Loss FA Cup 4th Round: Manchester City 1 - 0 Arsenal | Friday 27th, January | KO: 20:00 GMT | ITV

Play the kids and bin this. Don't show our hand until we play them Feb 15th.

Prediction

Man city 2-1 Arsenal

 

[A_G]

Kolasinac played for us last season???

Yeah, he got into the team for City after a commanding performance away at West Brom in the Carabao Cup.

 

[boonthegoon]

Kolasinac played for us last season???

Yeah start of last season

 

[boonthegoon]

Lucky we only kept it down to 6, looking at that defense we should have conceded 10 plus

It was only 5

 

[RunTheTrap]

Damn, I never knew how much Teta loved us. I assumed he came to us because we were the only CL level team that would take him, but it seems he really loves us.

 

[boonthegoon]

Damn, I never knew how much Teta loved us. I assumed he came to us because we were the only CL level team that would take him, but it seems he really loves us.

You haven't seen this? Knew then he's coming back for sure.

 

[dashsnow17]

I think it’s quite a useful learning point because I’ve no doubt internally they’re saying that they’d like to rotate players but they can’t because there simply isn’t the quality on the bench and you can’t get soundly beat with a B team cos that impacts momentum.

They’ll be saying “we need to invest so that next year we can comfortably rotate and be competitive in both competitions “

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

Ramsdale
Tomi-White-Gabriel-Tierney
Partey-Xhaka
Saka-Ode-Nelli
Laca

This was the team when the home game came around 4 months later, little did we know but the starting 11 was starting to take shape nicely. We lost that game 2-1 but the performance was very encouraging.

 

[The_Playmaker]

Difficult. I would have a blend.

-----Trossard-------Nketiah------Martinelli
------------------Xhaka-------Vieira
---------------------------Lokonga
Tierney-----Gabriel---------Saliba------Tomi
---------------------------Turner

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Go all in against them. Beat them and we are the strongest team left in the cup, so another good chance for a title. PL will be still very difficult, so we are not in the position to throw away possible titles.

So let’s just say… you could have a 70% chance to win the PL by dropping out of the FA cup vs having a 40% chance to get PL title and the FA cup too… which would you pick?

 

[razörist]

If we have to compete fine. Understand getting battered does us no good. But please protect Partey. He gets injured and we are truly done.

 

[DJ_Markstar]

https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4555554/manchester-city-vs-arsenal/

soccer

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

No but for psychological purposes you can’t get hammered by your title challengers.

ESR-Trossard-Saka
Xhaka-Lokonga-Vieira
Tierney-Kiwior-Holding-Tomiyasu
Turner


I reckon City will turn up with something like this:

Grealish-Alvarez-Foden
Gundogan-Philips-Silva
Gomez-Laporte-Dias-Lewis
Ortega

I like this line up although if possible, I wouldn't play Saka

 

[MikeVinna]

Partey can’t be risked. But he will be.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

You haven't seen this? Knew then he's coming back for sure.

I remember this interview but didn't know he was so connected. He apologised as captain for us not winning the PL and it will be the ultimate apology if he wins it for us as manager.

 

[db10_therza]

Partey can’t be risked. But he will be.

With Elneny out I’m afraid he has to be. Will be our first team pretty much. Maybe trossard, turner and tomi in. Tierney at a stretch. All the Ts 🤔

 

[db10_therza]

Seeing goldbridge this worked up FOR us has my head in a right spin icl.

 

[Tom Mix]

With Elneny out I’m afraid he has to be. Will be our first team pretty much. Maybe trossard, turner and tomi in. Tierney at a stretch. All the Ts 🤔

Why? We've got Lokonga.

 

[db10_therza]

Why? We've got Lokonga.

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not…

 

[drippin]

Imagine how Everton feels. Arteta played 209 matches for Everton, and 150 for Arsenal.

But Arteta jumped with joy when City scored against Everton, but not when City scored against Arsenal.

 

[Tom Mix]

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not…

I'm not. We have Lokonga. He is being paid, he is not being sold or sent out on loan. Far as I am aware Arsenal is not a charity. We need to protect our most important midfielder and not play him in this game, first choice replacement is injured leaving Lokonga - the second possible replacement - as the only available option. Play him. There's a huge chance he'll sink but if he swims it might be the making of him.