lorddulaarsenal hasn't been a regular starter under Unai.
Huge game for Zinchenko. Tomi would have added so much defensive steel for us, so Zinchenko really need to cut out all the lapses otherwise it will be very costly here
Burnwinter Ah damn weird, thought I'd checked it pretty carefully. Also sucks as it's in the middle of the night here, but hey ho.
Unlucky bro. As I'm GMT+3, CL games starting at 8pm UK times are as bad as it gets for me and having to stay up until 1am, which is nowhere near as bad as you Aussies. Sucks.
Big Willie It's a choice I guess. I do love those early kickoffs though ...
Burnwinter It's a choice I guess. I do love those early kickoffs though ...
I hated the 12pm or 2pm BST Sunday kickoffs as I would be at work but usually I'd just avoid the result and watch on r/footballhighlights when I got home. I'd probably do the same thing for middle of the night kickoffs if I was in Australia.
Big Willie Yeah I've got a sub to a decent service and watch the matches first thing after waking up. It's impossible to avoid the scoreline otherwise.
Burnwinter Yeah I've got a sub to a decent service and watch the matches first thing after waking up. It's impossible to avoid the scoreline otherwise.
Is it Australia only? If its something similar to an IPTV where you can watch live or delayed then that would be awesome.
Big Willie Yeah, that's exactly what it is. A bunch of morons called Optus who've got the rights down here. You can stream high quality any time after kickoff. Pretty much league only and it's about $25 a month I think, the CL rights are held by a Netflix clone called Stan.
Starting to expect Jorginho to start.
They've 14 home wins in a row now and totally bossed City. Huge test but I'm looking forward to seeing how we handle it, in light of the City match.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/unai-emery-arsenal-aston-villa-premier-league-b2460685.html
Good read on Emery
Forgot what a wild ride this game was last season
Pepe LeFrits We missed some great chances that game. Don't think we will get as many chances tomorrow so we need to be a lot more clinical.
They'll be well up for revenge and full of confidence, but so are we. We've have good results against Villa recently so we should see going all out for the 3 points.
Kick off time is 17:30 not 12:30.
Be amazed if we win this. Might start believing again. That's always dangerous.
Think we'll draw this 1-1.
Burnwinter overpaid bridge troll Emi Martinez
Love it 🤣
Arteta has the advantage of that City game coming first, they're similar enough to us that he should be able to see what we need to do that City didn't. I'm wary of Villa, I'm predicting a draw but I think if we could go there and win today it'd lay down a massive marker for the season after they took City apart so easily. I'm out a Christmas party though so if I'm watching at all it'll be on my phone.
Qwiss …they're similar enough to us that he should be able to see what we need to do that City didn't.
Was listening to AV earlier and they pointed out that that we pose a different challenge to Villa. City had 1 prolific goalscorer while we share the load and have direct wingers and 8/10s.
Don’t know if we can stop Villas threat going forward but reckon we will get a lot more joy going forward than City did.
Qwiss What do you use to watch on your phone? I'm in the same boat, it's a phone jobby for me today if at all.
I will be delighted with a draw given that we have been inconsistent performance wise but for some reason I think we are going to win today. Normally ain't so confident
goon My main issue would be keeping the ball. City didn't, we have to. I'd like us to strangle this game the way we did against City.
