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Official teams and preview of Stoke v Arsenal

If Arsenal can win away to Stoke City today it will make it four wins in a row in all competitions and would surely put the momoies of a poor start to the season firmly behind us and leave us looking forward to the rest of the season with some optimism.

But with just one win from our last eight games against the Potters, it does not looka n easy task. But the home side are ona miserable run of form and results, with three defeats in a row and some of their own injury problems to deal with. They are nothing like ours, although at least Kieran Gibbs is available to cover for the Spanish left back Nacho Monreal.

On the other side, Hector Bellerin comes in because Wenger has moved young Calum Chambers alongside Per Mertesacker, with Laurent Koscielny only fit enough to start on the bench. Our polish international keeper is also on the bench after his minor knock saw him miss a few games and he is joined there by Danny Welbeck.

So OLivier Giroud comes into the centre forward position and Alex Oxlade_Chamberlain gets another chance to impress on one flank, with our star man Alexis Sanchez on the other. It gives us a great blend of power, pace and hard work up front, with Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey adding creative ability from midfield, although the Welshman will hopefully keep his discipline and help Flamini to protect the defence.

Martinez
Bellerin, Mertesacker, Chambers, Gibbs
Flamini, Ramsey, Cazorla
Alexis, Giroud, Chamberlain

subs: Szczesny, Koscielny, Ajayi, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Podolski, Welbeck

The young players on the bench show just how stretched the Arsenal squad is, but hopefully they will not be called upon and hopefully we do not pick up any more knocks from Stoke’s tough tactics. Can we hold firm and produce the quality up front to grab a vital win?

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      1. Dear Maureen, please note that the right to be InVInCIBle exclusively belongs to Arsenal and Arsenal alone

        2. @KickAssFan.
          Yes Bruv. It’s exclusive to us!!!
          Oh I feel relieved now. Oh Papisse Cisse, Ohh Sissoko.

  6. Chelsea needs to spend big now…..new strikers to score goals and defenders to stop the leaking…

      1. looooool calm down bro

        u havent won the lottery
        (if u have, remember i have always loved u like a brother)

        1. @muffdiver.
          “u havent won the lottery”.
          Ofcourse I have!
          You seriously are not thinking that I screaming my head off because of some game between Chelsea and Newcastle, are u?!

          *checks again to confirm I won*

          Oh yes! yes! I luv you muffdiver. *jumps on muffdiver, plants a kiss on his mouth*

    1. lol feel like i should watch geordie shore to say thank you.

      has absolutely made my day

      there is only one INVINCIBLE TEAM

  16. Yes we are still the invincible. But we got another team fighting for our 4th that is no good for us.

  20. Haha chelsea invincibles my ass. 14 games they lasted and people started comparing em to invincibles. You cannot buy class
    Form is temporary, Class is permanent
    I would love to see any other team win EPL than a team that’s coached by mourihno

  22. Man City winning today will take them within 3 points of Chelsea. Man City are in form, Chelsea aren’t. The title race isn’t over yet – it’s just beginning..

  24. was there ever any doubt Chelsea would eventually lose? One thing Wenger beats Mourinho in is the Invincible record. It just cannot be done again, nice try though Chelsea 🙂

  25. O yeah congrats! Newcastle what an awsome performance by them they were absolutely rock at defence well organised and hit chelsea on counter and scored 2 goals that’s the way to beat chelsea keep tight at back and well organised and hit them on counter.. I m Very Glad now that invincibles talk is now over we arsenal are only invincibles of premier league.

  31. I thought this article was Stoke City-Arsenal preview. It’s seems like its New castle-Chelsea live match.

    However, it’s infectious. Go gunners!! Only ONE invincibles!!!

  32. Chelsea do have a habbit of losing against middle and low rank teams so it’s a good thing that we may hope chelsea will stutter against these teams like today so we can closd the gap of top position it’s difficult but not impossible.. Coyg!! Arsenal invincibles 49 forever INSHAA ALLAH..

  48. Muahahaaaaa. Now, you football genius please keep saying we should let Chamber in CB and Bellerin. What a joke.

  49. Mou wil probably be able to win at St. James when Arsene finally beats him which is very unlikely.

    Football! What a game!

  50. in the past , 10 out of 10 games, fans questioned Wenger why he didn’t use Chamber in CB and Bellerin in LB. Finally Wenger satisfies your wish. Great!

  53. Bellerin, Campell, Rosicky , Podolsky, ……. they had their chance in Carling Cup. They lost it. Before you blame anybody, blame yourself.

  58. We can’t lose here at the Brittania. Not again! We lost the title here last season. It brings back bad memories.

  60. The goal was chamber fault, he miss the heading and Bellerin he slip but he is guarding the other player and don’t know where is mert.

  63. Yes, thats great – well done Newcastle.

    Arsenal love to cling on to past glories, after all past glories are the only thing that is keeping Arsene Wenger in a job – that and the lack of a spine by the board to move forward.

    Or perhaps they are just happy in taking the money from their loyal fan base and fobbing them off with a substandard product..

    Doesn’t bode too well for the club…

    1. Last I heard they still trying out how to defend, how to jump to head a ball, how to take advantage of our corner and free kick.

  65. How bad is Anthony Taylor? Words do not do it justice. You have to witness his ineptitude to fully appreciate it.

  66. i always hate this ugly football of Stoke.
    Somebody please tell Santi to stop shooting, he’s terrible at it

  67. Concede in the first minute, Giroud misses a sitter, we still can’t give set pieces, classic Arsenal!

  75. we have a very inexperienced right defence side today, and who in the bench??……. nobody, wenger out? YES

    1. I just wish we could sell Mertesacker. He’s 30, getting slower and slower and has lost all his attributes what makes him a defender.

      But I know this will never happen. He will stay with Arsenal until his contract ends, so about 2-3 more years at least.

    1. sunday league defending. Its beyond embarrassing. If we’re not playing Koscielny at the back we may as well just put more attackers on because defense never does anything useful.

  88. Wtf the old arsenal is back, midfield being bossed by stoke, defence daydreaming and wondering whats on tv tonight, mertesacker just go awol and do us a favour please!!!! We suck!

    1. we barley ever win at Britannia, I dont see how anyone could go into this match thinking it would be a cake walk.

  92. Some AKB please defend this performance from a team managed by an eight million pounds a year fraud of a manager !
    #wengerout

  93. There are several players must be released,and Mert is gotta be first-dumb and slow,dumbest player I have ever seen.

  95. Take Cazorla and Giroud off, bring on Podolski and Welbeck. FFS we look like a bunch of old men today, no fight, no spirit. And who just gave up on marking on the second goal? Come on Arsenal…

  97. I just don’t understand why he changed the back formation against Stoke. Doesn’t make sense to me

    1. isn’t it obvious? you wanted Bellerin on the right and Chamber in CB. Wenger finally agree to do that for you. Now you want to blame him right? Kos is injured, it is out of question.

  98. Not bad all other matches, there are no goal, only our match got two goals to watch, not bad not bad.

  100. I knew this game was gonna be a sh*t one. Stoke crowd jeering Ramsey are poor excuses of human beings. No koscielny, we look poor at the back. Giroud needs to step up.

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