...Well somebody had to do it. Neither Arsenal or City have lived up to expectations this season and both sets of players owe themselves and their managers a performance today. ARSENAL TEAM NEWS Starting XI: Cech, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, Elneny, Ramsey, Welbeck, Iwobi, Sanchez, Giroud. Subs: Gibbs, Wilshere, Ospina, Walcott, Cazorla, Campbell, Coquelin. MAN CITY TEAM NEWS Starting XI: Hart, Sagna, Mangala, Otamendi, Clichy, Navas, Fernando, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Iheanacho, Aguero. Subs: Sterling, Caballero, Bony, Delph, Demichelis, Toure, Tasende. Spuds have just lost to Southampton so a win today could possibly see us beat them to a 2nd place league finish.
Great to see Cazorla back in the squad. Let's hope we can get 3 points today and then better the Spuds result next week.
Our defending has been shocking so far. Need to get much tighter and close players down, we're giving them far too much time.
Be good to get to HT in this game and regroup. We've been poor at the back and we're a bit lucky it's only 1-1
I'd like to see us press Navas and De Bruyne on the flanks a bit better, because they aren't offering much through the middle. If we can nullify their wide men then we should see much more of the ball and have to do less defending.
Absolute s---e defending again,seen pub teams do better than that,complete and utter stagnation,team going absolutely nowhere.