PL | Tottenham vs Arsenal | 30th April 16:30 (GMT)

[Rocky]

A couple of passive-aggressive statements regarding the combined 11, but a lack of any actual claims of any Arsenal players beyond Alexis who would actually get picked in that team at present (assuming that everyone is fit). What are they insinuating? Giroud at CF?!!!!

Clearly Alexis has to be in there (and Son can feel a little unlucky to sit on the bench). After that it's really just a debate about who you have at CB and whether Koscielny in form and fully fit gets in. If it's a back 4 I think you go with Alderweireld & Vertonghen for the right-foot left-foot symmetry.

No way do you consider leaving out Kane, Alli, Eriksen, Dembele, Rose, Alderweireld, Walker, Lloris.

Between Wanyama and Dier for that last CM place.

A few of the Arsenal players could kick on next season and take places but for now that's how it is and the table reflects that.

 

[GDeep™]

Every home game is going to be a battle next season, at Wembley.

Let's give them a good old Arsenal send off today.

 

[Trilly]

Yeah, and that's ****ing incredible if you think about it . . . . unless you're looking through blinkers.

??

 

[Rimaal]

That sounds like you care, despite what you've been saying for weeks

I always care about the NLD. Always.

The rest of the season though can go to pot, FA Cup included, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[The_Playmaker]

It's important to remember the pressure is all on Sp**s.

-They need to win to keep the pressure up on Chelski.
-They need to prove there is indeed a 'powershift' on the horizon.
-Apparently, only ONE of our players get into their first XI.
-It's the last ever NLD at White Hart Lane.
-They have the chance to finish above us for the first time in 20 odd years.

Realistically for us we just need to cut the gap on the top four. Even if we lose the last ever White Hart Lane NLD, they're the team who're 'supposed' to win. We're sheight, remember?

The lads just need to do their jobs and do them well. We'll win. As much as Sp**s are 'progressing' this is a monumental fixture, they're a young side and the pressure is all on them.

We can do this. Spuds= forever in our shadow.

We don't need to win. A draw will do, which is why we can afford to sit deep and frustrate

 

[Rocky]

We don't need to win. A draw will do, which is why we can afford to sit deep and frustrate

Have you given up on top 4 then?

 

[El Duderino]

Woke up from a night of moderately strong drinking with no hang over. Still deciding if it's a good sign or not

trying to keep my excitement down, last time I went into a nld pumped we lost.

 

[The_Playmaker]

Have you given up on top 4 then?

We can still get top four if we draw, but beat United and Liverpool draw one game. We can't get top four if we don't beat United so if I had a choice with one of the results being a draw. Sp**s is the draw.

 

[El Duderino]

Mind, would love for us to end the scums tittle Challenge at their ground...

 

[Deathstroke]

Woke up from a night of moderately strong drinking with no hang over. Still deciding if it's a good sign or not

trying to keep my excitement down, last time I went into a nld pumped we lost.

No pumping, only abiding.

 

[4R5Emaniac]

He's the perfect player to play against an Arsenal midfield.

The guy combines strength with dribbling ability and always seems to just dominate our midfield.

Oh in that way. I thought there was something else.

 

[Rocky]

We can still get top four if we draw, but beat United and Liverpool draw one game. We can't get top four if we don't beat United so if I had a choice with one of the results being a draw. Sp**s is the draw.

I think that's possible, but given the gap, I still see this as a game that is approached as a must win game for top 4. The United game is more of a must win as you say and if there's one game to take a draw, it is this one because it derails Sp**s' title challenge and is the toughest game left.

 

[Deathstroke]

Oh in that way. I thought there was something else.

A torrid affair? Because Trilly likes getting dominated... in midfield?

 

[mm76]

Love the energy here but can't get excited at the prospect of our current team against theirs‎ - a draw will be like a win if we manage it - especially as we'll get no favours from the ref, and especially if we start with Giroud or Ramsey or - real nightmare scenario - both

Think the Chelsea result is key - if they don't win and Spuds have the chance to close the gap, I think they will almost def beat us, but if Chelsea win with a really good performance, that might knock the wind out of spuds' sails a bit‎

 

[A_G]

Like the Man C match, have a good feeling about this for some insane reason. A bit like going to the dentist and you know he's going to say that the the twinges are just sensitivity, before you get in the chair.

Sp**s are flagging now, thrashed by Chelsea and lucky to win at Palace, this is usually the point in the season where Potch's teams drop off. Really can't see anything other than an Arsenal win, unless Michael Oliver does them a favour like in this fixture last season.

 

[Jasard]

Sp**s are flagging now, thrashed by Chelsea and lucky to win at Palace, this is usually the point in the season where Potch's teams drop off. Really can't see anything other than an Arsenal win, unless Michael Oliver does them a favour like in this fixture last season.

I have man flu and am immensely negative about our prospects ops:

 

[OnlyOne]

Hmmm, had a dream we went 1-0 up and then got a red card. Didn't manage to see the end result tho.

 

[celestis]

I have man flu and am immensely negative about our prospects ops:

You have man flu all year

 

[Deathstroke]

Sp**s are flagging now, thrashed by Chelsea and lucky to win at Palace, this is usually the point in the season where Potch's teams drop off. Really can't see anything other than an Arsenal win, unless Michael Oliver does them a favour like in this fixture last season.

Still, they are on a 7-game or so winning streak in the league, and it's the last NLD at their outhouse. Might provide some motivation.

Of course, knowing them, they're just as likely to combust spontaneously when things aren't going their way, and somebody else might end up taking over Mousehunt Dembele's eye-poker role in his absence.

 

[Rocky]

Interesting to see Thierry telling Kane that he should be taking free kicks for Sp**s. Eriksen is a great set piece guy but I can see why Kane should get a few.

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