Going to be a tough game, i would of liked to of played Portsmouth in January, because their players are in that African cup.

Hope van Persie's back. These injuries he keeps getting must be frustrating for him (and us)

Trust Pompey to score their first home goal in a million years against us.

From Glory Glory

:lol:

What a tool, Almunia didn't move an inch until that ball was struck!

Pompey are getting spanked 2-0 by 'Pool already, it's only 17 minutes in :good:

:lol:

I take it you posted this in the wrong thread :unsure:

i think we'll have them, they seem to of lost a bit of their swagger lately.

potential banana skin, but i'll go for a narrow Gooner win.

I think i predicted 1-0 on predict the score.

In a way losing 4-1 away will help us - it will give us confidence after their great run.

Hwoever they always do well against us at their place and the victory will hurt them whih might not be a good thing

Pompey are probably the most athletic team in the league. They've got huge, black monsters (sorry if that's racist :rolleyes:) all over the place. They're Arsenal of 03/04 but without as much technical ability.

If we play Rosicky, Hleb, Van Persie and Fabregas, we're going to get hammered. And I'm not joking. Me thinks we'll need to start Diaby and Eduardo for this game.

I think it'll be 2-1 to Pompey.

:doh: :getcoat:

Eduardo is more lightweight than van Persie.

:thumbdown:

It'll be a hard game. If they beat us with Rosicky, Fabregas etc it won't be a hammering, it'll be a narrow win.

It'll be a tough game, but i think we can win it.

3-0 for Pompey :(

Well you always predict us to lose :lol:

you can hardly call our players strangers to the "physical" game now - we've developed to the stage where we can handle it

flamini will be able to return the favour in midfield as will eboue and others

I do hope theo recovers and plays, also who reckons 442 or 451? and bendtner or rvp to partner ade? I'm going with 442, ade and bendtner as things stand

you should always play your form players :good:

I can see Ade giving Campbell and Distin all sorts of problems.

If we get the first goal, we'll win.

RVP might not be available for this game. Maybe we can use 2 monsters up front in Ade and Bendy. They should be able to match Pompey big defenders.

If van Persie doesn't start it's almost certain that we'll play 4-5-1 :sulk:

He will start :coffee:

if adebayor scores, we will not lose! turned out true against spurs as well... they missed a penalty! he has magical powers.. :ninja:

:D

They've been disastrous at home this season, only won twice. We go there at a good time.

It would have been great to play them during the AcON, obviously. I'm staying optimistic for this one although whenever I wake up early for matches we get a bad result. :lol:

I wouldn´t risk van Persie in the first half. Is it possible to start with Bendtner and Eduardo, and this time sit Ade and RVP ?? Then, depending on the condition of their defenders (or some of them could get booked without Bendtner getting killed, he´s quite strong :satan: ), the togolese or the dutch could get in and secure a victory. (I´d like the Dane would´ve scored before that, with another flying header!!). :geek:

Arsene should just start the CC squad.

Fabianski

Traore
Song
Toure
Sagna

Randall
Fabregas
Diaby
Hleb

Eduardo
Bendtner

Well .. mainly CC squad.

1 - 7 to Arsenal.

:coffee:

""Arsenal may opt against playing Robin van Persie after he was not risked against Tottenham."


I think we'll still win this game.

I hope we play 4-4-2 with van persie up front :pray:

Lets hope he's fit.

He can still become top scorer in the league. Ever since Henry left (and was injured) like last season, there aren't any 'real' goal scorers left who'll get 30 goals in the prem. Drogba got 20 in the prem last season.

At the moment Ade is top with 10 goals? This season RVP has 5 goals in 7 games. Once he hits form he just keeps scoring (of course untill he gets injured again :crying: )

I think we'll see the dreaded 4-4-1-1 again, with RVP maybe on the bench.

I want RVP back in the side now .
And back to 4 4 2 please even if we are away nxt 2 games

I wouldnt mind seeing the same team start again.

Maybe RVP in for Eboue with Hleb on the right

Not sure why but ive got a feeling we're going to hammer them 3 or 4 nil, we're due a great performance i think and Hleb and Fab have both had a couple of matches under their belt now, they should be back to their best ;)

Unfortunately we will have to put up with their pathetic fans.

Their fans are ok , could be worse, its not a bad place to go to actually

Play up Pompey, Pompey play up x 10000

Could there be a more annoying chant?

Exactly

And that prat with the bell, even his own fans are getting pissed off with it.

He's called John Portsmouth FC Westwood :lol:

I think I'd shoot him if I had to put up with him and that bell if I sat near him.

Remember when they once gave Henry a standing ovation at Fratton Park? I thought they had good fans!

Their at home, what else do expect them to shout about their team, Henry liked it their best ground he played at he said.

They do have good fans, they just have the worst chants and the most annoying fan in the history of the game.