Arsenal vs Coventry City: Match Thread.

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Team News:

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Three Key Match-ups:

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- Leon Clarke

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- Blair Adams

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- Andy Webster


Overall Record vs Coventry City:

Played: 75
Wins: 42
Draws: 19
Losses: 14
For: 118
Against: 61
GD: 57


Last 6 Meetings:

Arsenal 6 - 1 Coventry City (League Cup)
Coventry City 0 - 1 Arsenal
Arsenal 2 - 1 Coventry City
Arsenal 3 - 0 Coventry City
Coventry City 3 - 2 Arsenal
Arsenal 2 - 0 Coventry City

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My Team:

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Come on you Gooners.

 

If Vermaelen is not fit, then one of Kos or Mert have to play. Also, if Bendtner is fit, then I would play him through the middle and put Podolski out wide.

 

[video=youtube;tQmoKsHxmYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmoKsHxmYU[/video]

Last time we played the Sky Blues.

 

I also remember watching us beat Coventry 6-1 at Highbury back at the beginning of the nineties

 

walcott was awesome in that game

 

Yes, yes he was.

 

will he play many kids in this game i wonder

 

I'm sure it was the last game of the 1990/91 season
Do you remember Coventry beating us 3-0 on the first day of the season when Mick Quinn scored w hat trick

 

Yep I remember that and I remember Mick Quinn. He looked like a fat version of Bobby Ball

 

Walcott didn't play in that game as he was only 3 years old at the time

 

This needs to be a mixed team really. I'd go for:
Fab
Jenks Merts Verm Monreal
Flam Wilshere
Ox Bendy Pod

A blend of youth & experience that should see them through but resting Kos, Sagna, Gibbs, Ches, Ozil, Caz, Arteta, Giroud, Rosicky.

Maybe have a couple of youngsters on the bench, but I'd rather get a solid victory & keep the cup run alive. There's enough quality there to win.

 

not in the the video of the game posted by sjw10

 

Cym is right, it was the final game of the championship winning 90/91 season.
Perry Groves scored twice I seem to remember in what was a proper party as we'd won the league the previous week by beating Man Utd - and that was the season we had 2 points deducted for the OT brawl....

 

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We'd already won the league before we played Man Utd as Liverpool had lost earlier in the day.If you remember Man Utd formed a guard of honour and applauded us onto the pitch before the game

 

Yeah remember it well, took me by surprise that to be fair.
Must have upset Fergie having to do that, would have been about the turning point for him.
When did we beat Utd 2-1 in a cup game at Highbury when that gobby ****e McClair hammered a last minute penalty deep into the North Bank ?

 

Wasn't that the game when Winterburn gave McClair a load of grief for missing the pen.
Something makes me think it was 1988 as i'm sure it happened in the same year that Winterburn missed a pen against Luton in the LC final

 

Let's not kid ourselves, it's going to be 2-0. We're going to play terribly, yet still win 2-0, because that appears to be the new modus operandi.

 

I don't care what the score is or how we play as long as we're in the 5th round