Arsenal v Blackburn | EPL | 14/03/09 3pm

[Feet]

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Back to the league and chasing down the 3 point gap.

I've created this thread as this Saturday I shall be making my way to the Emirates for the first time to watch the match. T'is a birthday present for me from earlier this week, and I am terribly excited.

Hoping we return to a more adventurous line-up than we played against Roma too. We missed the intelligence and creativity of Arsharvin and Vela in Rome.

 

[MDGoonah41]

Sagna - Gallas - Djourou - Gibbs

Walcott - Diaby - Song - Nasri

Arshavin - Eduardo

 

[Feet]

Yeah that would probably work as adventurous! I've never been convinced of Nasri's value being played on the left though, I'd rather swap Walcott and him over, Walcott's speed will trouble any fullback, left or right, inside or out. I guess Nasri is more two footed than Walcott though...

I think Denilson will still be picked in the middle too, despite being completely off the pace last night.

 

[sabret00the]

Everyone that played in Rome deserves to be dropped. However the fact that we'll go out there with Shavva playing on his lonesome makes me happy.

 

[RocktheCasbah]

Everyone?


If Carlsberg did hyperbole...

 

[sabret00the]

Everyone?


If Carlsberg did hyperbole...

Seriously, i'm just fed up right now. But i'll settle for all van Persie moving back to the bench.

 

[GaelForce22]

Can't rest Van Persie against Blackburn.

 

[HollandGooner]

Almunia
Sagna
Toure
Djourou
Clichy
Nasri
Denilson
Diaby
Arshavin
RVP
Eduardo

3-0 for us.

 

[KY]

RVP must play for us. The guy scores against blackburn for fun.

 

[HollandGooner]

Hopefully our players will come out this match with no injury's or painfull legs, I dont like it at all that we will meet a Sam Allardyce team at all..

 

[USArsenal]

i think we'll definitely see RvP and Bendtner playing.. Eddy will come off the bench... Nasri & Arshavin will start and Theo will come off the bench... not sure about Vela though...


predicted lineup (barring unforeseen injuries):

Manny

Sagna
Toure
Gallas
Clichy

Arshavin
Song
Diaby
Nasri (he might switch sides with AA though)

Bendtner
RvP

 

[JazzG]

Going to be a tough match, Fat Sam will have his players fired up and they are going to make this match physically very tough. That will be a huge disadvantage because we have just had a gruelling 120min away match so a lot of our players come the 2nd half are going to find it tough to play at a high tempo. Even after normal European matches you can see tiredness creeping in after around 70 mins so it will be worse come Saturday. I'm confident we will do enough but it is going to be gruelling match.

This could be Arshavin's real moment to arrive as an Arsenal player, apart from him there are going to be players who come the 2nd half are going to have heavy legs and he has to make the difference for us.

 

[KY]

i think we'll definitely see RvP and Bendtner playing.. Eddy will come off the bench... Nasri & Arshavin will start and Theo will come off the bench... not sure about Vela though...


predicted lineup (barring unforeseen injuries):

Manny

Sagna
Touré
Gallas
Clichy

Arshavin
Song
Diaby
Nasri (he might switch sides with AA though)

Bendtner
RvP

I think Denilson might partner Song. Diaby's played quite a fair bit in the last week. 190 minutes in the space of 4 days.

 

[JazzG]

Well he is going to have to play again, I don't ever want to see Denilson and Song partnered again....

 

[beck]

my anoraks on fire, now here this.
rvp has scored 8 goals in 438 mins v blackburn.
that is a goal every 55mins[just under]
he has now gone 76 mins without one so by my reckoning he is due one straight away, one in the 34th minute and a hat trick in the 89th.
and he has maintained the status quo. if he fails to fulfill said mission he should be sold forthwith.
await with relish.
rvp hero/slash zero comments from keyboard wizards.

 

[Feet]

I would pick\play,

Al
Sagna Gallas Toure Gibbs
Diaby Denilson
Arsharvin Nasri Vela
Eduardo

Wenger will probably pick,

Al
Sagna Gallas Toure Clichy
Arsharvin Diaby Denilson Nasri
RvP Bendtner

 

[sabret00the]

Song is the biggest player we have in the squad, there's no way he's gonna be left out of such a physical matchup. I reckon Wenger will go for Diaby and Song in the middle.

 

[Klaus Daimler]

Almunia

Sagna - Touré - Gallas - Clichy

Walcott - Denilson - Diaby - Arshavin

van Persie - Eduardo

3-0.

 

[progman07]

Almunia

Sagna - Touré - Gallas - Clichy

Walcott - Denilson - Diaby - Arshavin

van Persie - Eduardo

3-0.

Wanted to post the same lineup but then I saw yours. Maybe put in Djourou but otherwise it's exactly what I want. We need to win, no more *****ing around by Nasri, we need speed and directness from the wingers.

 

[qs]

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

Sagna --- Toure -- Djourou --- Clichy


-------- Song --- Denilson --------

Walcott ----- Arshavin ------ Vela

---------- Eduardo ---------------

Thats how I'd like to see us line up. Get as many fresh legs as possible in there after such a gruelling 120 minutes last night.