Hello and how are you? It’s a good job I woke up this morning as I’d completely forgotten the Arsenal were playing today. But play the Mighty Cannon does, as it hosts French wannabees Lillie in the next of our games in the Champions league.
KO at the Emirates is at 8.00pm local time, expected weather is cloudy with temps at 17°(feels like 11°) and 0% chance of rain.
So, having battled it out with Leeds, we now take on Lille, a club with not too much pedigree we might well imagine, yet they were French champions in 2021 and have been successful domestically since 2017.
However, they are riding high in the La Liga at the moment, and are currently in second. They’ve drawn with PSG (2-2) and lost to (here comes the )Nice, but for the rest of their games this season they have chalked up wins.
Arsenal are placed 15th in the Champions League table (having beaten Napoli as you recall well) and Les Dogues lie in 22nd but these are irrelevant stats as having played a solitary game it doesn’t really give you any clue other than goal difference.
Crocked for the Cannon are: Saliba, Hincapie, Tzolis and the Zube. For Lille they are missing in action: Mbappe, Santos, Igamane and Perraud.
However, we may see our old friend Monsieur Giroud who played in the 1-0 victory against Le Havre at the weekend but he may sit this one out in place of Ayase Ueda, personally I think he will make a cameo appearance towards the end.
I made a visit to statto HQ and they made a pause from eating Coq au Vin, and scratched out the stats quick enough: Arsenal ( by far the greatest team the world has ever seen): 77.4% chance of winning, Lille (of La Belle Française): 7.9% chance of getting the points.
Next up a Sunday away day as we visit the Sherrif’s of Nottingham Forest. Till then may your force be with you. COYG!
Mills
