Been advocating the extra midfielder for ages as the wide players just don’t cut it. Leave them on the bench for later in the game. May be Werner and son up top v lenglet.
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I think Bentancur would be better as an impact sub after the starters tire a bit
By this reckoning when we beat City away with Conte we should have won the league.
Jeez Louise. Someone predicts we won't win a game and pandemonium ensues.
Our form and our record against Emery is why this is my prediction.
As I said at the beginning, I hope to be wrong and we pick up 3 points.
Pandemonium?? You didn’t even get 1 disagree!
Their current home form has been less than stellar. Our away form similar though.
But I think this will come down to good old fashioned cajones and who “wants it” more and deals with the pressure. It’s got that type of feel to it.
That Matty Cash tackle is going to come back and bite them on their Brummie posterior IMO.
BUT
You are right. They could win. Or it could be a draw.
Hardly pandemonium though, a few people have slightly disagreed with you.
I think when you get 10 disagrees then you are beginning to cause a stir.
I think since the Liverpool game they are overcompensating because in the eyes of the footballing world we shouldn't have had those three points.
We know that refs do this because if you remember the infamous Mike Dean incident where he appeared to celebrate one of our goals because he was chuffed that he had played a great advantage. He got raked over the coals afterwards and then everytime he reffed us from then on we got absolutley fuck all as he was trying to prove he wasn't a Spurs fan.
I said after the Liverpool game that it would come back to bite us and I also said that Liverpool would get everything moving forwards. They've easily made those 3 points back in favourable decisions and then some.
Meanwhile we are getting shafted.
I don't remember another season where we've gotten so little from officials, usually we get a few things go in our favour due to being in the big four club but not this season.
Hopefully it doesn't roll over into next season as well.
Why not change it?
We were fucking awful until Ange changed it against Palace.
I’d play Sarr for Bentancur and Porro for Royal. Keep Johnson on the bench because his pace later on could really hurt them.
I have no real worries about this game. The game at home we played some of the best stuff we’ve played all season and the goals we gave away were due to who we had playing centre back. I can see us scoring quite freely in this one with how they play. We won’t have to try and grind them down because they’ll actually try play the game correctly and come at us.
4-1 to us. Sonny and Werner to have a field day with all that space to run into. Having Porro fit is massive for us because he can play those passes in behind for runners. Madders will be a big player on Sunday too.
I have no real worries about this game. The game at home we played some of the best stuff we’ve played all season and the goals we gave away were due to who we had playing centre back. I can see us scoring quite freely in this one with how they play. We won’t have to try and grind them down because they’ll actually try play the game correctly and come at us.
4-1 to us. Sonny and Werner to have a field day with all that space to run into. Having Porro fit is massive for us because he can play those passes in behind for runners. Madders will be a big player on Sunday too.
If Porro unavailable I'd be inclined to play Sarr at RB over Royal considering the positions our fullbacks are directed to take up...
Would allow us to really dominate the midfield with Bentancur, Bissouma, Maddison, and Sarr all in there...
Still leaves PEH, Skipp, GLC as cm cover on the bench.
I’m all for playing a midfielder there but more so at home against the likes of a Palace,Brentford and Burnley where we know they won’t come after us. Villa will and would expose that more.
Good little player though. Far better than McTominay who seems to get a lot more praise just because he gets on the end of things now and again but is quite useless 90% of the time.
Royal was one of our better players against Palace. He consistently won the ball all over the right side of the pitch and was hugely involved in the first and second goals.
It's further ahead of him we should all be asking questions of.
Fucking hell, when you read that, I defy ANY of the top 4 to take ANY of their KEY players out of the team and NOT struggle...
Man City struggled without De Bruyne & Haãaālañd,
Liverpool had to rely on Klopps Kids ™®© Liverpool FC
What are our like for like players at Woolwich...?
Van de Ven - Ben Orange/White?
Romero - Gabriel?
Maddison - Sakha?
Bissouma - Rice?
Bentancur - Ødëgaãaāard?
Imagine that lot NOT playing for them for the last half dozen games...?
Would it have affected them? FUCK yes it would!
Whatever cryogenically formed infant sperm Arteta injected into them during their 'warn weather training' cult retreat trip in January clearly worked!
I just wish Ange would resort to the dark arts... 'cos it's clearly doing SOMETHING for ArseAnal!
What are the odds he has the game of his life, and we either wonder what we were missing, or put in a cheeky bid in the Summer?
It'll keep happening until Liverpool win the title, or we get relegated...
Hopefully it's the first one!
Hope the ref has an eye out for McGinn shoving his fat arse into Vicario at corners.