Arsenal Vs Aston Villa | Premiership 27/12/09

[SE13]

[Massa]

Will Traore be fit for this one?

[ewalborn15]

gonna be and interesting one with us tied with aston villa in the league table. . .

[Massa]

AviAl
Bac - Willy - VermyBabes - PeanutHead
Cescual - BuffaloSoldier - Denzel
ArseShavings - Diaby - Dudu

[Myrmedus]

I think we're going to have a tough time of this one. When Villa come to the Emirates they play in a similar fashion to Chelsea ie. transition play - it's very effective against our team. We're going to need to be playing really well to win this I think, and we needs to be willing to take shots from outside the box in order to draw Villa's defensive line out or we'll see a similar game to Chelsea.

Diaby needs to play I think, and he needs to play well. Denilson needs to play well aswell because unlike most of the team he is one who is willing to take a crack from distance.

[Q8 Gooner]

I hope the lads realize how big this game is (I said this before the Chelscum and we got stuffed) we really need this win.. Its going to be difficult.. Hope Fabregas and Traore r back.. Can't dare to think about Silvestre against Young or Agbanlahor!! By the way when is Clichy going to be f**kin back!!

[maslo]

this is a really massive game i feel. these teams (ie villa and spurs) wont go away from the top four and keep popping back up. if we can win this one and get daylight between us and those teams and keep the gap the same between mancs and chelscum up till the bolton game and win that game it will really show the title race start to heat up.

important to win, but im confident we can at home.

[Myrmedus]

I think Villa is a much bigger game than Spurs to be honest, they're a better team IMO and they're better at countering our team's style of play.

[IMF]

Villa will play rope a dope tactics. 9 men behind the ball and hope for a counter where Sagna will get caught out.

Haven't beaten them at home for ages...

[Danny-K-]

This game should show us Arsenal's title credentials. Win it & it's onwards & upwards. Lose it & it really will show that we can't beat the other title/top 4 challengers (forget about Liverpool - even Pompey can beat THEM...!!)

[CynicalGooner]

Tough game for sure. Everyone needs to be on it and I hope Cesc is back

[mel4]

My preferred line-up


..........Mannone
Sagna Gallas Verm Eboue
Denilson Song Cesc
Vela Ashavin Diaby

[Goose]

If we can beat them we have a very strong chance if going 2nd when we play our game in hand, lose and we can drop to 5th place which is not good for confidence

[Gunner Down Under]

I'm not sure if we can even get a goal

If it doesn't end 0-0 then this game will have 5 goals or more

[ewalborn15]

Damn, just realized the game starts at 8:30 on this side of the pond. 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday is usually not a very likely time to find me moving about. I guess I'll just drink straight through til the match starts.