⚽️ It's the big one - Arsenal vs Man City | Wednesday, 7:30pm - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

⚽️ It's the big one - Arsenal vs Man City | Wednesday, 7:30pm

goon

Here we go. Championship deciding 6 pointer. All or nothing. Life or death. Do or die.

Having said all that, anyone else take a point if offered now?

goon

Expect another unchanged line-up, but I'd still be tempted to put Tomi in over White. Latter wasn't too bad on the weekend but need some fresh legs and look to that back line.

FredAsh49

sure. i like the way zinny is playing but i think it is confusing martinelli on LW. also xhaka moves so far forward it blocks martinelli attacking zones and hes pretty useless when he gets up there. i know its risky but trossard for xhaka could be more helpful for martinelli so he has an odegaard type player to keep the ball with like saka has on other side.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

A draw is only acceptable if we beat Villa (we need minimum 4 points from the next two games). If we don’t beat city and don’t beat Villa it means we’ve also gone 5 without winning and Man Utd could also easily come back into it.

As I can’t guarantee we will beat Villa (3 day rest, 1230 away KO, Unai Emery) then City is a must win for me.

Big Willie

Sicario2 - Tier 1 As I can’t guarantee we will beat Villa then City is a must win for me.

Makes sense.

MistaT

A draw is completely fine

Sicario2 - Tier 1

MistaT

I think a win would psychologically take us over the line for the title.

RocktheCasbah

Agreed.

RocktheCasbah

Sicario2 - Tier 1 If there were 5 games left this season, maybe - we've still got half a season to play.

goon

I think psychology is a dangerous thing to try and anticipate. Teams and players can react in any number of ways.

Points are what matter. A six, potentially nine point lead sounds great, but three/six points sounds a hell of a lot better than zero/three points.

QuincyAbeyie

goon pretty much. Doesn't seem like the psychological effect of the United game has been much help, in any case.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Disagree. Maybe one reason why we’ve have dropped points recently is because we’ve had one eye on Wed night for a while.

Couple of weeks ago we could have been double digits ahead of them and now we face the possibility of them going ahead of us if they beat us, that psychologically will be damaging. Therefore, if the opposite happens and we win then it’s game on and that will give us our momentum back which will be huge for rest of the season.

Don’t think this group/manager has what it takes to come back from a loss v City title wise.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Sadly I think we lose this one. I reckon confidence is quite low, doubts have crept in and we are wasteful in front of goal at the moment.

Qwiss

I think a draw will suit both teams so that's what'll happen. I think as long as we avoid defeat it's ok.

I wouldn't go changing anything here though I am slightly worried that zincky is too worked up about this. I think his forms dipped since the cup game cos he's distracted. Needs to keep his head.

I'd stick with Martinelli because he'll get more space in this than the last few games land we'll need to break more.

GooneriC

Can't see anything other than a win for them. Pep will have them drilled for this and with the quality they've got they will punish us.

awooga83

Yeah, I think City will beat us all well. Just think our defence doesn't look great and not good enough to stop them scoring personally. I can't see city setting up for a draw I think they will want the win.

Clrnc

Yeah agreed. All signs point to City going all out for us.

Will take a draw given the teams current respective form

banduan

backs to the wall, players are in a bit of a rut and we're not gonna win this without Gabi J. We'll lose this only to pull a surprise at the Etihad when our best forward is back.

Daz

Fuck it, I'm all in for the win!

mohan

We will be up for it. Players want to prove something and the crowd will be louder. I am hoping for a narrow win