Arsenal vs Liverpool
Sunday 14 August, 16:00
Emirates Stadium
Barclays Premier League
Well well… The new season is upon us! This is the first matchday thread on the new site, would be nice if we’d win the match! It’s gonna be a tough one against a good Liverpool side.
Will we have new signings by Sunday? A defender to strengthen our thin defence, or a striker to bolster our attack?! Who knows.
Its always hard to predict whats going to happen on the opening day, but I think this time severe inexperience at the back may just prove decisive… Liverpool to edge 3-2.
I simply have no idea , because I have no idea what will be the starting line up ,who will be in defence and who will be in what now is even more crucial position the holding midfielder !
I hope it will be Coquelin but who knows .
Im up for starting with Chambers and Holding if it has to be but we then should play a gagey game !
With Liverpool pressing a ball over the top to a sprinting Theo might just work for us !
Have to say Liverpool unless we select a very pacey, direct sort of the midfield and front line. Our defence is completely unprepared for this. It’s so fucking poor that the club haven’t reinforced for this situation once again.
With that back 4 and lack of a top class finisher. Plus that right wing still worries me, Ox only ever shows up in friendlies maybe Iwobi can step up. Liverpool look a stronger team this season, they will hit us on the break with us missing chance after chance. At best we get a draw but don’t see this team winning it. Going to be the same old same old.
Waiting to see how the crowd will react after we go 1-0 down, Wenger really is setting himself for a major fall.
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:bellerin:–Chambers–Rob–Nacho
-------Xhaka----:coq:----:santi2:------
The Ox----------:theo:----------:sanchez:
But I’m afraid that Wenger will try to get Ox and/or Ramsey into that lineup. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Santi paired deep with Xhaka and Ramsey as the 10, nor would I be surprised to see Ox at RW, Sanchez left, and Iwobi on the bench.
I cant beleive everyones not having Coquelin in this side , he has to be there , he has been our saviour for so many games its unreal,are we saying he is now a squad man ??? He struggled last season after his injury but he looks fit ! He has to start !
The Emirates has hardly been a happy hunting ground for Pool. And there’s some dodginess in their back line, Lovren for one, Moreno for another, and Kavlar is a newbie though he looked decent enough in the recent friendlies.
Klopp’ll have them going like greyhounds at us from the get-go, so there’ll be holes at the back and if we can hold them off for the first ten minutes and can get our speedsters in there, we can pick them off.