Arsenal vs West Ham Utd (Emirates Stadium) KO: 1:30PM on Sky Sports 1

DenMan

Brand new season at the Emirates!

Arsenal host West Ham in the early kick off! Hoping for a big Gunners win! 4-0 Arsenal

Teams (via the BBC)

Arsenal
33 Cech
02 Debuchy
04 Mertesacker
06 Koscielny
18 Monreal
34 Coquelin
19 Cazorla
16 Ramsey
11 Özil
15 Oxlade-Chamberlain
12 Giroud

Substitutes
03 Gibbs
05 Gabriel
08 Arteta
13 Ospina
14 Walcott
17 Sánchez
21 Chambers

West Ham United
13 Adrián
05 Tomkins
02 Reid
21 Ogbonna
03 Cresswell
35 Oxford
16 Noble
08 Kouyaté
27 Payet
15 Sakho
10 Zárate

Substitutes
01 Randolph
04 Nolan
07 Jarvis
19 Collins
20 Maiga
23 Poyet
28 Lanzini

Drexel

Cant wait for this. Should be an Arsenal win but you'd never know on the first day of the season.

Surprised Debuchy is starting ahead of Bellerin though. Just noticed he isnt even in the squad. Injured?

cson

3-0 Arsenal.

Don't rate Bilic whatsoever & hope he gets what he deserves after their Europa League stunt.

Some bench Arsenal have these days.

Drexel

Drexel wrote: »

Cant wait for this. Should be an Arsenal win but you'd never know on the first day of the season.

Surprised Debuchy is starting ahead of Bellerin though. Just noticed he isnt even in the squad. Injured?

From @arseblog:

Re: Bellerin - @cdoosc21: @arseblog slight muscular problem per AW. Should be good for next week.”

GreNoLi

4-1.

Fill yer boots lads!

4-1 Arsenal

Ajfunky

Confident but nervy. I hope we can finally see what this team is made of.

2-0 the arsenal

efb

Can we have a clean sheet?
3-0 OG12 Hattrick!

Drexel

efb wrote: »

Can we have a clean sheet?
3-0 OG12 Hattrick!

I'd like a clean sheet too

gandalf

I just want a win!! And stop all this positivity, it doesn't feel right :P

Kirby

efb wrote: »

OG12 Hattrick!

Yes hopefully LK6, MD2 and PM4 keep that cleansheet while SC19 and FC34 play well too! :rolleyes:

Please stop using that ridiculous naming convention. It's a chore to read and the poster often comes across like a 12 year old.

cson

Good lord Carragher talks some amount of bollox.

Doesn't seem to rate us because we haven't two world class players competing for every position.

Goes on to say we're light in midfield with Coquelin and should have gone for Schneiderlin... The mind boggles; at least Coquelin has half a season playing for a top 4 team including a few Champions League appearances - correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Schneiderlin has ever played in the Champions League?

Goes on about us getting battered and how Cech might change that - I think our heaviest defeat last year was 2-0 away to Chelsea? He's still living off that 5-1 at Anfield bless him.

efb

Carragher hasn't a clue

Bobby Baccala

Everybody looking sharp so far

Kirby

Well Coquelin hasnt gotten better at passing during the break, thats for sure.

Quazzie

cson wrote: »

Good lord Carragher talks some amount of bollox.

Doesn't seem to rate us because we haven't two world class players competing for every position.

Goes on to say we're light in midfield with Coquelin and should have gone for Schneiderlin... The mind boggles; at least Coquelin has half a season playing for a top 4 team including a few Champions League appearances - correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Schneiderlin has ever played in the Champions League?

Goes on about us getting battered and how Cech might change that - I think our heaviest defeat last year was 2-0 away to Chelsea? He's still living off that 5-1 at Anfield bless him.

He also went on to say that we've signed Cech now and he's the first real winner in the squad.

Someone should really tell Ozil, Mert and Sanchez that their world cup and Copa America triumphs mean nothing.

The man is a moron.

Quazzie

Kirby wrote: »

Well Coquelin hasnt gotten better at passing during the break, thats for sure.

He doesn't need to. As long as he keeps breaking up the opposition's plays and protects the back four he is doing his job.

We've enough players that can pick out that killer pass. He is in the team to allow them to do it.

Kirby

Quazzie wrote: »

He doesn't need to. As long as he keeps breaking up the opposition's plays and protects the back four he is doing his job.

We've enough players that can pick out that killer pass. He is in the team to allow them to do it.

Which is all true. So somebody needs to tell him that. Spraying 40 yard passes into touch, which he has done twice in 20 minutes, isnt his job.

greendom

Pretty decent cross from Coquelin there

DenMan

Wonderful turn from Mertesacker there! Very Messi-esque. :P

Ajfunky

What a surge by the coq!

Ajfunky

The ox is hungry. Please feed the Ox.

Some run from Oxo!

Bobby Baccala

Ozil has been poor so far

Ajfunky

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Ozil has been poor so far

He's on card tricks at the moment... rabbit from the hat coming soon

Ajfunky

Loving Cechs Ginormous kickouts! Far cry from Ospinas badminton serves..

West ham are gonna have a playe if they keep goin like this. Tomkins could be off.

JustTheOne

Ramsey frustrates me.

greendom

Why didn't Ramsey pass it?

lertsnim

Ramsey really should have played in Debuchy there. His decisions to shoot sometimes are infuriating.

Ajfunky

When you score that goal from Galatasaray, I assume you believe you can score whenever you want ha

Kirby

That was onside. Saved anyway but still, a poor call.

Kirby

Didnt take long for Cech to back up my point.

He isnt as good as some think he is.

MagicMarker

Ooops.

Arsenal need a new keeper. :eek:

Quazzie

Cech caught in no mans land

Harry Palmr

hahahahahaha

(sorry I'm giddy)

greendom

Time for the season to start

DenMan

Bollix!

Mickeroo

Poor from Cech.

Professional Griefer

Keeper should have done better

Mars Bar

Cech doing what an Arsenal keeper does. Who was supposed to be marking the scorer goal side anyway?

brianregan09

How many points is he supposed to win us?

Ajfunky

Hm bad keeping cech

#BringBackSzczney

efb

Balls!

Anyone

Agent Cech

gandalf

I said people were being too positive!

efb

And that's why he was no longer Chelsea's Number 1 #NoLeagueForOldMen ...

Hopefully the kick up the arse the team needs.

cson

We'll still win this.

NomadicGray

Final piece of the puzzle eh?

gandalf

gandalf wrote: »

I said people were being too positive!

"Positive" isn't the word.