Newcastle v Arsenal 28th September 430 PM

Sicario2

1)Must win if we want to drown out the noise/build some momentum

2)Play the right players and be progressive - ie no Merino

3)Try to not get any injuries in a prem game for the 6th consecutive game (touch wood)

4)Lost here last two seasons. Time to fuck them up.

Qwiss

We are still waiting on a statement win from the team this season. A good win here would surely be a statement.

USArsenal

I would be happy with any win. Pool barely eked out a win against 10-man Newcastle up there (at the last minute, of course). So i don't care if we win 3-0 or 1-0. This ain't the easiest place to play for sure.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Players should be fucking angry and want to FUBAR these scumbags.

RowJimmy

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert to FUBAR

Never seen this used as a verb, used to seeing it as an adjective.

Burnwinter

Three points and no fresh injuries would have us looking likely to drag something back on Liverpool in the following fixtures. No easy wins in the league, but what's to come is as gentle as it gets.

No points would mean just one point from the three more difficult fixtures we knew were opening the season, and would put us at a rough handicap.

Seems unwise to pile any more pressure on the result here than there is anyway. The relentless hubbub is doing us damage.

tazmania

Burnwinter read my mind.
I'll take a 1-0 win with no drama

Qwiss

Burnwinter The relentless hubbub is doing us damage.

This is just part of being a successful club. There is pressure and expectations, it can't be avoided.

Mirth means the rest of the season will be easy 😉

Mirth

This is genuinely one of the hardest starts to the season we’ve ever had. Ridiculous.

lorddulaarsenal

Mirth yep it certainly is. They’re trying to derail us early

Speedster

It's Newcastles biggest game of the season. Howe always fuels the flames as much as possible before this. He started it ages go. I think he say us at he's top 4 rivals at the time and wanted to make it a kind of derby. But we kicked on and now it's just in his head

Klaus

We'll win this because that's what big teams do.

Newcastle are a dirty lot and that's all they are. Couple of years ago we didn't have a single midfielder as good as Bruno; now we have three or four who are better than him. Just bloody roll them and watch out for the counter.

est

Howe has got Arteta's number so far. 'Bout time we changed that!

If I'd be a betting man I'd wager it will be an ugly 0-0 though.

lorddulaarsenal

For me it’s the second toughest ground to play at for us other than Anfield.

That said I think we’ll win. Isak was the difference maker for them. He ain’t their plus o have a feeling we’re staring to find our mojo

Rice, Gyokeres, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori and Saka must start

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

If Rice stinks this up too I want him dropped for Eze or Nwaneri for a run of games.

Gazza M

we have to make a statement here. a draw is not good enough. I can see arteta being a size queen again and starting rice, zubi and merino once again.

Asterix

Yeah me too, but would love to see Eze start instead of Merino.

TambourineMan

Merino, Rice in midfield - zero cutting edge, pass it around pointlessly and lose 1-0.

A Mikel Arteta special.

Mirth

TambourineMan tbh Newcastle away is the sort place where it makes sense to pack the midfield with man mountains and try to nick something. They won’t let us play football and Eddie Howe has a good record against Arteta so what’s the point in trying?

Burnwinter

Qwiss This is just part of being a successful club.

Not just, though. The "Arsenal industry" has never been what it is now. Even fans of other clubs have started to complain about how every football outlet does nothing but try desperately to feast on whatever can be extracted from our bridesmaid psychodrama.

Sicario2

Burnwinter biggest club that hasn’t won anything relevant in 20 years = views/clicks

We are the masters of our own destiny though - every criticism should be used as motivation. As I said previously, we should be the hungriest club in the entire league as we need to prove the most ppl wrong.

Qwiss

Burnwinter this is what happens when you come up short over and over. Complaining about it wont make any difference, the only way to stop it is to win. Liverpool had similar shit when they couldn't win a league title for 20 years. The noise stopped when Klopp finally won them a title.