League Cup Final - Arsenal v Man City

Arsenal XI: Arrizabalaga, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Rice, Zubimendi, Havertz, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres.

Subs: Raya, Mosquera, Jesus, Martinelli, Norgaard, Madueke, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman

Man City XI: Trafford, Nunes, Khusanov, Ake, O’Reilly, Rodri, Silva, Semenyo, Cherki, Doku, Haaland.

Eze and Dias out. Both mug keepers start. Havertz in midfield and Ake at the back for City.

Arsenal are clearly a better side than Man City right now. So, for that simple reason I'm backing them to lift the trophy.

2.4 City DNB for me, crazy price.

Pressure on Arsenal going for historic 4 timer

Pressure on/off man city trying to stop arsenal,
lay down a marker, and chance to win a trophy.

Back the draw?, stay for the pelanties

Just for interest, Nico O'Reilly 1 or more shot on target @ 3.7

Gary 'bloody' Neville!

Radio comms spent far too long talking about managers' clothing. Can't help themselves. 0-0 or 1-1. with Arsenal winning in ET.

City look up for this

decent save

1st 10 minutes have been Arsenal's

Sorry, did not see the first thread on match .. agree, Arsenal much better this year. I dislike Arsenal's style of play but take them to win 2-0

Sky over half a minute behind ITV, who are several seconds behind Radio. Whatever happened to Live coverage?

Arsenal playing with purpose, and look more confident and assured. Haaland will have his work cut out to get much out of Saliba, I think

It is obvious from Arsenal's first few set-piece plays that the rules of the game need changing.

if no set piece goals then this has 0-0 written all over it.

could well be, a mistake might decide it.

deffo a yellow for that

djokores terrible touch

Sky over half a minute behind ITV, who are several seconds behind Radio.

There's got to be some betting scam going on

Dire game of football so far

don't know if it's a scam. Maybe just a delay to protect against any bad language or other misdemeanours in the crowd. Annoys me, anyway.

Another shocking wembley game why do they walk around only to play extra 30 minutes bring  back the old wembley

Glad I gave this game a big miss. Life's too short to waste it on watching Ars*nal playing football.

a dour technical battle, as expected. maybe not quite as "fascinating" as the media would have us believe but it's better than watching "songs of praise", as they used to say.

* tactical battle

sofaking
sofaking22 Mar 26 17:21Joined: 08 Nov 07 | Topic/replies: 45,977 | Blogger: sofaking's blog
Glad I gave this game a big miss. Life's too short to waste it on watching Ars*nal playing football.


Quite right sofa, time is better spent checking the route map for Lincoln and Preston next season

Same old Arsenal

poor effort Semenyo

City having the better of it now, to some extent.

Arsenal struggling now

Mar 22, 2026 -- 6:36PM, DixieDean60 wrote:

sofakingsofaking22 Mar 26 17:21Joined: 08 Nov 07 | Topic/replies: 45,977 | Blogger: sofaking's blogGlad I gave this game a big miss. Life's too short to waste it on watching Ars*nal playing football.Quite right sofa, time is better spent checking the route map for Lincoln and Preston next season

Ha yes.

0-1

keepa poor

bad mistake

Just for interest, Nico O'Reilly 1 or more shot on target @ 3.7

3 wheels on their wagon

0=2

Mar 22, 2026 -- 5:32PM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:

Just for interest, Nico O'Reilly 1 or more shot on target @ 3.7

both goals, good work !

Mar 22, 2026 -- 4:37PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

2.4 City DNB for me, crazy price.

poor defending, but City been well on top since HT

Delighted Arsenal been terrible and goal keeper is a disgrace

Be dreadful if the anti-football lot end the season with nothing

Mar 22, 2026 -- 3:37PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

2.4 City DNB for me, crazy price.

I had a little nibble of that.

There's something wrong somewhere when even the neutrals want City to win, Arsenal's usual tactic of boring every f00ker to sleep not working.

I still think they are too far ahead to be caught in the league, but this is chastening for them.

2.2 Arsenal to beat City in 90 minutes is just incredible.

Mar 22, 2026 -- 6:57PM, duffy wrote:

There's something wrong somewhere when even the neutrals want City to win, Arsenal's usual tactic of boring every f00ker to sleep not working.

Yep, hard to believe that all the neutrals want City to win and Ars* to end the season empty-handed. At least City occasionally play decent football.

I can't stand Arteta. So I'm quite happy, but  I still think they'll win the Title.

Yeah, for sure they'll win the title. This is the worst City side of the Pep era and they're a shadow of the team they were four or five years ago.

@piersmorgan gone missing from twitter

they've played really well this half, though.

If they can avoid defeat at City they'll win it but it will be such an incredibly horrible game for them as you know they'll be clinging on for the draw from minute one, other than that game possibly the away fixture at West Ham is the potential banana skin.

jokores touch is pathetic

Citeh are still a decent team when up for it.

Just don't seem to get up for it as often these days

What happened to the 'best midfielder in the World' today?

Mar 22, 2026 -- 4:37PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

2.4 City DNB for me, crazy price.

What were layers thinking ?

21 yesterday and 2 goals in final, Nico won’t forget this weekend

another 85 mins of SAKA going missing in action, if DOWMAN cant get in arsenal place instead of SAKA who hasnt lifted a leg in 6 months ,must be miles away from england squad

The layers haven’t done too bad there, AR. They’ve laid a 3.5 shot at 2.4.