Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. Football is back and so am I. The 10 days break felt like an eternity without Premier League football but at least this game is not cancelled (yay!).
The mighty Gods do not like us playing Brentford at the Community Stadium though, we have lost 5 of our six games and lost 2-0 when we last played against them at their home. It’s going to be a very tough game, Brentford are a very drilled and disciplined team who will test our patience and game plan today.
Team News
Team News is out.
We have some changes in our starting XI. Kieran Tierney starts in place of Zinchenko, who has made himself an important player in Arteta’s system. Thomas Partey is back and is pairing with Xhaka in the midfield.
Fabio Vieira gets a start in place of Odegaard, Saka and Martinelli on the opposite wings with Gabriel Jesus leading the line.
Odegaard apparently has some calf problems, and it would be interesting to see Vieira in his first Premier League start. Hope he lives up to the expection but there’s a certainly a player there.
One thing I hate about today, is Xhaka wearing the arm band. The disrespect he had shown few seasons back was enough for me to not see him lead again, but if we win today and he plays like he has done this season, I will not complain (only for today).
Since we last played, there has been some changes to the table. Man City and Spu*s sits above us but if we win today, that would be enough to get back to the top – where we belong. I know, Arsene feels the same and great minds think alike lol.
Right, a very short one today, only about 5 min left for the game. Hope it’s a sunny day out their in London, enjoy your pints and a good game where we beat the bees 4-0.
COYG and fu*k the Spu*s.
Damn we should have been ahead within 90sec. What a miss from Martinelli.
How’s that for the first 😉 We need 3 more
The Gods are helpless when we have Jesus on our side.
Vieira arrives with a beautiful goal but referee has had enough of Arsenal and decided to give a free kick to Brentford which shouldn’t have been given. Anyways, we remain 3-0 up.
Sir Gooner of Shrewsbury here. Was driving during the game but just checked in to enjoy the scoreline. I asked Ms K to check the score while we were driving. She said Bees were winning 2-0. It turns out she googled and got last year’s result! So finding out it was a win made it just that bit sweeter.
Sorry, make that Lady Kroenkephobe…
Talk about a completely opposite outing from our away affair last season, when we were outmanaged and outplayed by this newly promoted club…there’s no doubt that that the return of Partey, the continued quality contributions of Saliba and the fact that we finally had someone in the middle of the park both willing and able to attack more directly, in Vieira, were the biggest contributing factors in this rather surprisingly simplistic 3-0 victory…it does make me wonder what could be on offer if we could deploy a healthy ESR in the more advanced Xhaka role, with Vieira playing a similar role to this past weekend, as this would undoubtedly put the kibosh on Jesus occupying such deep positions so often and likewise allow whomever was playing at RB to make some more overlapping runs, so as to provide Saka with the requisite amount of protection he so desperately needs and deserves…that said, good teams know how to make simple work of ill-prepared and/or underperforming squads, which thankfully has occurred on several occasions thus far this season…in the past, we’ve tripped over our collective dicks far too often when presented with a sliver platter affair, so this is a much appreciated current trend…onwards and upwards
TRVL
I’d really like to see us get back to starting with Tomi at RB – White can do a job there but he’s a CB. The only reason he’s starting is because Arteta can’t drop Saliba from CB and won’t drop a player he overpaid for.
PC died on Thursday, no data loss but bookmarks and program installations. What an unexpected waste of time. Besides backups of the System drive I learned backup your bookmarks in regular intervals.
To the football, the great interlul is here and with the Nations League glorified friendlies upon us. Time to check and avoid the clickbait merchants but Arsenal at the top of the table at the break does paint a pretty picture.
Am probably way behind the rest of you in becoming aware of Michael Sheen’s speech on ‘A league of their own’ but I have to say I’m a sucker for a rousing emotional plea. Tell you what Kroenkephobe, if this doesn’t challenge your allegiances then nothing will. It’s easy for me,no Ireland in the WC meant I was shouting for Wales anyway,but put this on before the game and benevolent neutrality becomes partisan support. For anyone who hasn’t seen it enjoy.
https://twitter.com/aloto/status/1568287344809365513?s=24
I’m a rootin and a tootin for Cymru, basically because the tartan army are absent again. Not losing to ingerland in Qatar would send shock waves across the UK. I strongly doubt it’ll happen of course.
Cardiff fans adapt the ‘football’s coming home’ tune every time they play an English team (their only home based opposition is Swansea which is an altogether different rivalry) . They suck opposing fans in by singing its coming home in the first verse, only to change it to England’s fucked it up.
My other half worships Michael Sheen. I told her about the Damned United film but she won’t even try it because it’s about football. Admirable, enviable and unwavering antipathy towards football. I’ve seen his soliloquy and I have to say it kind of irked me rather than roused me. He’s doing it on purpose of course but he rather comes across as a Welsh self-parody with the wavering voice and the fake emotion. Still, he’s a far better cheerleader than any ingerland fans who come out of the woodwork every couple of years.
My daughter is going to the NLD on Saturday with her mate and her mate’s dad. She’s thrilled. She earnestly told me she’s either going to be clad in the new pink Jersey, or one of my old ones from the 80s or 90s. I feel a bit crap about not being there but I’m not registered.
David Beckham is the worst kind of money grubber who would whore himself out for a few quid. ‘David Beckham’s stopover in Qatar’ as the ad on here suggests… Sports- swashing, immoral, greedy fucker.