It’s the 5th round of the FA Cup and for the third successive season we face Hull City. Let’s hope we make it a hat-trick of victories.
Here are the official line-ups.
Arsenal: Ospina, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Flamini, Elneny, Iwobi, Campbell, Walcott, Welbeck
Subs: Macey, Bellerin, Monreak, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Giroud
Hull City: Jakupović, Davies, Bruce, Maguire, Tymon, Taylor, Meyler, Maloney, Elmohamady, Powell, Diomande
Subs: Kuciak, Odubajo, Huddlestone, Hernández, Diamé, Aluko, Robertson
Come on you Gunners! Excited to see Iwobi and of course Welbeck on the team sheet!
Very strong lineup, and a fantastic bench! Welbz to score a hat trick!
Blogs has missed one name off the Hull list.
I expect Mike Dean to be Hulls best player against us (he usually is!).
Yep, he was definately their best player although their GK also had a great game.
Give them Hull, Danny
Looks good and shows our strength in depth, at last!
COYG!
Really liking that line-up.
No substitutes?
Well
Slight typo Bloggs on Monreak ( Smelly Nacho?? )
Elneny to score his first Arsenal goal today.
It’ll be a an experience for ElNeny to play with the Flamster. Don’t know if that will be good or bad considering both of them like moving up, Flamini trying his best to be the scorer.
Hopefully one of them have been given strict instructions to sit back.
COYG. Third FA Cup in 3 years. Let’s do this.
The benefit of having 2 B2B players both strong on the DM part of the job is that the opposition doesn’t know which one to mark as the B2B (The DM is rarely marked). It should work well as long as they make sure one of them is the DM every time.
It’s the MF equivalent of the front 3 rotating.
Welbck in the Sanchez role or Campbell on the left with Theo on the wing? Probably the latter right?
Hoping flamini stays discipline
Monreak? Oh god, what did Ramsey do to him…
Hope he didn’t cut his balls off
I seen this match already, Elneny scores in the 53rd minute and Welbeck scores in the 65th minute, its an exciting game with some beautiful passing. With Arsenal winning 2-0. Well played lads.
These boys better give me something to celebrate with today being my bday. COYG!!
The wife has just informed me that her father, who has been travelling for two months, it’s coming round at 1pm and we’re going out for lunch.
I need your help with excuses as to why I cannot attend please…
Pub lunch plus TV coverage or lunch post match….
Go on a two hour trip to buy diapers
You need to wait in for the electricity man to read the meter at 2pm…?
Tell her you’ve got to pick up the man from the airport.
Travelling for 2 months.
Has he been in quarantine?
Possible Bird Flu (amongst other things).
Don’t risk it?
Brilliant team selection.
The pace our front three can provide could be mouth watering to watch.
Was playing FIFA 12/13 yesterday at a friend’s place..comparing that squad to this we really have grown in size and quality within a span of 3 years should say.
Retained all the positive aspects of that squad (Mertescielny, Cazorla, Giroud and the British core), and upgraded massively with Ozil and Alexis over the likes of Gervinho and Podolski. Can’t have many complaints 😉
BT Spurt says Coq is also on the bench…(deliberate typooh) 😉
Zip, just tell her no. There is alwats tomorrow.
Exciting line up, happy to get another look at Iwobi.
Is it just me or has all physio and no play made Jack a dull boy?
Don’t know if it’s right time top say it but who’s our backup no 10? If Ozil is to be rested surely we can do better than Iwobi not taking anything from him. We can’t rely on Wilshere and Rosicky both of them are injury prone. And I m sure once Cazorla is fit he will be played centrally and not in no10 role.
We have loads of No 10s.
The issue is that apart from Santi, they’re all a class down on Ozil.
But who isn’t?
Well(come)beck to the first XI Danny
Blogs..are we foregoing our subs for this one?
Not a lot of passers in that team. It’s down to Iwobi. Get on the ball Alex!
Despite the random down votes, I did worry about not having enough passers… all that pace up front but no-one to give them the ball… needed an Arteta, Zelalem type player in there too…
A good side and a very strong bench. Surprised to see Sanchez there. I guess he’s plan B at the 70th minute if we need him.
I say it’s 3-0 with goals from Elneny, Iwobi and Wellbeck!
COYG show us what you’re made of!
Sanchez will sulk if he’s not involved at all….
That’s one of the reasons why he’s so awesome!
😀
Hope for Elneny to score his first goal today