Is Karius going to find another club? Seeing his name in training is like finding out that tax office still have a fax number.
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Assume Tsimkas and Milner are Covid related theyāve appeared up to now.
However with the 5 day thing they are fine as long as it doesnāt drag.
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Fuck. The tension around this one suddenly went up a notch.
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Nah; itās still the same.
We need to win every game.
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I think the mood has just gone from there a chance to fuck me, itās on
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Arsenal will be tough. I consider them Man City allys and Arteta wants to succeed Pep.
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Fully agreed. Arteta will want to use this opportunity to show both his current and future employers he is their man.
On the other hand, if he goes all gung ho to attack us, it may just play into our hands.
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I have to admit that somehow Iām more nervous of this game now than I was before City dropped points last night.
For some reason I keep thinking back to 2009. Obviously it was a lot later in the season but there was a weekend not long after weād won 4-1 at Old Trafford, followed by a very late winner at Fulham and the pressure was mounting on United.
They played Villa that Sunday. There were no streaming apps on phones back then so while I was at work I just kept checking the score. When I finished working it looked like Villa were going to win. Ten minutes later I got home and fecking Macheda had gone and won it for United.
Up until that part of the game United were letting themselves down and Iām still convinced that if Villa won that game weād have won the league. Unfortunately after that United managed to get momentum going again.
I feel like this game is something similar. If we win we keep our momentum going and can start really putting the pressure on this City team, especially as weāve now got a better goal difference. Something that I donāt think even the optimistic of us believed possible after we lost to Leicester.
But if we lose or even draw on Wednesday night I feel that City will take heart from that as a massive bonus and just the mental state of them dropping points only to see us fail to capitalise could give them a large boost going into the remainder of the season.
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Couldnāt even bring myself to watch the second half of that last night. The next game is all that matters now. Anyone whoās watched Arsenal recently knows they havenāt suddenly become a great side. If weāre on it from the start we should tear them apart.
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This is gonna be a tough game.
We need to start fast as Arsenal are playing well.
Lots of twists and turns left and both us and city will drop points over next 10 games.
Looks like Salah will miss this one as not been training but we can cope.
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Actually, itāll be interesting to see how we cope without him. Even if heās not playing particularly well, the opposition are always obsessed with him and flood that side.
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Presser is today so weāll probably know more about Salah and the rest.
If Salah is out, then Iād go Diaz on the left, Mane on the right, and then whoever looks sharpest in training out of Jota and Bobby through the middle.
Whatās the odds on Xhaka/Arses getting another red?
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Arsenal fans riding high based on recent performances. We should firmly remind them of their place.
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Thinking of the positive side, itās a chance for Mane to step out of his shadow and make that right hand side his own.
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We just need to remember how good a team we areā¦
Arsenal will be up for it but when play starts and they chasing the ball all over the pitchā¦ realisation will strike home
We are a fantastic team with an absolute genius manager and backroom staff on the side-lines kicking and heading every ball with themā¦
If Pep hasnāt already started losing sleepā¦ he will be after dropping points again last night
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Totally agree Scheme. I also remember watching the second half of that Villa v man U game and despairing when Macheda got their winner. With the team situation as it was, I thought that the best chance I had seen in 18 years of us winning the league was gone and I wasnāt sure Iād see another. Before that the most devastated Iād been was watching ManU win the CL in 99 (when we couldnāt even qualify for the thing) and the Spice Boys cup final in 92. Fucking ManUtd hey. Arsenal '89 was before my time but that would probably take the cake for drama but the disappointment would at least be tempered by the fact weād won so many titles before and were expected to win many more.
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Yeah, that one still rankles. Up there with that Kompany 30-yard strike.
You escaped the pain then. My fav player John Barnes loses the ball, and next thing you know, theyāve gone up field, and everyone knows the rest.
The white suits was 96. 1992 was Mark Wright and āYou fucking beauty!ā in front of the royal that handed him the trophy.
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These days Ray Houghton would have taken Mickey Thomas out and taken the red.
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Of course - 92 was Sunderland and the first trophy I celebrated. Meant '96 - the 90s were a desolate ManU wasteland.
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