The Official Arsenal Thread (Volume2)

[Gun]

Never heard of him.

[Ferg]

He's signed professional forms today...the new Fabregas, dontcha know?

[Gun]

Well you learn something every day, we could do with a new Fabregas.

[Cheib]

Ferg said:

He's signed professional forms today...the new Fabregas, dontcha know?

We can wish....except Fabregas was already playing for the first team when he was 16. Different gravy that Fabregas lad.....

[Black can man]

You fella's got a game tonight ?

[CIE560]

Looking forward to tonight as a neutral...

Even more as a Man United fan. 59-nil to Milan is my bet.

[NoVetec]

Looking forward to the match tonight.

I'm in a weird frame of mind, not confident yet not apprehensive about our chances.

Should be a good game if we turn up either way, I'll be getting the lager and Doritos in.

[stu1984]

Yeah, should be a good game! I just feel we need to keep a high tempo to the game tonight and I believe we can then get a result. A lot of our problems I believe recently (apart from our lack of full-backs!) has been the pace of our play. Against Blackburn we were sharp, played a lot of incisive one touch football and looked dangerous on every attack - this has been missing far too much of late.

Should be a close game and if we play with a high tempo we will edge it by a goal. 2-1 Arsenal!!

[bikerPaul]

Realistically with the squad we have we aren't going to win the CL so nothing really to lose tonight. Could just do with a decent performance to hopefully build some confidence on.

[RacingPete]

Ditto on tonight's game - first leg, away from home, with us needing to concentrate on the league this season to get 4th... so all in all fairly relaxed (plus we have a good history against Italian sides in Champ League)

In eight two-legged ties and one final (excluding the Super Cup), no Italian side have ever eliminated Arsenal in a knockout competition.

[melvster]

Not sure what to think of tonight, as already mentioned, our squad is not good enough to win the CL. Arsenal were the first English club to win at the San Siro in the CL so hopefully we can win their again, didn't we win 2-1 last time??

[Geezer-20v]

Yep, just looking for a good showing from the team tonight. A win will be a bonus but the focus is on the league and 4th place.

Gibbs maybe starting tonight, any bets on how long he will last this time?

[obob]

3min 56secs, or injured in the warm up........

[Mattygooner]

You would think the way they drive around the cities that the Italians would have some sort of urgency in the way they play football......

[Mattygooner]

The place looks half empty!

[CIE560]

What do you expect, it's only Arsenal coming.

[CIE560]

Aww, poo

[obob]

I've seen better pitches in Sunday League.

[BrabusMog]

Good finish for that goal. What's with Andy Townsend calling the Arsenal goalkeeper Sir Chesney? It's really annoying.

[deadmau5]

Sagna is like a lost sheep.

Just because AC play very slowly I don't know why Arsenal think they must as well. They need to break much quicker because AC just cram out their final third and Arsenal have no-one capable of playing a killer pass to van Persie.