Cold Monday night up north, are we ready?!

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Been working on this new diet called ‘gym and starve yourself’… you know what, very effective at dropping weight, but you actually can’t control where the weight comes off. That’s the next phase, then I’m bringing it to market. I’ll call it G&SY, remember the brand.

BIG GAME tonight. We have the chance to make up some of that lost ground on Liverpool after they dropped points to United yesterday. We also have the chance to move further ahead of the disaster down the road. They really did make Watford look good at times.

The big question on everyone’s lips tonight is: What is Emery going to do with Mesut Ozil?

It wouldn’t be a question if the manager hadn’t opened the door to the return of his precious creator, but he did, so maybe we’ll see the German in a tough game up north on a cold Monday night.

After two of the longest weeks I’ve had this year, I think we’ve all forgotten what’s going on at Arsenal.

A reminder:

  • We are 8 unbeaten.
  • We’ve scored 20 goals
  • We’re 5th in the league.

A win tonight and we power up to third in the league, a mere point behind FRAUDIOLA and ARTETno.

The hype about the paper numbers has been driven by the folk that seem to have collective amnesia about the similar pattern from last year, but look, if Emery can iron out the kinks, and we can add performances to points, we’ll all happily jump in and state that we are title challengers.

It’s a big game. Sheffield United don’t have a lot of wild individual talent to brag of, however, they do have quite a lot of pace on the wings. They have Luke ‘gone too soon’ Freeman who might come off the bench at some point. Overall, we should be taking the points.

It’ll be interesting to see what the manager does. Hector Bellerin and Kieran Tierney, the lastest missing pieces in the Emery masterplan, will likely start. Genuinely can’t wait to see the Scotsman play, he’s electric and a real piece of work. His delivery will have Bellerin staying late after training… terribly sorry Hector, St Martins will have move your classes to after hours.

The manager is pumped for the evening and pleased with what he’s seeing.

“I am speaking every day with Raul, Edu, with the players,” he told football.london. “And really we have our way going right and working. Our work is more important than our [words].

“And really now I am very happy the club. I am really happy with the players. The last two, three, four weeks, every player – and Mesut Ozil – are working very well.

“I finished very happy with our work and really this is the way we can be positive and we can think we are going to do something important this year. This is the way I want and I was speaking with Raul, this is the same idea when he is speaking with me.”

He was keen to impress that the kids will get better.

“We can be better in the table, we are third at the moment,” Emery insisted. “We can play better each match. It’s one process.

“Little by little we’re using the young players to achieve the performance, giving them confidence and experience in the matches. Sometimes we need one process. For example Bukayo Saka is improving, helping us and taking a good performance. I know he needs to break more steps ahead in his improvement.

The interesting thing about the kids is they’re the players keeping us going, I’m looking forward to the big names settling, I have very little concern with players like Matteo and Saka. Land me a performance from David Luiz or Nicolas Pepe.

We need an impactful performance this evening, 80% of our goals have come from one man away from home this season. I’m not sure that’s a problem, but it shows h0w dependent we are on his incredible finishing, and it also shows that others aren’t stepping up to the plate.

This evening is a big chance for the front three to shine, I hope he sticks with Saka and I hope Pepe lands a hattrick. Huge game, should be fun, it’s good to be back! x

 

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GillespieRoadNoMore

Trophy

Mark S

First

Mark S

Tr4phy

Mark S

Tr4phy again?

Mark S

I’d take third or fourth! Where’s DM? (I know he’s observing the Jewish Holidays) Boomslang? Bankz?

GillespieRoadNoMore

Reading Emery quotes I hear the voice of Donald Trump in my head – are they related?

Mark S

Part of me wishes Emery would play Pepe on Thursday as well, just to get his confidence going in the right direction again. This really should be a 2-0 or 3-0 match. Knowing us though, we will either draw or just scrape by with a win.

TitsMcGee

Been working on this new diet called ‘gym and starve yourself’… you know what, very effective at dropping weight, but you actually can’t control where the weight comes off. ”

Not possible 🙂 It’s everywhere or nowhere.

I know some people who need help with their “jecks”(jaw blends to neck).

HillWood

Hope Arsenal put history behind them tonight and win in Sheffield in the Prem for the first time since 1993

HighburyLegend

“Cold Monday night up north, are we ready?!”

Of course we are, especially Mesut!! lol

DivineSherlock

Anyone who has seen Sheffield play knowd they are well drilled . They have good players on the flanks , Can put crosses in the box all day. Full Backs today need to have a great game today . Liverpool got lucky against Sheffield . I hope noone understimates them.

Leedsgunner

“A win tonight and we power up to third in the league, a mere point behind FRAUDIOLA and ARTETno.”

Can it be true, has Pedro seen the light and finally seen Arteta for the absolute novice that he is?!?

I rather have Freddie than Artetno if it came to a choice between the two any day. 😉

Bergkamp63

I agree 100% Ozil should travel north tonight,

Beyond the wall, and close the gate behind him !

HighburyLegend

@Leeds : Pedro was ironic, if that can reassure you.

Samesong

Cold Monday night up north, are we ready?! We the fans are

Are the players?
Big pressure on Auba today he’s been our talisman, noon eelse isnt scoring at the moment.

HighburyLegend

“I hope Pepe lands a hattrick”

This one made me chuckles…

Cesc Appeal

I’d go with Leno, Chambers, Holding, Luiz, Tierney, Torreira, Guendouzi, Dani Ceballos, Auba, Laca, Martinelli.

I think Emery will go with Leno, Chambers, Sokratis, Luiz, Tierney, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Dani Ceballos, Pepe, Auba, Saka.

Guns of Hackney

Lolz. Close the gap on Liverpool as they dropped points. Kind of like me closing the gap to Bill Gates because I shopped in Aldi today instead of Waitrose.

Guns of Hackney

Pepe doesn’t score hat-tricks on fifa 20 with his own avatar.

He’s a fucking dud. The sooner we accept that, we can move on. Sham player.

Guns of Hackney

BTW. I’m only around 10 miles from Sheffield and I can tell you this, it’s started to get cold. No way our wet weekends are going to give those Sean Bean northern bastards any beef.

Auba’s hair is already freezing at the thought. The cunt.

HighburyLegend

Ozil planning to buy a house in Sheffield ??

Graham62

If Ozil plays tonight, and that’s a massive IF, what will be the consequences.

Will he take the game by the scruff of the neck and play a key part in a solid team performance or, as many of us on here believe, will he flatter to deceive and disappear into the cold evening Yorkshire air, only to resurface a few days later with yet another cunning but lame excuse for his own shortcomings?

Role on 8pm.

TR7

‘Lolz. Close the gap on Liverpool as they dropped points. Kind of like me closing the gap to Bill Gates because I shopped in Aldi today instead of Waitrose.’

Haha, good one GoH

Guns of Hackney

Ozil in Sheffield and playing well is as likely as a chocolate teapot doing its job.

Not happening. I think we will be lucky with a point tonight. Shit team but together. Sometimes the sum of parts etc.

azed

Anything less than a win and its the beginning of the end for Emery.

Danny

El-Dicko will use tonights game as a practise for Thursday night, that’s all he gives a fuck about.

Words on a Blog

Guns of Hackney,

And there I was all this time, thinking you were an Internet tycoon…..

Sid

Laca the hero tonight, you heard it here 1st!

Rambo Ramsey

Arsenal under Emery will be lucky to escape a loss tonight, forget about a win.

I, for one, won’t be staying up for this shite.

Words on a Blog

Sid,

Love your “breaking news” optimism!

Guns of Hackney

WOB

I’m an internet porn star. Johnny Wadd is my stage name. Check it.

Guns of Hackney

Laca is a fanny. This won’t be his game.

HighburyLegend

“I, for one, won’t be staying up for this shite.”

You will not be missed.

Words on a Blog

GoH,

You fibber – Johnny Wadd died of AIDS a long time ago …..

Seymour Butts on the other hand, is still very much alive, even if he is semi-retired now.

Graham62

GoH

“Laca is a fanny”

In what respect?

Guns of Hackney

WOB

A porn connoisseur. I respect that.

Guns of Hackney

G62

He’s weak. Rubbish. Fails to deliver. A bit of a bottler.

Ergo. Fanny. Or clowns pocket. Or. Otters pocket.

HighburyLegend

I respect Ozil very much, as the fine Fortnite connoisseur he is.

Graham62

GoH

Funny that, I see Lacazette as one of our few inspirational leaders.

Ah well, maybe I’m wrong.

Nelson

We have a general election today. I’ll get out and vote and hope to come back before the game starts. There are road work all over the city. You don’t even know which route is open to traffic.

Graham62

Nelson

Sounds likeWest Sussex.

Graham62

Where are you based?

Bob N16

Don’t think we’re having a GE today Graham! Doubt therefore it’s W Sussex.

Bob N16

Canada?

Graham62

Not sure about tonight.

1-1 or a 2-1 win.

Graham62

Bob

It was a joke.

Are you sure you’re ok?

Dissenter

Aubameyang is on the 30-man short list for the Ballon ‘dOr
When is the last time an Arsenal player made such a list?

Dissenter

Guns of Hackney
The only two people on planet earth that think Pepe is a “fucking dud” are you…and a certain mickey mouse poster that’s taken up a Sylvester Stallone pseudo.
The lad didn’t get any tangible summer break off the AFCON. He’s playing in a new league with a new language for a manager who likes to chop and change.
Grow up and stop the nonsense.

Graham62

West Sussex has road works all over the place.

Infact, we have temporary traffic lights set up just to cover temporary traffic lights.

Come on Boris, sort it out.

azed

Nelson

Where in Canada are you based in?

I stay in Ottawa. I’m an immigrant so I can’t vote.

Un na naai

Let’s fucking av it you skanky bastards

Who’s ever had a stye?? What a fucking bastard

It HURTS!! Bitches go on about child birth. They don’t know what they’re on about. A stye and kidney stones meant to be way worse

Dissenter

azed
Is this your first Canadian winter?
Oh boy, better build that igloo right

Un na naai

Graham

Bye bye Eu bye bye Eu bye bye Eu bye byyyyyyeeee

Dissenter

It’s good to have Laca back

I was hoping we wouldn’t miss him and he could take his time to heal properly but Pepe isn’t off to a flying start.
I would absolutely start Pepe, Auba and Laca today in the hope that Pepe can transfer the confidence from playing well for Côte d’Ivoire.
Bring in Martinelli/Saka for Laca/ Pepe late in the second half.

We need players that will give 110%. You know those Sheffield lads will chase every ball tonight.

Graham62

We all know that our referees are the worst in Europe.

VAR is clarifying this once and for all.

Origi – clear and obvious foul.

Stephen Warnock on Sky is 100% correct, even though he’s ex- Liverpool.

It’s simple, if you have crap officials overseeing everything, it makes zero difference if you have VAR in operation.

Un na naai

Having lacazette back will transform our attack.

You heard it here first

Watch emery take the plaudits

We will still be shite in midfield and defensively though until tierney and holding show those non Brits how it’s done

azed

Dissenter

“Is this your first Canadian winter?”

Nope. Its my third and I try my best to be prepared for it but nobody is every prepared for the Canadian winter.

Graham62

Un na naai

Bay City Rollers?

Bob N16

Graham ‘Are you sure you’re ok? 62.

Frigging

Marvellous

Shoot

Me

Cheers

Un na naai
Graham62

Bob

That’s more like it.

Redtruth

Johnson’s deal is worse than Maybot’s deal..
Brexit in name only lol

Graham62

Bye Bye Baby(EU) sounds so much better.

Are you too young to remember?

Normski

Un

Are you sure you haven’t got pink eye!?

Graham62

Ozil not involved.

Shame.

Normski

What a limp line up. No Tierney. No Ceballos . No creativity. No balls

Graham62

No Tierney.

No Bellerin.

No Lacazette.

Oops! What a surprise, Granit is in.

Leftsidesanch

Sick and tired of Emery and his line ups

TheLegendaryDB10

The Arsenal team for tonight.

Leno, Chambers, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Willock, Saka, Aubameyang, Pepe.

Subs: Martinez, Tierney, Ceballos, Lacazette, Torreira, Holding, Martinelli.

Indeed no Ozil but of course Xhaka the Undroppable has been selected.

It would be good to see either Saka or Pepe on the score sheet to help Auba out.

Nelson

Arsenal: Leno, Chambers, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Willock, Saka, Pepe, Aubameyang

Subs: Martinez, Holding, Tierney, Torreira, Martinelli, Ceballos, Lacazette

Graham62

Normski

I agree.

Guns of Hackney

Sorry. On the wrong end of a bottle of gin. I’m back in now. Wonder kind to bed and then I’m on it.

Cesc Appeal

Only Willock has been added which is something.

But really disappointed with that team.

Graham62

This is becoming as boring as Brexit.

Nelson

azed/Graham

I am from Montreal

Rambo Ramsey

Dysentery,

What’s this about mickey mouse? Are you thinking about getting it as a poncho to complement your SuperGirl skirt?

Quick question- Is Emery good or bad today? Shite, this is a almost as hard a Q as ‘Is Federer great or is he over the hill’.

Wasi

Ofc Emerh talked up Ozil all week then left him out of the squad. Thats how you manage a team right , right?.

And ofc he dont have the balls to drop Kola, chambers and Sok unless they drop a few stinkers.

Ofc Xhaka the undroppable is leading the team out with better and more capable players sitting on the bench.

This man is InsAnE.

Cesc Appeal

Can see this being a throwing on changes to make the difference type of match.

At least Willock will add some legs to the midfield.

No Tierney is a confusing one.

Martinelli should have started as well.

Rambo Ramsey

Arsenal: Leno, Chambers, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Willock, Saka, Pepe, Aubameyang

Lol

Sid

Boom laca laca boom boom boom
Boy you cause confusion when you walk in a de box

Frost

Emery really is a special kind of dim.

Martinez aside, every single player on our bench today should be guaranteed starters. Every single one of them. Really really disappointing lineup.

Graham62

RR

Federer will always be great, even when he’s retired.

Graham62

If this goes pear shape.

Taxi for Mr Emery!

Rambo Ramsey

You know you are dealing with a clueless Coach when your team’s bench looks stronger than the first 11.

Spanishdave

Kola and Dickhead on the left, disaster ahead.
Emery is useless, Sheffield will piss past them with ease.
Ain’t gonna win tonight

rollen

azed just move to Vancouver. Its like London but no wind and better summers.

Peckobill

Jeez can you really get any blander than emery’s line ups , man some of his favourites are just methodical cloggers and it’s getting depressing now every time I see a line up like this . He has to go

Samesong

Not kolasinac oh we are in for a long night.

Nelson

The fans have to accept that Emery is saving some players for the Europa Cup.

Rambo Ramsey

Ah Graham, you miss the context.

Let me recount the tale. Le grove’s SuperGirl started crying into her blouse one day about how painful it is to watch an over-the-hill Federer and that the Swiss maestro should rather just retire. This practically minutes before Federer produced some of the best tennis of his career.

We are too harsh on Bamford. Dysentery’s the bigger premature ejaculator, it practically oozes out with no control- like his name so aptly suggests.

Left Testicle

Half an hour in and they’re still talking Man Utd v Liverpool on Sky.

Gentlebris

Smart manager.

He left 8 of his first eleven on the bench to create the special Emery effect.

Brilliant.

Pierre

Nelson
“The fans have to accept that Emery is saving some players for the Europa Cup.”

Obviously a joke as our under 18’s could play on Thursday and get a result.

Gentlebris

Oh they are not all on the bench…..some of our deserved 11 didn’t even make the bench!

Rambo Ramsey

Emery’s a smart one.

Why put in your best players, lose, be outed as a clueless coach out of his depth?

Just add some duds in there, lose, then watch the clueless fans make excuses for him – “Oh he’s still new and he’s got a lot of shit players, he’ll figure out the best 11 and then we’ll be unstwappable”

Spanishdave

Emery just cannot attack teams only until we are a goal or two down, chasing the game.
He is a poor manager

Un na naai

Norm

100% not pink eye
Graham

Bye bye baby baby gooood byeeee

Yes I’m too young to remember
I’m 34 but I know the old tunes mate

Gentlebris

And when they put the ball inside our net, he will make a face as if he has no idea why that should be.

This guy will sure be infamously remembered in Arsenal fc history.

DUIFG

Granit guen mid, no tierney. Strap in for 90 mins of turd

Gentlebris

We pay a guy £6m p/a to sabotage us.

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