PL | Manchester City v Arsenal | 5th November 2017 | 14:15 GMT | Sky Sports

[GeorgiaGunner]

Well that would be good, but they already know they want him.

Maybe he's nervous (and perhaps rightfully so) that Sterling and Sane's form will dampen their interest.

Just playing (perverse) Ty here.

 

[Buvey]

I get wanting to be positive but let's be realllllll. This isn't one of those oh we'll be up for it and put a performance in and nick a win.

This city side is a great white shark and we're a cute little kitten lost at sea.

 

[OSBK]

I am going for a win. Not the first time we will go there and put in a performance.

People going on about walker, he is just about to run into the roadblock which is kola.

Btw they have stones in defence....anything is possible

1-2

 

[NieThePiet]

Hopefully Sanchez was the reason, Iwobi haven't played yesterday. We can't play Sanchez against City.

Cech - Koscielny, Merte, Monrael - Bellerin, Kolasinac - Xhaka, Ramsey - Iwobi, Özil - Lacazette

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

Hoping we park the bus, but I think we'll get boat-raced. 1-4.

 

[<<reed>>]

Lose here but don't lose to Sp**s

 

[rich 1990]

City are ****. We'll beat them.

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

Lose here but don't lose to Sp**s

Or, win both matches!

 

[Makingtrax]

Wasn't there victory over us last year thanks to an offside goal as well?

2 offside goals

 

[Juan Matas Beard]

Beat the Manc bastards.

 

[Makingtrax]

I get wanting to be positive but let's be realllllll. This isn't one of those oh we'll be up for it and put a performance in and nick a win.

This city side is a great white shark and we're a cute little kitten lost at sea.

That's a **** analogy.

Wenger's driving a Porsche Boxster racing against Mansour's £30m Formula 1 Ferrari, driven by Pep. And it's on their track.

 

[Tosker]

no PL team would expect to win away at City, so I am expecting a loss -if we put up a really good fight I will be satisfied - if we throw in the towel like we did at Anfield I will be very very disappointed

I think we should start Alexis but take him off if he doesn't seem to be trying - then he can sit on the bench with a zillion cameras pointing at him catching every expression

 

[Trilly]

The team I support versus a bunch of Wengerised *****. Should be a fun game.

 

[Trilly]

no PL team would expect to win away at City

A potential title challenger would go there expecting to get points. You go there thinking that any points are a bonus and you're already halfway to losing the game imo.

Sad thing is I believe Wenger will try to motivate the lads but I don't think he'll be able to stop them from thinking the above. They know how this usually goes.

 

[Trilly]

That's a **** analogy.

Wenger's driving a Porsche Boxster racing against Mansour's £30m Formula 1 Ferrari, driven by Pep. And it's on their track.

Again with the cry baby attitude, this will be the case in a few years when Wenger has completed his mission to destroy us but at the moment:

Sanchez, Özil and Kos etc, are good enough to cancel out the talents of Aguero, De Bruyne, Silva etc. Their squad cost is huge but let's not pretend anybody was terrified when they spent 37M on Ederson or 100M on Mendy and Kyle Walker. There may be a gap between our squads but your analogy is a massive understatement. It's more like Ferrari's F1 car vs the Mercedes one.

The problem is one driver is F1 standard in tip top racing condition while the other's drunk and only has one arm.

 

[Buvey]

That's a **** analogy.

Wenger's driving a Porsche Boxster racing against Mansour's £30m Formula 1 Ferrari, driven by Pep. And it's on their track.

Mine was much better tbf

 

[Makingtrax]

Again with the cry baby attitude, this will be the case in a few years when Wenger has completed his mission to destroy us but at the moment:

Sanchez, Özil and Kos etc, are good enough to cancel out the talents of Aguero, De Bruyne, Silva etc. Their squad cost is huge but let's not pretend anybody was terrified when they spent 37M on Ederson or 100M on Mendy and Kyle Walker. There may be a gap between our squads but your analogy is a massive understatement. It's more like Ferrari's F1 car vs the Mercedes one.

The problem is one driver is F1 standard in tip top racing condition while the other's drunk and only has one arm.

Jeez, and I always thought Pep's speech was slurred because of his Spanish accent, and that explains why he always has one hand in his pocket.

 

[Makingtrax]

Mine was much better tbf

Nah, you need to up your game bro. This is Premier League action not Finding Nemo.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

If you were doing a combined XI it'd probably look like this.

Ederson
Walker Stones Otamendi Kolasinac
Fernandinho
Silva De Bruyne
Sterling Aguero Alexis
​

I didn't include Mendy because he's injured long term while Otamendi/Koscielny, Silva/Özil and Alexis/Jesus or Sane were all quite debatable.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

I'm a bit worried about Mert's lack of pace as we don't have a strong MF to cover him and I wondered if we can can play Debuchy Kos Monreal in a back 3 with Bellerin ordered to be extra vigilant defensively.