Man City this afternoon, in a game we ought to win, particularly with the absence of Stephen Ireland, who though clearly a wanker has nonetheless scored my fantasy team a lot of points this season. City have failed to deceive, or rather failed to built any further deception on the early promise of a season with Robinho et al. Robinho, despite bumping into Mark Hughes oversized forehead about his ‘star’ status, looks like he’ll just about be back, and he’s famously good at football, but fingers crossed the cack-handed ten around him will conspire not to give him any chances, as per usual.
In our news we have no RvP, Eduardo, Diaby or Sam Nasri. If you want a fun matchday game, play ‘spot the player from that list we’ll least miss’. I’d have thought the team will look something like this:
Almunia
Sagna Toure Gallas Clichy
Walcott Denilson Fabregas(yay) Arshavin
Adebayor Bendtner
Though I wouldn’t be surprised to see Theo start on the bench with Eboue on the right instead. And you never know when Alex Song is going to appear.
Particularly exciting, you’ll agree, is Arshavin and Cesc together for the first time. Funny, isn’t it, how the return of the injuries + Arshavin makes us look so much more like a good football team than we were before.
The Joan Laporta/Cesc Fabregas thing is not really worth commenting on, only to reiterate what I’ve said before about I think Cesc has a few things he wants to achieve at Arsenal before he heads to Barcelona, namely winning some stuff, and probably winning some stuff as captain. He’ll be here for at least another season or two, I’m sure. My only slight worry is that he probably would love to play under Pep Guardiola as manager (the guy was his idol as a player), and with Spanish managers in and out like a bishop in a brothel it’s difficult to say how long this dream combo for him will last. Anyway, just a bit of pessimism. It might be bollocks. The stuff we write usually is.
Three points today, please, and we’ve got six ahead of Villa before they capitulate to United tomorrow, and it’s a sunny, sunny weekend.
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Tags: Arsenal, Cesc Fabregas, man city
April 4th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I really hope song gets the nod ahead of denilson
i really like both players but song was on fire befor the international break and deserves another crack at that DM spot
also id feel more comfortable with him being a much physically stronger player playing alongside a returning fabregas
id be a bit surprised if all three returning players started btw,
i definitely think adebayor will start as hes had the international match, but not convinced the other two will
April 4th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I’m with Davi would love to see Song pick up where he left off. Maybe like this since we’re missing RVP,
Almunia
Sagna Gallas Toure Clichy
Denilson Song
Walcott Fabregas Arshavin
Ade
April 4th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
spot on chocolate legs.