Swansea Vs Arsenal Preview & Live

Swansea Vs Arsenal
Sunday 9th November: 16:00 BST
Liberty Stadium
Referee: Mike Hunt

Call of Arsenal: Advanced Shittery

It actually started to look good with Arsenal when we went on a 3 games win. But obviously it won't be Arsenal if things go smoothly and dare I say normally, as we all know what a torturing team Arsenal really is. 3-0 lead against Anderlecth, everything looking bright and rosy but hey, here is an idea! Let's give up a 3 goal lead and make it even more difficult for ourselves. Rising Morale? Nah mate we only care about doing things as badly as we possibly can. Because as they say, only 3 things in life are certain. Death, Taxes and Arsenal causing mental breakdowns for the fans while creating friction between the set and initiating civil wars between the mass.

But let's move on to the PL, it's not actually all that bad, yet. We did win our last 2 PL games and somehow ended up sitting in our birthright, the fourth spot. However we now travel to Liberty stadium where things have not gone so smoothly over the years. They are a tough side with some quality players and play a style which often causes us problems(that style being pressing us and hitting on the counter, first started by Jesus of Nazareth and Gary Monk will follow in his step). No doubt Arsene will have given the players a right earful after the Anderlecth game so I am and you all as well should be hoping for a quick response. But then we also expect Arsenal to play well and that rarely happens these days.

Arteta got injured again so we will have to play with 10 men(and flamini). Wilshere is back so he will somehow get back in the team and push Sanchez to LB, Gibbs ST and Welbeck at DM. Just so Wilshere can have a great match and we lose 4-0. Ramsey will probably start as well and attempt to recreate Lamela's rabona about 50 times before getting subbed for Podolski in the 88th minute where he will undoubtedly post a new instagram picture while letting his man go past.

I am afraid of Gomis physically abusing Monreal and Mertesacker the most. I am afraid of Gylfi Sigurðsson playing between the lines abusing Flamini and I am afraid of getting hit on the counter time and time again. That all will happen. But hey, I am also expecting Sanchez to carry us and Welbeck to be energetic and Oxlade to carry his fine form. Along with maybe Walcott playing a bit and Gibbs being his awesome self.

In all seriousness. I hope we win on Sunday. I don't have a good feeling but I think we can win if we turn up. Will we? who knows.

Expected Arsenal Team

------------------------------Szczesny---------------------------------
Chambers----------RetiredSacker---------Left Back at CB-------Awesome Gibbs
-----------------------Traffic Police------------------------------------
OxLAD-----------Wilshere-------------Ramsinho-----------------Carry us Sanchez
-------------------------------Wele------------------------------------

Expected Swansea Team

--------------------------Fabianksi---------------------------------
Rangel----------Fernandez---------Williams-------------Taylor
------------------Ki--------------Carroll--------------------------
Montero----------------Sigurdson-------------------------Routledge
------------------------Bony---------------------------------------

Match Facts(fourfourtwo)

• This is Swansea City's best start to a Barclays Premier League season (15 points after 10 matches).
  
• Danny Welbeck has scored three goals in three Premier League appearances against Swansea City.
  
• Arsenal have won just four Premier League matches this season and those have come against teams currently in the bottom six of the table.
  
• Arsenal have scored exactly two goals in each of their last five away trips to Swansea in all competitions. That has been enough for three wins, one draw and one defeat.
  
• There have been nine goals scored in the last 10 minutes of the last six meetings between Arsenal and Swansea in all competitions.
  
• Swansea have dropped the joint-most points from winning positions this season (, while Arsenal have recovered the most from losing positions (7).
  
• The Gunners have conceded five headed goals, accounting for a league-high 45% of all goals shipped and only Burnley ( have conceded more overall.
  
• Arsenal have conceded a league high 64% of goals in the first half of Premier League games this season.
  
• Alexis Sanchez has scored five goals in his last three Premier League games.
  
• Wilfried Bony has scored four goals in his last four Premier League matches.
  

Final Words

Let's hope Fabianski repays us on Sunday

Great work RG.

Traffic Police

Spoiler:

Great work RG - I like how much optimism we all currently share.

Also, don't discount the possibility certainty of an ex-player, playing against us and having the game of his life instead of flapping around.

Don't have any sort of emotion going into this game.
Don't expect anything, most probably going to see an underwhelming performance with Swansea all over us similar to Dortmund against us earlier in the season.

Traffic Police

This is probably the toughest game in our so called "easy run" of winnable games. Swansea are exactly the type of teams we struggle against nowadays, strong at the back and a threat on the counter attack. I am not too confident in getting a result there especially with our patched up back four. I will take result over performance in this one even getting a result itself will require something resembling to a good performance.

Wenger"Chelsea is in a strong position at the moment. It is not realistic to think we will catch back Chelsea very quickly.

Not feeling confident about this match, hope we somehow win it.

Great work with the preview RG!

excellent preview RG.. really brought a smile on my face..

Thanks guys. Just was in that mood


Arsenal team to play Swansea: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs, Flamini, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Alexis, Cazorla, Welbeck

God help us! Monreal against Bony.

Wilshere should be starting over Ramsey and basically anyone over Cazorla, I wonder what they have to do to get benched nowadays.

Ok. Let's do this. 3 points.

I have reached the stage where I am indifferent to performances - they are all shat anyway. Let's atleast get the points.

Is it just me or do we play especially bad in the rain?

It's like our players just don't want to play anymore because, ew it's wet..

VendettaRed07 wrote:Is it just me or do we play especially bad in the rain?

It's like our players just don't want to play anymore because, ew it's wet..

We've been like that for many many years. Pitch sogginess spoils our 'passing game'.

For all the criticism that Özil gets, we are so shit without him.

Meh. The advantage we have on them is our bench. If it stays 0-0 around 60th then we can change the game.

But we nearly conceded like twice so lol

Wele shoulda scored

Need Fabianski to do a Mannone here, stop with that saving shots crap ffs

for a team boasting creative players, that wasn't good enough. Sanchez, Ramsey and Ox are the only ones who have looked dangerous in that first half. Need Santi and Welbeck to do more in the final third, especially Santi. He is the one who can pick a pass or create a bit of magic

RealGunner wrote:Meh. The advantage we have on them is our bench. If it stays 0-0 around 60th then we can change the game.

Assuming AW makes changes before the 89th minute, of course.

urbaNRoots wrote:Need Fabianski to do a Mannone here, stop with that saving shots crap ffs

srigooner wrote:Great work RG - I like how much optimism we all currently share.

Also, don't discount the possibility certainty of an ex-player, playing against us and having the game of his life instead of flapping around.

Carry us Sanchez

Of course we would concede. Sigh.

teeheehee

why i'm not surprised anymore

Epic bottling

Chambers isn't a right back

Can be a fantastic Dm.. But he will continue to get thrashed against pacey wingers