Difficult one to call this as Arsenal are blowing hot and cold, with their injuries it gives the lads a massive chance for 3 points and 3 in a row. Arsenal have played ****e since their fantastic performance against leicester in september oh and the win at swansea. Losing to sheff wed / olympiakos / bayern / west brom and draws with spurs and norwich i reckon they are going through a lean patch and this match has come at the right time for us. My minds saying at best a tight defensive 0-0 draw but my hearts shouting for another win, so im going for the win 3-1 to the lads. keep the faith.
With hindsight it was a better time to be playing Chealsea and Liverpool, what a sickener, the two teams below us beat those two and climb above us who would have thought it.
I said a while back that if we could still be in touch at the turn of the year, I would fancy our chances of staying up, I still do, and am more confident than ever even after the remarkable last two days which see us back in the bottom three, its neck and neck between the bottom six at the moment, with WBA sure to drop back into the fight in the comming months, its going to be one hell of a scrap and my money is on Big Sam and us. Onwards and upwards.
To be honest I find it laughable how much the media have made of Arsenals injury list. Ours is (as always) longer, and the worst hit team in the league is surely Bournemouth (Mings, Wilson, Federici, Distin, Gradel, Atsu). We're not fashionable London clubs though so we don't count. Even Man Utd have a longer list than Arsenal - most of whose injuries are due to be better in the next month. BBC text for the game today had a couple of Liverpool fans citing "injuries" as being a problem for them... I count 1 good player there.
