i do agree but i don’t think that’s completely true. I’m so confused!…

I’m confident because we have Fabregas back, the RVP-Adebayor partnership works well up front, and those three are our key attacking components.

Predicted lineup.

It’s difficult to predict todays lineup, but because we have our main front 3 available our chances are good.

Wenger is refusing to be drawn into transfer speculation, I think that’s fair enough, as long as Wenger is not refusing to buy players just because of his beliefs about the team.

As for the Porto result, mixed messages from Wenger:

““Since I’ve been in football, when you don’t win it is because you don’t want to. It is those who want to that do it and those who don’t do it, it is because they cannot.

“The culture is always the same, it is based on who does not want to be a star and who does not want to be the best in the game – but everybody does.”

Clealy the result must be let go of, but it proves that we’re lacking strength in depth, either there is a monumental improvement in the squad in the next few weeks or we need extra players to help for the rest of the season.

Can see it now, sloppy passes in midfield, stupid corners given away, goal ensues from one of them.

Just can’t see us having the strength to get the three points with these bunch of chancers.

HAHAHAHAHA

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