Match Threads North London Derby pt 1

[RuskyM]

Really does feel like a tipping point - we win, it’s euphoria, we lose, it’s a nadir.

For what it’s worth I’ve thought we’ll win this for a week or two - I think we’ve been better than our results and Arsenal have been a bit overwhelmed by expectation. We will need our midfield operating at 100%, and that’s where I’m concerned. But the hysteria over Odegaard and Rice shows how terrified they are, and we really need to utilise that.

Huge game.

 

[chas vs dave]

We need to make sure we dont get done on set pieces by Allerdyce Arteta

 

[IfiHadTheWings]

Ange to finally get the world to see what he was working on all that time up managing Celtic.

lands the perfect Glasgow kiss on carpet bonce and the crowd goes wild.

 

[Bulletspur]

Peacock doesn't have every game on live. Sunday's NLD is only available as a recording on Monday on Peacock.

I stand corrected. It must be a coincident that when I visit I get to watch any game (Spurs) I want to watch live.

 

[CookieYiddo]

We need to make sure we dont get done on set pieces by Allerdyce Arteta

It's getting caught in the transition as we push up, that's where we need to be 100%. If we aren't we will get hurt

 

[thebenjamin]

Team news today is going to hit like cyanide

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

This seems as good a place as any to let Barnet manager Dean Brennan give us all a little pep talk.

I so wish prem managers would do this sometimes. I’m sure it would end in instant dismissal as most fans can give it but can’t take it. But fans do need telling about themselves from time to time.

 

[punkisback]

I felt really let down last season when Ange and the team tried hard against City to prove a point and berated us for not wanting Arsenal to win the league. Especially when they couldn’t be bothered to turn up for Arsenal at home and stop them winning the league there and then. They let us down then now they owe us big time; the effort and fight needs to be there Sunday.

 

[Romulus]

Not much confidence really. Ange has to start showing he can win these types of games, we haven't beaten a decent team since Aston Villa away on the 10th march. These are the teams we've failed to beat since:

Newcastle x2
Leicester
Man City
Liverpool
Chelsea
Arsenal
West Ham
Fulham

The teams we beat:

Everton
Sheff Utd
Luton
Forest
Burnley

 

[robhumphreys]

Also completely dreading this. They will stick White on Vicario at every corner and it will be panic stations every time. Think we need to score 3 here to win it.

 

[easley91]

We need to make sure we dont get done on set pieces by Allerdyce Arteta

We haven't been done on set pieces in any of the games so far this season (unless you count the throw in at Newcastle as a set piece).

 

[iddebu52]

Also completely dreading this. They will stick White on Vicario at every corner and it will be panic stations every time. Think we need to score 3 here to win it.

Then Romario will take care of the whole

 

[ajspurs]

Really tough one to call this. We have the home advantage, crowd behind us, hopefully Solanke and VDV back (although there's not much out there to suggest they will be!) and I think despite the mixed results and some questionable elements to our football, we've actually played really well in the first three games.

On the other hand, Arsenal are a really good side, and if they sit back and try to counter to exploit the spaces we'll inevitably leave in our defence, they can still really trouble us with the likes of Saka, Martinelli and Sterling. It's one of those where once again, if I knew that we kept a decent number back at most times and didn't have both full backs so far forward all the time, I'd actually most likely be going into this saying I'd be disappointed in anything but a win with the players they have out. That vulnerability about us always makes any result a fair possibility though.

Could really go either way, but am hoping the crowd and the occasion sees us get over the line.

 

[DaiT]

I'm over from NZ and will be at the game on Sunday.
In a way I wish they had their strongest team available so that they have no excuses when we win.
Only my fourth live match since Nov 2008 when we beat Liverpool 2-1 and 2 years ago when we beat Southampton and Wolves.
Can't wait for Sunday.
COYS.

 

[TheChosenOne]

This seems as good a place as any to let Barnet manager Dean Brennan give us all a little pep talk.

Proper working class Dublin accent

 

[McFlash]

Peacock doesn't have every game on live. Sunday's NLD is only available as a recording on Monday on Peacock.

My lad found an app on the Google play store last season that shows every game and I've been using that.
It means I've got to watch games in my phone but it's better than nothing.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

We need to take our chances... we will probably get fewer chances than the previous games this season... they will be happy with a 0-1 ... they will take the clinical approach.

"Arsenal have taken 28 points from a possible 30 away from home in 2024 and are yet to trail on the road this year. It's a defence that has conceded just three goals in those 10 games."

 

[Flashp]

We need to take our chances... we will probably get fewer chances than the previous games this season... they will be happy with a 0-1 ... they will take the clinical approach.

"Arsenal have taken 28 points from a possible 30 away from home in 2024 and are yet to trail on the road this year. It's a defence that has conceded just three goals in those 10 games."

This is insane numbers TBF. We need to really be at our game.

Hopefully their absentees will leave the rest a bit startled, and doubt can start to creep in...

 

[aliyid]

I like the tack we've taken in here this morning. Blind optimism and blissful ignorance.

We're going to play the best football, the most amazing football, we're gonna score all the goals. We've got some great plans for our lineup and tactics, look out for them, it's gonna be beautiful. Arsenal are the worst football club in all the history of the world, everyone hates crooked Mickey Arteta. We're the only ones you can trust to make football great again.

#coys

They're not even from North London, not many people know that but I do, I've always known. We're going to have a beautiful day with many people in the crowd, could be the biggest crowd in the history of the game. Nobody leaves early when they come to this ground. Not like that nasty place over there run by crooked Mickey, I call him Lego-head as his head looks like one of the little lego characters with the fake dark hair.

 

[Guntz]

In before the Gabriel bullet header