UEL Round of 16 1st Leg: Olympiakos v Arsenal | Thursday, March 11 | KO: 20:00 UTC | BT Sport

[Token Yank]

Leno
Cedric Luiz Gabriel Tierney
Xhaka Partey
Saka Ødegaard Pepe
Auba

 

[Legend14]

I've said about Ødegaard next to Partey before, I think in a game like this it could work well. I considered Elneny next to Partey rather than Cebellos to allow Partey to take the ball forward. Still I'm sure Arteta will play Xhaka!

Ødegaard that deep makes no sense since his strength is in the attack. Elneny with Partey is the better pairing.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Leno
Bellerin Luiz Mari Tierney
Partey Xhaka
Saka Ødegaard Pepe
Auba

Let's start well and put them to the sword. In our recent poorer results, we've created chances and lived to regret them, can't afford for that to happen here. Pepe, Saka and Auba is an attack with goalscoring potential, as opposed to an attack with Willian and/or Lacazette. Bellerin at his best is a better right back than Cedric, I love Gabriel but Mari has been excellent and I'm really enjoying Auba's performances up top as of late.

Come on boys, big night needed. It's Olympiacos, not Bayern. We can do this <3

 

[254Giant]

I wonder who's going to gift the opposition a goal this time? Xhaka, Luiz,Bellerin...?

 

[Iceman10]

Leno
Bellerin Luiz Mari Tierney
Partey Xhaka
Saka Ødegaard Pepe
Auba

Let's start well and put them to the sword. In our recent poorer results, we've created chances and lived to regret them, can't afford for that to happen here. Pepe, Saka and Auba is an attack with goalscoring potential, as opposed to an attack with Willian and/or Lacazette. Bellerin at his best is a better right back than Cedric, I love Gabriel but Mari has been excellent and I'm really enjoying Auba's performances up top as of late.

Come on boys, big night needed. It's Olympiacos, not Bayern. We can do this <3

Bellerin will likely play this one, but your talk about when he is at his best is more hopeful than anything else in my opinion, the problem being he has lost a bit of pace and dynamism, and there’s been enough time now to suggest odds are are not with him getting back to his best anytime soon. It’s a problem both sides of the pitch. The attacking threat isn’t great while lots of space is often allowed behind him for the opposition to expose. Lots of indications though his time at Arsenal could be drawing to an end, amicably.

 

[Riou]

Come on boys, big night needed. It's Olympiacos, not Bayern. We can do this <3

I like that the Panathinaikos poster reacted to this

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Let him stay. Better poster than most on this forum.

I get you are angry at Arsenal at the moment but don't be angry at your fellow Arsenal supporters friends. We are all suffering together!

 

[A_G]

It's Olympiacos, not Bayern. We can do this <3

 

[OnlyOne]

I get you are angry at Arsenal at the moment but don't be angry at your fellow Arsenal supporters friends. We are all suffering together!

Why have you had me on ignore for so long?

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Why have you had me on ignore for so long?

What are you talking about? I've never had you on ignoring. I always reply to you?

 

[OnlyOne]

What are you talking about? I've never had you on ignoring. I always reply to you?

Hmm we've been distant. I've missed you.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Hmm we've been distant. I've missed you.

Yeah, this is not a good place right now to stay for longer times. So much negativity and personal abuse.

My heart is still pure like of those monks that have take oath of silence and this forum just feels like the one ring in lotr. I don't want it!

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Anyone remember the Colombian curse?

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Anyone remember the Colombian curse?

Haha, because they didn't like the way we treated Ospina?

.... I think it worked.

 

[A_G]

Anyone remember the Colombian curse?

David Ospina: On Loan to Napoli

So did Almunia. When did this happen? In the CL final his horrendous keeping cost us the game.

arsenal-mania.com

 

[boonthegoon]

just saw highlights of last year 2nd leg so that I'm ready for anything here

 

[AberGooner]

The game with them at the Emirates last year they where destroying us on set pieces and to be fair we seem to have really improved defending them this season. Hopefully that should negate the main threat they pose to us. Of course I've no idea how similar their squad/style of play is this season but I imagine they will sit pretty deep certainly in the 2nd leg.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

David Ospina: On Loan to Napoli

So did Almunia. When did this happen? In the CL final his horrendous keeping cost us the game.

arsenal-mania.com

"I wish doom and misery on your team and players. Just like the snub you did to Oscar Cordoba in 2003. You will never get a world class Colombian. You don't deserve them."

 

[Makingtrax]

We should win this, unless somebody tells the players to mess around with the ball in our box instead of occasionally hitting it long.

 

[Oxeki]

Hope we don't show them any respect like Mikel usually does in these kind of fixtures. Let's go for the jugular and make sure we end the tie in the first leg. Don't want any hypertension-inducing second leg