West Brom v Arsenal Preview

Bench: Fabianski; Bellerin, Koscielny; Wilshere, Ramsey; Özil, Giroud;

That'd be my team for tomorrow night. Defensively it looks nice on paper but if things aren't going well in attack we have a decent bench to make changes.

A win would mean our great run continues, so it'd be nice if we win in the end even if it means going in extra time or penalties. As for the cup, I'm not really interested in it, if we lose it'd be a shame sure but if playing a weaker team means having a fitter squad against Swansea and Napoli then I guess it'll be worth it. But this team can keep it tight until the end when we introduce 3 of Wilshere, Ramsey, Özil and Giroud and hopefully win the game.

It will be a tough game, West brom will be up for this and will probably play their strongest team. This is a good chance for Ryo and Gnabry to justify all that hype. I can't believe Lugano plays for West brom, what a pub teamer  

tough away game.. i think Wenger will play a stronger team than expected..

Fabianski or Viviano..?
if Viviano gets the nod, i feel really sad for Fabianski.. he shuould not have waited this summer unless he is happy to sit in the bench and earn wages.. at the same time there is no reason we signed Viviano on loan if we are not planning to play him at all..

Viviano will start because Fabianski just came back from injury, I think.

4 Per Mertesacker
5 Thomas Vermaelen
8 Mikel Arteta
13 Emiliano Viviano
17 Nacho Monreal
20 Mathieu Flamini
21 Lukasz Fabianski
23 Nicklas Bendtner
25 Carl Jenkinson
30 Ju-Young Park
31 Ryo
37 Chuba Akpom
40 Hector Bellerin
42 Thomas Eisfeld
44 Serge Gnabry
45 Isaac Hayden
53 Kristoffer Olsson
60 Alex Iwobi

So...

First XI: Viviano/Flappy; Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Monreal; Flamini, Arteta, Eisfeld; Ryo, Bendtner, Gnabry;

Bench: Flappy/Viviano; Bellerin, Hayden; Olsson, Iwobi; Park, Akpom.

^ any other CB options other than Vermelen and Metskr in this squad ?

Hayden has played as a CB few times for reserves. I think he will be the backup to Verm-Mert.

The squad for the CoC is weaker than the previous years. Expect anything. If you know what i am hinting at.

But, let's of course try our best. Hopefully WBA put out a weak team which i doubt but yeah.

Looking forward to see Ryo, Gnabry, Olsson and Akpom.

Hayden is a centre back and a pretty decent talent, too.

I don't have particularly high hopes tonight. Our defence and midfield will actually be pretty good - certainly good enough to play West Brom. However, it's hard to see that attack doing enough to win us the game tonight. Eisfeld is okay but Gnabry is very inexperienced and Miyaichi and Bendtner aren't anywhere near match fit. What's more, we don't have the bench to really change the game. The team we start with will have to win it.

I want us to do well in this competition but at that stage, ensuring that the likes of Gibbs, Ramsey, Wilshere and Giroud get some rest is a bigger priority since they've played every game so far and we've got two difficult games against Swansea and Napoli to come.

It's a shame, though. Imagine if we didn't have any injuries. We could have played:

Looking forward seeing Bendtner, it has been a long time.  A tough game, lets hope we can walk away with a victory.

The line up should be interesting. 

Raptorgunner wrote:Looking forward seeing Bendtner, it has been a long time.  A tough game, lets hope we can walk away with a victory.

The line up should be interesting. 

You serious Raptor  

Lol i want to see him too tbh

Rami is 100% available in jan  , lets gooooo wenger.

Bendtner showed his quality when he was at Sunderland, scoring 8 times in 30 appearances and, to be honest, his numbers with us aren't too bad either. It's just that darn stinking attitude of his

I'm excited to see him as well

Reading through his career history, he's scored some very important winners for us over the years

REWB wrote:Rami is 100% available in jan  , lets gooooo wenger.

ahh dam wrong thread

EL Patron wrote:

Raptorgunner wrote:Looking forward seeing Bendtner, it has been a long time.  A tough game, lets hope we can walk away with a victory.

The line up should be interesting. 

You serious Raptor  

I am serious, I think he will score today.

I am sure Bendtner is Arsenal's current top scorer or something

Only Walcott has scored more

You're not far off, actually. Walcott is the top scorer right now with 51. Bendtner has 45.

He's also one of our longest serving players.

I dont think this is the same bendtner, he has changed. 
My money on Bendter no score 3 goals today to put the pressure on Theo record.