Ramsdale White Saliba Gabriel Kiwior Jorginho Rice Saka Odegaard Nelson Havertz not the best arsenal line up either. their left looks weak and we all know havertz is **** so will get a hat trick.
I think it's just simply a case of taking the rare opportunity to give him a rest. If this was in the latter stages of the cup, VVD would be playing
Strange, but we have prioritise the LC over the FA as we're in the semi-final of that and both legs are in Jan. FFS, the last thing we need is a replay. I truly don't want us competing on 4 fronts like we did two years ago - it finished off half of our older players, IMO. I'll be more than happy with the League (1st priority), UEFA (2nd, especially in Dublin), then the LC (3rd now) and the FA (distant 4th) would be a bonus.
just have to play each game on its merits. I'm sure players do take cups.more seriously the later they are in it though. the fa cup is quickly forgotten when europe starts back up, always has been for us. it's a semi final midweek and we must win that game. Fulham are good at home and woeful away. why I don't quite know but anfield is nearly.as small a pitch as theirs so we need to be good in that game midweek and hopefully get a good lead. this game looks like we have a bit of a chance. arsenal are not at their best line up from the off so let's see what the no salah plan is.
I will say though if they are only drawing at 60mins they've a load on the bench to throw at it. we will be sending jota and gravenberch in.
The players look cold. Wonder if Arsenal did the old home trick of making the away changing room cold.
We were on the back foot when we played them at home for the first 10-15 mins, when they scored, but we should have won the match comfortably by the end.
yup. nothing put of the ordinary here. the only concern is we are not giving quansah any sort of obvious easy outfall and they are pressing hard in him just give him an option and we will be okish.
shearer in the "you cheated my side" camp here. reiterates the saka rubbish says arsenal should be 4 up.
konate makes a stellar block. shearer. thst should have gone in. odegaard blasts it off the bar. that should have gone in.
Exactly Arsenal havn't been losing games cause of how they've started recently. Its been the middle and the how they've finished. Clear that their plan for the season has been to get the first goal and build from there.
