Hello and how are you?
Sunday the 20th of April, sees the Mighty Cannon haul its Arsenal eastwards and onto Portman Road to play Ipswich Town. Kick off 2.00pm Western European time.
Well, I’m sure we are all chipper and dandy with a spring in our step after the nerve shredding, edge of the seat, (eventual) ecstasy of the incredible Real game in midweek. One that will become a famous landmark in Arsenal FC history. I’m sure old fans like Fred in the Shed would have loved to see that game, especially seeing Martinelli getting his confidence back, and taking on players like he did against Chelsea some years ago. What a night! But on we go, out of the night and into the daylight to take on what could be a tricky game in East Anglia.
Its been a tough season for the men from the east, and they currently lie in 18th position, with only two draws in eight, the last being a well played game against the aforementioned Chelsea. Despite that, I’m sure they’ve got their collective eye upon the outcome of the 115 charges against Man City, as they may well be spared relegation depending on the certain outcomes?
The Mighty Cannon have been given by our chums as Statto HQ a 68.1% chance of winning, whilst Ipswich have been given only a 12.4%.
I’m sure we can expect a few changes today, on the other hand who knows? We couldn’t beat Brentford but could beat Real Madrid( twice), so maybe we should expect a draw today? Only joking, here’s to a happy Arsenal Easter weekend. No fighting the rockers tomorrow, despite that’s what Bank Holidays were made for.
Take care of yourselves. COYG!
Mills
Positively Arsenal 
Raya, White, Saliba, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Rice, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Trossard.
Subs: Neto, Timber, Tierney, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Henry-Francis, Butler-Oyedeji, Nwaneri, Sterling.
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Trossard makes it 1-0 to the Arsenal
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Merino misses from a foot out with a header, puts it over
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Marinelli makes it 2-0 to the Arsenal
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awful tackle on Saka and Leif Davis has rightly been sent off
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Saka misses a good chance
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Saka misses again, he needs to score and shut these muppets up
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HT: Ipswich 0-2 Arsenal
Trossard and Martinelli with our goals, Ipswich deservedly down to 10 men Leif Davis sent off for a nasty tackle on Saka
We could easily be 5 or 6 up we have been that far ahead of them
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Saka and Merino off
Nwaneri and MLS on
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Trossard makes it 3-0 to the Arsenal
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Rice off, Tierney on
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Martinelli off, Sterling on
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Trossard off, Butler-Oyedeji on for his EPL debut
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Odegaard shot hits the post and comes out
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Butler-Oyedeji has a shot tipped over
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Nwaneri deflected shot makes it 4-0 to the Arsenal
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this result means spurs are safe from relegation this season
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anything other than a win for Leicester City over Liverpool will mean they are relegated today
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FT: Ipswich Town 0-4 Arsenal
Trossard x2, Martinelli and Nwaneri with our goals. A totally dominant display against one of the 3 worst teams to ever play in the EPL
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Nice day out except for the filthy foul on Saka, a bit better in the first half than the second? COYG!
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I posted on the last blog Saks shouldn’t have started and so it proved. We then went two up, they were down to ten and Saka had a scar down his Achilles. Still Saka, Rice etc didn’t come off.
Many have said Slot’s biggest managerial brilliance this season has been squad rotation. Mikel certainly can’t be praised for that.
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HT: Spurs 0-2 Nottingham Forest
forest heading back up to 3rd, 6pts behind Arsenal
Seen someone tweet earlier that AFC need just the 6 points from our 5 remaining games to get CL football next season.
if Forest do beat spurs tonight then AFC would need a maximum of 10 points from our 5 remaining games to get 2nd
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I think with the GD we could probably get away with 9 points so 3 from 5 although even that won’t be easy. Which is why the Palace game is so important.
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Lotte Wubben-Moy has signed a new contract with us, continuing her long-term association with Arsenal.
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Jack Wilshire has taken temporary charge of Norwich.
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@Ian,
Many are also forgetting PGMOL has been on a low key campaign this season to make up to Liverpool after David Coote potentially libelous outburst on video while being higher on Charlie than Scarface at the end of the move with a mountain of coke on the table. Add to that having minimum injuries to key players for a squad that finished 3rd or 4th the previous season under a different manager.
Well done to him and Liverpool but would he have had the same success if they had our PGMOL treatment and injuries. Man city had 1 injury to Rodhri and they are finding it hard to challenge.
I say this as someone who was not Arteta’s biggest fan when he was appointed and subsequently for the first 3 yrs of his reign I wanted him sacked.
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also penalties. 9 for Liverpool 2 for Arsenal .
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so its not clear if Jorginho will play again this season, he is certainly out for the next few weeks at least.
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George, sent the preview over. COYG!
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PALACE ON A WEDNESDAY
Hello and how are you?
Wednesday 23rd of April sees the Mighty Cannon host our south London neighbours, Crystal Palace at the Emirates, kick off 8.00pm western European time.
Despite our minds wandering in the caves and cervices of speculation re the PSG game next week, tonight we do battle with CP. In three days time they play their FAC semi-final against Villa so perhaps they too have their collective minds elsewhere?
Both sides must be utterly fearful of any kind of major injury to their players, and certainly its felt a bit angsty against the Tractor Boys, and the ‘tackle’ on Saka had us all holding our breath.
I obviously understand banter but the whole ‘same old Arsenal, always cheating’ bullshit seems utterly illogical, banter can’t really work unless its logical and succinct? Saka gets nobbled and is accused of cheating. Grrr! Anyway we won’t be seeing them next season and despite the hideous looking tackle it, wasn’t too bad a day out, really we could have scored many more goals than we did?
I can’t see Tottenham holding off Liverpool at the weekend, so the title is probably theirs, but there’s much for us to fight for what with Forest and Newcastle also desperate for a better looking stat to finish of the season. There’s no need for us to wander off course like Crisp in the 1973 Grand National and despite the taunts of Brentford I hope we finish 2nd.
Statto HQ have given us a 67. 9% chance of winning whilst CP have only 12%.
See you in Paris!
Take care of yourselves, COYG!
Mills
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It’s up, it’s up. I didn’t even know we had a game.
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We normally have a good record knocking the Eagle out of the sky. They are having a particularly good season but actually we are better prepared for playing a league game before an important game than they are.
Mikel says any player who is fit will play, he is dead against anything but small rotation as momentum and consistency is key.
Most people would see that as a recipe for injury disaster but heh.
I think tonight Partey will return so apart from Saka, it will be a full strength side.
Trossard was excellent at Ipswich so I would imagine he will be on the bench tonight. However the front four line up I can’t see them containing us and Mateta just won’t get the service to trouble us so I’m expecting another decent win COYG.
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