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

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

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Prediction

Man city 2-1 Arsenal
 
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Rex Stone

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Second team. Don’t want them to be able to figure us out for two weeks time.

Debut for Kiwior but I’d consider using Martinelli to try and get him back into form.

Nketiah, Zinny, Saka, Partey and Xhaka all need to be rested though imo.
 

Dennis_Bergkamp_10

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Think a lot of our starters will play. We're playing at the Etihad and a drubbing could get into our players' heads.

Expect the likes of Xhaka and Saka, added with someone like Trossard in between. No Partey please.
 

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Reminds me of 07/08, top of the league going away to second place in the FA Cup. Wenger rotated a bit and the team got battered 4-0 at Old Trafford, seemed like that had a psychological effect on them. Hope to avoid something similar here.
 

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Hopefully he puts a weak team out as the club has bigger fish to fry but most likely he will put out a strong one.
 

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It’ll be a strong team, look at the Oxford lineup. Defence will see rotation and Trossard might get a start.

Midfield won't be the woeful one we saw against Oxford.

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Tomi Holding Gabriel Tierney
Xhaka Partey
Ødegaard
Saka Eddie Trossard
 

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we have Kiwi and Trossard now so we can afford to rotate a bit. Arteta will still put strong team it's man city after all.

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Tomi Gabriel Kiwi Tierney
Elneny (if fit) Xhaka
Saka Fabio Trossard
Eddie
 

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I’m so not into this game I’m going out for dinner on Friday night.

I actually think Mikel will put out a reasonably strong team/bench, as we don’t play again till the following Saturday, but tbh who cares.

I’m way more bothered about the PL and even the EL as we’re massively overdue a european trophy.
 

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we have Kiwi and Trossard now so we can afford to rotate a bit. Arteta will still put strong team it's man city after all.

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Tomi Gabriel Kiwi Tierney
Elneny (if fit) Xhaka
Saka Fabio Trossard
Eddie
Kiwi and Gabriel both left footed. If Kiwior will start it will be with Saliba.
 

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I used to criticise Wenger for binning off the cups back in the day so I'm going full double standards here in saying rest a few for this one. Saka, Partey, Eddie and Ode don't need to be playing. Can't be risking anything happening to Eddie with Jesus still out.
 

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We've seen enough FA Cup wins to give us beautiful memories. But, now we've actually got a chance at the trophy that's eluded us for almost 2 decades!!

Throw this match, play the under 9's if you must. They won't remember it in a couple of years time anyway :lol:
 

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Yeah absolutely no chance we play a complete second team. Trossard, Tierney, ESR and co might come in but it'll be a strong team.
 

Tomb Bombadil

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Arteta will play the strongest team, with no game until 8 days later.

He won’t be showing his hand to Pep because there’s half a season’s worth of footage out there.
I really don't mind if we lose this. But I am also pretty sure we will play a really strong team. The only players I see coming in would be Tomy, Tierney or Trossard, but max. 2.

I would love to give a rest to Partey and Saka but almost no chance. Arteta might play with:

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White - Saliba - Gabriel - Tierney
Partey
Ødegaard - Xhaka
Saka - Eddie - Trossard​
 
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Morning_woody

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Bin the FA Cup or else we may end up like Liverpool in 21/22 season where they lost the league by 1 point and lost in the Champions League final but won FA and EFL cup.

Look, I want us to win every trophy possible and a triple would be some achievement, but tbh we don't have the squad for 3 tournaments.
 

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Arteta will play the strongest team, with no game until 8 days later.

He won’t be showing his hand to Pep because there’s half a season’s worth of footage out there.
He will play a really strong team. The only changes I can see is Tierney, Trossard and Tomi coming in as they're probably not far of the first 11 and he seems to trust them (not so much Tierney but the other two he has no hesitation to throw them in). The only wild card might be Vieira as he has started all our cup games when fit.
 
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Arteta will play the strongest team, with no game until 8 days later.

He won’t be showing his hand to Pep because there’s half a season’s worth of footage out there.
Yeah? Is there half a season’s worth of footage out there of us running rings around City and beating them? Because thats whats gonna happen if we try, would like to save that for the PL game.
 

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Yeah? Is there half a season’s worth of footage out there of us running rings around City and beating them? Because thats whats gonna happen if we try, would like to save that for the PL game.
You must be very naive if you think Pep needs to actually play this team to create a game plan for them in the PL.
 
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