Arsenal v Manchester City - Carling Cup

Blatter

Arsenal; Fabianski - Djourou, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel - Frimpong ,Coquelin, Benayoun - Oxlade-Chamberlain, Park ,Chamakh


Man City; Pantilimon - Onuoha, Savic, K. Toure, Zabaleta - de Jong, Hargreaves - Johnson, Nasri, Kolarov - Dzeko.


Live on SS1.

Thought Wenger would put out a slightly stronger side than that, could be a long night for Arsenal.

Warper

Teams look evenly enough matched to me. Should be a good game.

pudzey101

Chamberlain is goona eat kolarov for pace

Arsenal could do it

Turtyturd

Warper wrote: »

Teams look evenly enough matched to me. Should be a good game.

:eek:

Think the City team looks much stronger, surprised by the Arsenal line up since it is one of their two best chances at silver ware this year.

Pepe LeFrits

Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel, Frimpong, Coquelin, Benayoun, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Park, Chamakh.

Is the Arsenal team by all accounts.

Pepe LeFrits

... and a Squillaci-Koscielny pairing, really Arsene??

Jax Teller

Forgot all about Onuoha

Blatter

Warper wrote: »

Teams look evenly enough matched to me. Should be a good game.

There's no players of the calibre of de Jong, Johnson, Nasri and Dzeko in that Arsenal team. You can add Hargreaves to that list if he doesn't break.

Hopefully the home advantage for Arsenal evens it up and we get a good game.

Squillachi.....




....ugh.




That is all.

Didn't Onouha get sent off in the first five minutes against us last year?

Blatter

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel, Frimpong, Coquelin, Benayoun, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Park, Chamakh.

Is the Arsenal team by all accounts.

Thanks, corrected in the OP.

Pepe LeFrits

Nope, that was Boyata.

pudzey101

So Nasri's starting :rolleyes:


heh.

Arsenal subs :

Mannone, Yennaris, Vermaelen, Eastmond, Ozyakup, Gervinho, Arshavin.

cson

Turtyturd wrote: »

:eek:

Think the City team looks much stronger, surprised by the Arsenal line up since it is one of their two best chances at silver ware this year.

There's winning the Lager Cup for the sake of winning it too.

We tried that last year and when it didn't come off we had relegation form until about 2 months or so ago.

No thank you.

cson

pudzey101 wrote: »

So Nasri's starting :rolleyes:

Don't really get the Nasri hate - it was our own fault; we let him run down his contract to the point where he forced our hand. I personally don't blame him for leaving; City offered him megadollars and a probable better chance of success given there was shag all signs of investment in the team up to the point he left.

Obviously he'll have to come to terms with not being a guaranteed starter from now on, plus by and large he's been average since he joined [and indeed since the turn of the New Year in 2011]. I think we got a good deal getting ~£25m for him.

Warper

Blatter wrote: »

There's no players of the calibre of de Jong, Johnson, Nasri and Dzeko in that Arsenal team. You can add Hargreaves to that list if he doesn't break.

Hopefully the home advantage for Arsenal evens it up and we get a good game.

Hargreaves has hardly played in 4 years, Kolo Toure a year, Onouha last season, goalie untested. That City backline is vulnerable. Arsenals backline is last years backline, more or less. They have experience playing together whereas City dont. City's midfield/forwards are a better bunch no doubt but this is far from a formality. Could go to penos.

Blatter

Warper wrote: »

Hargreaves has hardly played in 4 years, Kolo Toure a year, Onouha last season, goalie untested. That City backline is vulnerable. Arsenals backline is last years backline, more or less. They have experience playing together whereas City dont. City's midfield/forwards are a better bunch no doubt but this is far from a formality. Could go to penos.

Hargreaves has played twice for City(1 sub appearance) and has played very well on both occasions. He's obviously a risk though.

Agree with the rest, although I think the Arsenal backline is just as dodgy as City's, with the inclusion of Squillaci.

flahavaj

Strong City team, should be too powerful for Arsenal.

pudzey101

Hope nasri gets frimponged

tayto lover

Man of the Match performance from Squillachi coming tonight i'd say.

Kylo Ren

Hoping for a good match.

Mars Bar

Links?

EDIT: Found one!

ImpossibleDuck

I'd say the majority of Arsenal fans would take a narrow defeat tonight....why the f*ck is Squallachi starting then?

Crann na Beatha

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lord lucan

Mars Bar wrote: »

Links?

http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/95153/1/watch-arsenal-vs-manchester-city.html

Kylo Ren

Veles wrote: »

When is it started?

Been on since around 8.

amacachi

Lovely move there.

Mars Bar

Great ball across the box there. Unlucky for Park!

Frisbee

That was a fantastic ball. So unlucky from Park.

Mars Bar

6 ft 8! :eek:

Kylo Ren

Should of scored, some save.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

So close there from Park. He shoulda gone properly with his left.

Good start from Arsenal so far.

Frisbee

Someone needs to tell Miquel to show Johnson down the line and stop letting him cut in onto his left.

Mickeroo

Chamakh is looking sharper than he has been of late.

Blatter

Did Chamakh just do something exciting?

Paully D

Nedum's alive :eek: Had to look three or four times to make sure it was him!

Such a shame that he wanted to stay in the north-west really. He could play week in week out at mid/bottom half Premier League side. He'll surely move to Bolton/Blackburn in the January window, even if it's just a loan.

amacachi

Goddamn it Arsenal!

Mars Bar

Great shot, equally good save!

Frisbee

Chamberlains confdence seems to match his ability which greatly excites me.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Quality play from Ox so far! Completely showing up Nasri.

Blatter

Great play from Dzeko there. Held his man off and found Johnson with a stunning pass.

Pepe LeFrits

Miquel doesn't have a prayer against Johnson...

shano_88

Lol at Nasri trying to go off!


Also, **** Aguero is on.

Mickeroo

Arsenal obviously doing something right if Aguero is on already.......

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Haha Nasri has had enough obviously.

Strange to see Aguero so early, doesn't really bode well for Arsenal.

Blatter

Mancini is a bit of a lunatic

Jax Teller

Aguero on

Pepe LeFrits

Why are the Man City bench staff wearing Star Trek uniforms?

FearDark

Just tuned in. Delighted to see Nasri in the Manchester City second team.

He made it far.

why the **** have they taken 2 short corners which they have made a balls of when the first corner they whipped in fabianski was flapping, whip them in ffs

KittyeeTrix

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Why are the Man City bench staff wearing Star Trek uniforms?

Cos their out of this world....:D



I'm getting my coat!!:o:D