Joke City Preview - Next Fabreagas?

The Bastards

 

  So tonight Joke City comes over to the Emirates for a league match. Should be three points in the bag, no doubt, but when you have trolls on the field who consider a long throw-in attacking prowess, it's another story.

     Let's not deny the fact that we've had trouble with Rory Delap's throws, but now with Djourou in the backline we should have more confidence than usual. Speaking of confidence, Szczesny will have to have a good match. He'll have to be in full control of our penalty area; the organizer and the dominant one. If he decides to come out and call for the ball, he MUST get the ball. Last year, Stoke scored off a ball rolling around in our penalty area. That cannot happen again.

     Of course, Arsene Wenger has a different plan: to keep the ball and not let Joke have it.
Is that supposed to be some new method? By Wenger saying that, he gives the message that we haven't had that plan in past matches. If so, then my god why not?
This Arsenal side has players fully capable to play the possession game, so we should take full advantage of that and slowly pick teams apart, in the ARSENAL way, not the Barcelona way.

     Tonight van Persie and Koscielny won't be with us, both suffering from minor injuries. If all goes as planned they should be back for Sunday. My predicted line-up:

                         Szczesny

Sagna      Djourou      Squillaci     Clichy

                Wilshere       Song

                         Fabregas

    Walcott         Benctner         Nasri

     I picked Bendtner over Chamakh to start for a couple reasons. In the last match, Nik had a much better match than Chamakh, and Chamakh had very little influence on the precedings. Bendtner on the other hand was lively, and if he was dangerous on the right hand side cutting onto his left, he should be even better in his natural position.

     My prediction for this match is 3-1 to the Arsenal. Dealing with Jones and Carew will be tough for our defense, but going forward I believe we will be effective.

     In other news, Aarson Ramsey scored for Cardiff City. His loan ends this weekend, with his last match this Saturday. Wenger has decided he will bring Ramsey back, and according to Arsenal.com, Ramsey was in line to play in the Leyton Orient. However, according to FA rules, because Ramsey was ineligible for the first leg, he is ineligible for the second.
     That's the third mistake Arsenal.com has made this week. One for Theo's fake Twitter account, one for spelling Miquel's name wrong, and now this. Well below par from the website of the year.
But back to Ramsey: it's great that he's coming back. I really look forward to seeing him back in an Arsenal shirt and fulfilling his potetial.

     Arsenal have agreed terms with Barcelona for a promising 16 year old, Jon Miquel Toral Harper. Apparetnly Barcelona is mad. Alright then. I'm sick of their complaining now. But good to see him come. Fabregas came when he was sixteen, so you never know... And i'd bet that Fabregas helped convince the lad to come to north London. Good work Cesc.

     I may not be able to watch the entire match tonight, relying on an Internet feed. Therefore, my review may not be as scrumptious as it usually is. My apologies in advance.

     And if any of you are interested in another fantastic Arsenal Blog, visit Gooner Talk. Brilliant stuff.


     Now let's go kill some trolls.