Blackburn Vs Arsenal | Carling Cup 18/12/07

[SE13]

Carling Cup

Blackburn Rovers Vs ARSENAL



Tuesday 18th December 2007

8pm

Live on Skysports 1

Ewood Park

[She_Gunner_Wales]

Could prove to be a tricky match especailly away from home & Arsene will no doubt go with the young Guns.

Benni McCarthy was quiet the weekend, but Santa Cruz is bang on form, got a hatrick, guess if we can close him down & stop him playing his game, we should do alright, considering we drew against them in the last meeting at Ewood, beginning of the season.

[Cheese]

This will be a very hard game for us Blackburn is never an easy place to go plus we will be playing our usual Carling Cup team of younger players, what makes it worse is Blackburn lost to Wigan 5-3 and will want to give the fans something to cheer about.

[StLGooner]

This will be a very hard game for us Blackburn is never an easy place to go plus we will be playing our usual Carling Cup team of younger players, what makes it worse is Blackburn lost to Wigan 5-3 and will want to give the fans something to cheer about.

I'll give there fans something to cheer about.

[Git]

I'll give there fans something to cheer about.

If your knob is yellow you might want to go and get it checked out mate.

[StLGooner]

I'll give there fans something to cheer about.

If your knob is yellow you might want to go and get it checked out mate.

[absolutely_fabregas]

all true, it gonna be a hard game

but remember liverpool & everton last year..

our forwards will be hungrier than ever and the likes of diaby and co will be itching to impress the boss

so im confident of getting a result, maybe draw

[Cheese]

Arsène Wenger has announced his 16-man squad for tonight's Carling Cup Quarter-final tie with Blackburn Rovers.

The manager has rung the changes with the squad containing just two players involved in Sunday's win over Chelsea. Philippe Senderos was an unused substitute and Nicklas Bendtner was a 90th minute replacement for Emmanuel Adebayor.

Please note that Theo Walcott pulled out of tonight's squad after waking up this morning and feeling unwell.

2 Abou DIABY (Age 21)
6 Philippe SENDEROS (Age 22)
8 Lassana DIARRA (Age 22)
9 EDUARDO (Age 24)
15 DENILSON (Age 19)
17 Alex SONG (Age 20)
21 Lukasz FABIANSKI (GK) (Age 22)
26 Nicklas BENDTNER (Age 19)
30 Armand TRAORE (Age 18)
31 Justin HOYTE (Age 22)
34 Kieran GIBBS (Age 18)
36 Mark RANDALL (Age 18)
40 Vito MANNONE (GK) (Age 19)
41 Gavin HOYTE (Age 17)
42 Fran MERIDA (Age 17)
43 Nacer BARAZITE (Age 17)

Courtesy of Arsenal.com

[Cheese]

F*** our oldest player is 24 and that Eduardo who hasn't had much English experiance really

Still full of confidence though

[Fordy]

I will more than likely end up with egg on my face but i fancy blackburn to take this they are a hard team to beat and they will want this badly

[StLGooner]

I will more than likely end up with egg on my face but i fancy blackburn to take this they are a hard team to beat and they will want this badly

I wouldn't be surprised if blackburn takes it, but this is one of those games that can go either way, I suspect blackburn to be hungry for this, so the youngens will have to match their intensity.

[SE13]

Given the possible side Wenger is sending out, the pressure will all be on Blackburn to get a result, and not really on our kiddies, who are away from home for starters, and not really expected to get a result.

With the added pressure on them, it might prove useful to Arsenal. Time will tell.

[SE13]

Starting Eleven

Fabianski

J Hoyte
Senderos
Song
Traore

Randall
Denilson
Diarra
Diaby

Bendtner
Eduardo

[SE13]

Away we go. Arsenal in the third choice strip tonight, shooting away from where our supporters are gathered.

Nothing much happening in the early moments.

[Fordy]