Arsenal take on Man City at the Emirates this evening, in what is the biggest game of the season so far.
Here are the official line-ups.
Arsenal: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah
Subs: Turner, White, Tierney, Holding, Kiwior, Vieira, Trossard, Nelson, Cozier-Duberry
Man City: To follow
Subs:
Whyyyyyy
Not fit, I guess
I was mostly lamenting the cruelty of the gods.
I guess Arteta was tempting fate when he said that, bar something happening to the players while they were in bed, they were all fit
No Partey tonight then. Gutted.
Muscular injury.
No Partey, no Jesus for the biggest game of our season.
But Klopp tells us how lucky we are with injuries.
And if we lose tonight, it’ll be all about how badly we are “choking”.
Better not lose then!
COYFG!!!!
But imagine if we didn’t buy Jorginho, It would have been Lokanga today!
Maybe white, then tomi at RB. Or zinc/Tierney LB
Yes, we would rue that poor decision.
A sort of Lokanga rue, if you will.
COME ON YOU REDS!
Nooooo where is Partey!!!! Jorginho time to show your worth
Finally taking White to the bench. Go Gunners!!
Devastating news, but still have to believe. GOYG!!!
This is war.
Mmmm. This will not be an easy one. No Partey complicates things. But we’ll be fine
Damn man, of all the games for Partey to miss 🤦🏻♂️ up the Arsenal!
Letss gooo! COYG! 3 points we need!
1 would do but yeah let’s go…
This team has spoilt us fans. From hoping we’d get a point to believing we can go for 3 points. What shambles of emotion. But seriously, let’s gooo! Jorge, STFU n deliver today!
Balls
No pressure Jorge…
So we’re about to find out if our January transfer business was a master stroke or a master joke. Praying for the former, of course.
No. Everything does not rest on this one game.
Yeah I meant Jorge coming in for partey? I was in no way suggesting that EVERYTHING rested on this game. Sorry to have confused you.
Why do I always await approval? I’ve been here for years! 😒
Same here. I had a bit of a negative period with emery and even arteta but was not impolite to anyone. And now 2 yrs always need to be approved. Blogs is tough and accepts a certain audience in his halls.
Partey absence might be a blessing in disguise
How?
Of course if we win 1-0, Jorginho is an overnight hero.
Only if they’d have tried to play him with the injury. I remember how that went a couple of years ago, so probably the right call.
Well, that’s why we bought him, in case of this exact situation.
Fingers crossed. COYG.
True but I’d rather we needed him in an easier game
i’d rather he wasn’t signed at all!
I think Arsenal still has sufficient firepower to put the scammers to the sword. COYFR
Let’s show them how to really abuse FFP – fucking football perfected
Let’s fooking go
City only playing 3 defenders should mean more space for Saka and Martinelli as they won’t be doubled up.
Seems like their plan is to pack the midfield – probably because Pep assumed TP would start. If Jorginho is outnumbered in the middle, we may have a problem.
A draw would be a good result. 0-0 wouldn’t surprise me.
Unfortunately, I think City win tonight and then go on to win the league by around 10 points.
Come on Arsenal, don’t bottle it.
Depends on whether look like 3 or 5 at the back.
CØYG!!!!!!
CØYG!!
Bold line up.
I wish we did have Steve Bould to help us deal with Haaland.
without partey, i fear the worst
We can’t just rely on one midfield player, however good. We have a winner taking his place but we all need to pray.
correct, which is why edu and the club should have done something about this situation last january, over the summer, or even last month
Anyone know ESR’s estimated return? It’s a little stab in the gut every time he doesn’t make the bench. Just get him some stem cell injections already!
Horse placenta please
well it was nice while it lasted…
Lol writing off the season because a player you don’t like has to start due to injury, some fan you are.
What’d you think about Jorge nicking that pass and playing that delicious through ball to Nketiah?
what do you think about having to adjust our entire gameplan to accommodate his lack of pace. seems great.
No problem thus far. Hasn’t put a foot wrong. 100% pass rate i believe and two intricate passes to set up good scoring chances.
What else you got?
defend the player all you like, i’m not going to change your mind, and i’m not trying to. he’s not a player for this team and was a desperate signing on deadline day because our recruitment team failed to adequately prepare.
But let’s cry about it over and over again because obviously Lokonga is a better option.
We tried to sign other players but were priced out of the ones we wanted and ended up with a nice piece of business on deadline day for situations just like this.
Just a bit tired of your narrative.
you’re the one attempting to force a binary decision on me, so the narrative isn’t mine, fella
Lazy analysis.
Partey is always missing in this game. We’ll never truly know how much we have grown against Man C – our biggest opponent
Lee Mason probably snuck in and kicked Partey in training.
This is Jorginho’s moment to shine. Go on, convince us by putting those cheating fucks back in their box!
COYG!
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Saka getting his legs hacked by Silva at the first attempt for no foul. Fuck these referees man.
He got away with it so many times until Taylor FINALLY issued the long overdue yellow.
Gundogan is man marking Jorginho
I just wonder if White would have made such a horrendous mistake as Tomiyasu just made..
Tomi had an absolute stinker. But so did Granit.
Partey is always missing in this game. We’ll never truly know how much we have grown against Man C – our biggest opponent
We’re paying big time for having such a young team. And Pep changed the game with his switch (Akanji in). Well, f*ck!
How can you pay for having a young team ?
All of them are internationals and most played at the world cup.
We paid for dithering in the transfer market – let’s be honest no one wanted Jorginho and we really needed a striker.
I just hope we can get some form back because this result is an absolute worse case scenario for us.
I just hope we still finish top four because that’s not set in stone by any means.
Because we made stupid mistakes and did not find ways to play around their press.
Jorghino was more than ok today. I don’t want to think about what would have happened with Sambi in that midfield.
But I agree, Eddie was not good enough today.
Nketiah has had three clear headers unmarked and hasn’t got one on target ffs
Gabriel always seems to have a brain fart in him. Becoming less convinced with him each week. He was culpable for their second goal and was just bailed out with an offside.
Pressure is on now to beat Everton at home, but on our current form I can see them taking points from us.
1 point from 9 now, we need to change this form otherwise we have no chance.
Not one shot on target in the second half.
That’s it – every one of our detractors proven correct.
Just a season like the ten seasons before it.