Saturday 26 November 2016

Bournemouth Preview: Time to Stop The Rutt

    Black Friday has come and gone, so I hope you got good bargains like me who didn’t, there was that odd flash sale but before I said Jack Wilshere Robinson what you get with a click is “sold out” or ya internet connection chooses that very moment to slow down. Anyway Cyber Monday is just around the corner so you never know. Speaking of things Wilshere, Arsenal welcome Bournemouth to the emirates in a Sunday afternoon kickoff. Nobody needs to tell Arsene and the Boiz that this has become a must win match. No disrespect to Eddie Howe and his crew but these are games we should be and have to win. Simple!! It seems I keep saying that every match is a must win but considering our hitherto run of consecutive draws, any further slips by way of a draw or loss would give a severe dent to whatever glimmer of title aspirations we may be harboring. The gunners just can’t afford anymore dropped points especially at home where we really need to improve by putting teams to the sword thus making the Emirates a fortress. Its important the boiz get back to proper organized defending, clean sheets I keep saying give you a better chance at winning, sometimes even when you don’t score….Arsenal V PSG at nil nil would have seen us maintain leadership of Group A in the Champions league, just saying ooo but I am sure you catch ma drift.           
Jenkinson at right back is still suspect to me although I must say he has been improving but by bit. Nacho Monreal has not been his usual consistent self which is strange, in the middle of the park will either Play Ramsey in the double pivot central midfield, paired with Xhaka, maybe further ahead with Özil on the bench…I know I know. No Ramsey on the wings, it’s painful to watch Arsene, spare us the misery please.
As you know Jack Wilshire will be absent from this encounter for obvious reasons. Benik Afobe will probably fancy a start against his football alma mater in Arsenal Fc. No love lost though as he has found a nice place nest at the vitality stadium but on this day Arsenal will have to Keep Him Stanislaus Wilson and co very quiet.  Boss the midfield and give ourselves a chance to score. Without Jack, the Bournemouth midfield lacks a bit of drive as the few games of theirs I have seen he seems to have steadily become influential in their play. Eddie Howe is praised for being one of the few small team coaches who lets his team play expansive football and on their day they could hurt even big teams besides they don’t seat in 10th position for nothing, at the same time it could be their undoing against the Gunners. Games like this could be a potential banana skin so the team has to watch it, we haven’t been playing well so complacency may not be an issue here just our ability to move up a notch in gears if need be. On a much better note, Oliver Giroud is beginning to fire them in which is good for his confidence, also news is Hector Bellerin has signed an extension to his contract, could we get messers Özil and Sanchez to please not dally on putting pen to paper. Arsenal should better give them what they desire. My Team sheet will look like this

Subs: Ospina, Chamberlain, Iwobi, Jeff, Coquelin, El Neny.



A win and nothing less will assuage a lot of nerves, especially with Man City and Liverpool winning this evening lets get it boiz. Note i never mentioned novemberI leave you with this piece, 
“The United States will come talk to us when it has a black president and the world has a Latin American pope,” Fidel Castro supposedly told the world in 1973, a joke or prophecy that predicted the rise of Obama, Pope Francis and the work to bring the US and Cuba together again.....Hate him or Love Him, we say RIP Fidel Castro.



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