Good morning.
For some extent within the season when the whole lot is so essential, it’s been an extremely quiet week from an Arsenal perspective. That’s as a result of there’s no drama, no controversy, no repetitive drum to bang all week lengthy due to one thing that occurs on and/or off the pitch.
I don’t find out about you although, but it surely feels very very similar to the calm earlier than the storm. I perceive why it’s quiet, but it surely’s making me a bit uneasy. What lurks across the soccer nook? Dangerous males, that’s who. Dangerous males who wish to win soccer video games of their very own, and proper now they’re enemy number one in my world. I want them nothing however a perpetual itch in a spot they’ll by no means satisfactorily scratch. Not even with a knitting needle.
Later right this moment, Mikel Arteta will meet the press forward of our journey to Anfield on Sunday. Hopefully there aren’t any new health points. We haven’t heard a lot about William Saliba this week apart from he’s nonetheless a doubt, so maybe we’ll get an replace on him. In as a lot as we get updates from the supervisor past the ‘Nicely, he’s alive, so let’s see how he’s on Sunday’.
Elsewhere, our opposition within the FA Youth Cup ultimate shall be West Ham, who hammered Southampton 6-1 final evening. Curiously, their subsequent recreation within the U18 Premier League is at residence to us, a type of quirks of the fixture record that so usually pop up. It’ll be an attention-grabbing one for Jack Wilshere and his West Ham counterpart when it comes to workforce choices, techniques and so on. It’s not as if something can be an enormous shock, however perhaps making an attempt to maintain one thing again for the ultimate can be of their minds.
The date/time for that has but to be finalised. It’s scheduled for twenty ninth April however given the sport is about to happen on the Emirates and we play Chelsea that day, it’s more likely to be moved.
Talking of West Ham, they’re away to Fulham this weekend, and whereas I don’t actually care what some other groups do, I feel I need them to win this one. They’ve been having a really troublesome season, and it’s important to think about that David Moyes’ job is on the road at this level. Even with only a few video games left, a 5-1 battering at residence by Newcastle simply a few days in the past appears like a final-nails-in-the-coffin sort of defeat, and in the event that they lose to Fulham I feel they’ll pull the set off.
Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a consideration in any respect, however given West Ham’s subsequent recreation is in opposition to us, we’d be dealing as soon as once more with the NMB – New Supervisor Bounce. Huge Sam again in to offer them a rollicking and what’s that? Oh, swiftly Arsenal are down to eight males as a result of we’ve been kicked off the park and suffered so many accidents and used up all our subs and with Granit Xhaka in objective as a result of each Aaron Ramsdale and Matt Turner have been carried off with ugly head and testicle accidents respectively, Lukasz Fabianski heads residence a 93rd minute winner for the Hammers. From a Declan Rice cross.
I’ll concede that very sometimes after I write this weblog I exaggerate potential eventualities for comedic impact, BUT THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Fulham shall be with out Aleksandar Mitrovic after he was handed an eight recreation ban for his FA Cup incident with referee Chris Kavanagh, in order that’s to their benefit, but when they may simply not be absolute rubbish this weekend then revert to sort after we play them that will beautiful. Thanks.
Talking of Mitrovic, if the FA determine an eight recreation is enough for what he did, that’s tremendous. As a lot as all of us wish to have a go at refs, you may’t permit gamers – or anybody else for that matter – to get bodily with them in any manner. So this ban is each punishment and deterrent. The one factor I’ll say is Bruno Fernandes obtained very fortunate for escaping with no punishment for pushing an assistant referee a couple of weeks in the past. It wasn’t the identical sort of scenario, it wasn’t as confrontational or aggressive, however he nonetheless did it. If I have been Mitrovic, even when I accepted what I did was improper, I feel I’d be bit aggravated that there seem like double-standards.
Proper, let’s go away it there for now. There’s a model new Arsecast beneath, during which I chat to former keeper David Seaman about our title chase, and you may win tickets to a Seaman Says stay occasion with Ray Parlour too (extra information right here). Then we’ve some pre-Liverpool chat with Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap, and a few bonus Mugsmasher too.
All of the hyperlinks you want are beneath. Blissful listening, we’ll have all of the information from the presser on Arseblog Information in a while.
