Gunners at home, 21 gun salute or blown out of the water: H Arsenal 09:12:19 20:00

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  • HamstewHamstew
    This could go either way imo. I doubt either of us will thrash the other.
  • epsom_bubblesepsom_bubbles
    Aslef. With a choice berween us and City, I think they would more likely accept a tonking from City and turn out their best players to get the West Ham gift that we seem to give struggling teams. How generous are we?. :whistle:
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited December 2019
    Martin
    Fredericks - Balbuena - Ogbonna - Masuaku
    Noble - Rice
    Fornals - Antonio - Anderson
    Haller

    Roberto, Diop, Cresswell, Snodgrass, Holland, Yarmolenko, Ajeti
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Lukerz, on the "other games this weekend thread" you said

    See Shelvey still in good form
    Still annoyed we didn’t get him in the summer
    Very solid PL CM

    :ok:
    -----------------------------------
    And then I see that you've got Noble alongside Rice.
    Are you as disappointed as I am that we don't seem to have an alternative to him, the grandfather of sideways, backwards passing. It's like he's infected the whole team with this way of playing. I know there are the odd exceptions to this but by and large he's always been the same. I groan whenever I see his name on the teamsheet.
  • imagelostimagelost
    BubblesNeverDies said:

    Lukerz, on the "other games this weekend thread" you said

    See Shelvey still in good form
    Still annoyed we didn’t get him in the summer
    Very solid PL CM

    :ok:
    -----------------------------------
    And then I see that you've got Noble alongside Rice.
    Are you as disappointed as I am that we don't seem to have an alternative to him, the grandfather of sideways, backwards passing. It's like he's infected the whole team with this way of playing. I know there are the odd exceptions to this but by and large he's always been the same. I groan whenever I see his name on the teamsheet.

    Interesting thought
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    edited December 2019
    Yeh, and the alternative...enter the field Carlos Sanchez :doh: :doh: :doh: :lol:
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Jay, as I said, we don't have any alternative. :weep:
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    edited December 2019
    exactly Bubbles, it's not great....& even somewhat more worrying is that our clued up manager sees fit to move Declan to CB & bring on Carlos, rather than Diop, something deepdown is very wrong at the moment IMO.
  • imagelostimagelost
    Great
    We pantz
  • imagelostimagelost
    Song


    We 3 kings of orant are

    One in a taxi

    One I in a car

    One on a scooter bipping his hooter following beyond the starz
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Pellegrini vs Ljungberg, manager vs manager

    MP's managerial career

    Universidad Católica
    Copa Chile: 1995
    Copa Interamericana: 1994

    LDU Quito
    Serie A: 1999

    San Lorenzo
    Primera División: 2000–01
    Copa Mercosur: 2001

    River Plate
    Primera División: 2002–03

    Villarreal
    UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2004[65]

    Manchester City
    Premier League: 2013–14[66]
    Football League Cup: 2013–14, 2015–16


    Freddie Ljungberg managerial career
    2016–2017 Arsenal U15
    2017 VfL Wolfsburg (assistant)
    2018–2019 Arsenal U23
    2019 Arsenal (assistant)
    2019– Arsenal (interim)


    Pelligrini's experience must surely prevail, shouldn't it? :whistle:
    What could possibly go wrong? :biggrin:
  • imagelostimagelost
    Horses for courses,,
    Managing the team and
    The egos in the team
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    epsom_bubbles said:

    Aslef. With a choice berween us and City, I think they would more likely accept a tonking from City and turn out their best players to get the West Ham gift that we seem to give struggling teams. How generous are we?. :whistle:

    I don't think City are quite as worrying a prospect as they once were after losing at home to Man U and drawing away at Newcastle.
    jay_in_cpt said:

    exactly Bubbles, it's not great....& even somewhat more worrying is that our clued up manager sees fit to move Declan to CB & bring on Carlos, rather than Diop, something deepdown is very wrong at the moment IMO.

    He's not actually done that, he took Diop off and brought Sanchez on against Spurs when we were 3-0 down because he'd been booked. Diop was banned for Chelsea and he wasn't on the bench for Wolves because according to Ex "it was felt we may need other options from the bench".
  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    Rumour is we are going two up front tonight we certainly need to try and support Haller maybe Antonio causing havoc and stretching their defence will give him more opportunity to show us what he is capable of. :hmm:
  • stevesteve
    Game day...…. COYI ….sure hope we do play 2 up front
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    PLF - I sincerely hope so
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    If i don't see the players putting in a shift like the Brighton players did midweek against Arsenal. (plus we are at home)

    Then the manager does not have the coaching skills equipped to deal with a premier league team and should resign as a result imo.
  • DeanscaleshammerDeanscaleshammer
    edited December 2019
    On 24th September I was daft enough to say:

    If we finish this season in the top 8 with no relegation worries at any stage I'd consider that good progress for us.

    To avoid the relegation worries we need points from this one imo. I am hoping Antonio can make this one because I think he does put in a shift which seems infectious.

    :pray:
  • stevesteve
    Don't like the look of our team for tonight...... :doh: sorry jumped the gun force of habit ,not even out yet :doh: :
  • LukerzLukerz
    Team is:

    Martin
    Fredericks - Balbuena- Ogbonna - Cresswell
    Noble - Rice
    Snodgrass - Anderson - Fornals
    Antonio
  • stevesteve
    Dont like that :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
  • HamstewHamstew
    edited December 2019
    One up to again. Oh joy! Nice to see Holland on the bench.
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    The bench looks void of any creativity to me
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Our subs are Roberto (GK), Zabaleta, Diop, Sanchez, Masuaku, Holland, Haller

    No Yarmolenko?

    Leno
    Bellerin, Sokratis, Chambers, Tierney,
    Torreira, Xhaka,
    Pepe, Ozil, Martinelli
    Aubameyang (c)

    Subs: Martinez (G), Luiz, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Saka, Nelson, Lacazette

    Aubameyang is going to be a tougher challenge than Giroud, would have preferred Diop to Balbuena but at least he's on the bench.
  • McHammerMcHammer

  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    On the same day Ajeti does a piece on the OS saying he can rise to the challenge he is dropped from the squad entirely
  • HamstewHamstew
    If you could all keep it down whilst I focus on their Liverpool analysis that would be great.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    Not feeling confident, guess that's no suprise to many here, consolation if I'm right the manager might be history, saying that I still hope I'm wrong & he can pull things together, not sure it'll happen, but none the less COYI
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Once again, I turn on to watch West Ham playing on the Monday Night football and all I an see is analysis, which has already been done to death over the weekend, of every other team. I'm sure Arsenal and West Ham fans couldn't care less. Really annoys me! :angry:
  • LukerzLukerz
    Antonio playing makes us a 10 times a better side than we were in midweek

    Just need to keep him fit

    Has come such a long way under Pelle & I hold my hands up as I didn’t think he had it in him to improve as much as he has
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