Our first home game of the season

More importantly my first match thread :woohoo:

5-0

Seriously - Pompey are dross.

:goodpost:

I'll be there :D

If we don't win this then we have serious problems.™

Our first win of the season :scarf:

We are shite cant hold on to clean sheet. 2-1 to Pompey, RVP to get his first red card of the season. :coffee:

So, how many next week?

No reason to think we won't smash this lot, if we can do that to a team supposedly hunting for 4th.

We shouldn't get too caried away. I'll accept a comfortable boring win and no injuries in preparation for the manc match.

2 - 0 to us. Arshavin, Eduardo

Me too :D

They look awful but we shouldn't take our foot off the gas. It's park the bus for a point time for them and down to us to break em down. Judging on today we should be ok.

10-0 easy :good:

I'm gonna definatley put some arsenal attackers in my fantasy league team for this one! Should be a goal fest they're not the same team as they were

We should go all out attack

-------------------------------Almunia

--------------------------Vermaelan---Gallas

---------------------------------Cesc

Wilshere---Walcott---RvP----Eduardo---Bendtner-----Arshavin----Vela

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Tickets on General Sale now.


Might try and get a couple for myself.

Surprised it's not sold out, first home game and all that.

I suspect after Saturday's showing they'll be snapped up pretty soonish.

Hope we get to see Walcott and Edurado start this one, Wilshere to come on too would be nice

Almunia

Sagna Gallas Vermaelen Clichy

Denilson Song Cesc

Arshavin Eduardo RVP

Theo in for RVP. Bendtner in for Eduardo. And that's what Wenger will go with.

Never been so sure of anything in my whole life.

If Theos fit, id have him in there as well

We'll win and win well™

surely this is a chance to rest players?

Almunia
Eboue Gallas TV5 Clichy
Walcott Denilson Song Arshavin
Bendy Eduardo

Just reckon to accomodate Walcott we'll switch to 442 at home. Cesc and RVP to rest. Reckon that knock Sagna took will force him out for a game.

Rest players? Hell no I want the three points - 'resting' players three games in to the season seems weird to me, especially when we have a two goal buffer (three to lose the tie outright) against Celtic.

We need to do the opposite of resting players we need to play them to get match fitness especially Cesc and Arshavin!

Almunia
Sagna,Gallas,Vermaelen,Clichy
Cesc,Song,Denilson
Walcott, Eduardo, Arshavin

Thats what i'm hoping! But he'll probably stick with Bendtner and RVP

This has goalfest written all over it....Arsenal on fire, Pompey in the toilet...so it'll be nil - nil then. :coffee:

was hoping we'd see eddie, wilshere and arshavin let loose but it seems eddie's crook and wenger ain't gonna unleash wilshere until hell freezes over.

:goodpost:

double that :goodpost:

But there's rest just to rest, then there's rest to recover from a knock, which -- without recovery -- could turn into a more serious injury. So if we have trustworthy cover, we should use it: Eboue for Sagna.

Almunia
Tigersuit Gallas Vermin Clichy
Denilson/Song Cesc Diaby
Walcott RVP Arshavin

Is Walcott gonna be fit? If so, Walcott instead of Bendtner, because he needs some game time.

RVP must play, because he's not been in good form and we need to give him a chance to play himself into form. And Arshavin should play to, so he and RVP learn to play together better.

Diaby should play for the same reason as Walcott: needs game time. He should come in for either Song or Denilson. As far as the result goes, it really doesn't matter which. Maybe Diaby for Song. Wenger's suggested that he's got less stamina than Denilson. If this is the case, it's more important for him to take a game off.

Cesc should play because he really is crucial. Without Cesc out, the chances of us dropping points, no matter how weak Pompey is, are just too high to take the risk.

If the match goes how we hope it will, then Wilshere and Ramsey and maybe Gibbs can come on, starting around the 60th minute.

sorted :good:

We're going to murder them. Seriously, unless James has the game of his life I can see us scoring 4 at least.

Pretty much what I think we should do. :goodpost:

I wouldnt swap Song with Diaby, but rather with Denilson. Taking Song out will open up our defence. Apart from that I agree with JF. :coffee:

that's the sort of attitude that gets us fucked over against "smaller" teams, so hell no, start strong if we are truly cruising bring out the subs to "rest" those poor chaps at the front line :rolleyes:

I'm sure we'll see an appearance from Wilshere. I think he'll feature in a lot of home games this season, but not many away.

Would like to see Ramsey alongside Song in the current formation to see how he does.

Another defeat for Pompey.

They look certs to go down

Must win game

Some of the cockiness on here is worrying tbh. Hope it doesn't come back and bite us in the proverbial.

This is the definition of home banker.

:coffee:

Do we know what da fuck up with Eddie yet?

Nah, will later today hopefully.

Its not cockiness, its optimism based on the great performances weve seen so far. :good:




And the fact that Pompey are shite now :beer: