Arsenal Vs Blackburn

God I loved Jens Lehmann.

 

I was thinking I loved the O2 logo. I mean, if you have to have advertising, few are as good as JVC or O2. It's hard to do better than bimbo, though.

 

Predicting starting lineups?

 

Dreamcast

 

I remember this fixture about 4 years ago when Robbie Savage completely mugged Gilberto Silva in one particular play and the ref did absolutely nothing about it. Gilberto reacted and kicked out at Savage. Gilberto was sent off and everyone was thinking: oh god, here we go.

We then proceeded to play them completely off the park with 10 men and won easily.

Great match.

 

Wow I remember that too.... Football can change a lot in such a short time. We're a completely different squad now (not putting us down).

 

Got my new Blue away kit today, can't wait to wear it out to the pub this saturday for the match! Should be a good one, hopefully with a Gunner victory!

 

Yes, but they will wear their home kit Sat

 

yes but I'm dying to wear my new kit! I might just save it for another day and wear my home kit, I got the new 2011/2012 home kit also!

 

It was the season after our CL final loss.

The same season we finished 4th for the second year running. The same season we were knocked out of the CL by PSV.

Things weren't exactly peachy back then.

 

We havent really had any good seasons after that either.

 

sure we have.

07/08 was our best squad since the invincibles. Better than the CL Final team.

 

Unless there were some injuries that I don't know about, I'd like to see:

--------RVP----------
Gerv---Arteta---Arsh
---Frim----Song-----
Gibbs-Kos-Per-Sagna
-------Scez----------

Think this lineup would control from the beginning and set a tone our club can work with. Bring on Theo when Arshavin gasses out.

What I expect from AW:

Gerv---RVP----Theo
Arsh---Song---Arteta
Back 5 as above

 

Blackburn will probably be playing Salgado & Givet at the fullback spots. How do they not give up 4 goals a match?

We should toast these turds. Emphasis on should.

 

Is Ramsey back in training or still injured? If he is back, i expect him to play.

 

yeah, Adebayor and V. Persie at the top, with Cesc, Hleb, Rosicky, Flamini, with Toure and Gallas the back.. I saw some really eye pleasing movmenets and passing

 

Hmm... but we've come close to winning something since then, haven't we?

The issue is Arsene's methods, nothing more IMO. I contend that the 2008 and 2011 Premier League's would have been ours, had he signed players with better mental strength. If last year's draws had been wins, we would have won it.

As for the Blackburn game, well we should win. I think we're getting more confident, and Blackburn must go down this season. Kean is a shit manager, and Blackburn has found its true level for a club of its stature. it would take another person like the late Jack Walker for them to be a good side again. Hopefully, we could even sign Samba in January, if their bad form continues and the writing is on the wall for them.

 

This team is still coming together. Awkwardly, I must say.

I'm hoping for a somewhat comfortable 2-1 win, but would not be surprised at 2-2.

 

it will be carried live on ESPN2 here in the states and streamed on ESPN3.

 

Not sure if he's back. Haven't heard. Even if he is, not sure what the boss will do. Honestly, he hasn't really impressed me thus far. Song and RVP are a given of the front six. That leaves 4 slots with Ramsey, Benni, Arteta, Gervinho, Theo and Arshavin all available. Nice to have options for once this season, we'll see what AW does.

 

I think of those 6 Ramsey, Arteta, Gervinho and Arshavin should be the starters. Theo needs to be our super sub, his speed on dead legs could be critical.

 

if hoilet and rochina start i suggest two dmids, we could get caught out against them if hoilet starts on the right. if he goes up against sagna ill be more comfortable.

unfortunately i didnt get to see the dortmund match, but im curious as to if arteta is better as the second guy next to song, or in the CAM spot? it seemed like he was cleaning up a lot of stuff back there, so thats where im expecting him to start.

good to have gerv back, but we are starting to see a weak link in theo a la arshavin. with the season in turmoil like this its hard to see theo getting displaced, but im really hoping to see park come in at 70 for this game and show us hes capable of producing and not cheaply losing posession.

for all his production, his weakness in holding the ball and picking a pass out of danger are putting the back under pressure more often than not. would love to be proved wrong though, just think hes going to be displaced by the more technical park.

i think their back four can be exposed if we are getting our players closer together on the build up and spread out on the counter. whipping in crosses against the likes of dann/samba wont get us anywhere.

they were pushing for a counter against fulham who werent anything special in the attack, the one thing fulham did that we may lack due to team cohesiveness is playing the pass early. both arteta and benayoun hold the ball a tad too long, and right now im putting it up to comfort levels. even if we had ramsey he has the same problem. i think our offensive onus will rest squarely with the front three, gervs will need to come up big for this.

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Will ESPN3 stream the game after airing? I don't remember if they do that for EPL games.