Arsenal vs Man City 8:00 PM

Hank Scorpio

Surprised there's no thread on this, huge game going into the Christmas period

Arsenal : Cech, Bellerin, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal, Ramsey Flamini, Walcott, Ozil, Campbell, Giroud

Man City : Hart, Sagna, Kolorov, Mangala, Otemendi, De Bruyne, Delph, Silva, Fernandinho, Toure, Aguero

Full team sheet here

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Darkglasses

Excited to see de Bruyne, Aguero, Silva and Toure all together against a team as good as Arsenal, could go quite well.

Our defence is weak though.

Gaygooner

City doing a Chelsea and a parking the bus it seems

SEPT 23 1989

City looking good going forward

Gaygooner

That should be yellow- intent presenting counter attack

Gaygooner

Poor by Campbell

Everything bouncing off Giroud

TheCitizen

City look up for this

Andersonisgod

Neither team pressing, both wary of the other cutting them open. I think the game at the Etihad last season where Wenger played counter attack has certainly influenced the set up of both sides.

Gaygooner

Christ Campbell is poor

Drexel

Tis cagey!

Darkglasses

KdB looks like our best chance really

Gaygooner

Ha ha ginger

Gaygooner

Thank fook for Kos

Gaygooner

Mariner forgot his cards???

Drexel

Should have been a yellow

Gaygooner

Giroud lets Toure know he's there

Gaygooner

Is there no one except Campbell

Darkglasses

Gaygooner wrote: »

Mariner forgot his cards???

Well it is Christmas.

greendom

Drexel wrote: »

Should have been a yellow

Twice now City have stopped us breaking and card has stayed in the pocket. Clever by City and the ref let's them away with it

Kolarov gets to cynically stop another counter attack due to the refs incompetence

Drexel

Gaygooner wrote: »

Is there no one except Campbell

The Ox has really regressed to have Campbell starting ahead of him. Shame. I had high hopes

Gaygooner

Darkglasses wrote: »

Well it is Christmas.

Did he give them all out last week??? Or he afraid of mixing the players up???

Strumms

Drexel wrote: »

Tis cagey!

Very. Not a great watch for us neutrals, could really do with a goal here.

Gaygooner

Fcuks sake mariner - he'll book an Arsenal lad first 50/50

D'Agger

Love how Koscielny seems to take a positive touch forward when he picks up possession then moves quickly forward. De Bruyne with some nice touches aswell...barring that corner flag debacle

tayto lover

Campbell is giving Bellerin great cover. Tireless worker.

City should have about 4 yellows, filth.

Drexel

That was a great block by bellerin there a minute ago

Gaygooner

Bout time

Gaygooner

tayto lover wrote: »

Campbell is giving Bellerin great cover. Tireless worker.

By constantly losing possession???

SEPT 23 1989

Arsenal players hitting the deck fairly easily

LuckyGent88

Big big miss

Gaygooner

Greedy blonde

wandatowell

Opened up. Great play from city

Strumms

Great chance. Should have scored City.

MonsterCookie

MC should be a goal up.

COYG!!!

Drexel

Got lucky there.

Aguero dragging Kos to the halfway line

Kirby

Greedy. Silva was there for the tap in. Shocking defending from Arsenal there. Gotta do better.

tayto lover

Gaygooner wrote: »

By constantly losing possession???

You obviously played at a high level yourself :rolleyes:
He's doing great work.

Andersonisgod

No surprise that the best period of play for both teams was two of them countering counter attacks. Essentially that's what both of these teams are trying to do and it's cancelling each other out.

Gaygooner

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Arsenal players hitting the deck fairly easily

Being hack down by dirty kicks

Kirby

Boom.

Gaygooner

tayto lover wrote: »

You obviously played at a high level yourself :rolleyes:
He's doing great work.

Theo

LuckyGent88

Take a bow son.

wandatowell

Hahaha Theo!!!

MonsterCookie

Goooooooooooooooooal

Strumms

Bullet !!!! Lovely strike that.

Gaygooner

Theo!!!


Kos is the boss!!!!

Drexel

Wally!!


I was just about to give out that he got in the way of another pass!

Good man walcott

Gaygooner

tayto lover wrote: »

You obviously played at a high level yourself :rolleyes:
He's doing great work.

Sure.