“The first goal will be important for us here, hopefully, we can get it quickly.” (opinion)

Ahead of Sunday’s match versus Tottenham Hotspur at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Premier League, I’ve looked at our forum, Arsenal Talk, to see what supporters are saying ahead of the game.

You can have your say on tonight’s match on the forum here. The match is live at 14:00 on Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League and Ultra HDR and the referee is Michael Oliver.

SA Gunner: “I see their fans are talking about how Wolves and Chelsea got behind our press, and they feel they can do that better and really hurt us.

They’ll probably anticipate us going man for man in our high press, so I expect them to use the bounce or wall pass to progress through our lines once they get the ball out into our midfield.

So I’m thinking like with Bayern for example, they go wide to the fullback. The fullback dinks the ball into midfield for a dropping attacker to bounce the ball back to the deeper player advancing and close by. This deeper player then sends the ball behind the space that Saliba/Gabriel has vacated when following the dropping attacker. Simple but effective stuff which they will definitely be practicing and that we must be ready for.

I do want us to disrupt their short build-up in the beginning because we will create chances that way. As much as they’ve worked on their short build-up, it is still prone to mistakes and our OOP flexibility must exploit that.

We used more of a zonal mark/pressing approach against Chelsea, and I think not getting as tight until they come forward is something we can use against Sp**s as well.

The ideal situation is a goal from high turnovers and then we manage them by sitting off and forcing them to enter midfield. We don’t need to try and suffocate them for 60-70 minutes.

The first goal will be important for us here, hopefully, we can get it quickly. They will be thinking the same.

Sp**s 0-2 Arsenal.”

Gooner Zig: “I see some are looking to get Martinelli in at the expense of Trossard and I get it, Martinelli has the perfect profile for this game BUT he’s pretty out of form while Tross is crushing it. At this stage you do not take out form players from the starting XI.

The only questions are whether Tomi and Partey can play in my opinion.”