Bumble wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:35 pm
Always an air of inevitibility about these games. Need to get over that inferiority complex we undoubtedly have, both as a club and from the manager. Your head tells you it will be a standard defeat but then agin they have stumbled past few weeks so with a bit of luck something might happen.
This will the bar we measure by in the future - whether or not we still shit the bed against the big boys.
Once that air of inevitability stops hanging over games like this - we’ll know we’ve made real progress.
If we are to have any chance we need Tim to somehow produce an accomplished performance, as our midfield is going to be really weak without KDH and Gana.
Need Myko to find his form defensively as he's been woeful this season but is usually a really solid 1v1 defender, and him against Saka is going to be a key battle.
I expect nothing from this game so anything at all beyond that is a bonus.
Cantoffee wrote: ↑Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:35 pm
Funny that some feel there is an air of inevitability, I always feel we can beat Arsenal at home regardless of how good/bad we/they are.