9 hours ago, Nibs said:

Need our strongest starting 11 to have any chance of a result tonight and it's a real shame we have no Estevao.

Don't want to see Badiashile or Gusto. Only decision will be does Josh start or will it be Chalobah & Fofana?

Pedro up front with Cole on right, so one of either Neto, Garnacho or Gittens on the left (which one will be least sh*t on the night?). Or we play Delap and Pedro and hope Delap roughs them up and a bit AND discovers some form.

COME ON THE CHELS!!

Cannot be our strongest 11 though. No Estevao and no Colwill.

Arsenal team news.

No Saka, until North London Derby on February 22nd.

No Mikel Merino, undergoing foot surgery.

Arsenal:

Kepa

Timber

Gabriel

Saliba

Hincapie

Rice

Zubamendi

Madueke

Eze

Martinelli

Gyokeres

Back 3????

Back 5. No wingers. Weak bench. Interesting.

The reality is that Arsenal are favourites. They're a goal up and they're at home, so they'll expect to go through. We need to take it as far as we can and as deep as we can, then hopefully the second half will be massive in terms of turning the tie around.

Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior

Or in other words ... "I have to pick Eghbali's sh*t team for the first half but don't worry Chelsea fans ... I'll sort it out with the subs in the second ..."

Edited February 3Feb 3 by Sexyfootball

THROWN IN THE TOWEL

Palmer is rested for us as expected, as is Reece James:

Sanchez

Chalobah

Fofana

Hato

Gusto

Caicedo

Santos

Cucurella

Enzo

Delap

Joao Pedro

And once again no matter how much we f'ck with the defence Josh does not play!

WE WILL BE 2 DOWN IN NO TIME

NO JAMES OR NETO AT ALL

PALMER AND ESTEVAO ON BENCH

Edited February 3Feb 3 by Caps_Lock_King

Disgusting line up

Is Reece the latest illness victim?

WHOS HOLLAND?

Just now, dan_cfc said:

Disgusting line up

Looks like we think the game is a dead rubber too.

Although a line up with no Gittens, Garnacho or Neto...

Resting James in a Semi Final? Absolute nonsense. He didn't even start against West Ham. Palmer on the bench too. Just like I thought, this isn't being treated as a must win.

2 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

WE WILL BE 2 DOWN IN NO TIME

NO JAMES AT ALL

PALMER AND ESTEVAO ON BENCH

Not only are you a glass half empty person I reckon it was piss in your half glass

1 minute ago, 19seventyone said:

Not only are you a glass half empty person I reckon it was piss in your half glass

Did he give you the full glass of piss ? LOL

I mean Arsenal killed us in the midfield in the first leg so I guess the idea is to condense the middle.

Why Hato though? Is he lcb or lwb? If he is wingback Noni kills him, if lcb Eze does.

If for nothing else you need Josh for his height against this lot.

Delaps a pointless inclusion, may as well play 10 men.

For those in the UK, this game is on Amazon Prime ! (if you have it)

5 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Resting James in a Semi Final? Absolute nonsense. He didn't even start against West Ham. Palmer on the bench too. Just like I thought, this isn't being treated as a must win.

Team needs Top 4 or they're f**ked financially so they will sacrifice trophies.

We are genuinely Arsenal under Wenger now.

I'm clinging on with my finger nails to the fact that Estavao is back and on the bench. Although how much he's focused (focussed?) and un-jetlagged remains to be seen.

And now we're at it: can we for the love of anything abolish this 2-match semi-final?! I mean, why?

Nibs, no James, no Colwill, no Palmer, no Estevao. 7 out of 11.

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

For those in the UK, this game is on Amazon Prime ! (if you have it)

it’s on ITV too lol

I just don't buy James being rested. If he was going to be rested for this game, then why did he only play 9 minutes against West Ham? Why didn't he start that game?

2 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Team needs Top 4 or they're f**ked financially so they will sacrifice trophies.

We are genuinely Arsenal under Wenger now.