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Don't know why he is so stressed out about everything tbh. Arsenal is one of the few clubs in the world where the manager has no danger to his job despite winning horsehit for half a decade.

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But Mancini plays Johnson on the right, so he would be up against Ash. Ivan is more likely to come up against Silva. Big test coming up for Mikel. As great as he has been so far, games like City away will tell us whether he will become as good as Maka was. He was quite frankly horrible last season at the Bridge against Citeh, at fault for atleast 2 of their 4 goals.

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Pathetic Chelsea-hating from an idiot who goes around calling himself a journalist. His name is Brian Reade. Mirror Seriously, how is such shit allowed to be printed in a national newspaper?

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I get that, but you must remember that in that game, United were coming off a trip from Munich in midweek while we had had an entire week for rest. In any case, they're the home side and they'll be more attacking, I'm not sure Carlo would really put out a team that's going to take the game to them away from home. If we can retain the ball well in midfield then we'll do well regardless of how they play because their midfield though physical is hardly going to be creative considering all of them are basically defensive minded players (Toure, Barry, de Jong, Vieira).

Yes should be a good match up, but Ashley will need support from the defensive mid/ left centre mid because Johnson cutting inside will leave a lot of space on their right for the oncoming right back.

It certainly seems 'refreshing' before the game, but it we end up losing the game because of being too expansive, won't it be termed 'naive'?

Man City will be a great test for Cech, especially if Johnson plays. He'll be putting in great crosses all game, also he'll look to cut inside from their right and rain shots on goal.

We'll know before the Newcastle game I think. If he's not in the squad that day, there's defo something wrong.

What's the harm? It's all on topic and keeps the forum active.

Why can't we? We are discussing what we think would be a good lineup.

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Bosingwa will be playing in a reserve game against Fulham on Wednesday, so he won't be there.

Dunno if Carlo had specifically asked him to do this, but he didn't get forward at all today except on that one occasion when he won the freekick outside the box in the second half. He stayed back in our own half most of the time, covering for Ashley who was forward a lot. Even Mikel was further up the pitch than R7 especially in the first half.

Good stuff mate Only change I'd make - Ash as MOTM.

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Haha yes, but I don't get my course materials until Tuesday, so got some leeway till then. What's the matter ... you sick of seeing me around here? haha

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