Rival Watch

silver wrote:I have got to say the way United didn't fold against Chelsea (unlike us), we are going to lose against them unless we hurry up and get our act together.

We couldnt even beat the Spuds at home, United will be tough and I dont think we can beat them. I dont think we can beat any top 10 teams.

Arsenal seem to always lose to Man Utd regardless how poo Utd are at the time.

We will create 10000 chances against United only to concede from a van Persie thunderstrike in the 96th minute. It is known.

urbaNRoots wrote:We will create 10000 chances against United only to concede from a van Persie shoulderstrike in the 96th minute. It is known.

Agreed

urbaNRoots wrote:We will create 10000 chances against United only to concede from a van Persie thunderstrike in the 96th minute. It is known.

That was the old Arsenal..the new Arsenal will still lose but without creating any chances.

Man if we don't beat United...

Lol Raptor you're right to be fair.

We will make 10000 passes in our third and concede from a Flamini own goal. That's more 2014-like.

All wins are good although some can still be ugly. Ours this year I classify in the ugly category. We dominate possession without really threatening. Then just as we are about to completly loose our temper we will pull a goal from seemingly nowhere. I am still waiting for that first game where we look dominate form start to finish and actually showing some progression towards consistency and better form.
My Opinion is that Wenger will go into this game almost like he is scared. He will change the formation back to 4-1-4-1. We will posses the ball for about 70% of the time. Creating several half chances although nothing truly dangerous. If manu actually put effort into attacking us (unlike Burnley) our mid field will show it's holes and be overrun at times. They will probably have the better of the chances and we will be lucky to keep a clean sheet. All while waiting for someone, most likely Alexis to create and score on his own. If we make it to half time and are not chasing the game, then we will wait until the 80th minute for Wenger to make changes to the team and hope that the subs can be a part of saving us again.

Our which set of central defenders you prefer for that match?
smalling/jones-rojo or the kids combo of mcnair-blackett ??

you can play fergie and LVG at CB and i highly doubt we will score more than 1 lol

Rojo out for 6 weeks to 3 months.


Looks like Fergie-LVG is an increasing possibility.

They'll both have worldies and keep a magnificent clean sheet.

Relevant reminder that United once beat us with a midfield four of Fabio - Gibson - O'shea - Rafael (and a midfield trio of O'Shea - Rafael - Gibson in the second half) so I don't think it matters who plays in that fixture

Because they were our most recent rival to play and now they're our next one to face.

Not that there's any excuse for our Anderlecht display - that fault is purely the Arsenal's - but the results of other English teams in the CL at least gives perspective.

Nobody's doing that well at the moment. Chelsea are a big step ahead of every other English club but even they falter when in Europe.

James Milner the striker? Manuel Pellegrini says he may deploy Manchester City's Mr Versatile in No 9 role to solve injury crisis

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini will trial James Milner as a deep-lying centre forward in training this week as he attempts to solve his club’s chronic injury crisis.

City face three matches this month without a fit striker after Edin Dzeko injured his calf before kick-off at Leicester and joined Sergio Aguero and Stevan Jovetic on the casualty list.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2873827/James-Milner-striker-Manuel-Pellegrini-says-deploy-Manchester-City-s-Mr-Versatile-No-9-role-solve-injury-crisis.html


wow was just reading that

who would have thought!!
but Milner
hope we get him for free

City, Spurs, Southampton and West Ham all win

Man United draw

Chelsea are away to Stoke on Monday

A win tomorrow puts us 6th, behind Southampton on goal difference and within 3 points of United in 3rd.

Shame we won't win

But atleast we'll be one more point away from United rather than 3

why do you guys think you wont win...Although we are home, I would put that 30-70 to us. Everyone knows we are so so shit, specially with that 3-4-2-1 thing. I am damn sure we are going to concede, so it will be matter if Sterling and company can finish few 1-2 chances and get us to match the number of goals you guys are going to score.

because we never win in big matches.

haha, I had forgotten that, although it is not entirely true !!! But that certainly gives me some hope

We are still a big team

Win tomorrow takes us two clear of Spurs who lost to Palace.

Soton and United playing gives us a shot at gaining ground on one of them.

MJ wrote:
Soton and United playing gives us a shot at gaining ground on one of them.

Or both. But in all likelyhood, I expect the home team to win comfortably.