Arsenal v Man Utd Wed 4th Dec 2015 KO

SimplyThePest

While we've mostly had their measure for a little while now, our games against them always seem harder than they need to be. I think that will continue here as Amorim appears to be no idiot and has a team that, at least for now, seems bothered to play for him.

As much as I'd love to see us mete out a severe rogering, I think it'll be a tough one.

goon

awooga83

We’ve won 4 of our last 5 and ironically the loss was probably our most dominant performence, so there shouldn’t be any mental block.

RocktheCasbah

Manchester United in the FA Cup too! May have to try and bag a ticket for that one

Sicario2 - Tier 1

RocktheCasbah
Ffs out of all the teams!

We get such bad luck in fa cup draws in recent years. What’s the odds of getting City, Liverpool and Utd 3 years in a row in the third round?

RocktheCasbah

Sicario2 - Tier 1 yeah, funnily enough I said the same. 3rd and 4th ball out too - at least we're at home.

goon

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Thought I’d ask Gemini, the odds of drawing a ‘top 6’ side (I know that’s generous to United) in the third round of the FA Cup three years running is 0.66%

I’m starting to like the look of the 5% title ods Opta have us at.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

RocktheCasbah
Issue is we play Spurs 4 days later and they can rest all their players before as they got a non-league side in the cup.

Claudius

We should put the stronger team to the Spurs game. Hopefully, we have enough for United. A bit annoying.

RocktheCasbah

Claudius it is annoying, but I think we've seen in the last week that we can now rotate with more confidence than was previously the case. Both games at home too.

Burnwinter

goon Thought I’d ask Gemini, the odds of drawing a ‘top 6’ side (I know that’s generous to United) in the third round of the FA Cup three years running is 0.66%

LLMs aren't generally capable of doing these kinds of calculations correctly, so I hope it showed you its working …

That said if modelled as an independent Bernoulli trial thing that'd be roughly the same as hitting an 18% chance three years in a row, so maybe not too far off.

Gazza M

daredevil

Gazza M

Goddamn it! 🙂

Asterix

No no no no no, don't go putting up things like that - you're just asking for trouble.

Don Pacifico

Don't worry, Liverpool bested us in the FA Cup last season. Nothing to worry about.

awooga83

The days stat is an odd way to frame it given we don't play them daily rather then by fixtures. It feels a bit of a narrative stat because by the same metric days since we beat city is 400 or so it doesn't feel like the best stat.

Claudius

Sent this boy to the shops

Qwiss

It'd be nice if Jesus could get the winner here to kick start his season. Or a hat trick.

Lukazan

Don't give a fuck about their new manager or any bounce they might be experiencing. They're still shit and we should be beating them no problem.

I think we will too.

4-1.

awooga83

Lukazan the worry for me is they were truly awful under Ten Hag and yet we really struggled with lots of marginal wins for some reason they were able to keep things competitive.

HomeSteak

Just fuck em up