The Brighton game was one to forget and though I was a bit disappointed losing 3-1 at Home, I don’t care much when we have the League to fight for. I don’t think even Arteta cared, starting with Hein and Marquinhos. Frankly, we can’t fight on all fronts, Europa and League should be our priorities!
Only positive was Eddie’s goal. We need him to get back to his confident self and we need him to score when given a chance. With two games a week, he will get plenty of it. There were a lot of negatives but hey, Brighton are no mugs and we were literally playing with our B team. If you ask me if it’s a given win with our first playing XI against Brighton, it’s not.
Coming to the important part, we are playing our last game against Wolves away before the World Cup. A win today would mean we finish top of the table irrespective of what happens with City v Brentford (1-1 currently at half time).
Irrespective of the controversy surrounding the hosts, I love World Cup. We don’t qualify as a country, but the trio Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho of 2003 introduced me to the world football. It would be just fucking brilliant watching this years’ knowing Arsenal is sitting top of the league after 14 games. What else do you need. Also, it’s cruel that people have died for the only purpose of entertainment. I am no politician and I don’t care about their belief about a dozen things media houses are highlighting, everyone to their own, but at the end, we must understand that SPORTS are for ENTERTAINMENT.
Sorry, back to Arsenal.
We were able to win against Wolves last year both home and away. They are in a relegation fight at the moment, and if we play the way we have till now, there is no reason we shouldn’t return with three very important points. I doubt Arteta is going to make any changes to his preferred playing XI, and I’m sure Gabriel Jesus will have a point to make before he joins Brazil for the World Cup.
We don’t have any injuries at the moment bar Emile Smith Rowe.
I’m expecting a 3-0 win for the boys, Martinelli and Jesus on the scoresheet. Any guesses? Let us know in the comments!
Marc
Agreed. He’s done everything but score in the past few weeks. Like you, I don’t think it’s a serious problem and it evidently isn’t affecting the others. I couldn’t care less if he’s in the Brazil team, but training around the likes of their players will surely benefit him.
Kroenke
From an Arsenal point of view you’d prefer all of our players to have a month off but appearing at the world cup is an ambition that drives top players to be better so if it makes them happy you want them there.
Ultimately we can only hope that the awarding of the world cup to Qatar finally makes the world of football stand up and say no more.
Marc/KPhobe
I think differently Marc if we had a month off even with games as in pre season, I think we could go off the boil and not start as well as we have done. When hopefully our lads come back full of great experiences, they should be a source of energy and experience for the squad.
Injuries are the only worry.
New post.