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.
Raya made a crucial touch on that baseline cross, as there appeared to be an unmarked forward waiting on it just behind
Sorloth went full-Havertz there…holy shit
Atletico are really poor they’d be mid table in the PL at best.
If Diego had his way Sorloth would be finding his own way home
TRVL
Can you imagine a manager banning a player from the team coach / flight home!
If we win today, we will have 4 games. Mikel can win all 4 and become a club legend. PL trophy after 22 years, CL trophy for the first time in history. On the other hand, we may fuck up and I will ask his head.
What an excitingly horrible place to be in for a fan; not good for my heart.
#COYG
Also, Odegaard is shite.
Marc—they’re certainly not a poor side, but they do have their obvious deficiencies…if I had to guess they would sit just above Villa in the PL, with Diego at the helm
PL is already boring with Pep and Mikel football. Lets not think about bringing Simeone here :))
If you are thinking about it, I demand Mourinho.
Ambarish—easy on the legendary chatter…now us winning some major hardware in spite of the manager would be the stuff of legends
Horrible horrible cunt
Get back into your box.
Cunt of cunts
hopefully our 2nd venture won’t resemble our first…that early sending off still bothers the fuck out of me to this day
I kind of hope that Bayern make it, as I think they’re the easier team to face in a one-off, both from a managerial standpoint and the fact that they have a couple key injury concerns
makes it
Just for the atmosphere generated in the Emirates Stadium the fans deserve see Arsenal being in the final. After 220 games played in the CL without winning it ever makes the point of Arsenal in the final. But either Bayern or PSG will show Cunteta up for what he is, the NEARLY man. I hope that neither PSG or Bayern make it weird and embarrass the players but rather leave no doubt that if we loose the final it is on Cunteta.
There seems to be an element of disappointment on here that Arteta’s Arsenal has reached the final which comes as no surprise.
Atletico came into this match tonight having rested their starting 11 and it started to tell around the 60 minute mark as we were starting to tire.
The biggest surprise for me was simione subbing Alvarez and greisman after the hour mark as Alvarez especially was starting to dictate the game and greisman always looked a threat, once they went off Atletico lost their way and I thought we looked quite comfortable other than a couple of occasions.
Arsenal are back to being mean at the back , conceded one goal in 4 games and that was a dodgy penalty away to atletico.
Special mention to gyokeres who was immense and was a handful all night
there’s several players whom I’m incredibly pumped about them getting their chance on the biggest of stages, like Saka, Gabs, Saliba, Marts, Eze, Rice and Raya
Marc on skelly starting
“You can only assume either Zubi’s carrying a knock or Arteta’s prioritising the league.”
I think I’ll have a look back at more pre match comments to understand what an uneducated bunch we have on here when it comes to commenting on the game.
Arteta prioritising the league ahead of reaching a champions league final will go down as a LIR classic ..
Killjoy
“Starting line up has MLS in it with Zubi on the bench. Why? It is Arteta Pep’s gimp who chooses the starting XI.”
A great night at the Ems!
After Griezman and Alavarez went off, AM had no clue, proper rabbits in headlights. We started to bully them a little. Gyok, I have no idea, once we started to hit him long their defence was panicking.
The atmosphere was charged from the off and kept on going. We rightly gave Tets his song at the end. He deserves it. First UCL final in 20 years kids, enjoy it.
A most agreeable evening. 4 more games to go. And a route to Budapest to work out somehow.
It’s not scientific, but a straw poll of proper supporters suggests we’re happy the way this season’s going. For some reason people on here appear put out. As I’ve advised our resident role players many times, if you cheer for the oppo v us, you’ll end up disappointed more often than not.
Fartso, you’ve never been to the Marshes. You don’t fool me you online fantasist.
I hope you had a shit evening.