Premier League: Stoke City v Arsenal - 6/12/14, 15:00

[USArsenal]

no offense, but we should be able to beat Stoke even with Poldi & Joel playing.

("should" being the key word.. but we all know how that goes)

 

[Jasard]

Curious how Wenger handles this, we are building a bit of momentum

 

[CurryFlavoured]

I highly doubt we'll see much rotation, AW knows this will be a very tough game.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

I'd ****ing love it if we absolutely destroyed these backward ****s.

 

[Jury]

Horrible game, so hear me out.

We rest our key players for this and Galatasaray. Give Danny and his legs a rest for two games, tell Sanchez to chill for two games etc.

Just play Poldi and Joel in wide spots.

I would go a step further and write off this game, rest all our precious players and just play the guys we don't care about.

The rotating ship sailed weeks ago, or even as late as the other night. It's games like this that we should have been keeping players fresh for . Too late now. It's Stoke and our record up there is sh!te.

As US said though--we should be able to beat these with Pod and Joel. It's just not the time to find out IMO. Nope, Wenger has made his bed already unfortunately.

 

[Rex Stone]

Have we actually ever won there? We lost there last year and drew the year before I know, I went to the cup game there a few years back which was really grim. Think we might have won when Aaron was injured and that's it.

 

[Jasard]

"Nacho Monreal may be out for several weeks having torn ankle ligaments" what..? How did I miss this?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/05/Arsène-wenger-arsenal-alexis-sanchez" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... is-sanchez</a>

 

[Jury]

**** me. He didn't do it against S'oton, so must have done it in training. Gibbs should be back though. At least the timing of these injuries are working out. One out, one in again.

 

[Toast]

**** me. He didn't do it against S'oton, so must have done it in training. Gibbs should be back though. At least the timing of these injuries are working out. One out, one in again.

Sky Sports disagree.

Arsenal have a few injury worries before their trip to the Britannia. Nacho Monreal suffered ankle ligament damage early on against the Saints and could be out for a few weeks. Centre-back Laurent Koscielny will also be assessed on his inflamed Achilles.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9593248/premier-league-Arsène-wenger-says-arsenal-do-not-fear-stoke-city-players-or-fans" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... rs-or-fans</a>

 

[Rex Stone]

Wait Koscielny still isn't fully recovered!? Will we finally see Bellerin play or is Wenger going to start playing Flamini at CB?

 

[Toast]

Wait Koscielny still isn't fully recovered!? Will we finally see Bellerin play or is Wenger going to start playing Flamini at CB?

My money is on Wenger playing Koscielny until he breaks down (again). But with Monreal out and Gibbs not fully fit maybe we'll see Bellerin at RB with Chambers at LB?

 

[Rex Stone]

Wait Koscielny still isn't fully recovered!? Will we finally see Bellerin play or is Wenger going to start playing Flamini at CB?

My money is on Wenger playing Koscielny until he breaks down (again). But with Monreal out and Gibbs not fully fit maybe we'll see Bellerin at RB with Chambers at LB?

So if god forbid Koscielny, Gibbs and Monreal can't play tomorrow, will we see a line-up of Bellerin-Per-Chambers-Flamini??

That's brutal, Tyrone Mings better be signed on January 1st, I can't take much more of these defensive options. It's like Wenger's trying to feed his family with whatever s**t he finds at the back of the cupboards.

 

[fabo]

Feels like the United game for me, predictable slip. Just don't trust us to go to Stoke and get a win.

Draw.

 

[Pies]

**** me. He didn't do it against S'oton, so must have done it in training. Gibbs should be back though. At least the timing of these injuries are working out. One out, one in again.

Sky Sports disagree.

Arsenal have a few injury worries before their trip to the Britannia. Nacho Monreal suffered ankle ligament damage early on against the Saints and could be out for a few weeks. Centre-back Laurent Koscielny will also be assessed on his inflamed Achilles.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9593248/premier-league-Arsène-wenger-says-arsenal-do-not-fear-stoke-city-players-or-fans" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... rs-or-fans</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He was limping very early on after a collision, I actually posted that he was injured in the match thread. Must have been when he did it.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

If we missing Kosh at this one we will really likely lose against Stoke i just can't trust our defense without him. i think we should not play kosh against Galatasaray if Hayden is fit to play start him against Galatasaray.

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Fair deuce to Monreal to keep playing but it shows how much we lack depth right now. We now have less players ebcause we started off with less... its getting sickening, Wenger better be given more than ###ing 20 million for January.

 

[entropy13]

He was limping very early on after a collision, I actually posted that he was injured in the match thread. Must have been when he did it.

I don't think this is a "collision" though.

 

[SA Gunner]

The way we play makes me nervous of course, lets just hope we get across the line as we expect.

Stumbling through this season.

 

[bingobob]

Stoke ****ing stoke. With all the talk in the media Wenger better have the players clued in and ready for battle.

 

[Monstar-Gunn4r]

Unusually I'm not too worried about this one, I've been worried for all the matches up top this one. We bullied Utd off the ball and they were shellshocked, granted we didn't capatalize on it but we are coming in to more form with a hopefully fit Koscielny.