I’ve been writing for a few weeks that the two most important games of the month would be the Southampton game and the United one. Last night, we passed with flying colours, beating a top 8 contender in fairly convincing style.
Arsenal switched back to their strongest 11, bar Gabriel who was out for Luiz, Tierney who was deputised by Cedric, and Auba who continues to miss action for reasons unknown.
Things started badly, Lacazette missed a one-on-one after 50 seconds, two minutes later we were done by an outrageous corner, Nicolas Pepe dozing on the edge of the box, Armstrong smashing home with a first-time finish.
We clawed our way back fairly quickly though. Pepe turned hero after Xhaka released him inside left, he used his body well, held off a strong challenge and bounced his shot off the ground high enough to fizz past the Southampton keeper.
Saka made it two. Lacazette made up for his early miss, guiding a Xhaka pass into Saka’s path. ‘Star boy’ broke the line, rounded the keeper and slotted home to make it two.
Our third was started by Cedric who switched play to Saka with a stunning pass. Bukayo took over, finding Lacazette at the back post for a tap-in. Amusing that Laca was writhing in agony by laughing at the same time after hitting the post with his body.
So what did we learn? Same thing we have done every week since Chelsea. We have a really exciting first team and when they play we look really decent.
What we learned today is there are a few surprise packages coming to life when it matters. Nicolas Pepe created five chances in the FA Cup game we lost, I thought he was fairly drossy in that game, but many cited the lack of a #10 to play with. We have to commend his performance tonight. He made a difference, he was a threat, and he put in a shift defensively. I’m not sure he’s good enough, but what he did last night was way better than we’ve been seeing.
Cedric was elite all game. Arteta reckons fitness has been the problem. Well, whatever it was, he’s showing his talent in the best of ways. He’s very efficient on the ball, he works like a demon, and say it quietly… he has a bit of sauce to his game. I was very impressed with him last night. Maybe he’s about to come good?
It goes without saying the Saka IS the sauce. It’s chilli sauce. He’s the little chilli because they pack the most flavour. Since the Chelsea game, he’s popping up with numbers. He’s an incredible talent and we are VERY lucky to have him at Arsenal getting better game after game.
Also, small shout for ESR. He didn’t land a goal or an assist, but he’s a class act. Brilliant movement, great work ethic, and an unpredictable game that makes him very difficult to play against. I love his first touch. What I love even more is how fast he moves the ball or makes a decision. He has a very simple game, executed efficiently. Just what we needed.
We have a HUGE game coming up this weekend. OGS has United purring. Rashford, Martial, Fernandes and Pogba are all buzzing… so it’ll be a very tough game. Wouldn’t it be magic if we could do some damage in that fixture?
Right, short post. Listen to our on-the-whistle podcast and I’ll see you in the comments.
Eagle
It’s competitive but so are the other leagues especially last two seasons.
We’ve always had teams like Sheffield pull of this kinda result and like someone said, United have jammied their way to where they are this season
Liverpool and city have come close or beaten the 100-point barrier in the past 2-3 seasons , that’s not indicative of the most competitive league that the marketing people try to sell.
The premier league is competitive but it’s not unique in that regard.
Serie A has become very competitive with Juve’s recent struggles
Real and Barca’s struggles has also opened up La liga
Bati
I agree. I actually think that Serie A is the most competitive league this season because in AC Milan, Inter, Atalanta and Juventus you have four teams that can legitimately win the title.
I know that the PL is up in the air now but I see City pulling away in the coming weeks. Already a nice little 4 point gap at the top of they win their game in hand. As ling as they keep clean sheets it will be near impossible to stop them.
I remember the refreshing sensation of seeing “mighty” Eibar in La liga
Eibar, a tiny club from a town of just 27,000 inhabitants with a stadium that only seats about 8,000 came up and held their own. The highest paid player in Eibar ears 22k weekly.
These Cinderella stories pop up in all leagues. I know Wigan did the same and survived in the premier league for so long.
Eagle
Was tight in Germany too till Monchengladbach and Leverkusen lost their way recently.
Look at Lilie giving it a go in France too like they did last season.
These are teams with more quality players and the football is incredible to watch too. Little wonder we got mugged 75 million for Pepe. Again more money than sense in the premier league.
Love what the Serie A looks like this season too. Roma and Lazio not too far behind Inter, Milan and Atlanta too
Eibar competing in La Liga without the equitable income sharing formula of the premier league is like Fleetwood town competing in the premier league.
The competitiveness of La Liga is often understated.
No not having it.
So are you saying Serie A is as competitive as the EP yet Juventus have won 9 titles on the trot. In Germany Bayern have won 8 on the trot. PSG in France.
Of course you get strange results but the EPL has more. Every manager that comes here says it’s the toughest, the must intense & competive. In other leagues they can rest players games are more predictable.
I think the compliant from Klopp has some effect on the Ref’s decision. Manure now misses their penalty kicks.
The competitiveness refers to the last two/three seasons
AFCForever
Are you defining competitiveness by just the winner of the league.
City and Liverpool have come close to or hit the 100-point barrier. Last year, we were afraid that ‘pool will equal our unbeaten record.
The top of not the only way to measure competitiveness
AFC
Between 1992 and 2013 (21 years) United won 13 league titles including two separate 3 peats.
Lets not sit here and pretend that this wasn’t a one team league domination for the majority of the PL era until Fergie retired.
Bati
Bayern are 7 points clear nearly in spite of their form. They cannot keep clean sheets to save their life, think last weekends at Schalke was only their 2nd in their last 12 games.
Gnabry and Sane have been poor, their defence shocking. It’s really only been Lewandowski and Muller keeping them trucking along.
Yea people tend to forget that literally everyone bent over and let United walk the league year after year playing some questionably dull football with some pretty average players too. Nothing compared to the quality Juve or Bayern possessed when they dominated
Dissenter the top is relevant but not the point. The EPL is competitive week on week. Players and Managers always talk about it being the toughest league for that reason. There are no games where you can confidently rest players. Unpredictable. It is only fans who think they can predict results, the professionals know how tough it is. Yes you get upsets in other leagues but not with the same regularity. One of the factors is the speed and physicality of the league. In Spain it’s a lot slower for example. I agree that there is a debate to have… Read more »
This will tell you everything ,..last 12 seasons.
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The Juventus advantage is going to go away once other teams start to build and move into their own stadiums. Juve just had a strategic advantage – their stadium income propelled them into long CL runs giving them money no one else had
I expect that Milan and Inter will take off once their fantastic joint stadium is completed
The issue is .. would the Milans.. Roma and Atalanta. and Juventus finish in the top 5 of the PL.. if they were admitted and 5 teams at the bottom relegated. I contend no way.. Most would be mid table after having to grind it out against Spurs, Wolves, Aston Villa, Liverpool , Everton, Arsenal, Leicester. not even counting Manchester, City and Chelsea the money teams.
Weagle is renowned for disliking anything ENGLISH…
Doesn’t rate the ENGLISH league
Doesn’t rate young ENGLISH players
Doesnt rate ENGLISH teams
And if the truth be told, he never has a decent word to say about Arsenal who are ENGLISH and he says he supports them ….
Tuchel speaks better English than Arteta, Mourinho, and Klopp. Come to think of it, he speaks better English than some British PL managers.
Emery’s favorite word was protagonist, Arteta’s is project, and Tuchel’s is structure, apparently.
He said it a lot in his post game presser.
I guess we’ll soon find out if his sauce has any.
Wengereagle
Back in the Fergie days there was nobody to compete financially with them. When money started arriving the dynamic changed. No idea what the 1990’s has to do with claiming the PL is the most competitive league.
We won’t agree so we should just agree to disagree.
Still can’t believe that they walked to a PL title with Cleverley, Ashley Young, Antonio Valencia and Welbeck all playing significant minutes.
City at the time had Aguero, Silva, Yaya, Kompany, Nasri, Dzeko, Zabaleta, Milner, Tevez.
Suppose adding Van Persie was the difference. 26 in the league. Wenger’s greatest gift to Fergie.
And we get back Silvestre, lol.
Tom
“Tuchel speaks better English than Arteta, Mourinho, and Klopp. Come to think of it, he speaks better English than some British PL managers.”
Reportedly he took English lessons after he was pushed out of Dortmund. He’s gone to the wrong club though. He won’t need his English langue proficiency for too long.
The man is too controlling and will fall out with technical directors.
I was just reading about Barca’s massive debt. They owe hedge funds everywhere up to one billion dollars.
It’s madness what football has wrought on themselves.
Tom
I never understood a word Emery said. The players had no chance. Mind you as funny as Emery was,the funniest thing I have ever heard is Steve McLaren doing his Dutch accent.
Midwest
No way an Atlanta wouldn’t finish top6 or even top4 in the league or even a Sevilla or an Inter Milan.
Even City with all that money struggle in Europe against any half decent opposition.
United looked like a bottom half team against Sevilla last season in the Europa league.
No one’s said the premier league isn’t competitive but when you compare the quality of football and competitiveness especially last two seasons in say Italy or Spain, the English league is miles behind
Wenger Eagle
Fergie was a genius [ and that word gets used too often]\He beat us in the 2011 FA cup quarter final with 7 defenders
The United team that beat us 8-2 had a midfield of Nani, Anderson, Tom Cleverley, Ashley Young. They were effing average and yet the rammed us.
Dissenter
Yes just shirt of £20 billion. Mind you Real Madrid used to rack up debt and get nailed out by the local authority.
This is where FFP had good intentions but has been unworkable. As soon as the big oil states start investing everyone is in trouble trying to keep up.
*short of £20 billion.
Bat_
No they wouldn’t after 10 games and most of their players on the injured reserve list. They wouldn’t be deep enough.
Take out Leicester’a fluke win and you have 4 different winners in 15 years (United, City, Chelsea, Liverpool).
In Ligue 1 in that time you have 7 different winners (Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Marseille, Montpellier, PSG, Monaco)
In La Liga, 3 winners in Barca, Real and Atletico.
In Italy, 3 winners in Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus.
In Germany you have 4 winners in Stuttgart, Wolfsburg, Dortmund and Bayern.
So it’s been more competitive than Spain, Italy and Germany but less so than France. Before PSG’s Oil takeover, you could argue that Ligue 1 was the most competitive in fact.
AFC
…but Bielsa doesn’t speak English and his team plays faster paced football that’s exciting to watch when it comes off.
I think Emery’s language problems made it hard for him to win any boardroom battles behind the scenes. He let Raul get away with murder. How do you go from wanting a league forged Zaha to a one season Ligue un wonder for 72 million?
How do you go from wanting defenders and asking for Mustafi to leave to having the club spend 28 million on a 19 yr old that was loaned back..Mustafi didn’t leave.
Pierre
You’re going to have to get over people not rating your little pets in Willock and Nketiah you wet lettuce.
I have been as vigourous in my praise of Saka and Smith-Rowe as anyone on here, last I checked both were English.
And you must have severe learning difficulties if you come to the conclusion after reading all of my posts on here that I have nothing positive to say about the club.
It’s not fair what they’ve done to Ceballos 🙂
We brought his nemesis from Madrid to torment him even more
Mid
Bit of a stretch to say that Juve, Milan and Atalanta would be midtable PL sides no?
Midwest
What’s so special about the English league that would have most of their players injured after 10games?
Its the same 38game season everywhere. Lot’s of games in England are slow paced and dull and drab and boring too. Matter of fact it’s the English teams that would maybe not meet up with the pace of certain foreign teams if they played in England.
It’s the stupid congested football calendar and players dropping like flies that serves as some kinda show that the league is so fast paced that players drop like flies
Winning a one off.. European tournament is much different then winning in a League where you cant take off games. Fiorentina, Bologna, Udinese, Spezia.. Genoa.. Benevento.. Not playing my first team. not even counting the bottom 5 teams that give up about 80 goals a year each. Parma and the like.
So not I don’t think it’s stretch.. would be interesting to find out though.
There I did it.. combining Serie a and the EPL next season.. Who’s in.. hahaha
Ref was a disgrace last night. It’s annoying cos it’s not in our minds, it’s blatantly obvious our players are carded quicker, and more harshly than our opponents. Who hardly get any cards for repetitive fouls. Somebody said this on the last post ” Kick the ball into Friends nuts” which got me thinking. When we have Ref’s who are Cnuts like that the players should try and get some retribution by kicking the ball at the ref. He has to stop play & give it back so we’re not really affected badly. Once or twice purely accidental like. I’d… Read more »
Round 20 results have been good to us. Just need for the spuds to get beat to make it near perfect.
Un**ed are going to sit back against us Saturday, no way Ole will attack. We beat them at OT last time and if our vital players are fit we are better equipped to break them down this time.
I mean… Udinese drew with Inter at the weekend and with Atalanta the game before. Beat Lazio.
Fiorentina beat a full strength Juve 3-0.
Genoa have taken points off AC Milan, Atalanta and Lazio.
Spezia beat Napoli.
Bojangkoesi
They are a wounded animal and it will he a tough game. However, they leave plenty of space to play and they aren’t great defensively. Dangerous around the penalty area and VAR is always a threat like Fernandez. We will definitely hurt them if we bring our A game.
*Bojanglesi
Were they intense matches though? That’s the difference I see between Premier League and many of Serie a matches. And what you hear from players who have played in both Leagues .. 90 mins defending in the PL.. Serie A not so much. Because if you do lose a match to one of the mid-table teams you get Parma next week.. its not as much of a grind over the course of the entire season.
Guess this is why the arguments for a Super League.. Inquiring minds want to find out.
We’re actually one of the last teams that Ole will want to play right now.
Bang in form, bags of pace in our attack and actually going into the game believing that we can win.
Will.be anything but straight forward for them. To me it’s another winnable game.
I will be very disappointed if we don’t win.. and not just because I want to trash talk B.amford.. although that is part of it 😀
Middy On the other side of the coin though, Patrice Evra played for nearly a decade in the Premier League and said that he was shocked by the level up in intensity at Juventus training and said United was a holiday camp in comparison. Narratives take time to shift. For example, ask anyone where to watch attacking and goal filled games and they will likely point you towards the PL. Even though Serie A and the Bundesliga have both been outscoring it for a second season in a row. I disagree that all of the small teams will physically pulverize… Read more »
“Take out Leicester’a fluke win and you have 4 different winners in 15 years (United, City, Chelsea, Liverpool).”
WE
Why take out Leicester?
Also, another thing that might give it additional context is how many times different clubs have won it.
For example in the PL United did it five times , Chelsea and City both did it four times and Leicester and Liverpool each did it once.
While in Bundesliga it’s been pretty much the Bayern monopoly with a short two season brake when Dortmund won it twice in 2011-12 /13 ,and Stuttgart and Wolfsburg one each.
On the other side of the coin though, Patrice Evra played for nearly a decade in the Premier League and said that he was shocked by the level up in intensity at Juventus training and said United was a holiday camp in comparison. _______ True but then again would Ronaldo or Robben have had the career they had.. had they stayed in the PL? I think they would have worn down too quickly and gotten injuries.. Most top players leave the PL eventually to extend their careers. Aguero is about the only one to ride it out long time and… Read more »
Wout Weghorst at Wolfsburg looks a player. Saw him again scoring a majestic chip against Mainz, good feet for such a tall player.. Scores at over 1 every other game in the Budesliga. Surprised he’s not been looked at for the EPL.
United are more dangerous away than at OT.
Sure, they’ll control the possession if forced to, but are much more effective on the counter.
I’m hoping it’s Un**ed’s time to go on another losing streak. Was hoping we would start it but I’m happy enough that SU got in first.
B.amfo.rd like World Football league Power rankings.
http://www.globalfootballrankings.com/
Stats nerds back my findings.. which are based on my highly rated “eye test quotient”
Mid
I’m with you (I think.) I prefer to go with what I see rather than rely on stats. Almost all stats, in football, are subjective anyway.
The prem isn’t necessarily the highest quality league each year (sometimes is tho) but it’s clearly the most entertaining Juve have won how many titles in a row in Italy? The Bundesliga has been won by Bayern in something like 20% throughout all of history which is a truly miserable stat. The French league belongs to PSG. La Liga belongs to Real and Barca. At least in England we can’t be 80% certain who will win the league before a ball has been kicked. That’s not the case in any other league except Spain where you can be 90% certain… Read more »
Dari.ano will be hoping for a utd win this sat
http://www.globalfootballrankings.com/compare?first=BarclaysPremierLeague&second=ItalySerieA
You can compare and combine leagues and it will tell you where every team would rank relative to each other for giggles if you want. Only 1 team from Serie A made the top 5 of combined PL and Serie A.
What I can gather is the ratings are based on expected goals for and against for every match played and then averaged or something.
Midwest you can’t statistically compare teams across leagues that easily but it’s still interesting to look at
China, England has the best league in the world. Nearly every other league is dominated by one big team. We have more money, fairly distribute, which makes every team a credible threat. No other league boasts that. Madrid and Barca can dominate their league because they take all the money at the cost of the rest of the teams being pretty shite. Same in nearly every other league in Europe. The Premier League is stronger. Factually. It’s not a debate. We might not always have ‘the’ best team, but we always have the best league pound for pound. It’s more… Read more »
I know.. right. Just looking around to see if somebody had tried to quantify it. somehow.. and sure enough there it was.
China
The worst part about Bundesliga and League Un is that Bayern and PSG can have pretty much any player who’s not necessarily inclined to go abroad, but still wants top wages and a shot at major trophies.
And the English league isn’t pony outside of Pool and City?
5 points off champions league. Ozil gone, youngsters starting, mari and cedric showing class, pepe showing…something resembling talent.
Must be strange for all the ‘fans’ who want teta sacked and the whole squad sold. 🤣
This season thing may be slightly different. At the beginning of the season, most people predicted ManCity-Liverpool for the title and by the look of thing it is ManCity title to lose. So Competitiveness is relative. In Italy for the first time, there is genuine competition and nobody can predict how the top 6 will finish. In France, there is a small group of teams that will push PSG a lot further than previously: Lille, Lyon, Monaco, Rennes. I still expect PSG to finish 1st, but I doubt that people are certain the order for the other teams. I think… Read more »
Premier league most competitive yet Arsenal haven’t come close to challenging for the title since 2004.
Leicester won the league because all the big teams dropped down to their level and each lost 10 games or more.
Pedro the truth is in spite of us having the best league and sometimes the best team, there’s an awful lot of meh in the PL in any given season. Most years one or at most two of the big teams show up and totally wreck the league and the rest of the league are all varying degrees of ok-poor. In many cases the reason why weaker teams appear to often take scalps of big teams is because the big team is having a poor season On paper most of the teams that beat us are a fraction of our… Read more »
When you stop to think about it it’s very unusual for the prem to have 3 team challenge for the title in a single season and in many years there won’t even be two credible teams
The key thing that makes the PL more interesting is which team wrecks the league cycles from year to year and isn’t known before a ball is kicked – but look at any season in isolation and it tends to consist of one totally dominant team or at best two, much like Spain.
I rated MO before he went to RM and felt that MO would suffer lack of game time at RM unless he brought elite form to the starting 11 hitting the ground running. However, as with Barca and other top elite clubs and new elite-in-the-making young players’ they often falter in their first season or 2 at elite clubs. Often is the case for Ajax/Leipzig/Beyer etc young players who take time to settle into their transfers. Look at the Chavs and their latest signings of Werner and Haverz. There is no doubting MO is what we need player quality wise,… Read more »
He may yet come good but I always said with Werner I never quite got the hype. His numbers looked awesome in Germany but every time I saw him play he looked very average and I couldn’t see where those numbers were coming from. Same when I e seen him in the national team, the times I’ve watched he didn’t look like an international for an elite team.
Not entirely surprised to see him struggling
If you are one that likes to get the pronunciation of our players right; according to a Norwegian commentator, Ødegaard is pronounced urdagoid or urdagoyd.
An amendment to last post. Ødegaard is pronounced urdagoi or urdagoy.
Arteta still has a lot to do to prove that the project is the correct one to take us to the ‘top’ (in my opinion, and you can freak out if you want to that statement, I couldn’t care less). What he has finally started doing is playing attacking football. That win against Southampton was one of our best games to watch, while still being defensively a little suspect. Leno for all the stick he got when we sold Martinez is showing some great form. He has kept us in the game (or kept the momentum on our side by… Read more »
There will be a proper balance between attack and defence when 1) xhaka is upgraded upon and Partey is the new guys partner; 2) Luiz isn’t in the 11; 3) Pepe either pulls his weight and man’s up a bit in defence and press (his abysmal effort for defending their goal was seriously bad to watch); 4) Bellerin is either subbed for Cedric or sold and replaced by better than Cedric/AMN; 5) Leno can release a lot earlier which he was doing last match; and 6) we have a player that belongs to us to compete with esr (in terms… Read more »
But in saying the above, martinelli left and saka right will reduce the need for Pepe.
Also sorry for my blog in a blog.
Goober “But in saying the above, martinelli left and saka right will reduce the need for Pepe” I’ve always thought Pepe’s best position focus is freedom with the old inside left/right positions where he player against Southampton and was showing signs of what’s locked inside Pepe that generational coach Arteta is supposedly good at bringing the best out of players ala City’s Sterling. Problem is Arteta has had Pepe for more than a year and only found Pepe’s best position in the last game and probably more by luck than judgement. Say’s more about Arteta than it does Pepe and… Read more »
Man u were dumped out of the CL by RB liepzig, meanwhile they are 2nd in the strongest league
Lmfaooo!
Martin Odegaard is a fan of Fabregas , If he plays anything even remotely similar to him we will improve a Lot !
He’s got to play good enough to warrant keeping, but bad enough that rm don’t want him back and sell. Then he can explode for us next season 😂😂
By the way where are you from Sherlock?
Tony, We will have to see how Pepe is utilised from now, his ‘better’ performances have come from the left in my opinion. I think it was Weagle or mid west saying that you can count the number of good Pepe performances on your ears. He isn’t shit. But he is 100% a counter attacking player. And his pressing is bang average. We already work around xhaka to build the tactics and formation. Can’t do it for both to fully utilise them. We have definitely picked up the pace on attacking impetus, so let’s see what we can do against… Read more »
If i know Arteta..
Pepe won’t start at the weekend.( if Aubameyang is fit)
Odegaard will never play in centre mid.
The team will always play/start with 2 holding midfielders.
If Tierney is fit , Cedric should be moved over to right back…I’m goung to say that he will start cedric at right back as it is very dificult to leave him out of the side.
Let me get this right, some fans are saying just because English teams are getting knocked out of Europe by supposedly lesser teams, the EPL is weak.
I hate MU more than any other team but let’s get Leipzig playing in the EPL win in week out for a few months and then we’ll see how they perform in Europe.
The English games structure and demands goes against teams when they play in the CL and Europa League. Whereas the PL and FA are not flexible and offer no leeway, abroad it is the complete opposite.
Goober
I am from India mate .
Graham62
You’re making excuses, English sides dominated Europe in the 70’s and 80’s.
I think Ødegaard will leave Madrid , until Zidane’s there . At the end of the day he simply wants to play more. He is seeing players his age playing for big clubs like Haaland , his norwegian teammate . Just hope Arsenal make an attractive proposition to him and Madrid in summer.
Emmanuel Frimpong who moved from City to Celtic for 250,000 2 years ago has now been sold to Leverkusen for 13mil or something. City will recieve 4 mil from this deal.
We also need to do deals like this for our U23 players who aren’t going to make it at Arsenal but could become good football players. Malen, Jeff are some of the players that come to mind.
Of the current crop of players I’d say Osei-tutu, Trae Coyle, Ben Cottrell, Akinola could fit into this category.
Henry 19
Different times, different structures.
Watch the European leagues closely and you’ll see how much effort is taken these days, by their governing bodies, to ensure that their teams perform to their optimum level.
The EPL don’t give a flying fcuk.
What more can the EPL do, they’ve banned Cup replays and are allowing 5 subs 8n Cup games, no excuses for not competing in Europe.
I’m wondering which group of people are in the best place to actually confirm the competitiveness of a league. Fans, punters, pundits or players and coaches who have actively competed in different leagues?
Henry 19
Sorry but you don’t seem to get it.
Look at the domestic fixtures of the top teams in Europe prior to the crucial CL ties in recent years,
Games played earlier. Hardly any huge games ie Barcelona v RM / BM v Dortmund or Juventus v Milan etc.
Quite often they can put out reserve teams and rest their better players.
It’s been that way for about twenty years,
Haven’t you noticed?
I’m not being biased here, all I’m saying is that, for the most part, European teams are better prepared.
Brexit teams aren’t.
Sid,
38-year-old Jagielka bossing it against league leaders.
Elite league my ass. 😁
Chelsea the epitome of Premier League – lots of money, little class
The EPL would prefer to make an extra £100m( from the Far East) by televising a Liverpool v MC game on a Sunday at 4pm, knowing that both teams have crucial games in Europe on the Tuesday or Weds, rather than think I know, let’s play the game two days earlier to give the teams time to prepare.
It is a massive disadvantage to the Brexit teams.
Humongous!
The strongests EPL teams are owned by foreigners so claiming the EPL is the strongest compesates the hurt feelings/egos of the English.
Im telling you for free!
Graham62
Brexit teams filled with EU Nationals.
yep Tony completely agree , browsing through the papers this morning Ian wright seems to think ESR and Partey were both cramp related substitutions which is a relief , I am still not convinced by Arteta but was swayed by others and at the end of the day I really want arsenal to succeed or at the very least be respected. onto the manu game , like yourself I am of the opinion if he starts willian we loose that’s how bad that guy is playing at the moment and the same goes for Enketiah , Auba should be back… Read more »
H19
That’s irrelevant.
Only thing I’ll say Shaun is that if I was swayed by people on here rather than what I see, I’d be rimming Arteta with a good old reach around happening right about now.