Right, we are out of Carabao Cup and FA Cup, but not everything is lost. We are 11 points clear of Man City in Premier League and we can take that lead to 12 points if we beat Bournemouth today. City do have 2 games in hand, but if they win both, we will still have a 6 point lead with only 6 games left for the season. In Champions League, we have a 1-0 advantage against Sporting and the second leg is at home. If we managed to get at least a draw, we will be playing Atletico (most likely) in the semi finals. I would rather play Atletico than Flick’s Barcelona.
The chance of lifting a trophy is still a possibility. And a win today will improve that possibility even more. Bournemouth are sitting in the bottom half of the table, and I hope we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot today.
Playing XI is out and I still don’t understand what has gotten into Arteta’s mind.
Why is Martinelli in the playing XI when you have Hincapie available. It’s not the time to be concerned about the injuries, because a loss in any of the games could mean a title. I’m OK with rest of the selection, Eze could have played ahead of Havertz but I’m not sure how much of his fitness is back.
I don’t understand the fact that we spend more than 250m on midfielders (Rice, Zubimendi, Norgaard, Havertz, Odegaard) and yet, we always have 2 DM-profile players and an option to choose from a non-performing Odegaard with a out-of-form Havertz. Anyway, that shouldn’t be a problem for a team sitting on 1st, playing against a bottom half team I suppose.
We need to win today. Man City has to visit Chelsea tomorrow and though I don’t have much confidence in Chelsea beating them, anything can happen. In last 3 seasons, we have always been the favorites going into last 7-8 games but have given it away. There are 7 games left, and 7 test of whether we have learned something over the years.
Right, game starts in an hour. See ya.
A strong start is the order of the day against this lot, otherwise they’ll start to create their own chances. I don’t think they’ll sit back, unless the get ahead. I think we’ll have enough as long as we match their energy and get control of midfield. MLS needs to put in a strong defensive display. 2 nil.
Don’t tell me Ode’s injured again? Hasn’t even made the bench.
At this point (before we play today and assuming we win) if City win their next 2 matches (Chelsea and beat us next week) its going to be a dogfight. We come away with a draw or better away at City and it should be done.
Really ordinary start.
Shitfest started…
As predicted. We drop off, lose focus and concede.
Article on the BBC website about the run in – April is historically Pep’s best month and Arteta’s worse!
Too early to give up though. We can still win this.
Martinelli should seriously consider keeping is head up for 1 sec / minute.
atleast a sec / minute
Havertz playing exceptionally poorly so far. Can’t keep the ball
Bournemouth are a decent footballing team – its great to see a smaller club showing that it can be done right.
Hopefully we’ll never see the likes of Allardyce and Pulis again.
We’re getting a lot of soft decisions go our way.
There’s some hope…
If that pen was given against us we’d go mental.
KEEP FUCKING GOING AT THEM. LIKE POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS.
Great pen btw.
1-1. We still need to score one to not drop points.
That should have been a foul. Near the box.
@Marc – ref is in general shite. Also, he is not an arsenal fan so it’s his incompetence, not favoritism.
I thought that was a foul against Gyokeres. Giving a corner the ref is balancing the earlier 2 decisions against Bournemouth
And what do we do? Start passing like idiots and bottling out of 50-50s. Arteta is a fucking cunt for failing to capitalise when we scored.
Hoopah. It was a foul I agree. And possible last man challenge therefore a red card.