The Arsenal vs. Stoke City

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I think Jack will benefit the same way Rambo did by playing on the flank. When he moves back to a central position, he'll have more space around him and be the better for it.

A win without another penalty conceded would be a good start

One heck of a preview Sri. Unique style


Stoke game won't be as easy as many think. The Sunderland away game, followed by Marseille away game made us work to our limits. Arsene won't change the team either and fatigue will play its part at some point. Heavy legs or "jaded" as Arsene says.

Saying that, we are at home and with our home record against Stoke. We should win this. Some of the players will be in the "red zone" so the best thing is to win the match in the 1st half. Bring on Bendnter for Giroud late on and Flamini for Ozil since i think Arteta will start.

I'd say we will win 2-0 or 3-1

Great preview Sri

another deflection goal and 1-0 would do as long as 3 pts are grabbed
those lucky ppl who will be there for Özil home Debut
im jealous

What a preview.  

Let go top of the table.

4-0 would be great, please no more penalties.

Great preview  liked your style was fun to read!

I'm fairly confident we will win this match, it'll be good if we can carry our momentum going as I think our team reacts to momentum more then any other in the league.

Mike Dean takes charge of this one. Arsenal have only a 9% win percentage when he is officiating our games. There have also been 4 sendings off in Arsenal games refereed by Dean.
Here's to hoping that he refs a good game tomorrow

I thought the game was today, was disappointed

Anyway according to Twitter (I know...), Arteta, Viviano and wait for it... BENDTNER will be in the squad against Stoke City. Our bench looks suddenly stronger.

Thanks fellows GL Arsenal community is the wind in my sails, so props to y'all

urbaNRoots wrote:I thought the game was today, was disappointed

Anyway according to Twitter (I know...), Arteta, Viviano and wait for it... BENDTNER will be in the squad against Stoke City. Our bench looks suddenly stronger.

Haha, I spent today watching Dortmund play instead

Viviano on the bench?! Fabianski goes from bench to reserve?? :O

At least Bendtner is a proper striker. I have more faith in him than Sanogo (atm)

RealGunner wrote:At least Bendtner is a proper striker. I have more faith in him than Sanogo (atm)

He is but all know Wenger will play him on the wings.

I doubt we'll see any more of Bendtner on the wings, tbh. Given our squad depth, we're likely to see him rotate with Giroud - as long as he learns some humility and plays with his heart.

@RG - Sanogo is injured mate. Did his back in an U21 game or something.

So... Stoke are a different side these days, according to those who have watched them every week. I watched them at Liverpool on the opening day, and didn't see anything spectacularly different, though I also caught highlights of their 1-0 win at West Ham and 0-0 draw with Man City, and it's clear, they play football on the floor more now.

They played 4-3-3 last week with a front 3 of Walters-Jones-Etherington. We should have too much for them if we defend sensibly at free-kicks etc

Lovely stuff, sri

This should be easy really. I mean really!!! Its time we make a good start to the season and we already have, we just need to keep it going now while we can. This is has a good as time as ever. I expect us to start strong with a good fast pace to the game. Hopefully we get an early goal. Settle down and get a few more.

No more penalties please!!! Thank you, C'mon Arsenal!

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Mark Hughes on Aaron Ramsey:

He’s an outstanding player, now doing exceptionally well – he’s adding goals to his technical ability which he has not been able to do.
It’s been a long time [since Shawcross's tackle]. Everyone acknowledges people need to move on. It’s difficult because every time that Stoke play Arsenal it’s brought up against us. It’s one of those things that can happen.
Thankfully Aaron has returned now and he’s probably playing at a higher level than he was when he suffered his injury.

Rambo on Stoke:

Those memories have gone, especially playing at home is a different game. I think under Mark Hughes they’ve changed their style of play a bit, they’ve had a good start to the season.
I’m sure they are still going to be quite physical by pressing us and closing us down but we’re at home and we will be switched on so hopefully we can get the result that we’re looking for.