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whelk

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The bookies really fancy us tomorrow. Arsenal are barely odds-on (1.95 on 365) and we're as short as 4.2. If I recall Arsenal have drifted out from around 1.61 yesterday (or maybe even shorter) so they must be very confident that Wenger will try and get away with playing some of his kids.

 

Really fancy us? We are 4/1 in 3 horse race - that is the outsider.

SNSUN

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Wenger is in the Metro claiming that had we not sold our best players in the last few years, we would have won the title. Well durrrr, but it's not so easy in the lower leagues when we needed the money from the Bale and Oxo sales. Not to mention we perhaps wouldn't have seen the likes of Lallana's talent reaching fruition. Anyway the best thing to do is learn from it, stay in the Premier League and keep faith in the youngsters in the future.

 

As for tonight, beat Arsenal and we must surely be considered one of the favourites for the competition even at this early stage. To be fair though, as long as we give them a hell of a game, I'm not massively worried if we go out. We could lose to worse teams.

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Saint Charlie

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ARSENAL (probable): Ospina; Bellerin, Chambers, Hayden, Coquelin, Diaby, Wilshere, Rosicky, Campbell, Podolski, Alexis

 

Not a bad lineup in all with some clear talents in attack. Should be a good even game.

CB Fry

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Wenger is in the Metro claiming that had we not sold our best players in the last few years, we would have won the title. Well durrrr, but it's not so easy in the lower leagues when we needed the money from the Bale and Oxo sales. Not to mention we perhaps wouldn't have seen the likes of Lallana's talent reaching fruition. Anyway the best thing to do is learn from it, stay in the Premier League and keep faith in the youngsters in the future.

 

As for tonight, beat Arsenal and we must surely be considered one of the favourites for the competition even at this early stage. To be fair though, as long as we give them a hell of a game, I'm not massively worried if we go out. We could lose to worse teams.

Arsene could say the same thing about Arsenal (Cesc, RVP, etc) with the added bonus of it being true.

SNSUN

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ARSENAL (probable): Ospina; Bellerin, Chambers, Hayden, Coquelin, Diaby, Wilshere, Rosicky, Campbell, Podolski, Alexis

 

Not a bad lineup in all with some clear talents in attack. Should be a good even game.

 

Good attack, inexperienced defence. If that's the team, It has echoes of United's problems this season. There'll definitely be goals tonight IMO.

Professor

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Not expecting Koeman to do a Pochettino. I think he'll take this game seriously and adopt his usual approach of continuity. May make a couple of unforced changes but nothing wholesale IMO. If Arsenal do play less than their strongest team, I can see Saints getting a result.

KK the 2nd

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My Arsenal pal is saying a numbers of their players have knocks/injuries, expects them to be rested and their youngsters/reserves to play (Akpom? Zelalem?).

 

Koeman is saying he will field the strongest side he can.

 

Interestingly the betting has seen Saints shorten from 6/1 for a win (available last week - I'm on!) to 3/1 this morning.

 

We can win this! COYS!

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Bucks Saint

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ARSENAL (probable): Ospina; Bellerin, Chambers, Hayden, Coquelin, Diaby, Wilshere, Rosicky, Campbell, Podolski, Alexis

 

Not a bad lineup in all with some clear talents in attack. Should be a good even game.

 

Really cant see Alexis, not with the derby at the weekend and CL next week. Bench at most?

The Cat

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I'd be surprised if Chambers started, if he gets injured they are screwed.

 

He's pretty much all they have at RB at the moment so I can't see him being played at CB in a cup game.

Gemmel

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I'd be surprised if Chambers started, if he gets injured they are screwed.

 

Apparently he came down to watch our 21's yesterday and he reckons he is

bpsaint

bpsaint

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Showing up amongst the listings on wiziwig etc so it's likely there'll be a good stream for this. Don't think we'll ever have a better chance of getting a win at the Emirates.

Appy

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He's pretty much all they have at RB at the moment so I can't see him being played at CB in a cup game.

 

I think if he does play he'll be at centre half, Bellerin at right back.

Saint86

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I'd be surprised if Chambers started, if he gets injured they are screwed.

 

1 card from suspension as well apparently. Doubt he will play. To already have 4 yellow cards shows he is out of his depth where Wenger is using him.

 

As for the game. There are Arsenal fans at work who think that even with the reported weakened squad they will comfortably beat our first team... I mean they literally have no shadow of doubt over that fact.

 

Hope we smash them. Pelle, Tadic and Mane up front for at least an hour. Wanyama, Morgan and Cork in the centre, Solid back line with good rotation and Forster in goal.

 

A good win over Arsenal will do wonders for further building are burgeoning team belief!

SNSUN

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I'm going to take a leaf out that Scottish blokes book and whack £900k on Arsenal progressing tonight. That way I'll either be happy with the extra cash, or happy Saints have gone through to the next round. (But homeless and with broken kneecaps from the loan sharks.)

Window Cleaner

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I'm going to take a leaf out that Scottish blokes book and whack £900k on Arsenal progressing tonight. That way I'll either be happy with the extra cash, or happy Saints have gone through to the next round. (But homeless and with broken kneecaps from the loan sharks.)

 

 

900,000£ ?

Charlie Wayman

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Wenger needs to win Cups as he has no chance of winning the league and the usual cop-out of a top 4 finish won't satisfy the fans or management for much longer so whatever his starting XI you must expect Wenger to turn the screw second half if we get off to a good start and they go 1-0 down. No way he will let this one slide out of his grasp so if we want to win it we will need to outplay them for 90 minutes. Can't see that happening myself especially up there. Wenger won't want a draw for obvious reasons so sadly 3-2 or 2-1 to them looks about how it will end up.

Mattio

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Got a spare ticket for tonight for face value (£10). Text me at oh seven nine 1 four three 1 eight oh three one if you want it, I can meet you outside, block 23. Tom

 

Is that enigma code? ?

 

 

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Badvoc

Badvoc

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If anyone's interested....on this day in 1995, Saints lost 4-2 to Arsenal at Highbury. I think it was Bergkamp's first goals for the Gunners. Hopefully, not an omen for this evening.

naiser

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I ran a few scientifically rigorous simulations on FIFA15 and predict that we'll win by a solitary goal to nil against Arsenal. Tadic the scorer, and MoM performance from Forster.

buctootim

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During periods of lots of games do you need to rotate goalkeepers in the same way as outfield players in order to keep them fresh? Obviously the physical strains aren't the same but mental?

EBS1980

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Saw this on the #saintsfc tweeter feed. Was tweeted by The93rdMinute but seems to have come from Arsenal's site directly.

 

The 93rd Minute @93rdMinute

“@Arsenal: @Zonal_Marking looks at how Ronald Koeman has rebuilt Southampton: http://arsn.al/bbx6Pf pic.twitter.com/nJD9MS2XSr ” #saintsfc

Minty

Minty

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If anyone's as sad, or as impatient, as me - you can check the view from your seat on the arsenal / emirates website

 

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Similar to that, here's a representation of my view for this evening, subject to getting a stream:

 

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saint_ed

saint_ed

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Got a spare ticket for tonight for face value (£10). Text me at oh seven nine 1 four three 1 eight oh three one if you want it, I can meet you outside, block 23. Tom

 

Oh is actually called Zero ;)

Jai27

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I ran a few scientifically rigorous simulations on FIFA15 and predict that we'll win by a solitary goal to nil against Arsenal. Tadic the scorer, and MoM performance from Forster.

 

Good enough for me ;)

SaintBobby

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Wenger needs to win Cups as he has no chance of winning the league and the usual cop-out of a top 4 finish won't satisfy the fans or management for much longer so whatever his starting XI you must expect Wenger to turn the screw second half if we get off to a good start and they go 1-0 down. No way he will let this one slide out of his grasp so if we want to win it we will need to outplay them for 90 minutes. Can't see that happening myself especially up there. Wenger won't want a draw for obvious reasons so sadly 3-2 or 2-1 to them looks about how it will end up.

 

It goes to pens if it's a draw, right? (although I guess Wenger won't want extra time)

Batman

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It goes to pens if it's a draw, right? (although I guess Wenger won't want extra time)

 

to be fair, nor do we want extra time either. seeing as we will probably only make 1 or 2 changes with QPR having a free week

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