Arsenal vs Aston Villa K/O 3pm 23/2/2013

Alfred Borden

Venue Emirates Stadium, Saturday 3pm

Tickets Sold out

Last season Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 0

Referee Martin Atkinson

This season's matches 19 Y74, R1, 3.95 cards per game

Odds Arsenal 4-11 Aston Villa 8-1 Draw 4-1
Probable Teams:


Arsenal

Subs from Mannone, Martínez, Gnabry, Yennaris, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel, Diaby, Ramsey, Coquelin, Rosicky, Gervinho, Ox-Chamberlain, Arshavin

Doubtful None

Injured Fabianski (ankle, 3 Mar), Gibbs (thigh, 9 Mar), Sagna (knee, 9 Mar)

Suspended None

Form guide WWDWLL

Disciplinary record Y26 R3

Leading scorer Walcott 11

Aston Villa

Subs from Given, Ireland, El Ahmadi, Holman, Sylla, Bowery, Dawkins, Bannan, Bennett, Stevens, Lichaj, Johnson, Burke

Doubtful None

Injured Herd (foot, 4 Mar), Albrighton (foot, Apr), Gardner (knee, Aug), Dunne (groin, unknown), Petrov (leukaemia, unknown)

Suspended None

Form guide WDLDLD

Disciplinary record Y55 R2

Leading scorer Benteke 11

shano_88

Arsenal need to win and put in a very good performance. An early goal and I can see them winning easily. If its still 0-0 at half time I can see frustration really starting to kick in.

CSF

No Vlaar, interesting.

JPA

CSF wrote: »

No Vlaar, interesting.

Must be injured, not interesting.

shano_88

Arsenal: Szczesny, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Monreal, Arteta, Diaby, Wilshere, Walcott, Giroud, Cazorla

Villa: Guzan, Lowton, Clark, Baker, Bennett, Westwood, Delph, Agbonlahor, Weimann, N'Zogbia, Benteke

Raekwon

Aston Villa team: Guzan, Lowton, Clark, Baker, Bennett, Westwood, Delph, Agbonlahor, Weimann, N'Zogbia, Benteke. Subs: Marshall, El Ahmadi, Holman, Sylla, Bowery, Dawkins, Lichaj.

Great, back to an inexperienced defence and weak midfield combo. Cue Bennett and Lowton getting turned inside out all afternoon and Clark and Barker trying to contain wave after wave of attacks.

Up front we look decent and N'Zogbia and Benteke are both bang in form but we have no real attacking options on the bench as Bent is injured (?) and Bowery couldn't hit a barn door.

This is not going to be pretty from a Villa point of view.

JPA

A pasting for Villa or a tight win. Or a draw...

Charisteas

Diaby starting instead of Ramsey - that's what it should have been against Bayern Munich.

Biggest win ever in the Premier League please.

Patser

Villa aint lying down which is nice to see but it's easy for Arsenal to play like this when their 1 up

AdamD

We really are playing muck

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Lots of space in midfield. Need to exploit it better.

patrickc

Jenkinson having a good game so far

dfbemt

All streams seem to have gone down.

A good or bad sign?!?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Giroud's 1-2's and layoffs around the box are class.

dfbemt

dfbemt wrote: »

All streams seem to have gone down.

A good or bad sign?!?

Fund one..... missed nothing !!

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Jack needs a right foot for occasions like that.

patrickc

no issue with my stream

tayto lover

All action first half and we are ahead thankfully.
Some of out passing is poor though.
Montreal has to stay out on his man and stop coming inside too. The danger is coming from that wing still.

Alfred Borden

We need another goal, Villa will definitely score in the second half!

Frisbee

The instance where Walcott and then Wilshere had loads of time on the ball in the box is a situation you have to score in. If you are given that much time and space it has to be a goal, or at least a shot on target, not worked all the way back out to the wing.

Jaafa

Ouch...

cson

Can someone PM us a recipe there cheers.

shano_88

Might aswell sell Diaby for parts at this stage.

sc86

yeeeessssss

Mr Blobby

Typical :mad:

markie29

the goalkeeper should save that!.

AdamD

20 minutes of pressure and we didn't even look like scoring. Woj should save that all day long

IvySlayer

Poor by Chesney

MaxPower89

Joke shop

Quazzie

****ing typical. We dominate the second half and the opposition score in a breakway goal

tayto lover

FFS Czszney yet another mistake. My granny would have saved that.

.jacksparrow.

Bad feeling about this game now.

Marty McFly

Fcuk sake how do we always manage to get ourselves in this situation time after time after time. Sort it out Wenger.

Charisteas

Raf32 wrote: »

We need another goal, Villa will definitely score in the second half!

Spoiler alert!

Quazzie

Marty McFly wrote: »

Fcuk sake how do we always manage to get ourselves in this situation time after time after time. Sort it out Wenger.

He doesn't have the ability to. He has lost the dressing room and is tactically unaware of how a game runs.

shano_88

Weve created nothing really in the second half.

CSF

AdamD

70 minutes and no Rosicky or Podolski. Just give up Wenger

Marty McFly

Quazzie wrote: »

He doesn't have the ability to. He has lost the dressing room and is tactically unaware of how a game runs.

I don't think he has lost the dressing room the players do all seem to be still behind him but tactically he is inept.

Roddy23

Can see us losing this. We've hit the self destruct button yet again.

Gringo180

Saying it since last season that Chesney is just not good enough!

Jaafa

The sheer amount of corners we've wasted.

tayto lover

Giroud that was a sitter. Very poor.

Probably shouldn't be annoyed at the poor streams, **** knows how bad it would be to see these idiots properly.

Marty McFly

Teams like Villa in there current state should not be causing us problems if Villa take points of us twice this season says it all.

wonga77

Gringo180 wrote: »

Saying it since last season that Chesney is just not good enough!

Id say a third of your 900 posts have been telling us how bad Chesney is, we get it...

AdamD

Struggling to see us scoring a goal now

Giroud should be tapping those crosses in

wonga77

Not watching as my internet connection is rotten, im guessing same sh1t different day?

About bloody time.

G.K.

cazorla 2-1