We are welcoming Man City at Home today. With United and Spurs hardly relevant these days, we had got a new enemy and MLS made sure to remove your doubts about it with his Haaland celebration after scoring one last season. Today – it’s going to be the continuation of that.
Pep has lost some of his gems recently and has been trying to fix it. He hasn’t find a solution yet, but even at his worst, he can find a way to win. We have got two tasks today, to not let him win and because we are going for the title, to make sure we walk out of the game with 3 points. If you can’t beat the City or Liverpool at home, you don’t expect to win the league.
I was furious last week when Mikel picked up a midfield of Merino, Zubimendi and Rice against Athelti. We won the game but it was too slow in the transition and it took an individual brilliance of Martinelli to break the deadlock. Mikel has chosen the same midfield again today, and that’s the Mourinho’s way of handling Pep. I can understand the feeling that not losing it today is important to keep the confidence running in boys, but it doesn’t mean I agree with it.
If you gonna be best, you gotta take out the best. You can’t do that by going all defensive. We have got Eze, who is a natural Odegaard’s replacement, we have Nwaneri who was kept and given a new contract for that very position and yet, we go with two and a half defensive midfielders if not three.
That’s bonkers!
Anyways, Saka and Martinelli are on bench with Eze. Again, seeing Trossard doesn’t make sense ahead of Marts. Against City, you want to create chaos and who’s better than the Brazillian for it?
Gyokeres retains his place, at least Mikel didn’t go for an injured Havertz ahead of him, because hey, not losing is more important that winning these days. Saliba makes his way back to the team, so hopefully we would be able to contain Haaland today.
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It’s still too early for the hype but with 5 wins in 5 games, Liverpool at rocking at the top. We need to be as close to them as possible because at some point, they will run out of the luck (like we did in the past couple times) and we would be able to capitalize it. City will eventually pick their 10 games to go unbeaten at some point in the season.
We are going in the game with some positives. We haven’t lost to City in our last 4 games winning 2 of them and they have lost both of the visits to Arsenal recently. Lets hope we add another win today to these stats.
A very short one today but I will be available during the game. Cheers
TRVL
And as if to reinforce your comment Pep yanks Haarland!
Marc—only a gutless idiot wouldn’t switch Noni to the left when Saka came on, especially knowing that Eze was in the midfield…Noni was the best player out there in the first half
TRVL
I’m not sure Madueke is anywhere near the same player on the left.
he’s squirming like a bitch…even Haaland said so, with his mouth covered of course…they deserve to lose or it might reinforce that losers mentaility message to his former cone boy
Marc—he’s clearly not, but his presence would force the defence into spreading, which would open up things for Eze…sometimes it’s about the appearance of danger
Marts coming for 10 full minutes. He must score a hattrick now and win us the game.
What a shite manager we got. He should have been on the pitch at 65th minute.
TRVL
Trossard hasn’t done much – a change on the left is more than reasonable its not as if we don’t have options.
O Reilly is another cunt.
Has Trossard got hold of pictures of Arteta having sex with a Shetland Pony? Because I can’t see why he wouldn’t be subbed.
Marc
That be pointless – he wouldn’t be able to reach.
Pep might end this one in MA style, with 8+ defenders on the fucking pitch…if we lose to this mess of a side MA deserves to hear it from the fans
I don’t understand these 80th minutes unless you are winning already and want to give those minutes to kids. If it was important, it should have been made at 63rd minute kike Wenger used to do.
I missed you KP 🤣
Kroenke
It’s Arteta’s little pony!
Stale turgid depressing dog shit. This team is going to win fuck all.
the Pony was made in a lab with MA’s specs in mind, so it’s midget-like and pinky-tight
To think we will fuck all is a great overstatement.
Kroenke
You can’t expect miracles after 6 years and a billion quid.
Saka’s on the left now, so why not do so earlier when Noni was still available
And Arteta hates Martinelli.
SACK THE CUNT.
that’s what Pep deserves, not so much us