So the season begins for Arsenal at last! There have already been some interesting results, not least Man Utd losing at home to Swansea, and Everton only drawing with Leicester, so nobody can expect any easy games in the opening games.
Here is the confirmed starting teams:
Arsenal: Szczesny, Debuchy, Koscielny, Chambers, Gibbs, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Alexis, Cazorla, Sanogo
Substitutes: Martinez, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Chamberlain, Campbell, Giroud
Crystal Palace: Speroni, Kelly, Dann, Hangeland, Ward, Puncheon, Jedinak, Ledley, Bolasie, Chamakh, Campbell
Substitutes: Hennessey, Delaney, McCarthy, O’Keefe, Bannan, Gayle, Murray
Let’s all hope that Wenger has made the right decision in starting Sanogo ahead of Giroud. We all have seen he is capable of scoring goals, but just the one game doesn’t inspire me with confidence.
But with Cazorla, Ramsey and Alexis supporting the youngster up front I’m sure he can impress us today. Otherwise there are no big surprises, and it was practically this team that beat Manchester City, so surely a managerless Palace shouldn’t cause us any problems?
Noooooooo! Not Sanogo. Wenger is messing up my Fantasy team hahahahaha.
Lets GOOOO GUNNERS!
I would Have preferred campbell on the left and santi on the middle
You gotta love Koscielny! NEVER makes a mistake in important defensive situations and Always scores important goals!
Next half I would like to see eiter OX or campbell coming in for cazorla, Coquelin for Arteta (I want to see how good he is BUT only if we are winning) and Rosicky for either of Wilshere, Ramsey or Sanogo (if Sanogo let Sanchez play as striker and rosicky on the left wing and Ox or Campbell in right wing) COYG!
By the way could Santi learn something from Sanchez. Sanchez- takes his first set piecein the game=assist.
Looks good…hope we croud them in the middle and control it from the of! Hope for few beautiful cazorla-sanchez- sanogo-ramsey counters
Let’s go
No Big Surprise For Me
Arsenal 1-1 CP
Sanchez and Chamakh to score
Sanogo and Sanchez the new SAS lol
I was hoping for SWAG(Sanchez,Walcott And Giroud)
really want sanogo to score,
Great starting line up. We have better movement with Sanogo playing as striker and Giroud does better coming on as a sub. So it is a win win either way.
No Giroud, I already feel much more comfortable that gunners will win this game.
let the championship season begin, yaya… this is your chance for glory, make it count… no germans, theo… but still such a strong line up, gonna be a good year!
I’m coming out of my cage and I been doing just fine, because the premier league is here!!
I hope we dont repeat a BRADFORD
Sanogo to
break,no I mean ANNIHILATE that scoring duck.Right now,I’m literally shouting COYG!COYG! I’m so excited!!! 😀
I like the new formation
Chamakh./oscar pistorious…??
Scoreline today: 5-2 to us thank you please..
That is all but tells u Giroud will not be our main striker this year, Arsene wl either buy a new striker or wl wait for Walcolt. Prove me wrong!!
Is it wrong that I totally forgot who Chamakh was until I saw him parading onto the field? Wilshire looking good today
Palace looks firm..but we still have 70mins and a bench to kill-campbell, rosicky, ox…Not to mention giroud…
But I am impressed how palace manage to stop us without fouls..
Hearing fans singing the Giroud song. Haha
It looks like smoking has done more harm dan good to wilshere, cazorla looks dangerous, sanogo shud fight for the ball more and sanchez shud cool down hes trying too much to impress
with arteta and sonogo on team we are a 4th place outfit at best…wtf is wrong with wenger
So boring
arsenal needs to score asap, this palace team are growing stronger by the minut.
Palace doing the only thing they know.
We have no width down the left & we’ve got to find someone who can take corners!
wtfffffffffffffffffffff
This team play like shit, totally different display from CS
Set-Pieces again!!!!
And we think they parked the bus before they scored?
Who scored?
We nid def mid
why isnt there a player on both posts at corners?!
like i an many said- pre season is not the premier league.
smh from a corner-
we will win- but palace will make it tough-
COYG~!!
Same sh*t, different day!!!!!
F*ck that zonal marking!!!!
I know this will happen if arsenal don’t show up.. where t f**k is our midfielder
This could be bad. But we’ll still win. Don’t worry
we r playing very causally. bad passing, bad corners
And that’s how to beat the best teams, 5 across the MF then score on a set piece.
This is why we need more physicality in our side.
Sanchez needs to get up the flanks and we need more on the left side.
UnBOlievablle!
It may take a Giroud / Poldi type pot shot from distance today to break Palace down 🙁
You don’t need Cavani ??!!
Sanogo out —- Rosicky in
Wilshere out —- OX in
oh men, we are in for a long day, I think we could still win this one
one word sums it up. $h1t
Alright lads, looks like it’s gonna be a second half comeback
WTF Schezny!!
All our pass are like shit, at this moment i dont see arsenal will score
I hope there’s a good reason why there’s no defender guarding the back post in a corner. Thought it’s in the ABC of football.
Arsenal coaching staff and Cazorla especially should take notes how to take corners!
in wenger we trust..to do what? not just that the motivation is missing but the same weaknesses fans have been talking about for three years are still plain to see…we might even eke a win today but so f****** what he doesnt have a top team that can win shit still
Rush to turn my TV on after missing the start and saw the score. What’s going on?
Luckily you didn’t see cos you will vomit blood. Our gunner look lost
We needed that goal before the half.
We needed that desperately. I think we’ll look like a new team now. Did you see Sanchez actually calling for the ball after the goal, I think it’ll give every1 the confidence they need
Will this team ever learn?!
We won’t win if we can’t find our passing back.
We need some runners in behind!
Yup no1 has really been making those runs but look how deep palace back line is so it’s difficult. Id take out Wilshere soon and put caz through the middle and throw Campbell on
I told you it will be 1-1 result
CP have a lot of heart
What happened to our gunner, they seem so lost
arteta is not worthy to wear the shirt let alone the captains armband.
useless
Here we go the stress has started!
CB, CDM AND CF needed urgently.
PALACE 1 ARSENAL 0. How is it that we have two wingers on the bench and wenger continues to play carzola as a winger. No chamberlain and no campbel. We need width and pace.
Kos!!!! perfect timing!
Laurent always scores very important goals.
Kossyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
yes yes yes 1-1
A bit o patience. We will score eventually. Pi$$es me of Koscielny not watching. And now Chambers got a yellow too.
wengers going on thats what…half thye fans on this site need their heads examined as well…f****** nogo … thank god we have some decent strikers like loscielny
Now thats what your supposed to do santi
calm down,i tod you guys, we are winning this game. goal, koscienly
Lucky we still got kos when we need someone to lead, wenger shd appoint kos captain.
Alexis first assist of the season for more to come
the Boss(ialny) always save us
I can’t remember a game where Wilshere was better than Ramsey. Ramsey is very bad this afternoon. Kos heard I was mad at him and slapped me right in the face !!! 🙂
Half the team has not pitched up.
Lets be under no elusions there will be no easy games this season.
The fact that we have just won the FA cup and community shield and signed Sanchez will just mean teams will respect us more this year and we’ll come up against quite a few busses parked and busy midfields. Set pieces, shots from distance and pacey wing play will be essential to win the tough games.
Some people are so fickle, already calling for Wenger’s head. Anyways we scored at the best moment, right before half time. I was gonna say it’ll make their manager’s speech harder at the half time, but then I remembered they don’t have a manager.
I know man it’s f*ckin despicable how quickly these “fans” put our team down
be patient people, see its 1-1 now. But yeah, bad 1st half overall. Why are we not using our width at all, I have no idea. Alexis doesnt look ready yet anyways, but its really the same problem, nobody in the box, and were just playing around it. We need somebody to make a run. Wouldnt mind Cazorla off, Ox on.
When Sanchez was playing with messi fabregas xavi etc he kinda knew what they were going to do..
I don’t think Sanogo knows what HE’S going to do..!
Sanogo is definitely not as good as giroud..
And giroud is shite.. But will probably get the winner..
We can`t win the league with Sa no goal as striker. The boy is very inexperience. Watching the game, i noticed we lacked penetration and pace. I am not sure if Wenger sees that. A lot of bad passes as well . I hope 2nd time will be much better. COYG
Hope wenger can drill some thing into our gunner, they look so lost.
Make Sanchez CF,
get Joel Campbel and Rosicky on for Sanogo and Wilshere
Win or lose there is one thing i noticed in that boren wood friendly and i said it than i do not like what schzney is trying to do he is trying to be a neaur schzney needs to stick to what he is good at and not try be like neaur, it was his rash kick which resulted on a corner few moves later if he carrys on like this i can see ospina takong his spot. I belive we will win but dont like his new schzney style
Szczesny has ALWAYS been like this. Every match he does something peculiar.
Still wondering why Cazorla is taking our corners.. Sanchez one set piece, one assist.
Sanogo isn’t moving in the box. When the ball is played in he just stands still, he doesn’t even jump for headers. The defenders just walk around him to clear the ball. Little strength as well, Giroud looks more suited to this type of game. I also think Ox should come on for Cazorla. Cazorla isn’t a LW, at the moment we’re only attacking down the right and have had pretty much no attack down the left, Chamberlain would offer that to spread Palace a little wider. We need more pace and movement, get palace running and tired out.
I’m not attacking Sanogo, just doesn’t look like he’s at the races today.
Get Giroud on for Sanogoals
I guess, you should cut sanogo some slack, his performance shouldn’t be weighed on a goal-scale, I think palace are in for a trouncing in the second 45
this guy is not yet an epl level player its so f****** obvious to anyone other than wenger and a bunch of delusionals on this web site…farm him out to brentford see how he does maybe he will end up better than bendtner am not yet convinced but happy to be proved wrong…but we need more serious attack options up front for sure this season to be serious contenders…thats a certainty
Sanchez and Kos were the reasons we conceded. They were also the reasons we scored.
No home team has won today. Will we be the first and only?
we’re not playing great, but lets NOT call for someones head right now.
Alexis is being aggressive enough with his dribbles, looks like he’s not used to teams like Palace parking the bus.
Ramsey is not in his best, but nowhere near horrible. He’s more unlucky with the ref decisions all against him.
wilshere is finally not doing those reckless dribbles, which is great, but we do need more penetration, and it’s time for Campbell.
agree. Midfield isnt bad today, just SLOW. And Cazorla just keeps getting crowded out. Someone needs to support him more, because he has no options in great positions, but just loses it. Maybe a Rosicky sub would put some much needed energy in midfield.
Basically not what expected from our gunner even CP is here to park the bus. After two trophy, i shd see fire in their eyes instead i saw headless chicken all over the place.
arsenal needs to play together, it’s more like, they are all fighting for their individual moments; particularly wilshere
We need to bring on Campbell or Ox. We need pace. Ramsey needs to do more in the second half and don’t even get me started on Arteta. The whole team has been under performing, probably because they thought we would breeze past Palace like most of us did. Add some pace to play around their big and slow players and we will win.
We really need ozil vision, our midfielder so slow in attack
chambers Gibbs and Wilshire in my opinion are the only ones playing well, rest is average or poor.
And we have no game changers on bench
Kos? saved a goal chance, great tackle in the box, goal scored, ummm?
Get Giroud on now!
its not Cazorla’s day so far :/
Campbell and Giroud on
Sanogo and Carzola off
The problem isn’t in attack it’s the defence and the glass player who is Gibbs – monreal isn’t top premier league ..
I keep saying it – but although our lucky lucky man Sanogo isn’t the real deal Wenger is blind to these nearly men.. Chamakh, park, bendtner..
Wenger buy a top striker and 2 defenders in this window..!
Gigg injured again
Is GIBBS ever fit? smh
what does smh mean?
the difference between Sanogo and Giroud is like the difference between Shit and Shit
clearly the strategy is to harass carzola, everytime he is on the ball, two players converge on him,
Gibbs injured, better add a LB to your wish list Wenger!!
And Sanogo looking like BAMBI ON ICE… He just seems to be falling over everytime the ball gets to him..
palace have been wasting time from the first whistle, ref must do something