Arsenal v Aston villa Fa cup live on ESPN KO @4pm

Sergio

Tough game for the gooners today at home with villa playing well at the moment.
Its a must win for us after losing the last 3 PL games on the bounce!

greendom

Sergio wrote: »

Tough game for the gooners today at home with villa playing well at the moment.
Its a must win for us after losing the last 3 PL games on the bounce!

Will Sagna be fit enough to start ? What about Arteta ? Good news that Coquelin is back. He was beginning to look really useful when he picked up his injury.

Radharc na Sleibhte

I hope AW doesnt mess around with the team today.
I want the win.

Szczesny
Sagna?? Mertesacker Koscielny Vermaelen
Song Arteta Ramsey
Ox – RVP – Ros/Ars/Wal (Cant decide who could be most beneficial, if any, play with 10??)

EDIT:
From Arsenal.com

Mikel Arteta (Calf)
Last Updated: 27 January
Speaking on January 27, Arsene Wenger said: "He is very close to full training, Thierry Henry as well."

No arteta or henry so.

Szczesny
Sagna Mertesacker Koscielny Vermaelen
Rosicky Song Ramsey
Walcott RVP Arshavin

I've changed my mind, he wont have the balls to start ox and will of course start arshavin in defiance to admit he's a useless pleb and shouldnt have got on the pitch last week.
Never thought of benayoun either.
You wouldnt really look at our team sheet (as the opposition) and get the fear anymore would you.

Bounty Hunter

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

I hope AW doesnt mess around with the team today.
I want the win.

Szczesny
Sagna?? Mertesacker Koscielny Vermaelen
Song Arteta Ramsey
Ox – RVP – Ros/Ars/Wal (Cant decide who could be most beneficial, if any, play with 10??)

I hope AM doesent mess with the team. If we play a more passing, attacking style of football with players like Ireland on the ball we can get something from this as this isnt exactley the free flowing footballing Arsenal people still think of. However if he reverts to type (his style) and we go defensive and he plays people like Heskey aswell as the usual liabilities under pressure Collins/Warnock we will struggle.

hopefully this will be too soon for Sagna etc too as that Arsenal team look a lot stronger with a solid defense as outlined above.

Sergio

greendom wrote: »

Will Sagna be fit enough to start ? What about Arteta ? Good news that Coquelin is back. He was beginning to look really useful when he picked up his injury.

I doubt he'll throw sagna in from the start id say we'l be lucky to see him come on with 15/20 mins to go.

Frisbee

Would like to see us line up as such today....

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Woj

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Yennaris

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Djourou

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Vermaelen

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Miquel

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Coquelin---Song

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Oxo

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Arshavin

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Henry

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RVP

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Walcott needs to be dropped to hopefully knock the prima-donna 'I can do no wrong' attitude out of him and he also needs to be dropped coz he's just not good at football tbh.

Mertesacker needs a break as does Koscielny. I know Arteta could be back but wouldn't like to see us risk him in this game, especially not now we'll probably be without Jack for the rest of the season.

Would like to see Arshavin get a start centrally, I know he's been poor, but Ramsey needs a break and hopefully a good game in the hole for Shava means we can give Ramsey a couple of games rest that he badly needs.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

MattLawExpress Matt Law
Think henry, arteta and sagna all on a strong bench for arsenal today. Ox and RvP to start

Would be good to see Coquelin get a start too. Don't think Kos or Mert will be rested til we have the full backs back.

monkey9

Looking forward to this match, but i wish Villa were home to make it more interesting for the nuetral!

Helix

monkey9 wrote: »

Looking forward to this match, but i wish Villa were home to make it more interesting for the nuetral!

villa are muck at home

itll be a much more interesting game with villa away

Frisbee

Can see this ending a score draw with Bent and RVP getting the goals.

greendom

Fabianski - Coquelin, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Vermaelen - Song, Rosicky - Walcott, Ramsey, Chamberlain - Van Persie

JPA

Villa: Given, Hutton, Cuellar, Dunne, Warnock, Ireland, Clark, Petrov, Agbonlahor, Keane, Bent
Subs: Guzan, Heskey, Bannan, Weimann, Lichaj, Baker, Gardner.

Helix

strongest possible villa line up anyway. plus i can't watch it since ive a trade show to go to today, giving us a decent chance

a 2-1 upset is my prediction

Noo

No szczesny? I wasn't expecting that.

amacachi

1-1 written all over this.

iMuse

Good to see Sagna on the bench, we need him back.

monkey9

Fabianski starts! The potential entertainment value of this match has just soared!!

Mickeroo

Verm, sagna and arteta back in the squad, glad to see it. Strong looking bench today at least.

gnfnrhead

Noo wrote: »

No szczesny? I wasn't expecting that.

The priority is the league. I wouldnt want to risk him in a cup game on the off chance he gets injured and we're stuck with Fabianski/Almunia for the rest of the season. I know thats a risk every game, but a cup game isnt priority for us and would be like when we played Santos in a meaningless Champions League game when Gibbs was already injured. No need for him to play.

Fabianski had a good spell a couple of seasons ago but seems to be going backwards now and I'd be fearful of having to rely on him for more than one or two (cup) games.

Krusader

Any good stream links

Bounty Hunter

Crosáidí wrote: »

Any good stream links

sopcast would be nice if there is one...

winner plays sunderland/boro

Frisbee

Sopcast 106723 is fantastic.

Pepe LeFrits

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Fabianski had a good spell a couple of seasons ago but seems to be going backwards now and I'd be fearful of having to rely on him for more than one or two (cup) games.

Eh, his good spell was last season and he only lost his place due to injury.

Paleface

God I hate ESPN for forcing me to listen the likes of Robbie Savage and Neil Warnock!

Sergio

Cmon now gooners give us something to shout about!

Bounty Hunter

Frisbee wrote: »

Sopcast 106723 is fantastic.

didnt work for me but if thats Bloodzeed HQ which ive just tried then yep as usual a top stream

Paleface

Good stream for people not using sopcast

http://tykestv.eu/channel1.php

Mickeroo

nearly a great goal for vermaelan there. good start from arsenal.

Drexel

Mickeroo wrote: »

nearly a great goal for vermaelan there. good start from arsenal.

Ya they seem fired up!

Frisbee

Coquelin doing a good job so far of getting in ahead of Agbonlahor to the ball. Needs to be careful that he doesn't miss one though or he'll never catch Gabby.

amacachi

Should've taken the free.

Mickeroo

dang it theo....

Bounty Hunter

Warnock a liability there for the walcott chance

Mickeroo

fairly scuffed that

Quazzie

I originally thought it was a handball. What was the free out for?

Paleface

Quazzie wrote: »

I originally thought it was a handball. What was the free out for?

High foot by VP.

JPA

Quazzie wrote: »

I originally thought it was a handball. What was the free out for?

RVP went in a bit mad.

JPA

Warnock is just a bad joke.

Wall was about 6 foot away by the time he hit it

Frisbee

Nearly had a textbook Fabianski moment there...

JPA

Ah Gabby, a low cross was needed.

Soups123

Walcott end product so far has been poor, he's been in behind 3/4 Times with piss outcome

Fab is an unnesacary risk today

James Forde

Robbie Keane playing well

Quazzie

I don't like when RVP comes deep to win the ball. When he does that he lays it off and then there is absolutely no one ahead of the player with the ball which means we inevitably end up back at the keeper. He should stay up and let someone else fill that gap behind him, rather than try to play the two roles himself.

Mr.Crinklewood

Thought that free in was a bit of a dive.

Chamberlin seems to have a footballing brain to go along with the skill and physique.

gnfnrhead

We really need better corner takers. When Arteta plays he usually hits the first man, exactly what Rosicky is doing today. van Persie is better but is often overhit or straight to the keeper. Teams dont have a problem giving us corners because they know its highly unlikely we'll score from it.

Should put a lot of work in to set pieces and really screw with everyone next season when we suddenly start scoring from them

amacachi

****in pathetic.

Mr.Crinklewood

Nicely worked goal.

Mickeroo

balls, that came out of nowhere. great play in fairness though.

everdead.ie

Keane has been superb so far.

Krusader

Made in Ireland!!