Villa away Wednesday 19th Feb 730pm

[SB]

Another big match coming up here ahead of the Sunday match vs City. 6 points out of those two matches could go a long way to breaking Arsenals resolve.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Good team, good manager.


Let's break them any way we can

[SB]

Good team, good manager.


Let's break them any way we can

They’re hot & cold from week to week so here’s hoping they don’t turn up for this one.

[Doc_Piptorious]

They play badly and they tend to lose.


We play badly and we usually have that little knack of turning a poor perfomance into a win or draw.

[Buzzo]

Yeah checking their recent results.

1-1 v 10 man Ipswich at home.
Lost 2-0 away to Wolves
Drew 1-1 v West Ham at home
Drew 2-2 away at Arsenal
Beat Everton 1-0 away

[dom9]

Villa seem to struggle with balancing two games a week, but they've got an extra day on us for this, and their crowd will be up for it so it's gonna be a challenge. We've risen to it over there before though.

[SB]

Yeah checking their recent results.

1-1 v 10 man Ipswich at home.
Lost 2-0 away to Wolves
Drew 1-1 v West Ham at home
Drew 2-2 away at Arsenal
Beat Everton 1-0 away

Yeah it looks like the extra CL matches a taking there toll. Here’s hoping it continues this week.

[Buzzo]

Yeah 2 tough away games in the next 7 days.

[SB]

Yeah 2 tough away games in the next 7 days.

At least City are away to Madrid on the same day as were playing Villa

[Doc_Piptorious]

We also might have a few players pretty fresh for the Villa game.


Gakpo, Jones, Konate (only one half today), Tsimikas and Bradley could/should all start.


Chiesa and Nunez as well.

[SB]

We also might have a few players pretty fresh for the Villa game.


Gakpo, Jones, Konate (only one half today), Tsimikas and Bradley could/should all start.


Chiesa and Nunez as well.

Yeah I’d like to see how Chiesa goes starting with the main squad compared to playing with the kids in the FA Cup for example.

[frank the tank]

Huge game. You can see the likes of Rashford and Watkins (arsenal fan) up for this in a big way. They need points as well.

Hoping that we can put in a big performance - especially in midfield. I wonder would Endo get a run out here for either Gravenberch or MacAllister. I don't think Arne will, but we seem to be at the stage where energy is surely needed.

There is a case for Tsimikas but not sure Slot will change both full backs. I'd actually be tempted to play Bradley left back but again don't think he will.

Becker

Bradley Konate Virgil Robertson

Szoboslai Gravenberch Jones

Salah Gakpo Diaz

[SB]

Huge game. You can see the likes of Rashford and Watkins (arsenal fan) up for this in a big way. They need points as well.

Hoping that we can put in a big performance - especially in midfield. I wonder would Endo get a run out here for either Gravenberch or MacAllister. I don't think Arne will, but we seem to be at the stage where energy is surely needed.

There is a case for Tsimikas but not sure Slot will change both full backs. I'd actually be tempted to play Bradley left back but again don't think he will.

Becker

Bradley Konate Virgil Robertson

Szoboslai Gravenberch Jones

Salah Gakpo Diaz

Gakpo down the middle hasn’t really worked so I suspect it’ll be Nunez or Jota

[BigChief]

Jota was brought off early so hopefully he starts, maybe on the left with Nunez down the middle. Despite his goal Diaz is really low on form, feels like we're playing with a man down. His usual high energy levels aren't great either. Needs a long break.

Gakpo we can save for City (or late in the second half against Villa). We need fresh legs, even Salah is tiring.

Alisson
TAA Konate VvD Tsimikas
Szob Mac Jones
Salah Nunez Jota

[Exiled_red]

Jota was brought off early so hopefully he starts, maybe on the left with Nunez down the middle. Despite his goal Diaz is really low on form, feels like we're playing with a man down. His usual high energy levels aren't great either. Needs a long break.

Gakpo we can save for City (or late in the second half against Villa). We need fresh legs, even Salah is tiring.

Alisson
TAA Konate VvD Tsimikas
Szob Mac Jones
Salah Nunez Jota

Diaz has been poor through the middle, I thought he was better today in the 30mins where the whole team wasn't complete ****e, scored the goal and won the pen, more of an impact than he has had through the middle. That said a fit Gakpo comes back into the LW position.

I don't think Nunez and Jota start together but if they do I'd put Nunez on the left xnd Jota through the middle.