Arsene-al

Just 3 days after out last London derby success, we’re at it again, against Tottenham! I’m proper up for this game, been looking forward to it for weeks and now it’s finally around the corner, I’m nervous as hell! I think it’ll be naive to think form counts in this game, it’ll be about who wants it the most and hopefully we produce a typical home performance when it matters. Arséne commented on the lack of noise we create in the Emirates, and I agree with him, so let’s get behind the team tomorrow night and show the Premier League we mean business!

Ok, a win against Tottenham won’t be earth shattering, they are after all bottom, but it’ll burst ‘Arry’s bubble and also kill some of the momentum they gained off the back of a Bolton win. Bad news is that Gareth Bale is out, he’s never been on the winning side in the Premier League (despite being at Tottenham for 15 months), he was our good luck omen! Ah well, we don’t need luck, all we need is for offsideAde to turn up and we have a shout against anyone, a BIG if though.

Denílson is back, and Toure and Sagna are fully fit and need to start! I’d go with an offensive line-up, tell Walcott and Sagna to get at Ekotto early on and scare the living daylights out of him, run Modric all over the place and give him little room to work with, I expect Zokora will be the only defensive player in the midfield on show so if Denílson and Fabregas can keep him busy, we’re in for a good game possesion wise.

Typing about it, I’m actually very excited. I think we can over run, over power and over play Tottenham all night, it’s when they get the ball in the final 3rd that we need to be alert. Pavlyuchenko is a dangerous player when the ball is in the air so we need Gallas, Toure and Silvestre (whoever plays) to be on their game for 90 minutes, Darren Bent can be dangerous too and I feel defensively is where the game lies. Bentley has a dangerous cross and the odds are that he’ll have a stormer against us.

I’ll predict a line-up tomorrow as I’m off out to Poker, but I’m excited, cya Gooners!