i fancy us against united, the PSG result was excellent, but they have a history of bottling games, they never really turned up and looked at the united team and thought, piece of piss...we had the same sort of result against Bayern munich a few years ago but just missed out.
Uniteds last league game was a struggle against a very average southampton, so i think people are going overboard about the united result.

How many of us thought the game would finish 2-1 last night?

The third felt inevitable. We are, at times, an absolute shambles. No bottle at all.

Rennes are a rank average side. A decent side would have won that 2-0 last night.

Absolutely pathetic.

Arsenal dropped 2 points against Spurs. Rennes are a decent side and you'd have to fancy them to score in the 2nd leg. We have too many stupid players to ever be solid enough. You have to question Emery as well, he took Ozil and Auba off and played with no striker, then we give away the third goal from an advanced position in their half, leaving ourselves wide open to a counter-attack. He removed any attacking threat and relied upon our mug defence.

There is no sense of what is expected of you when wearing the Arsenal shirt and what sort of idiotic behaviour is unacceptable. Contrast with Solskjaer who has instilled exactly that in the Man U players.

I think we will progress in the Europa as I do not think Rennes are a quality side and could easily see us putting 3-5 past them at home.
Looking at the fixture list for the FOUR sides competing for the 2 CL places (Whisper's bet looking very solid now)we have the best looking and regardless of what may happen any of the other sides would swap their fixture list with ours all day long. So for me any positive result tomorrow is OK. A win would be massive but a draw would give us a real opportunity and if we fail with our fixtures then we deserve nothing from the season.
They each have to play 2 games against top 6 opposition and we are done with them. I'd take a draw from the Man U game as though it may not look it at the moment, it would be a better draw for us than them imo, all things considered.

Arsenal team to play Man Utd: Leno,Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal, Xhaka, Ramsey, Aubameyang, Ozil, Kolasinac, Lacazette.

Subs: Cech, Mustafi, Elneny, Guendouzi, Suarez, Iwobi, Nketiah.

Southampton and Wolves have done us a favour- let's hope we don't f..k it up ourselves now. Draw would be very handy a win huge given the other two's result.

Arsenal looking well placed for a top 4 finish now. It will be a real scrap. There is a small calm before the storm. I think most teams have relatively easy games until

31st March
14th April
20th April
24th April

then the phoney war begins again with " on paper " easier matches for the last 3 games.

That was pleasing.

Full credit to Leno - I was critical of him but he's been very good of late.

Why are we so bad away from home when at the Emirates we're pretty much unbeatable?

We need to show more grit when we're away - if we pull ourselves together we could yet finish top 4 and even have a good crack at winning the Europa League, but we MUST address this away form.

Niles was superb !

Give Dick another two transfer windows, and if Silent comes up with some cash, it could get better

Wolves away looks toughest to me, then Watford. Both are higher than Everton with better home records.

Just watching the match on catch-up. Apart from Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca, no couple can ever have reminisced so fondly and so often about Paris as Martin Tyler and Gary Neville.


Sorry but I read this and had to post it!

Missed chances made it harder than it should have been. Good win when you're 3-1 down from the 1st leg !

Niles !

Napoli are not a great side and we will get through I believe.
Their supporters can be absolute scum (those that simply support their club are quality though) attacking a cafe ffs last time we met them in a competitive game.

I think we have hit form at the right time. We have players busting a gut to get into the side, look fresh, have rotated regularly and I think when needed we will raise our game in some tough-ish looking away games in the league.
Niles, Kolasinac, Mikhitayan, Iwobi and even Xhaka have raised their games substantially of late and Koscielny has come back from a shaky beginning to looking commanding alongside Sokratis and Monreal. Then add Ozil's improved displays, Ramsey seems to be in the best form for many a season - we are in great shape imo.
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11 v 11 I think they could compete with City over the 2 legs. But as you point out they will have 3 games against them and Pool away thrown in for good measure and a very congested looking fixture pile up. They have got Kane and Ali back which will obviously help them but their bench has looked pretty average (being kind there!)of late and at a time when the demands are at the most telling it will be very hard for their squad to cope. I'd have to say if they manage to end the season well they will deserve anything they get out of it because a case for missing out on all fronts could be made.
Their top 11 are good enough for sure to give City problems in the league game and CL.
They HAVE to raise their game, game after game, and on balance I think it is more likely they miss out on both.

According to newspaper rumours, Emery is already
fed up with (Denis )the  wrong) Suarez & will be returning him
back to Barcelona at the end of the season

They have 3 games v City - 2 of which are away. Away to Pool also. They have collapsed season after season when pressure is applied so I think it is legitimate to say the same will happen again. It may not of course but history says it will.
We are improving with a fresh and hungry looking squad, at the right time to be so.

We will beat Newc
they will lose to pool

Do you agree ?

Confidence plays a big part and The Big Mo is with Arsenal. Should they win or or two more games the pressure will be big on spurs and Manure coming into the weekend of 20th April.

The exciting factor is Aresenal are so unpredictable or rather they seem to have become predictable! Aresenal really should gave more than the teams beneath them but you just cannot count on them away from home.

I Ashley take a positive view because they have eyes on the prize now. I hope to recoup some money on Arsenal winning awa the definition of madness need not apply!.

Of course we've improved from last season. We are 12 points better off after 30 games. I'm talking about our current form and don't really see it as us having improved in that time despite picking up points in the league. It was the same when we went on that run after the first two games when we had easier away games against bottom half sides and everything we hit was going in the net.

I mentioned the Man U game because our performance is not evidence that we're improving at all. Two very lucky goals and poor defending where they should have scored at least two. Likewise Bate and Rennes away. We need to improve a lot still to pick up points in these away games, esp defensively, ie the improvement hasn't happened yet is my point.