No worries fella, although I'm cursing my wife for being away this week; I was so looking forward to going! Any chance you'd babysit Tom?
Down at the bottom of Block 20 for me Should of waited a bit longer and got them behind the goal in hindsight, but a seat is a seat!
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Yes, thank you for those kind words Arsene. And if you could just stop nicking our players we might indeed have a punt at winning the league.
Tbf...other teams don't kidnap or steal our players...they buy them legally. Annoying, I know, but not illegal. Sometimes it has been essential for us to survive...other times, like last summer, not essential, but the money has allowed us to get in good players and have money for investment. I like the mention of the character of our players...I am as proud of that as of their ability.
Stronger line up than i thought they would run out with but not that bad. Podolski is way off his best. Ospina is playing his first gameat Arsenal, Diaby is playing his first game in like a year and the likes of Hayden and Bellerin are on debut.
Arsenal would be strong even with a few missing and that team is still a guess. I am hoping for a win, but would settle for a good performance with goals. Bad luck to get Arsenal when there are still plenty of weak sides, however we only have to play them once on the way to the final
Arsenal are our bogey side as Sky have kindly pointed out as we haven't won in the last 10 games. Also took opportunity to show Boruc's mad attempt at a Cruyff Squirm (well it was when he tried it). Lambert, who has played less than an hour of football this season, may get a start for Liverpool. Hope he does. It's pointed out that he hasn't scored yet...not bl***y surprised with only a few minutes play at a time.
It's ospina a first game at arsenal, can't wait to see how he does. He was stastically amongst the best keepers in Europe last season for Nice and had a brilliant World Cup so I'm hoping he continues as he has in the past and puts in a solid performance. Hayden and bellerin have both played for the senior team before though. Hayden featured a couple of times last season if I remember correctly. Bellerin had his most recent game against Dortmund in the CL a week ago. Diaby though, he is the man to watch. He managed one appearance at the end of last season after a year out and prior to that a string of injuries going back years. Whenever he has had a string of games in a row he is one of the first names on our team sheet, because he is a beast. But with only that appearance at the end of last season and some reserve games under his belt I don't know what to expect from him. Very excited to see him back in action though.
It's not the strongest back line, giving 4 young or fringe players a start. But otherwise I think it's the team most of us wanted to see, in particular diaby, Campbell and rosicky getting game time.
