Arsenal Vs Manchester City

Only match more difficult than this would have been Man City away. But at least we can get this out of the way. And probably the best time to play city too since some of their key players are out. Not that will change much since their B team was exceptional against Chelsea in the community shield.

A new era under Emery. Baptism by fire. I think it would be unfair to expect a masterclass tomorrow since i don't think we are there where he wants us to be but i hope we don't get embarrassed. All eyes will be on us tomorrow. Hopefully we can start the season with a win.

Team should be interesting. I am not sure XHAKA is fully fit and Guendouzi had a brilliant pre-season but will Emery risk him? Not sure.


--------------------------Cech-----------------------------------
Bellerin---------Sokratis----------Mustafi------------Maitland-Niles
----------------XHAKA----------Torreira--------------------------
-------------------------Ramsey---------------------------------
Ozil---------------------Lacazette----------------------Aubameyang

Something close to that.

If we start well and don't make defensive blunders, we can win!

Come on ARSENAL!

NEW ERA
Lets go

Interested too see if both Laca and Auba will start

really wish this fixture was a bit later in to the season

but Nonetheless
we got this

COYG

#Arsenal will train at the Emirates the day before every home Premier League game.

— Gurjit (@GurjitAFC) August 11, 2018

hmm
this is a new thing

What are those numbers at the back? To aid in training?

I recall Henry once saying he knew exactly where to take a shot from at Highbury. Would be mindblowing if this current bunch (best attack we've had since 07/08) could do something halfway similar!

Err Torreira, hope it’s just fitness issue. I will take a draw and some good football

Twoism wrote:Err Torreira, hope it’s just fitness issue. I will take a draw and some good football

lack of pre-season mate

Mildly surprised to see Guendouzi starting, but pretty excited about that.

Also, Ramsey on the wing? Or Özil LW 2.0? With AMN behind him too? Uh oh.

Sri wrote:

Gwen Granit
Rambo 1Ö Mick
PEA

yea this make more sense lol

Problem is, that would have no real width.. Neither Rambo nor Micky are wingers in the truest sense.. So we might be seeing a lot of passing and no end product through the middle..

Feels like AW never left

I didn't watch preseason. This is the first game I am gonna watch in over a year

I just don't like Mesut on the wings is all.

Lets do this
COYG

Well if it gets him to sign a new contract, I am ok with it.

Not like we're gonna get anything tangible out of the game today anyway.

urbaNRoots wrote:
It's not the best position for him but for the team it can work really well, maybe even better than him centrally.

Nope, I don't see it at least in these 25 minutes. He's not the best defender and its probably better if he and Ramsey swapped places.

Guendozi kinda get murdered out there

Playing out from the back with our GK and defenders against City pressing lol

Still early days, but at least there's some positive signs.