Arsenal vs Man City
Match Schedule
Tournament: Barclays Premier League
Match: Arsenal vs Man City
Kick Off Time: - 1:30 pm (UK)/8:30 am (ET)
Live/Repeat: Live
Date:- Sunday, 8th April 2012
News:
Arsenal vs Man City preview, plus line-up and score prediction by KJ
Arsenal go into this game suffering a loss to relegation strugglers QPR who ended the Gunner’s 7 game win-streak. Because of that loss, this game has become even more vital for our fight for automatic Champions league qualification.
Man City have been going through a rut and have only managed 2 wins out of their last 9 away games. If there was ever the right time to face them this season, today is that day. They have played some exceptional football at the beginning of the season with the technical ability displayed by Aguero and the sublime passing supplied by David Silva. However both, especially the Spaniard, have tailed off as the season has progressed and are not the same threat they posed the last time Arsenal faced them.
Arsenal, on the other hand, surprisingly started the season dreadfully before pulling themselves together and playing some sublime football themselves. The likes of Van Persie and Walcott are going to be key to our attacking threat against Man City. They will have to take every opportunity they get as you’d expect little space from a team that is contending for the title. But that in itself could be Man City’s own undoing. They have to win this game if they want to catch United. If they even get a draw, they lose the title to their bitter rivals and they would absolutely dread that. As a result, they will unrelentingly attack our defence with every opportunity they get. This will potentially mean a lot of counter-attacks available for Arsenal and that’s what we thrive on against the bigger teams with all that pace Walcott, Chamberlain and Gervinho provide.
The defensive unit itself must be compact as well as unforgiving if Man City make any attacking mistakes. The likes of Vermaelan, Szczesny and Song will have to cut out any mistakes they usually make once a game as they will be put away by the desperate blues.
Preferred line-up:
——————- Szczesny ———————
Sagna — Koscielny —– Vermaelan— Gibbs
————— Song ——– Arteta —————–
——————– Rosicky ————————–
Walcott ——— Van Persie ——— Chamberlain
I decided to pick Chamberlain over Gervinho as the 18 year old Englishman seems to play blinders against the biggest teams in Europe (remember the likes of Man Utd, Milan etc.). The rest picks itself. Gibbs is questionable but I still think Santos needs to play against weaker opposition before he becomes a consistent starter again.
My Prediction: It’ll be tight but I’m quietly confident of an Arsenal win, 3-2 to the Gunners.
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