West Ham and Southampton I’d be extremely nervous about this game. I was shitting a brick before the Liverpool game. But not nervous at all now, the expectations are minimal…if we lose and I think we will then the title although not mathematically over will be over (we would require City to lose one and draw one of their remaining fixtures whilst we would not be able to drop any more points)

I am half expecting a similar calamity to last season. But that said if Brentford can win at the Etihad so can we. To my mind the greatest Arsenal win in our premier league history was winning the title at Old Trafford (although more because of the symbolism…the game itself was actually a reasonably easy win they never looked like coming back into it when we went 1-0 up)
We can’t compare it to 26th May 1989 either because that was the last game of the season. We have five more to play after this.
I don’t think we will get hammered because no matter how poor we’ve been the last fortnight we haven’t lost a game. We’ve lost six games in all competition all season (City have lost that many albeit having played more games overall).

I’m going for 3-1 City

[Letters]

Agreed on all points.
I’m taking the “look up the result afterwards and tut” approach.
I play football on Wednesdays and a couple of weeks ago I was going to skip this week and watch, but not after the last few results. I will regret it if we win, but…we won’t.

[IBK]

Had we got the extra four points we should have got against West Ham and Southampton I’d be extremely nervous about this game. I was shitting a brick before the Liverpool game. But not nervous at all now, the expectations are minimal…if we lose and I think we will then the title although not mathematically over will be over (we would require City to lose one and draw one of their remaining fixtures whilst we would not be able to drop any more points)

I am half expecting a similar calamity to last season. But that said if Brentford can win at the Etihad so can we. To my mind the greatest Arsenal win in our premier league history was winning the title at Old Trafford (although more because of the symbolism…the game itself was actually a reasonably easy win they never looked like coming back into it when we went 1-0 up)
We can’t compare it to 26th May 1989 either because that was the last game of the season. We have five more to play after this.
I don’t think we will get hammered because no matter how poor we’ve been the last fortnight we haven’t lost a game. We’ve lost six games in all competition all season (City have lost that many albeit having played more games overall).

I’m going for 3-1 City

I'd go with your score prediction.

Disagree that Saliba's absence was Arteta's fault for playing him in the EL game though. That's captain hindsight. Given the time he was out during and after the WC he was actually one of our 'fresher' players and throwing the EL is something that I think would have sent the wrong message out. It didn't work well in the end but the injuries that we sustained were pure bad luck.

I've thought for a couple of weeks that trying to rush Saliba back for the Etihad was a mistake - even if he had been in training a couple of weeks ago the player hasn't been great in his first couple of games after a period out and I never expected him to make it. Saiba is one player - and our problems in recent weeks have been as much a collective loss of team composure as much as anything else.

I'm with you that the league has gone. The priority on Wednesday is to avoid a morale-sapping drubbing. We need to avoid a hangover that lasts into what will be an even more challenging season next time in order to kick on from this one.