Official Gooners Thread - A New Hope

[gerry]

mid november

[muppet]

622.

Who makes way when RVP comes back, or even Walcott? Nasri's playing well. Chamack is working well. Wilshere has been best central midfielder. Rosicky I suppose. Will he play Van P behind Cham?

Planning for an RVP comeback is like organising a BBQ in Ireland months in advance.

[Minder]

mid november

What year?

[ONeill]

FFS - Van Persie injury jinx strikes again - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1hvKYOnhLQ&feature=player_embedded

[Puckoon]

Nasri is playing great stuff at the minute.

[gerry]

Another great performance today. Although for a while i thought the second goal was never going to come.

[ONeill]

Liked Fabregas's attitude afterwards. He dismissed the importance of the win in terms of title credentials - the same crap Sky journos come out with at this time of year with Arsenal.

Nasri has been a star all year though he can still be found wanting on the back foot. Chamakh gets through some work and holds the ball up well. Don't think he'll be a prolific striker. Good to see the Bender back. His ratio is a goal every 15 mins this season! Also, Flappyhandski hasn't put a glove wrong in weeks.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Liked Fabregas's attitude afterwards. He dismissed the importance of the win in terms of title credentials - the same crap Sky journos come out with at this time of year with Arsenal.

Nasri has been a star all year though he can still be found wanting on the back foot. Chamakh gets through some work and holds the ball up well. Don't think he'll be a prolific striker. Good to see the Bender back. His ratio is a goal every 15 mins this season! Also, Flappyhandski hasn't put a glove wrong in weeks.

Cesc appears hell-bent on Carling Cup glory.

[ONeill]

That's true. Think he wants to lift anything this year as captain.

[gerry]

We don't know all the details of Wenger's team for St James' Park. But this much has been established:

- The squad is '80 per cent' first-team and will be at least as strong as the one fielded at White Hart Lane in the last round.
- Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner and Laurent Koscielny are likely to start
- Keeper Wojciech Szczesny will definitely start
- Youngsters Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Craig Eastmond and Henri Lansbury are in the squad
- A few members of the first-team squad will be rested

[ONeill]

Newcastle: Krul, Perch, Williamson, Kadar, Ryan Taylor, Routledge, Guthrie, Smith, Vuckic, Lovenkrands, Ranger.
Subs: Soderberg, Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Barton, Carroll, Gutierrez, Tiote.

Arsenal: Szczesny, Eboue, Djourou, Koscielny, Gibbs, Denilson, Eastmond, Rosicky, Walcott, Bendtner, Vela.
Subs: Fabianski, Sagna, Fabregas, Arshavin, Emmanuel-Thomas, Lansbury, Nordtveit.

[gerry]

i see the big guns on the bench just incase

[ross4life]

Would any of that Arse starting 11 tonight be classed as first teamers?

[ONeill]

At full strength Koscielny and Walcott.

[ONeill]

Vela should've scored after 15 secs.

Forced three saves in three mins.