Your Vision – Disrespectful Babies
Xavi in particular must be scared of us or constantly irritated by our team because he can't stop whinging about us and coming out with bitter, disrespectful comments. Remember in the summer when he was the chief of the 'Tap up Cesc Fabregas' team with his disrespectful comments about how 'maybe he'll come in January when Arsenal are out of the title race'? Well Mr Dick Head, we're still in it and the man you constantly wank to
Many won’t agree but Denilson could be very important tomorrow evening
Cesc’s absence could give Jack the freedom of expression
Bring it on
The truth is that the Arsenal of 2011, with all its necessary parts in working order, is a well-oiled machine that is capable of beating any team in the world. For all the talk of how we are going to stop Barcelona there is the small matter of how Barcelona are going to stop us and it’s won’t be as easy as press, press, press. Especially not if we are adopting the same tactic, and to good effect as we have
Wolves (h) Thoughts & Predictions: Time to feed last weekend to the Wolves
I expect Wolves to play with a congested midfield, especially narrowly. The forward passes of Cesc along with the movement of Van Persie and Walcott will be important. When Cesc is on his game then the rest of his team mates are usually on their game because of the captain's influence on the pitch. Without Samir Nasri we are going to need Cesc to take a step forward and find his best form, hopefully the midweek rest will have allowed
Moyes story boring and predictable, Koscielny & Holding Diaby
Everton (h) Thoughts & Predictions: Performance must improve to avoid sticky Toffee’s
The Russian has some big shoes to fill but if he can find his best form then he is fully capable of stepping up to the plate and producing the goods. Nasri was very important to the team because of his link up with Cesc and Van Persie, so it will be interesting to see how Arshavin plays with his creative
Ipswich (h) Post Match Thoughts: Wembley beckons as Arsenal close to taking the Mickey
Andrey Arshavin who is still not back to his best, delivered a pin point corner to the head of Laurent Koscielny who nipped in ahead of Martin Fulop to head into the net. His rounding of the belly celebration would indicate that his partner is pregnant, so it was a goal fully deserved. His second goal for the Gunners in a wonderful first season. He has developed a great partnership with Johan Djourou and appears to have ironed out his errors. I have no doubt that he will become a world beater for
Leeds United (a) Post Match Thoughts: Glowing Nasri takes the Leeds as squad sharpen up
Alex Song was masterful until he tired out late in the second half. The 'visible' wall has now turned into a graceful, skilful, brick wall. I love the way he positions himself in front of the opposition midfielder and they just run straight into him, bounce off his solid frame then the blonde haired Cameroonian shuffles his way past a couple of challenges and then finds an advanced team mate who knew that sequence was about to unfold 10 seconds prior to the pass. Gordon Strachan called him the best defensive midfielder in the league, so do I.