A battle that interests me is Walcott vs Cole. I can almost hear the words of John Terry telling Cole to go in hard in the opening minutes but he will have to catch Theo first
A fresh Arshavin will return to the starting line up, other than that only Arsene knows who will play really. We have a full complement of central midfielders, wingers and strikers
We have been in a rich vein of form , confidence is high & goals are being scored . Our blips during the season look to really have been mostly due to injuries
Alex Song has taught me something, he has taught me never to write off a 17 year old player who is still developing. Once again against a top European side
Another option Wenger has if he is not sure about playing Gibbs in such an important game is to bring Song back into the center of defence with Mikael Silvestre moving across to left back
If Diaby is fit enough he might start ahead of one of Song or Denilson, as the Cesc/Song/Denilson central midfield formation doesn’t seem to work very well
I must admit the whole AKB (Arsene Knows Best put down) saying is rather silly in my opinion. It is like being called LTEF (Like to eat food) of course I do, that is obvious. Just as it is obvious that Arsene knows more than
I don't think the position behind the forward really suits Cesc. He has done certain things well there because of his quality passing but someone like Nasri would be better suited
Wenger showed his intent by replacing Denilson for Van Persie minutes after the goal. Denilson wasn't at his best, he couldn't stamp his authority on the game which isn't a surprise giving the fact that he has had the most amount of minutes on the pitch
The major question is of rotation. Even with our injuries we still look to have a pretty strong squad on the whole. I think this could well be the first match where we have all of our strikers fit