Arsenal - Crystal Palace. Saturday. 20 Jan, 12:30 UK Time. - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Arsenal - Crystal Palace. Saturday. 20 Jan, 12:30 UK Time.

HomeSteak

Nice an early for the boys tomorrow.
Just came back from Dubai, should be tanned and rested. Maybe ... dare I say it? They will, score 1 or 2 goals, and win a game of football? Don't know, hard ask. We shall see.

In the last 5 games, Palace are in better form. 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
We have lost 3 in a row now.

We are missing: Partey, Zinchenko, Timber, Tomyiasu & Elneny...in other shocking news, the sky is blue. Vieira is probably still out, doing his own thing, nobody knows what that is and it does not matter.

Palace has played and lost on Wednesday vs Everton in the Cup, they should be more tired and they will be without: Holding(lol like he ever plays), Ayew - this is important as against us he goes out and gets around 10 fouls without getting a card, tries to win a penalty or two by diving and of course gets one of his 3 goal per season. Doucoure is also out and so is Ward.

The ref is the prick Tierney.

Raya
White - Saliba - Gabriel - Kiwior
Rice - Havertz
Saka - Odegaard - Martinelli
Jesus

I assume Arteta won't change much. This is the team that will win us the xG match, the really important one.

Talk online is that ESR has been superb in training in the Dubai camp, so you know he will get a huge increase in time, he might get 9-10 minutes now.

Burnwinter

HomeSteak Vieira is probably still out, doing his own thing, nobody knows what that is and it does not matter.

Cruel but fair.

Coombs

HomeSteak great op.

Clrnc

Love how straight talking homesteak is

RocktheCasbah

Off to the game with James tomorrow- breakfast at Dishoom and then an ESR masterclass, well, that's not too much to hope for, is it?

Let's hope the winter break has been the desired reset and the boys come back refreshed and remembering where the goal is, should be a fun afternoon.

Don Pacifico

RocktheCasbah have a good one! Dishoom breakfast is a cracking way to start the day - you can't really go wrong but would endorse the bacon naan (like everyone else) and the masala beans!

lorddulaarsenal

Have a good’un Paul. Send my hot regards to Jimbo.

The hash browns in Maccies are tremendous I can’t lie

goon

Nothing at all on ticket exchange, was hoping our losses meant the casuals would stay away.

Qwiss

goon nah its still a nightmare. Got the rejection email for Newcastle earlier.

RocktheCasbah

Cheers Don - the thought of the bacon naan is what led me to Dishoom tomorrow in the first place - well that and the fervent desire not to end up in a pub before lunchtime!

goon

They do a nice masala chai too if you're into that sort of thing.

goon

Qwiss

Hate the fact that you can only select like 4 sections of the stadium as a red member now too.

But I guess it’s to try and improve the atmosphere by ensuring silver members can sit in the main atmosphere generating sections together?

awooga83

Looking forward to the game tomorrow we've been in a rough patch but you want to get back out and correct it. I hope the break has given the team and Arteta time to improve the resilience of our attacking game and have a strategy for what we do if we struggle attacking wise and how we tweak how we play or the players we use.

Hopefully we can get a decent early goal to ease everybody if we suffer a bad start or it doesn't happen for a little bit you wonder what the energy and feeling will be. We need to win for sure so there's an added factor there as well.

invisibleman18

Feel like it's got 0-0 written all over it. Hopefully wrong but can't see where a goal is coming from at this point.

RocktheCasbah

invisibleman18 ahhhh come on, we're not going to keep wasting chances. I reckon it'll be 2-1.

To Palace.

RowJimmy

invisibleman18 Feel like it's got 0-0 written all over it. Hopefully wrong but can't see where a goal is coming from at this point.

Couple of guys named Gabriel.

invisibleman18

RocktheCasbah fair point, we might get a penalty I guess 😆

lorddulaarsenal

I recon we’ll come out fast with an energetic press. Mik will have let them know he ain’t happy.

Qwiss

lorddulaarsenal yeah I think we'll come out all guns blazing too. All that training, loads of talking, getting heads back where they need to be and a bit of a rest. I've a sneaky little feeling we might bang in 3 or more.

Claudius

I feel for Palace. We are going to pluck em like Cornish hens.

Burnwinter

Must win ... but I reckon we will. I'd expect a lot of energy and a few nerves from the off, but we've got what we need to win it comfortably. Happy to take the three points in any way, shape or form.