Win Premier League: Arsenal 1 - 0 Norwich City | Saturday, 11th September | KO: 15:00 BST | Stream

Don't even know if I want us to win or not. Both teams are in poor form, but I'm sure Norwich fancies this. This might kickstart their season. Historically, we always have the upper hand against them, but struggling to see how we beat them seeing the way we play.

The stats makes for grim reading

We do seem to have a decent record against them tbf

This match always come to mind when I think about Norwich. Orgasmic football!

A bit of nostalgia for my boy @Riou


Predicted Lineup

 

[Riou]

"I call this the Thierry Henry attack...it's get the ball to Thierry, everybody else get the **** out the way"
...Arsène Wenger, 2004

 

[nas7232]

Going to be a tough one. Statistically Norwich are favourites. Hopefully we can manage a draw and keep a clean sheet. If we are lucky, Norwich are not aware of our left wing spam and then we may win. Hopefully in 3 years time we will be ready for top 4... in league two. By this point, White will have mutated into Vidic and Xhaka into Viera. #believeintheprocess

 

[Riou]

Hope we win this, and win it well.

Issues with management/board aside, the players and fans really could do with something good right now.

 

[Notorious Big]

We have Norwich's number tbf. Should be enough for decent draw.

 

[Rimaal]

Don't even know if I want us to win or not. Both teams are in poor form, but I'm sure Norwich fancies this. This might kickstart their season. Historically, we always have the upper hand against them, but struggling to see how we beat them seeing the way we play.

The stats makes for grim reading

We do seem to have a decent record against them tbf

This match always come to mind when I think about Norwich. Orgasmic football!

A bit of nostalgia for my boy @Riou


Predicted Lineup

Are you hoping to break the curse of your threads by going for what should be a guaranteed win game??

Worth a try, I suppose, at Arteta's expense.

 

[Makingtrax]

Don't even know if I want us to win or not. Both teams are in poor form, but I'm sure Norwich fancies this. This might kickstart their season. Historically, we always have the upper hand against them, but struggling to see how we beat them seeing the way we play.

The stats makes for grim reading

We do seem to have a decent record against them tbf

This match always come to mind when I think about Norwich. Orgasmic football!

A bit of nostalgia for my boy @Riou


Predicted Lineup

Top opening post showing some stats and a Wenger masterclass in attacking wizardry, @OnlyOne could learn a lot from this.

Think we should win by virtue of being the home team in this bottom of the table clash, but still not confident.

 

[SA Gunner]

I had said before that I hope Farke does the business, but now that the dust has settled a bit I actually want to see "Arteta's team" taking shape on the pitch.

Hoping for both Gabriel and White to start. If Arteta is going back three, then I hop to see Tomi, Tierney and AMN start too. This area would probably be where most of my interest would be, trying to see what we will be trying to do there.

 

[Notorious Big]

Hope we win this, and win it well.

Issues with management/board aside, the players and fans really could do with something good right now.

Arteta after match.

 

[celestis]

Another great goal

 

[El Duderino]

We're at least getting a draw out of this. We've mostly always had their number and they lost their main man in Buendia.

If there was a poll I'd vote for a win.

 

[celestis]

We're at least getting a draw out of this. We've mostly always had their number and they lost their main man in Buendia.

If there was a poll I'd vote for a win.

This game reminds me of men’s footy in the early noughties

 

[Rimaal]

I had said before that I hope Farke does the business, but now that the dust has settled a bit I actually want to see "Arteta's team" taking shape on the pitch.

Hoping for both Gabriel and White to start. If Arteta is going back three, then I hop to see Tomi, Tierney and AMN start too. This area would probably be where most of my interest would be, trying to see what we will be trying to do there.

Nah, feck that. I hope Farke does a number on Arteta.

 

[tap-in]

Surely we're going to get our first points of the season, although I thought the same vs Brentford. Hopefully White, Gabriel & possibly Partey back, the latter maybe on the bench.

3-0

 

[Riou]

Nah, feck that. I hope Farke does a number on Arteta.

Our first ever Premier League match, was a 4-2 defeat at home to Norwich.

If that result happens next weekend, will be amazing to watch the club/Athletic try to spin it into a positive

 

[Rimaal]

Our first ever Premier League match, was a 4-2 defeat at home to Norwich.

If that result happens next weekend, will be amazing to watch the club/Athletic try to spin it into a positive

I'd love to see it though, for purely anthropological reasons, of course.

 

[krengon]

we got this. Hopefully we'll see a good performance too

 

[Riou]

I remember Arteta scoring a crucial late pen, in a win over Norwich from 2013, which helped us get ahead of Sp**s in the Champions League race.

Remember when we used to both get in the Champions League and finish ahead of Sp**s

 

[Aussie_gunner123]

Only thing I'm concerned about now leading to our next few matches before the Sp**s is considering they should be pretty winnable games for us, if we do manage to get 6 points from the next 2 is it might convince the board to keep going with Arteta & it will save him the sack.

 

[SA Gunner]

Only thing I'm concerned about now leading to our next few matches before the Sp**s is considering they should be pretty winnable games for us, if we do manage to get 6 points from the next 2 is it might convince the board to keep going with Arteta & it will save him the sack.

These next two games are must wins for Arteta, just to quieten things around him a bit. If he loses one or both of the next two, I think he is in serious, serious trouble.

Assuming he does the business and gets the six points, then the real test comes up again against Sp**s. Whereas a draw is an "acceptable" result for us, all things considered, if he loses that game then we can look at the two previous wins and the vs Sp**s performance in better context.

Personally, I've done a 180 and I want to see more of this "grand plan" of theirs. They are essentially giving themselves rope, and if they are frauds then they will take themselves to the gallows.