Forest home sundee 2pm GMT

lorddulaarsenal

Sweep the leg mentality.

Snap out of it.

Get this ship back on track.

Dirty fries and iced coffee.

Yellow balls.

Burnwinter

If you subsist on a diet of dirty fries and iced coffee, you'll get those yellow balls you want soon enough.

Good, regulation chance to pick up three points … as far as football matches go, this is a nice, looping full toss outside off stump on a wicket that hasn't begun to swing.

However, our recent signs of weakness will lead to Forest attempting to play out of their skins, so here's hoping we get control early.

Claudius

What we need to do is score two goals in the first half. Hopefully we can do that and kill the game. So we have a really weird characteristic. Statistically, we are the most attacking team at an even game state. Ie, when a game is 0-0. It’s us, then City, and nobody is close. But as soon as it’s 1-0, we fall back to middle of the pack. We lose our bite. This is what Leeds and Southampton took advantage of last few weeks. We need to make sure we score and stay aggressive, not just try control the game after scoring.

Kel Varnsen

We look tired, and Forest played well against Liverpool. Without Zinchenko we also aren't able to impose the right structure and control on the game. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a close game. 2-1 perhaps.

KingslandBarge

Your dedication to Zinchenko gang is impressive.

Burnwinter wrote:
Good, regulation chance to pick up three points … as far as football matches go, this is a nice, looping full toss outside off stump on a wicket that hasn't begun to swing.

Love this. I'll take 3-4 leg-byes than a clean drive for the weekend.

Burnwinter

😆 Curtly Ambrose can bowl nine consecutive wides and no balls to hand us victory if that's what it takes ...

HomeSteak

Jesus will score. I'm putting 100 bucks on that.

goon

Kel Varnsen wrote:
We look tired, and Forest played well against Liverpool. Without Zinchenko we also aren't able to impose the right structure and control on the game. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a close game. 2-1 perhaps.

We're at home though, will make a difference.

Amazingly the last time we played at home against a non-top 6 side was in August.

MistaT

Hate to be dramatic, but I think this is a massive game. It shouldn’t be as we’re playing a bottom six team, but the result/performance will have a large influence in how we do versus Chelsea.

A win vs Forrest, and a win/tie vs Chelsea would be an excellent start to the season. But I worry that if we lose here the Chelsea game will be too much, and our strong start will be hacked away.

Need our own Jesus to step forward. He’s been quiet as of late, no better team to grab a few against.

JazzG

This is a really big game for us and a real mental test. We've not been on it last few weeks and last couple of games have been poor at times. Players look jaded but need to dig deep here.

We seem to start games well but we need to learn to kill them off during that period as well. Wonder when Zinchenko is back, could really do with him.

Clrnc

Not a big game for me, we will win easily. Forest is terrible away from home and we are great

I am Arsenal Till I Die

Really hope Jesus doesn't pick up a yellow card.

Its a test for us in the sense that its a game we should easily kill off early, something we've struggled with this season. Really don't want a nervous last 10 or 15.

Claudius

I Am Arsenal Till I Die wrote:
Really hope Jesus doesn't pick up a yellow card.

Its a test for us in the sense that its a game we should easily kill off early, something we've struggled with this season. Really don't want a nervous last 10 or 15.

might as well field 10 men against Cheslea if he gets a yellow.

lorddulaarsenal

To be fair Eddie hurt Chelsea last time he faced them

For Sunday, given Gabriel appears to be out I’d go

————————Ramsdale
Tomiyasu—-White——Saliba—-Tierney
————————Partey
———-Odegaard——-Xhaka
—Saka————Gabriel——Martinelli

lorddulaarsenal

By the way - we simply must add another option for the wide forward roles in January

KingslandBarge

I Am Arsenal Till I Die wrote:
Really hope Jesus doesn't pick up a yellow card.

Lets not start him.

Burnwinter wrote:
😆 Curtly Ambrose can bowl nine consecutive wides and no balls to hand us victory if that's what it takes ...

Oh wow this actually happened? 😆

Burnwinter

😆 Yep. I was there when it happened. The WACA crowd was absolutely baffled, it was surreal.

https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/curtly-ambrose-bowls-9-no-balls-in-an-over-15-in-two-273389

QuincyAbeyie

Burnwinter wrote:
as far as football matches go, this is a nice, looping full toss outside off stump on a wicket that hasn't begun to swing.

I agree.

awooga83

I agree that this will be a significant game because we've been in a run of poor form that we haven't managed to escape yet. In the face of it there should no question that we take 3 points but Forest will have gathered some belief and if we are as wasteful in attack as we have been recently we could suffer because of it. We need are attacking game to step up

Shady

Joke that this game isn't on t.v.