Of course I am pretty excited for the North London Derby tomorrow at Shite Hart Lane, hence the title. To make it more interesting, Manchester United has just beaten City 2-1 at Old Trafford. I have never been happy in my life seeing United win except for today. Not letting City have those 3 points means there will a minimum of 5 points difference after tomorrow’s North London Derby. I am pretty confident we gonna improve that point difference to 8 f*king points!
We need to win tomorrow and we will! We are in some great form, Spu*s have been shit and ESR is back. A backline of White, Gabriel, Saliba and Zinchenko.. fully fit midfield of Partey and Xhaka and the front 4 of Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli and Eddie will going to be too much for the Tottenham. Our Captain, Martin, has won the Premier League Player Of The Month and Mikel, the manager of the month for Nov/Dec; Saka and Martinelli has been high on confidence and playing some of the best football of their life; Eddie has been scoring and didn’t let us miss Jesus till now. I’m sure they would be buzzing for a North London Derby and I’m sure they all want to score tomorrow.
On top of that, we will have ESR on bench, who comes as a sub and makes an instant impact. We have a fully fit Tomiyasu and Tierney in case we need them. Midfield has been a concern but I am not in a mood to complain today.
There are couple of things to worry. We haven’t won against Spu*s in our last 8 PL games at Sh*te Hart Lane, having lost 6 and sharing points on other 2 occasions. We need to change that. The other concerning thing is the refereeing and Kane/Son going down like they love the smell of the grass. If you are an Arsenal fan, you know at some point there will a tiny touch from one of our players, a dive from Kane or Son and Referee pointing to the spot. VAR will not find it important to take a look, or even if they do, they will use only couple of angles which lets the penalty stand and they score. Unfortunately, that’s what happens!
Irrespective of it, I am excited for the Derby. A 4.30 PM start for our UK readers (10 PM Indian Standard Time) is a perfect way to end weekend with a win and 8 point lead at the top.
Lets do it, lets thrash them! Lets go for the league.
Ambarish
Yesterday for ManU first goal, Rashford was in offside position but chased the ball , feinted , didn’t touch it as Bruno poked it in from behind. He did not touch it , if City players let him be chasing behind the ball , think the ruse is not offside
Evening guys agree with you all, especially if Mudryk has gone to the Chavs. This is where we lack ambition from the club.
Even if we win tonight, 4th isn’t certain; look at last season. Arteta is throwing the dice again because he’s made the same mistakes as last season, only we had our purple patch early this season.
I’ll wait until Feb 1st before making a prediction to see whether we are indeed covered in MF and Attack. If we bring no credible starting 11 additions, I expect us to drop points through injuries and tiredness.
What am I hoping for tonight? That we play Brighton ball after watching them last night make L’pool look like a Championship side.
Anyone disagree with me?
As for Mudryk, it’s his choice and Arteta’s lure was obviously not strong enough. Can’t blame Edu if his been given a ceiling to adhere to. Arteta’s more to blame for not having another player well along in negotiations we can tie up by the weekend!
Point is KSE obviously don’t trust Arteta enough after some disappointing buys. Funny how Brighton can do it isn’t it?
I’m sticking my 1:3 win as we’ll be fresh and hungry.
Anyone else got a prediction?
1-2 for me, with both Martinelli and Eddie on scoresheet.
Kin ell lads. Good to see the traffic going up on here. Got a feeling its going to be a busy old afternoon. I solemnly promise not to make any in game predictions if we’re winning Marc. 😶
Got half an eye on the barcodes v one f in Fulham game. What the fuck did Tets do to Willian? Away from N7, he almost looks back to his Chelsea form (and about 10 kg lighter). Bernie also looking the part. That’s two careers that the basque bantamweight nearly fucked – another (Gunnerdouzi) might back to haunt him soon.
Chelsea v Crystal Palace first half was a good watch. Can we not try for Zaha? He would be a great addition considering he is in his last year of contract and we can get him for cheap!
2 – nil win for me. Just need to be resolute, patient and disciplined and our superior players and their technical ability will tell. He’ll never manage it in a month of Sundays but our immaculately coiffeured manager needs to screw his nut and not start the histrionics. I’d like to see Eddie quietly and angelically draw that mad bastard Romero into an early yellow and maybe a red. It’s a rugby term but we need to be taking the ball into contact with them in the right places on the field. GM and BS please take note.
Almunia – you’re more of a scholar of the game than me. When you see their line up, I’d be interested in your or anyone else’s insight.
Tony – give little pumpkin a friendly and lucky scratch from me! It might be the difference maker. Prayers mats out everyone!
Usual line up as expected, so will there be a Xhaka moment? Would have preferred ESR instead of Xhaka.
K’phobe should be a cracker, but Xhaka always worries me.
I wholeheartedly believe that this affair will be decided by MA’s willingness to commit more men in the box, considering the Spurs capacity for generating chances on the counter….of course, this wouldn’t be such a concern if we had found a more viable midfield option than Xhaka, as he can’t logically play in more advanced positions and still provide the requisite amount of defensive cover…persoanlly, I would love to see ESR playing more centrally so that the Spurs can’t double-team our wide side players on a regular basis, as it’s clear there’s a blueprint out there right now…of course, this doesn’t mean that we can’t win the day by staying the course, but it would be savvy on our parts to force opposing defences to play more honestly by displaying some more directness in our play at times
Stepping out to an NLD….. Wearing pink bomber jackets. Fuck me! They look like a group of male geriatrics on a field trip from a Miami retirement home. Twatty Pedro will be saying that they look really smart. GG would have told Adidas to fuck off.
COY rip roaring reds.
Lisping Arry’s first unpunished push of the day. Within 20 fucking seconds
Llorissaynomore
boy do we need a player or two who can score from distance….maybe that was one of the reasons why we paid above the number for Vieira…I can remember a time when Xhaka would have never passed up an opportunity to have a go….of course, not while in our kit, so much, but now he will never miss a chance to pass to someone in a less advantageous position
For me the problem is with the recruiting department. At first it was all defensive signings and we screamed for attackers. Look at who has been recruited and signed in the attack under Edu & Tets? Mudryk was available on the cheap in the summer but it didn’t happen. I am always looking at Napoli who let their players leave if the wage demand is too high or they are rotating their squad very smartly, but that requires eyes on the front line and decent scouts. To me we don’t have that we rather deal with super agents.
Got to love Lloris.
Arsenal up the Spore arse 1-0
Saka
Lovely.