Arsenal vs Manchester United

keanevieira_design.jpg


wouldn't mind the result
 
The one player I fear the most is Walcott, and we'll need to contain Fabregas by cutting out the supply to him.

Honestly i fear of Fabregas, He is on-form this season. The Dippers contained him well and didn't give him much space but Carragher should not have allowed the space he gave fabregas which he scored.

Our weakness is the space/gap between Vidic and Rio and classic example would be Against Boro; Rio or Vidic should not have allowed the header goal. Last season similar thing happened to us at Emirates where Henry scored header goal in the stoppage time.

We know what Arsenal play so please Fergie don't play defensive football against Arsenal otherwise they will outplay us by their so called flowing-football. My suggestion is that we are playing our best football at the moment so all we need to do is tight defense.

I feel sorry for the dippers because they look confused in the second half but you have to give credit to Benitez for choosing the right formation against Arsenal. (4-3-3)
I hope we win against Arsenal by not last than 4 goals.
 
--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------

---Neville-------Rio---------Vidic-------------Evra--


-------------Hargreaves-----Anderson-----------------


--------Ronaldo---------Tevez--------------Giggs---


----------------------Rooney---------------------------


I would favor experience over youth--so Gaz Neville for Brown & Giggsy over Nani. We should not play an old fashioned 4-4-2 with wingers hugging the flanks. Aresnal's Rosicky and Hleb do not play like classical wingers. Rather they will cut inside to the centre to be supported by their main playmaker Cesc Fabregas. Thus, our two wingers, Ronaldo and Giggsy, will be pushed into a more central role and need to chase Rosicky and Hleb into the middle. Our two fullbacks Gaz and Evra need to be guarding Arsenal's overlapping fullbacks, Eboueu and Sagna. Hargreaves should keep a close watch on Cesc and harry him everywhere as Arsenal's most dangerous plays go through Cesc. Anderson's task will be to releas the ball quickly to our attackers...

Should be a tight affair...think we'll nick it 2-1 with goals from Giggs and Vidic (header from corner)
 
Rooney scores against Arse often, so my money's on him to score again.

1-2 with Rooney and Tevez scoring for us and Adebayor for them.

Ronaldo scored against L'Arse often, so my money's on him to score again.

Rooney & Ronaldo for a 2-0 win for us.
 
Same team as on Saturday with the exception of Evra (hopefully fit) to come in for O'Shea at the left fullback.

Other than that, more of the same please.
 
--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------

---Neville-------Rio---------Vidic-------------Evra--


-------------Hargreaves-----Anderson-----------------


--------Ronaldo---------Tevez--------------Giggs---


----------------------Rooney---------------------------


I would favor experience over youth--so Gaz Neville for Brown & Giggsy over Nani. We should not play an old fashioned 4-4-2 with wingers hugging the flanks. Aresnal's Rosicky and Hleb do not play like classical wingers. Rather they will cut inside to the centre to be supported by their main playmaker Cesc Fabregas. Thus, our two wingers, Ronaldo and Giggsy, will be pushed into a more central role and need to chase Rosicky and Hleb into the middle. Our two fullbacks Gaz and Evra need to be guarding Arsenal's overlapping fullbacks, Eboueu and Sagna. Hargreaves should keep a close watch on Cesc and harry him everywhere as Arsenal's most dangerous plays go through Cesc. Anderson's task will be to releas the ball quickly to our attackers...

Should be a tight affair...think we'll nick it 2-1 with goals from Giggs and Vidic (header from corner)


What if we played Giggs and Owen in the mid with Nani and Ronnie in the flanks?
Then Owen takes the defensiv role while Giggs goes for offense. In this way we have both experience and flair on the flanks and middle of the park.Plus we can have Giggs, Ronnie and Nani interchange and make a nuisance running through the centre and down the wings
 
Arsenal will lose against the dippers but will draw against us; believe me.:)

swap the two words and you might just salvage the prediction ;)

and another thing, neville hasn't played a proper match for ages. what makes all of you think that he can just come slot in even if he has recovered from injury? you can have conditioning and what not but you need match practice. evidence is all too clear from looking at tevez and anderson early in the season. furthermore, with arsenal's pace in attack, neville will probably run out of gas sooner. i just don't see how neville will start that match
 
If Scholes can't play, definitely play Anderson rather than Carrick.

1. Anderson is probably better already in that role.
2. Carrick is just coming back and bound to be rusty.

Hope Evra is back!
 
VDS - GK
Brown - RB
Vidic - CB
Rio - CB
Evra - CB
Ronaldo - RM
Hargreaves - CM
Anderson - CM
Giggs - LM
Rooney - CF
Tevez - CF

If we keep it simple like this we will win this game. Im very confident going into this game. We're playing fantastic football at the minute and look unstoppable. Hargreaves looked shear class against Boro and Rooney and Tevez seemed almost telepathic!! 0-2 Rooney with a brace.
 
No need to swear mate, he's lightening quick and dangerous on the flank with the ball at his feet against a fullback.

Sorry if my swearing offended you. :drool:
I just don't rate him, i believe Evra cold handle his pace with ease, and he's got no great trickery.
John O'Shea however is a different story...
 
Can't see how anyone thinks that Gary Nevillle would be thrown into this gaame if he's only just back fit. It'd be a pretty dumb move cos he's not had any match practice since March. I imagine we'll put out the same team as against Boro, with possibly Giggs in for Nani.

Really really tough game this, both sides on top form. Would love to win it, but I think a draw would be a good result. Probably 1-1
 
Can't see us losing in our current mode
Draw will suffice
However I think we will win by the odd goal 4-3 will do nicely
VDS
Wes
Rio
Frank
Patrice
Christiano
Owen
Paul (if not fit Anderson)
Ryan
Wayne
Carlos

Subs
Pig
Michael
Gerrard
Anderson (If Paul is fit)
Luis
Louis
John
 
I'm really looking forward to this one. It should be our toughest game so far this season but I'm quitely confident that our current team is as strong or stronger in all areas of the pitch than the Gunners.

It would be nice to continue with out 4 goal a game run but I'd happily settle for a 1 0 in this one.
 
I'll predict 2-0 Manchester United.

1st goal, Ronaldo being released in a counter attack on the right channel, sliding it inside the near post.

2nd goal, Ronaldo on the right with a low cross to Tevez who fires it into the bottom right of the net.
 
I'll predict 2-0 Manchester United.

1st goal, Ronaldo being released in a counter attack on the right channel, sliding it inside the near post.

2nd goal, Ronaldo on the right with a low cross to Tevez who fires it into the bottom right of the net.

That's quite good detail, but you really could do with telling us the minutes they score, and the attendance wouldn't amiss
 
Anderson has crossed swords with Fabregas before when the former is at Porto and he did fairly well when Farbregas fouled him near the box.

Carrick's ball interception has improved tremendously but will he be rusty due to time out?
 
If we manage to keep Fabregas and Hleb under wraps, we should be fine.
 
Very true but exactly how do you do that?

Deny them space in midfield. Personally I think Arsenal are playing without much width, esecially if we can stop your fullbacks attacking. And with Ronaldo and Giggs ready to hit on the counter, I would imagine your fullbacks would be just a little bit more conservative than in other games, wouldn't you?
 
--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------

---Brown-------Rio---------Vidic-------------Evra--


-------------Hargreaves-----Fletcher-----------------


--------Ronaldo---------Tevez--------------Anderson-

----------------------Rooney---------------------------

Fergie may go for extra cover defensively but it's really hard not to see giggs starting in this match
 
Deny them space in midfield. Personally I think Arsenal are playing without much width, esecially if we can stop your fullbacks attacking. And with Ronaldo and Giggs ready to hit on the counter, I would imagine your fullbacks would be just a little bit more conservative than in other games, wouldn't you?
Nah, we're at home we'll attack, Liverpool restricted Sagna/Clichy but at the expense of effectively taking Voronin and Kuyt out of their attack.
 
Do what we usually do against Arsenal.... deny them space, press them at every opportunity and put in a few sly digs when no one is looking...

Pussies 0 - MUFC 2



--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------

---Brown-------Rio---------Vidic-------------Evra--


-------------Hargreaves-----Fletcher-----------------


--------Ronaldo---------Tevez--------------Giggs-

----------------------Rooney-------------------------
 
Do what we usually do against Arsenal.... deny them space, press them at every opportunity and put in a few sly digs when no one is looking...

Pussies 0 - MUFC 2



--------------------Van Der Sar----------------------

---Brown-------Rio---------Vidic-------------Evra--


-------------Hargreaves-----Fletcher-----------------


--------Ronaldo---------Tevez--------------Giggs-

----------------------Rooney-------------------------



please not.......
 
Funnily enough no one seems to be doing that this season. Could be something to do with retribution being dealt out pretty smartish - see Mascherano on Sunday.

If there is one thing that history has shown us in Arse vs MU games is that if it comes to a physical battle the Red Devils come out on top....

:devil: