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QPR away wedders 19:45 - peri peri chicken!

lorddulaarsenal

Feeeeeooo!!

yuv

"must win"
"Gibbs is shit"
"Cazorla shouldn't play in midfield"
"Giroud is a donkey"

y va marquer

Apparently Ramsey will be back for this, so either Coq plays with a mask or Ramsey gets fired straight back in.
Not ideal for us or either player really.

Ray

Chambo, Sanchez and Walcott upfront.

Gunner89

Would like to see Walcott start but expect Wenger to be as poor at squad-management as he has been.

I wonder how many times Alexis has scored with Giroud up-top. Can only remember the once which was the reverse fixture.

Woud like to see Giroud rested as once he gets tired he's not effective

-------------------Ozil---------------------------

Walcott-------------Alexis----------------------Chambo/Welbz

ChiliPalmer

Gunner89 wrote:
I wonder how many times Alexis has scored with Giroud up-top. Can only remember the once which was the reverse fixture

Against Stoke, too. But Giroud was injured when Alexis was in top form.

Find it amusing how people blame other players for Sanchez's poor form lately. Some nutter had even made up a stat, which said that Sanchez hadn't scored while Özil was on the pitch, and that's obviously complete bullshit.

Giroud has to play in this game, QPR are dangerous on set pieces.

Gunner89

Chili Palmer wrote:
Gunner89 wrote:
I wonder how many times Alexis has scored with Giroud up-top. Can only remember the once which was the reverse fixture

Against Stoke, too. But Giroud was injured when Alexis was in top form.

Find it amusing how people blame other players for Sanchez's poor form lately. Some nutter had even made up a stat, which said that Sanchez hadn't scored while Özil was on the pitch, and that's obviously complete bullshit.

Giroud has to play in this game, QPR are dangerous on set pieces.

Qpr's set pieces don't rank particularly high. They are 10th according to whoscored.

ChiliPalmer

Gunner89 wrote:
Chili Palmer wrote:
Against Stoke, too. But Giroud was injured when Alexis was in top form.

Find it amusing how people blame other players for Sanchez's poor form lately. Some nutter had even made up a stat, which said that Sanchez hadn't scored while Özil was on the pitch, and that's obviously complete bullshit.

Giroud has to play in this game, QPR are dangerous on set pieces.

Qpr's set pieces don't rank particularly high. They are 10th according to whoscored.

Whenever I've seen them at Loftus Road that was the one thing I noticed, how dangerous they're with set pieces. If we play too many midgets we'll pay for it, imo.

Gunner89

Well I would define dangerous by how many goals they score from set-pieces and they rank 10th on that which isn't particularly noteworthy

QuincyAbeyie

If we score 5 goals from 100 set pieces and they score 4 from 20,I'd say they're more dangerous than us from set pieces.

ChiliPalmer

Stoke and Liverpool are bottom 5, but both scored set pieces against us anyway.

If we play a team of osp-gib-kos-gab-bel-coq-san-theo-oz-ox-san; ie. a team full of midgets, QPR will punish us. Zamora, Henry, Austin and the other huge cunts will have that for breakfast.

Gunner89

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
If we score 5 goals from 100 set pieces and they score 4 from 20,I'd say they're more dangerous than us from set pieces.

The fact is they don't rank particularly high.

If they get 20 set pieces only to score 4 that still doesn't mean they are effective because they only manage to create opportunities to get 20 set pieces that's it. It's the same with Podolski being the most clinical player in the team but not getting into the positions you want him to finish chances.

I've only placed one change from previous first elevens and if we get punished defensively I really don't think that it's the sole change that will make the difference. What I am quite sure of is that a team having centre backs including a 36 year old Ferdinand, 36 year old Clint Hill and a slow Steven Caulker can be more easily got by with a faster front-line.

Daz

Has Walcott started a game for us since he's come back from injury?

goon

Coq might be fit, Aaron is back.

Presuming Coq can play, I'd freshen up a little and go with:

Ospina

Bellerin - Gabriel - Kos - Nacho

Ox - Coq - Rosicky

Theo - Welbeck - Ozil

Patters

I'd have the same line up as last game but with Rosicky instead of Ozil. Midfield does need some fresh legs but with Wilshere's still out and Ramsey is only just back. Maybe give Ramsey 30 mins with a view to starting at old Trafford on monday.

Qwiss

otfgoon wrote:
Coq might be fit, Aaron is back.

Presuming Coq can play, I'd freshen up a little and go with:

Ospina

Bellerin - Gabriel - Kos - Nacho

Ox - Coq - Rosicky

Theo - Welbeck - Ozil

I don't think you can rest Giroud and Sanchez at the same time. Its asking for trouble.

lorddulaarsenal

I'd go

--------------Ospina
Chambers-Gabriel-Kos-Monreal
---------Ramsey--Coquelin
---Alexis----Santi-----Ozil
--------------Giroud

goon

qs! wrote:
otfgoon wrote:
Coq might be fit, Aaron is back.

Presuming Coq can play, I'd freshen up a little and go with:

Ospina

Bellerin - Gabriel - Kos - Nacho

Ox - Coq - Rosicky

Theo - Welbeck - Ozil

I don't think you can rest Giroud and Sanchez at the same time. Its asking for trouble.

It should still be enough I think, can play Giroud if we must.

I'd rather those two, particularly the latter, are fresh for the United game. I'd be tempted to rest Kos too but I'd rather keep as solid a base as possible.

Qwiss

otfgoon wrote:
qs! wrote:
I don't think you can rest Giroud and Sanchez at the same time. Its asking for trouble.

It should still be enough I think, can play Giroud if we must.

I'd rather those two, particularly the latter, are fresh for the United game. I'd be tempted to rest Kos too but I'd rather keep as solid a base as possible.

When is enough ever enough with us? We made hard work of Leicester at home and QPR have a good record on their own patch.

Resting Kos makes more sense because he and Mertesacker are as bad as each other at the moment.

Patters

Changed my mind. Play all the forwards!

-----------------------Ospina--------------------------

Bellerin-------Gabriel----Koscielny---------Monreal

-----------------------Coquelin------------------------

Welbeck--------Ozil---------Sanchez---------Walcott

--------------------------Giroud-------------------------

6-8 away win.