Peter
Senior Member

He is. Will be really important against Real as he is quick and aggressive.

We know Calafiori is out, and I can't see any possibility of Gabriel being fit for at least a month. I'd like to think that Timber will be ok....

I just hope we make a go of it. It's a huge game, exactly where we want to be. I'm going to focus on just trying to enjoy it :-)

I'm quite happy with the situation. I don't have a lot of faith in us in the Champions League so I am just as happy playing top sides as I am the...

I was. I don't think we even have one really good performance in us :-)

To be fair to him, he has been here for years and has never had a run of more than 3 or 4 games at centre back. He's had so little football that he...

Poor old Kiwior had some awkward moments again. I fear he is one of those 88 minute defenders. Plays well virtually all game but switches off a few...

Think Timber is OK. Ben white is injured apparently

He does seem to do that sometimes. Drifts unto a very unusual position:-( He's done pretty well overall, although got caught out by Traore earlier.

Very fortunate indeed. Kiwior will get a run of games now. Might be his last chance to save his arsenal career.

Really poor first half.

I can laugh at it, but if I supported Everton or forest I'd be ****ing fuming. This really is taking the piss.

It can buy you drugs though. Drugs make you happy :-) for a while....

Supporting Arsenal doesn't make me miserable. That's your job :-)

Being happy in your job is pretty bloody important. Its an awful lot of hours each week to be miserable.

Almunia had an amazing first half at home to Barcelona. He then blew it by costing us a goal in the second half with a run to nowhere. I don't...

I quite liked Edu in a central role. Wish he'd stayed with us longer.

Wow! You're right....

Ian Allinson, White Hart Lane, 1987 League Cup Semi Final replay. The ultimate near post scuffer :-)

In general, I would agree. Not with Bob though. That was piss poor :-)

Rice and Saka take the best corners I've seen since Brian Marwood.

Fair point. I don't think teams were quite as well organised then. Also, Pires, Henry, Vieira and Bergkamp are four of the best players I have ever...

Funny that they criticise him for conceding at his near post and then in the same paragraph mention Bob Wilson, best remembered by the younger...

True, although the left back normally sits inside rather than trying to get out to Martinelli. I think Odegaard gives us a right side bias as...

Mustafi. I know Wenger was never really the best judge of a defender but **** me, that guy was utterly useless. For me it wasn't really players...

I don't think we have got the midfield we intended. Our options don't fit together very well and we haven't had a great balance in the two central...

The biggest challenge this kid is facing is that for probably the first time in his life he is entering a level of football where he isn't...

Perhaps even deeper in midfield, later in his career. His technique and balance lend themselves well to playing in small spaces and it may well be...

I can stop at 3 or 4, but it is far harder to do so when the people you are with drink 3 or 4 an hour.