Anyway I may get bashed for saying this but I'll prefer to loose the match playing as
we did against stoke than to draw playing like we did in the first half against city.
Should United play the way
they did against Stoke, few would bet against them putting together a winning run, particularly in this most unpredictable of seasons, where Arsenal, everyone's favourites until a couple of weeks ago, have now fallen to fourth, just five points clear of Van Gaal's side.
He'd had quite the day, much like
he did against Stoke in our last game of 2016 when he scored twice in a 4 - 2 win.
If we play with the precision
we did against Stoke, we can walk away with 3 points.
Arsenal simply have convert more of the 100s of chances they create instead of missing them all like
we did against Stoke last weekend....
He did the job that I don't think welbeck could have
done against stokes centre backs.
Not exact matches
And when westerners actually
do the job of trying to
stoke antagonism
against Jews, you can basically hear ISIS pulling out the thank you cards.
So yet again Arsenal have failed to score again, but at least this time we can say we didn't score
against Barcelona instead of saying Hull City, Southampton or
Stoke!
2)
do nt blame the ref on the
stoke game as if it wasnt for his poor game we should have been 4 - 0 down!!!!!! Everyone gets ref decisions going fore and
against them throughout the season
Chelsea
do not play until Monday and hopefully they will find the trip to
Stoke as unhappy as the Gunners
did recently, but Man City have just gone into a 3 - 0 lead at home
against Crystal Palace and that puts the reigning EPL champs level with Jose Mourinho and his players and a hefty 13 points ahead of Arsenal and a massive 18 points ahead of Liverpool.
If Ozil plays
against Stoke and doesn't perform well, please remember that he has been injured for ages.
And
against bad teams like
Stoke, this should kill them with the quality we have and it
did.
wenger needs 2 be cautious with ozil rotate him regularly don't play in away games especially
against physical teams like
stoke use him more in home games given that refs never favor us while playing away Oscar made several tackle 7 got a yellow card in 88th min while chabers got his yellow after making his 2nd challenge
I don't expect them to drop points
against Stoke and Bournemouth at home, Bournemouth will show fight but I don't think they will get anything.
Then they have the league cup game
against Hull City on the Tuesday after and Hull could
do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to
Stoke and the TV folk have
done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their final UCL game the next Tuesday.
I think per's age is catching up with him, but regardless the way he went up for corners
against stoke and pool was embarrassing I wouldnt expect john terry or kompany to
do that but frankly for me it represents the weak mentality behind some of our players which is then remedied by wenger constantly protecting his players instead of saying it how it is.
First of all I would just like to say thanks to Alan Pardew and the Palace team for rolling over for United after giving their all
against the Gunners, just like
Stoke did with Spurs on Monday and many teams seem to have
done all season, saving their best performances for us.
How
do the board feel when a whole years» hard earned profit is risked on some egotistical man who may not perform well
against Stoke or Newcastle when the kicks come in?
Sure, even Barcelona players are part of the selfie movement, but Barcelona players
do it after winning trophies for several years, not after winning
against Stoke.
We've
done that
against Sunderland, Bournemouth, Hull and now
Stoke..
Jovetic had a good home game
against Liverpool,
against whom he scored a brace; Aguero, in the two substitute appearances, had bagged a couple of goals for himself but,
against Stoke City, he couldn't
do another «Aguerooooo» moment to save the blushes for the sky blues.
We'll only stand a chance if we can beat Chelsea and if we ensure the bad results we had
against Swansea,
Stoke, Tottenham don't happen again.
Jose Mourinho has said that he doesn't want to hear any more about Wayne Rooney's recording breaking goal
against Stoke yesterday.
With a match next weekend
against Stoke looming large, the club would
do well by making sure they focus all their positive energy on getting at least a draw to get things back in the right direction.
Don't forget that the scousers only won their first, dismal, game
against Stoke with a Coutinho wonder strike.
Do you remember the Montero massacre, the dive
against Lukaku, the missed header
against Stoke.
We beat Swansea in their home 3:0 this season, a team we couldn't over in 3 consecutive meetings.We've beaten the 2 Manchester clubs & Chelsea in 2015 and I see us
doing same
against Stoke in Britannia.My final prediction is 1 - 3 in our favour.COYG!
I'd play Alexis
against Southampton, maybe sub him off if needed, but after that he can rest until the City game really, I don't think
Stoke will be much of a threat at the Emirates, nor Hull in the FA Cup.
LOL we're looks like mediocre team
against stoke... hilarious... now what our high class manager (eight million man) gonna to
do...
After ostensibly dropping two points
against Liverpool last night, Arsenal could really
do with getting back to winning ways
against Stoke City on Sunday and banishing the frustration from last nights game.
The consequence is that we always lose
against Chelsea and
Stoke away because they don't play by the rules.
Why,
do we miss all of them for the game
against Stoke?
We
did it last week and it worked well, so I am at a loss as to why Wenger played exactly the same team, except for starting Bellerin, that played
against Stoke at the weekend.
Hope
Stoke can
do us a favour
against Man Utd.
We said the same about Spurs, the same
against Liverpool, the same
against stoke, even Villa at home
did so but lack of quality let them down, they had 605 possession.
Even if we
do manage to win the next two Premier League games, at home to West Brom on Boxing Day and then Crystal Palace on new years day, I
do not expect us to make up any ground on the league leaders, as Chelsea also have two very winnable home games
against Bournemouth and
Stoke City.
Sorry Admin but «Welbeck
did — NOT — play quite well
against Stoke.»
Rosicky
does a job
against Stoke..
Now the 4 -4-2 or the similar 4 -2-3-1 would work nicely for arsenal dependent on the opponent and the players use, i would love to see a welbeck and Sanogo in the first formation
against teams like chelsea,
stoke, mancity, liverpool these teams
do not like playing
against two strikers
against the other teams i would use the latter formaition, in both formation we need to holding MF, preferable a quick physical presence is needed for one while the other is more creative
Liverpool won't win
against Westham, the best they will get is a draw, we just have to take that chance when it comes... however, we have serious work to
do, beat
Stoke and Everton... I wish
Stoke was coming to the Emirates, it would have been a sure 3 points...
He has plenty of international experience, To think that he hasn't been roughed up before is ridiculous,
Stoke City have always been known for their Rugby style of play, especially
against Us, But that doesn't mean that all their player's are all built like Rugby players?
That's what I don't get though, Campbell is smaller than Walcott, played only half a season in England, yet he doesn't struggle
against Stoke's physical play.
We have our best chsnce for a while to
do it with players coming back, if we bring the confidence anf game we had
against stoke who knows.
«Why
did Manchester City not win
against Stoke?
Yes we have
done well but when you think that the teams of Henry's day were much weaker until we came up
against Bolton,
Stoke Middlesborough we never
did well, why because they had a game plan and Arsenal
did not, and it's those games that you need to win with the right team on that day.
Anyway id welcome both Giroud and Lacazette, Giroud brings physicality up top and is great in the air he
does score lots of headers and in tough away games
against the likes of
Stoke and West Brom he's a good tool to have..
There's a problem when a manager begins to compare failure («why
did Man city not win
against Stoke?»).
this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players
against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left
against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left
against city to protect the left back
against navas and i bet you if he
does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger
does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to
stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are
doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just
do well this season after all
So although we will have no Coquelin or Cazorla, we will certainly be much more creative than we were
against Stoke last week, but who
do you think will make up the starting XI?
Let's
do our talking on the pitch by digging deep, taking our chances, scoring goals, playing well
against stoke on Sunday and getting 3 crucial points!