Match Day Thread Arsenal vs. Swansea City Official Match Thread

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Venue: Emirates Stadium
Monday, May 11th 2015
KO Time: 20.00BST

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Head to Head Against Swansea City:
Played: 13
Wins: 6
Draws: 2
Losses: 5
Goals For: 17
Goals Against: 18
Goal Difference: -1

Last 6 Meetings:
Swansea City 2-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 2-2 Swansea City
Swansea City 1-2 Arsenal
Swansea City 0-2 Arsenal
Arsenal 1-0 Swansea City (FA Cup Replay)
Swansea City 2-2 Arsenal (FA Cup)

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Arsène Wenger has revealed the following team news ahead of the Swansea City game:

on Ramsey…
From the Hull match we had Ramsey who took a big kick, he is getting slowly better. He could be back in training soon.

on Welbeck…
Welbeck is doing better but he is still not in training, he has missed now more than a week. There is no major damage but we have to see how it progresses over the next two or three days.

on Debuchy…
He is still out, he’s progressing but not available.

on the rest of the team news...
Chamberlain is not available, Arteta will be short so it will basically be a similar squad [to the one that faced Hull].

Starting XI:

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Bench:
Szczęsny
Gibbs
Gabriel
Flamini
Wilshere
Rosický
Walcott

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I like the look of that team i have to say

 

Same. Figured since Ramsey and Welbeck are likely to be out for this one Theo gets the RW spot. Lad needs a run of games and if ge dies well here it could be the start of hos return to form

 

If Theo Don't start on Monday i think his arsenal career may be over

 

Unfortunately I think your right - he looked so demoralised when he came on against Hull.

 

I'd start Walcott as well.

 

3000 Jacks coming up for a Monday night game live on TV

 

Yep, and I have got a feeling that Wilshere will start ahead of Walcott. Wilshere had a very good cameo against Hull, he looked sharp and that suprised me a lot, Walcott on the other hand barely touched the ball when he came on.

 

Good point - I forgot about Wilshere. Poor theo, I'm disappointed but I guess this will be it for him.

 

We took 9,000 to Old Trafford on a Monday night for a game that was live on TV

 

Personally I think this is going to be a tough and close game. I'll go 2-1 to The Arsenal due to our good form, but I can't see it being an easy game

 

Swansea is never an easy game for us. In all honesty had this been an away game I'd be feeling a draw on the cards but since we have home advantage I feel we'll barely squeeze a win here.

 

Bigger ground

 

So no changes, 5th game in a row with the same line up.

 

Interesting stat on sky there, girouds 28% conversion rate in the league is only bettered by Costa with 33%

 

Dome nasty, late (but not malicious) fouls on sanchez and giroud

 

Nice dummy!

 

Don't like how much ramsey drifts in....

 

Nice run by ramsey

 

Take coquelin out, ramsey in the middle and walcott on the right ?