imavillan Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Tyrone to be assessed on Saturday morning. Sounds to me as if they will be desperate to play him but if they're leaving it that late and he passes a fitness test he can't be 100%. Still, a less than 100% Tyrone Mings will still be better than Chambers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Big big news about carlos. Sounds like he might be in the squad in next few weeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 20 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Big big news about carlos. Sounds like he might be in the squad in next few weeks! West ham game is realistic given how long he has been out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Areteta moaning about playing wednesday night and now saturday lunch time. It could be a great time to play them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 If we turn up, we can give any team a game and scrape a win. If we play half arsed like the first half at City we will lose Eleventeen- 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted February 17, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: If we turn up, we can give any team a game and scrape a win. If we play half arsed like the first half at City we will lose Eleventeen- 0 Twelvety Edited February 17, 2023 by Follyfoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 2 hours ago, TRO said: Rainbows don't come very often.....If we did that, Europe would be a doddle. Tbf it depends on how the ref is feeling too. Wednesdays the ref let Silva kick the shit out of a Saka before finally pulling out a card. You can almost guarantee one of our players tries that against him it’s a yellow from the first foul. The Mings non foul booking last season a great example of this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, PaulC said: Areteta moaning about playing wednesday night and now saturday lunch time. It could be a great time to play them. Exact same thing as last season and we were very poor. Arteta is always moaning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 I think we'll be up for this big time. Always nice to beat this lot. Come on, me Babbys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted February 17, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2023 I hope VP is rocking, always a bit harder at Saturday lunch time as no one has had time to get tanked up I think our lads will be really wanting a win after last weekend, so I can see us being really up for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 2 hours ago, PaulC said: Areteta moaning about playing wednesday night and now saturday lunch time. It could be a great time to play them. Tbf he has a point. Id be pissed if that was us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Partey still out I think. Hopefully little Phil gets the start and exploits Partey's absence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 7 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: We did but then got it horribly wrong against Liverpool and Leicester with how much of a high line we played along with how open we were. Really need to get the balance right. I’d actually prefer us to drop a bit for this one and really frustrate them. Take the game to them and I reckon they’ll pick us off easily. Against Liverpool we did create some really good chances in first half but give Arsenal that space and they'll knock in at least 3 goals like Liverpool did. Better template is what we did a few days later v Spurs. Barely left our half in the first period but got to 0-0 and then stepped it up after the break and ran our comfortable winners in the end. No different to what Everton did to Arsenal a few weeks back. We will also have a much stronger bench than last few weeks and Arsenal don't really have the depth the other top sides so so like to think it's a match we can finish stronger in. Hopefully not when we're 0-3 down like last week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 17, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2023 Arsenal have to win, which could be bad or good for us. I want to be hopeful, so I say we win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 8 hours ago, WakefieldVillan said: Hope so mate Looking back at the Man Utd game which you rightly mention as the blueprint for tomorrow, we had Cash, Digne, Dendoncker and Bailey starting and I don't think any of these 4 would be selected by many going into this game. The tactics though were absolutely spot on. Let's hope Emery gets it spot on. I'm sure he will give us the best chance possible, just hope the players have the belief they can get something from it. Half the issue is psychology. Against City looked beat coming out the tunnel as per usual against them. We can't play scared against Arsenal. We have to get at them from the off and not given them an easy ride and a chance to settle into their rhythm. No stupid errors would go a long way too. For us to win we need to be at our best and for Arsenal to be under par simple as. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, VillaChris said: Against Liverpool we did create some really good chances in first half but give Arsenal that space and they'll knock in at least 3 goals like Liverpool did. Better template is what we did a few days later v Spurs. Barely left our half in the first period but got to 0-0 and then stepped it up after the break and ran our comfortable winners in the end. No different to what Everton did to Arsenal a few weeks back. We will also have a much stronger bench than last few weeks and Arsenal don't really have the depth the other top sides so so like to think it's a match we can finish stronger in. Hopefully not when we're 0-3 down like last week. I agree. It’s not always pretty, especially at home but I think sometimes you have to be realistic and accept the opponent is a lot better than you and use a pragmatic approach to beat them. I know a few Arsenal fans and they all say they really struggle against teams that play a low block but if teams try to come out and play agains them they beat them comfortably. Really hope we don’t play in to their hands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted February 17, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 17, 2023 They do less well when we are a constant threat. Must keep the ball away from them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Couts to start for me. Would love to see what Dhuran could do from the off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Tommo_b said: Couts to start for me. Would love to see what Dhuran could do from the off Coutinho seems to have got some mojo back and could certainly start in place of Ramsey. Dhuran off the bench I feel but can't wait to see him again! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted February 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 18, 2023 I think McGinn & Mings will come in for Ramsay & Chambers. There are question marks over both full backs, which could mean 4 changes before you start shaking up the attack. I honestly think Le Bon should start over Bailey and theres a good argument for Couts over Emi B. Thats 6 possible changes which would be daft to be honest. Here's what I think he'll do. Young Konsa Mings Moreno Buendia Boobs Dougie McGinn Bailey* Watkins *should be Simon Le Bon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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