Arsenal v Wigan | Premiership 16/04/2012

[Trina]

Arsenal vs Wigan
Barclays Premier League

Mon 16th April
Expected to be shown on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports HD1
KO 20:00
Ground: Emirates Stadium

[Hammered Pizza]

Both teams coming off the back of arguably their best form of the season. Should be interesting, home advantage will swing it.

[EvAMY-CRAIGLEEAFC]

Nice easy win i think despite Wigan doing very well recently. Well at least i hope so. 4-0.

[Trequartista]

Szczesny
Sagna Djourou Vermaelen Gibbs
Song Arteta
Walcott Rosicky Chambo
Van Persie

Fabianski, Miquel, Santos, Ramsey, Benayoun, Gervinho, Chamakh

[Zedie]

Wigan will get merked.

[Massa]

lol 25-0

Szczesny
Sagna Djourou Vermaelen Santos
Rosicky Song Arteta
Walcott van Persie Chamberlain

[gunRAR]

its wigan and end of the season. you never know

[TRA Dial Square]

As someone pointed out to me yesterday. They've now beaten Liverpool and ManUre. They got a point from the Chavs, we can never count them out.

I'm going to this game though, so I really hope we win it...

[Leody]

Hope Szczesny plays as well as he did yesterday again. That was one of the best all round performances he put in all year. Took care of 3 or 4 crosses and stayed focused and made the 1 tough save he was required to.

[WelshGunner]

We'll have to be near our best to win this one. Wigan are playing very well at the moment and fighting for their premiership future, it certainly won't be easy. Moses is looking dangerous up front and they also have some talent in midfield. I can see this being a draw, 2-2 maybe.

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[ThereIsBearCüm]

Should win, and a month ago this would have been a walk in the park, but Wigan's current form could make it tricky

[Özilfan]

Wigan have won 3 of their last 4 games defeating Liverpool, Stoke and Man Utd. These results were not flukes, they merited these wins. It is fair to say they dominated Man Utd, having had more possession and more shots on target (8 to 3). In addition, they were extremely unlucky to come away from Stamford Bridge with a loss after conceding two 'goals' from an offside position.

We have no choice but to play the best team we have available to us.

Szczesny

Sagna - Djourou - Vermaelen - Gibbs

Arteta - Song

Walcott - Rosicky - Benayoun

Van Persie

Why have I selected Benayoun? With Benayoun coming inside off the left, it allows him and Rosicky to work short passes, form triangles with van Persie or Arteta enabling Arsenal to better control the tempo of the game and maintain possession (something teams have been struggling to do against Wigan in recent times). Sadly, I can imagine Wenger playing Ramsey on the left for much the same reasons (although Benayoun provides more of a direct threat with his dribbling abilities).

Why Gibbs? With Benayoun drifting inside, this opens up space for Gibbs to go wide and get crosses in from the byline - something that worked well against Man City. Santos, like Benayoun, likes to run into central positions and - as a consequence - Arsenal would be compromising width to play both.

[ivan itchybum]

Gonna be tough but I reckon we'll win it. we seem like that kind of team now ya know?

[gooner_7890]

I don't think we should underestimate Wigan, they're fighting for their lives at the bottom of the table & they'll be high on confidence after beating United.

[Popey]

will be a though game IMO.