Leonardo Dicaprio style?All Poch has to do to fire up the boys today are 4 words " I am not leaving".
Leonardo Dicaprio style?All Poch has to do to fire up the boys today are 4 words " I am not leaving".
Until we smash them in the league in February and put them 8 or so points behind usto be honest, first time in a a while, not too fussed if its a weakened team out tonight. Too many injuries already this year, with a very busy schedule coming up. Its just a shame the game is a derby, won't hear the end of it from that lot
Well the latest of both Dier and Jan out till January and seeing the fixture congestion coming upGazzaniga
KWP Toby Sanchez Davies
Dier Winks
Lamela Eriksen Son
Kane
Vorm, Rose, Sissoko, Skipp, Lucas, Dele, Llorente
My guess:
Gazzaniga
KWP Alderweireld Foyth Davies
Sissoko Winks
Lamela Eriksen Son
Kane (if man flu too serious -> Moura with Son up front)
The only plus of Arsenal winning is that it would pretty much stuff them in regard of top 4. They’d have an extra 4 high pressure games with Europa 32 and 2 leg semi. That’s without getting to final and then missing a PL game and having to play catch up. Obviously in theory I’d love to win it but it really is a poison chalice in terms of top 4 bar being City. Everyone that’s got to semi in last few years has struggled re top 4 bar city. And the carabo/europa combo is near enough impossible.
United literally did the Carabao/Europa 2 years ago
I can assure you that I'm not remotely scared of our full strength side losing to a weakened Arsenal team but I can see why you might think that based on what I wrote.
Truthfully, I don't rate Arsenal at all this season. Quite frankly I have little interest in what they're doing whereas I think our fans waste a lot of time and energy still hating on them. I prefer to focus on what we're doing and frankly we have more important things to be focusing on than the frickin League Cup.
I think there's this idea that the media will stop criticising Poch for not winning something if we just went and won a League cup but I don't believe for 1 second that will happen. We'd win it and Spurs fans will say "give Poch some credit now then?" and the response from roval fans and the media will be "It's only the league cup".
IMO Arsenal don't matter anymore. We are moving past them in every respect as a club and the trophies will come. Their reaction to beating us in the league said everything to me about how small time they've become and the fact that they are still 5 points behind us so quickly afterwards is testament to that.