‘MORALLY BANKRUPT’ NARRATIVE JUST FOR ARSENAL
So the truth came out in the wash, Liverpool had the Arsenal game called off based on erroneous tests, and they didn’t update the authorities when the mistake was discovered.
Did you check in on the pearl-clutching journalists who had an issue with Arsenal at the weekend?
I did.
Crickets. The exESPN guy, The Mirror person, The Telegraph journo. Nowt to say on this one.
What do we make of that?
We’re back baby.
Hating the Arsenal is good for the follower count once again.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Arsenal face the return leg against False/Postive FC. It’ll be a tough game. We can’t forget that Liverpool is still the second-best team in the country and on their night, they can spank anyone.
That said, Mikel Arteta will have the power of being wronged on his side this evening, and hopefully and an extremely vocal set of fans ready to bring that 12th man energy to the ground this evening.
There’s not a lot of injury news because Arteta is keeping that news close to his chest. I’ve no idea how we’re going to roll the evening, but my guess would be that anyone who is fit, will play. Niggles might be less serious now. Players will have had a chance to rest. Minds will be focused on what the plan is.
Keeping a draw with 10 men now needs to switch into being a threat with 11. The Arsenal players don’t need to have the fear, they know they can live with big teams now, the job is just to push it over the line.
Liverpool are too good to be consumed by the bad media coverage they’re receiving. There’s just too much quality in their side. The one thing we have going for us is they are there to be got at this season. They have bad days. Spurs ripped through them when they played them a month ago. Liverpool aren’t doing great in the league. There are chinks in the armour to be had if we’re at our best.
We lack a midfield, that is the biggest challenge we’re going to have to deal with this evening. No Xhaka and no Partey leaves a massive void of experience in the middle of the park. Lokonga is nailed on, I don’t think we’ll risk Patino, so that leaves us quite limited. Do we bring Ben White up, we know he’s done it for Leeds and Brighton. Will Odegaard and Smith Rowe drop? Will he put Saka, our most versatile player, in middle again?
It’s a tactical minefield, but we’ve had plenty of time to think about it.
The Premier League didn’t roll well for us last night, Spurs scored two goals AFTER 95 minutes against Leicester, honestly, Brendan Rodgers is such a bottle-job, what a killer that was. Quite interesting that a small section of bedwetters are now pointing to Arsenal being in 6th as a problem. I’d rather have points on the board, but let’s be clear here, games in hand are there to be won, and Arsenal have shown enough good form this season for us to look at those games as possible wins.
The Burnley match at the weekend is huge for us if they can field a team. Sean Dyche is in deep shit. They’ve sold their best striker, they’ve hardly played, and they have 11 points. He’s going to steam into us or it’ll be a mess of a game. If we want top 4, it has to be a win. If it is a win, it’s a cup final every week until the end of the season, and that is where we wanted to be at the start of the season.
So tonight is important, but let’s be perspective FC, the most important requirement is making sure our players aren’t risked for a cup final.
Before I go, it’s been a bit of thing for certain Arsenal fans to say, ‘Arteta only like X player because he was a boring player himself.’ Scott did an analysis on what sort of a player Arteta was compared to the competition.
Players most similar this season to Mikel Arteta 2012/13 pic.twitter.com/EniDdgv0NZ
— Scott Willis (@oh_that_crab) January 20, 2022
Quite something that all those names are midfielders a lot of people would like to see at Arsenal.
Ok, that’s me done… enjoy the game, see you in the comments. x