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Don Pacifico

Sicario2 we have a +7 GD on Villa in 9th. Barring a catastrophe, we're through.

Sicario2

Don Pacifico
So you would play a carling cup side next Wed? 🤔

RocktheCasbah

Sicario2 Think we still need a point to guarantee it but looking very good. Wonder if we will rest players next Wed.

Looking at goal differences, something pretty mad would have to happen for us to lose and not go straight through, but you're right, it is possible.

Claudius

RocktheCasbah the beauty of a “boring” team like ours is we aren’t suddenly going to lose 5-0. The downside risk is contained. We are through.

FEBravo

RocktheCasbah also Girona are already eliminated so they don’t have anything to play for

Don Pacifico

Sicario2 with Man City at the weekend, yes.

Besides, a Carling Cup lineup for us these days doesn't tend to be much different from the first XI. 😉

JazzG

Doing our job in the CL so far.

banduan

was nice to have an easy match for once

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Sterling is tragic as we know but wasn't he a little better last night?

awooga83

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert I didn't even realise he was playing until nearly 30 minutes into the first half, not a great indicator from my perspective.

Claudius

Sterling is a trilobite.
He's useful only as a body that enables the alternative starter to rest for half a game. But I imagine the other 10 players sweat a little more when he's on the field.

Qwiss

Claudius there was a few minutes where he swapped with Havertz in the first half and it was the only time he looked dangerous all game. If he's not near or in the box he's pointless. We are stuck with him for the rest of the season apparently, Arteta signed him and agreed to that full season, so he needs to do what he can to get him into the box where he can something.

Gurgen

Once he lost that super pace he was half the player. Should have signed him 10 years ago. It's extra sad to watch because you know he was really good once. Like the Willian effect.

Claudius

Qwiss I don’t follow every player closely so I didn’t know what to expect. I’d like to think Arteta and his coaching staff would know a bit more about this player’s physical level. We’d have been better off with that lily-livered Vieira the last four months.

lorddulaarsenal

First time ever I fell asleep during one of our matches. Around the 70th minute I dozed off.

Reached that stage of life peeps.

flobaba

lorddulaarsenal and we won 3-0! It wasn't you boss. Arsenal really put the snooze on in this game. I'm hearing it might just be a "perception gap" though and the reality is it was a very exciting and entertaining game of footy, but folks like me are not quite soph enough to enjoy it.

Asterix

Claudius excellent use of "trilobite". 👏

Claudius

flobaba it was a very chill game. Which is exactly what the team needed. And me, to be honest. There have been too many stressful games. An uneventful game where we win 3-0, don’t suffer injuries, reintroduce players from injury, give an academy kid who’s been with the club for 14 years his Champs League debut is alright by me

awooga83

As someone who was there is was I can vouch for it was incredibly boring from when we got the first goal until the time of the second unmemorable 😂. We might have been in auto pilot etc but when we face these types of teams in other circumstances we have to show much more quality not all this safety first go down the wings. You have to hope Arteta sees that as something that has to change in the future.

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