Arsenal Vs Man City| Carling Cup 29/11/2011

[Trina]

Arsenal vs Man City
Carling Cup
Quarter-Final

Tuesday 29th Nov 2011
Expected to be shown on Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports HD2
KO 20:00

[Chrissiii]

Me wants:

Flappy
Miquel Djourou Koz Santos
Coquelin Frimpong
Ramsey/Rosicky
Ox/Benayoun Park Gervinho/Benayoun

[CrimsonGunner11]

Give our entire first team a break this way when we loose we have an excuse . And if we win, then great, we'll be going into the Wigan game on a high and fully rested .

Fabianski
Coquelin Djourou Squillaci Miquel Yossi
Rosicky Frimpong Diaby
Ox Park

...... ...Its going to be interesting what line-up Wenger puts out....

[Est83]

He gave Gervinho a rest, and he's mentioned recently (on arse.com) that Benayoun deserves more game time so we might see them. I'm also thinking that Gibbs' injury lay off won't be as long as Sagna's, so playing Santos might not be as much of a risk... plus he could do with the exercise and who the hell else do we have at LB??? Maybe Coquelin at RB simply because he can. Rosicky for experience along with Frimps to give Song a rest, and possibly Diaby in the free-er ATM position.

Maybe this?

Fabinaksi
Coquelin Djourou Miquel Santos
Rosicky Frimps
Diaby
Benyoun Park Gervinho

[VCC]

we have a dead rubber coming up in the CL that is the time to rest the entire team and run out reserves and youth players,he needs to run out a strong side in this one,f**k the red zone shit,he said a week ago we had a huge squad time to live by your words MR Wenger

[Est83]

Two mid-week rests would be twice as good as one though... so missing the Mickey Mouse Cup and the final insignificant CL group fixture wouldn't be too bad.

I think the team I posted above has a good mix personally. Defensively it's a little weak but we can't keep risking Koscielny at RB when both our RB's are injured. The WF pairing of Benayoun and Gervinho is better than the two that played at the weekend (not saying Benayoun's better than Walcott, just that as a pair Benayoun and Gervinho are better than Walcott and... Arshavin )

Possibly Ox on the right and Benayoun in the middle with Rosicky and Frimps... surely that's strong enough?

Rosicky Frimps
Benayoun
Ox-man Park Gervinho

[Chrissiii]

Ping-pong, Benayoun, Ox and Park are set to start for us.

Man City are without banned Barry and Balotelli. Kolo Toure, Savic and Hargreaves are likely to start.

[Trequartista]

Fabianski
Yennaris Djourou Squillaci Miquel
Frimpong Coquelin
Chambo Rosicky Benayoun
Chamakh

[Est83]

How did Yennaris do last time out? I didn't watch it. I think with good enough work infront of the back four, the CB's (even Squid) can have good games... always a little worried about the fullbacks though, especially Miquel isn't an LB.

[Trequartista]

I though Yennaris was good against Bolton. So was Squillaci but he will get found out by Dzeko if he's not carefull.

[TRA Dial Square]

Can actually see us being rotted tonight; hope to heaven I'm wrong though.

[Futuo]

For once I agree with you, gubbed.

[TRA Dial Square]

Here's the "18 man squad" for the game.

Andrey Arshavin
Yossi Benayoun
Marouane Chamakh
Francis Coquelin
Johan Djourou
Craig Eastmond
Lukasz Fabianski (GK)
Emmanuel Frimpong
Gervinho
Laurent Koscielny
Ju Young Park
Vito Mannone (GK)
Ignasi Miquel
Nico Yennaris
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Oguzhan Ozyakup
Sebastien Squillaci
Thomas Vermaelen

[Trequartista]

Having now seen the squad, I expect:

Faianski
Yennaris Djourou Squillaci Miquel
Frimpong Coquelin
Chambo Arshavin Benayoun
Park

[GunnGunn]

Man city will just play the other half of their squad which is probably on par or even better than our 1st team.