Simply win | Arseblog … an Arsenal weblog

That is a type of mornings the place writing a weblog feels considerably redundant. What’s there to say that you just don’t already know? What can I speak about by way of how we play the sport that feels extra related than the actual fact we simply have to win?

What Man Metropolis did yesterday may need been a bit disheartening, however it doesn’t change a single factor about what we have now to do at Outdated Trafford. It would effectively be a case that the venue is essentially the most difficult facet about at present. We don’t have an incredible document there, and even when this model of Man Utd is an extended, great distance from the perfect we’ve seen, that’s nonetheless one thing we have to overcome.

Talking forward of the sport, Mikel Arteta stated:

If you wish to win the Premier League and massive trophies, it’s important to go to those grounds and impose your self and beat them. That’s the journey that we’re in and that’s for positive what we’re going to attempt to do on Sunday.

I’m fascinated by how United would possibly method this one. On the one hand, it’s a recreation they should win to maintain alive Europa League qualification, so they could come out all weapons blazing. However their largest problem this season has been how stretched they get after they do this. They go away all that area in midfield we’ve seen groups exploit time and time once more, and in the event you give that area to gamers like Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice and Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka, you’ll probably pay the value for it.

They might try to sit in and defend deep, however they’re additionally with out some key gamers on the again, which may make that plan harder to execute. Which is to say, I don’t actually know what they’ll do, and I think that in his preparation for this one, Mikel Arteta has thought-about the potential for that variance.

As for our crew, I don’t suppose it’ll be any totally different from the one we performed within the final couple of video games, until there’s an harm to consider. Takehiro Tomiyasu was lacking from coaching in midweek, and the supervisor hinted he could be a doubt in his press convention, however who is aware of? If he’s not out there, I feel it needs to be Jakub Kiwior, however I hope Tomi is match and able to go.

This can be a recreation the place if Arsenal play effectively, I feel we’ll win. If United cough up the identical quantity of possibilities they do in virtually each recreation they play, I feel we’ll win. However soccer is bizarre and random, so that you simply by no means know. I’m fluctuating between confidence in my head primarily based on what I’ve seen from these two groups this season, and terror in my abdomen. It’s as a result of the stakes are so excessive, it’s due to what’s on the road, and the actual fact that is the penultimate recreation of the marketing campaign so the margin for error is actually zero. It’s high-wire soccer, and as a lot because it’s nice to be right here and I really like the actual fact we’re at this level of the season with a lot nonetheless to play for, it’s additionally nerve-wracking. I can’t bear in mind being this fluttery a few recreation in a very long time.

That stated, how we really feel as followers and the way the gamers really feel are sometimes fairly distinct. I’m positive they’re relishing this problem, they’ve carried out so effectively this season for this recreation to imply a lot, and let’s hope they will do it once more afterward. There are huge gamers and massive characters on this crew, blessed too with huge expertise, and hopefully that’s sufficient to win this one and knock the ball again into Metropolis’s court docket for midweek and the ultimate day of the season. It doesn’t even matter how we do it, simply win.

Proper, let’s go away it there for now. We’ll have all the standard reside weblog and post-game protection on Arseblog Information.

Come on Arsenal!