| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Donnarumma | MCI | C |
| Up |  Verbruggen | BHA | C, Vs |
| Down |  Raya Martin | ARS | A |
| Up |  Darlow | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Petrovic | BOU | B |
| Up |  Henderson | CRY | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  O’Reilly | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| Up |  van Hecke | BHA | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Hill | BOU | B, £ |
| Up |  Struijk | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Lacroix | CRY | A |
| Down |  van Dijk | LIV | C |
| Down |  Thiaw | NEW | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Kayode | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Up |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Up |  Tavernier | BOU | C, £ |
| Up |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | A |
| No Change |  Gordon | NEW | A, OoP |
| No Change |  Rice | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Down |  Szoboszlai | LIV | B |
| Down |  Wilson | FUL | A |
| Up |  Hinshelwood | BHA | B, Vs, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | C |
| Up |  João Pedro | CHE | A |
| Up |  Welbeck | BHA | A, Vs |
| Up |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | B |
| Down |  Thiago | BRE | B |
Mark A senseless dismissal for Robin Van Persie. A seething response from Arsene Wenger. A public apology from Cesc Fabregas. Beyond all the noise, it’s difficult to deny the quality of Lionel Messi and Barcelona, as Arsenal were again beaten in the Nou Camp to end another Champions League campaign.
“Great support from the arsenal fans. I take full blame for the result tonight. One of the worst moments of my life. I apologise.”
What does everyone think of captaining lampard for the next GW?
anyone tell me if that zhirkov is playing out of position defender
He was vs Bpool, but I dont think he'l hold down a 1st team spot.
Alright guys, whats the best way to hold onto a lead? I'v got a 110 point lead in my mini league at the momemnt, but it used to be 150+
Do i try and match my rival teams, try not spend any points on tranfers or continue as usual (bringing in players who i think will do well regardless of what rivals do)???
Focus on your team and your team only your in a lead for a reason. I'd refrain from obscure captains and points hits
How safe is Mignolet's position as keeper for the medium to long term?
Is Gordon injured or just out of form?
Injured, but im not sure how long for
go balls out on massive differentials
I'm SO conflicted!! It would have to be a 4 point hit if I brought him in now, so will wait probably to GW31/32
Bring him in 🙂
I'm 86 points behind with this team (and 4.3 in the bank)
Foster, Al Habsi
Kolarov, Huth, Coleman, Rafael, Djourou
Nani, Van der Vaart, Nasri, Downing, Meireles
Tevez, Berbatov, Zigic.
Lots of changes need to be made, particuarly with the 'stereotypical' players - Kolarov, Huth, Coleman, Rafael, Nani, Berba, etc.
Where would you start and what would you do? Am willing to take a few 4pt hits over the next week to change things up quickly and starting getting points in...
nani to lampard
rafael or kolarov to luiz
berba to anelka for the chances of him playing both games in the double, or carroll if he looks like starting for liverpool
...not necessarily what i'd do, but just a few ideas.
Like most I may need to take a few hits, I have -
Begovic Szczsney
Kolarov ShawX Simpson Coleman Carr
Nani Barton Lampard Young Adam
Rooney Zigic Tevez
2.0 in the bank
I was thinking
Tevez Barton & Kolarov - VDV RVP & Djourou
Any other transfers you would consider?
As long as you're okay with Begovic as your only keeper 🙂
I know thats the problem 🙁 mighht needto down grade vdv to bale and do szcz to almunia :/
Great guy and even greater manager, this Pep Guardiola. Despite outplaying the Gunners for 90min he said that he can understand Arsenal's anger about the red card decision. Could you see Sir Alex, Arsene or any other PL coach making such a comment. His attitude is as impressive as his players passing game.
Yeah he seemed nice, but I didn't really draw the same conclusion from what he said. I didn't understand any of it apart from the glass of wine at the end.
Are the Zigic owners keeping him until the next double? Was going to ship out but hardly seems worth it, their fixtures aren't bad and although one of the double games is Chelsea the other's pretty favorable.
Cheap enough that he can just sit on my bench, tempted by Carroll though if he starts getting 60 minutes in the next 2-3 games, will have to see, I want Carroll in so if he starts playing that will be that for Mr Zigic
Keeping--other transfers have higher priority. Then it will be time for the double and maybe he can make it up to all of us who got stung this week. Who even knew he had a groin? Thought he was an android...
How safe is Mignolet’s position as keeper for the medium to long term?
Is Gordon injured or just out of form?
fuk, is it FA cupc this week. just did tevez>bent...premature once again, just like my love life.. 😉
Premature ejaculationtransfers. Just hate it.
Great interview from Pep last night, confident but not obnoxious and in all fairness he called it exactly how it was. Funny in Wenger's interview with Geoff Shreaves where he asked him was it disappointing that they didn't register a single attempt on target night to which Wenger said it was hard down to 10 men and Geoff said that up to 56 minutes there wasn't an Arsenal attempt on target, stick it to him!
So, consensous in the Sky studio was that Barcelona will only be beaten by a similarly all out attacking team, where they said Arsenal set up to defend, not sure I agree with this but it would at least provide a magnificent spectacle.
I disagree with the Sky pundits there. Take them on at their own game and there'll only be one winner. They're too good.
Inter did the job on them last year (and deserved to go through too, in my opinion) - dogged defending and hit them with pace on the counter when you can. Tough task either way.
Have to disagree with the Sky studio there. I think Barcelona will only be beaten over two legs by a team who defends for their lives in the away leg and then try to just overrun Barca in the home leg, much like Inter last year. I could see Man United, Chelsea, Inter or Bayern doing it with some luck. Oh, and teams could always hope Messi is injured too. He's even more important to Barcelona than people give him credit for imo.
Remember that Barcelona's away record in the CL is noway near as good as it could be. Arsenal are basically a light version of Barcelona and when that is the case teams always struggle. The teams in the Premiership trying to play with the same style as Man United for example are always absolutely battered by Man United, because when you're just doing the same as your opponent but worse that is how it will end.
Exactly. I'm a gunner and it is quite clear that Barcelona plays the same style as Arsenal, but better, and for 90 minutes. You cant beat them at their own game. I think Chelsea did an incredible job on them 2 seasons ago and were very unlucky not to go through to the final. That Iniesta goal was crushing!
JU
Arsene clearly had a tactic and it could have worked. It was to shut up shop for for 60 odd minutes and then to attack them when they fatigue as Premiership clubs are naturally fitter. We scored against them 4 times in the last 20 or so minutes in 2 previous games. This was hard to do when you only have 10 men and your main goal threat was the one sent off. If that Bendtner chance fell to Van Persie it could have been a different story.
I agree completely as to the chance at the end, Bendtner should of finished, game over almost, BUT the fact they did not threaten the Barcelona goal once in the time RVP was on the pitch, leads me to believe they weren't going to, Barcelona have more energy than any other team so I don't think tiring them out will work.
Walcott was missed last night for me.
Just wanting csome early opinions on my final 8 point hit of the season
current team for next week is
Foster
Walker, huth, luiz
young, adam, silva, lampard
tevez, saha and zigic
subs: alhabsi, coleman, nani, murphy
Thinking of Silva, tevez, and saha out
and bringing in rooney rvp and bale
that seems to set me up nicley for a few weeks. opinions please... obv wont make changes till last min but just my thinking
Whose selling nani?
want to do Tevez+Young->Lampard+RVP, and have JUST enough money for this. It looks like Lampard will rise before Saturday (when RVP plays United) - do I risk it and make the transfer?
I could do nothing this week and make both transfers next week, and pray that Young goes up again, giving me the 0.1 Ill be short on the Lampard transfer...
Would be nice if Harbhajan decided to take some wickets.... This is the third time I've captained him and he's taken a grand total of 1 wicket in these three games! Brilliant stuff.
So who is O'Hara handing the armband to jamsiep?
your sneaky tricks nearly backfired last week with the autosub delay and now this week with the (C) rotation fail, it's karma JP, and I am blaming you for my poor Tevez (C) showing now!
balaji rao > harbhajan
Correct.
Who would you bench?
Foster
Luiz-Walker-Hangeland-Coleman-(Gohouri)
Arteta-Lampard-VDV-Downing-(Barton)
Berbatov-(Tevez)-Doyle
I'm thinking the brackets but not sure
Despite his obvious dip in form I would never bench Tevez against the big boys, he always comes out to play even more so in those games.
Coleman's position is in doubt at the minute, I would bench Coleman and play Tevez, Coleman is starting to have less and less impact, evidenced by his demotion to the bench of late, despite the talk of his fatigue.
😉 Anti-football
Since opta stats began in 2004 Arsenal are the first ever team not to register a single shot in a Champions League game.
If you include Champions league, Europa league, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga and the Premiership Arsenal were the first team not to register a shot during a match since Almeria were defeated 1-0 by Barcelona in 2009.
😀
Auction Sniper is awesome. You specify your maximum bid, and it snipes the eBay auction at the last second.
What if more than one person is using AuctionSniper - does it jsut go to the highest bidder?
Yay or nay for the following trades:
Cahill->O'Hara
Nani->Lampard
It will be over two weeks and it will be done in that order. Thoughts?
86 points behind and really need to do something to this team. 4.3 in the bank.
Foster, Al Habsi
Kolarov, Huth, Coleman, Rafael, Djourou
Nani, Van der Vaart, Nasri, Downing, Meireles
Tevez, Berbatov, Zigic.
Don't mind taking a few 4pt hits over the next few weeks to change this up quick and put myself in a good position to close this 86 point gap.
Here's a few transfer ideas... Pick the most vital (doesn't matter how many).
a. Kolarov -> Luiz
b. Rafael -> Cahill or Hangeland
c. Coleman -> Baines (guy I'm chasing has Coleman)
d. Nani -> Lampard
e. Nasri or Meireles -> O'Hara
f. Berbatov -> Rooney
g. Zigic -> Sturridge or Suarez
I like all of them lol, most vital:
A and Tevez>Rooney
I think it's also worth noting that the Guardian is reporting that Fab tweaked a hamstring during the game... (bottom of the story)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/09/robin-van-persie-red-card-arsenal-wenger
To every Barsa fan out there that was bleurgh!! It was puke with capital P
That was and outstanding performance last night. How football should be played passing to feet making runs and creating space. Arsenal were well & truely outplayed
+1 with or without RVP, Arsenal fans can't say the second half would have been any different
It could have been as what happened at the Emirates - we can only speculate though
No Arsenal fans are saying that we would have won, or that we were the better team. It was evident that Barcelona are insanely good.
However, a red card is a red card. 11 vs 10 is more difficult than 11 vs 11, there is no denying that. We didnt deserve to win, with or without RVP, but we wouldhave at least had a better chance, and so I dont think you can possibly say that it "wouldnt have been any different".
Im not bitter though, I always knew our chances of going through to the next round were slim. Im proud that we at least came closer than we did last season, well done boys. Can you imagine how difficult it is to play against Barcelona? How demoralising, especially when you're used to having the lion's share of possession week in, week out.
QUESTION:
Sorry if this sounds stupid, I feel as though I should know the answer...
RVP red carded, but Arsenal out of the competition. So does this red card now have no ramifications and it disappears? or will he miss the first game of next years champs league? Or have I missed the correct answer completely?
his next CL game he will miss
Thanks.
I think he misses the first game of next seasons champs league, a la Drogba for his red in the champions league
Cheers fella!
Next season. And he'll probably have a bigger ban coming given his interview after the game.
Do I have to thank you aswell? 😛
CRICKET
Nehra's spell - 3 overs , 1 maiden, 1 wicket for 4 and he gets taken off!
Damn you Dhoni
it's because of the new ball. as soon as this one gets roughed up a bit nehra and khan will be back in to mop up. hopefully there are still wickets to mop up by then
here's hoping for a little stand for the dutch then
How do you get put out of the crickey world cup? haven't england lost loads of games and they are still in it? I don't understand!!
H Singh? Lets hope his economy stays this low if he takes no wickets (those who have him of course).
Paddy decides to take up boxing and goes for the required medical. A few days later the doctor phones. "Paddy" he says " you've got Sugar Diabetes". Paddy says, " no problem, when do i fight the B@stard"
I just looked up the term "punching above your weight" in an online dictionary and was directed to this website:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110309/tuk-zara-sets-date-for-summer-wedding-6323e80.html
