Arsenal v Norwich

Saturday the 19th of October, 3:00pm at Emirates.

Arsenal in 1st Place, Norwich in 18th position.

Norwich have played 7, won 2 and drawn 1.

Arsenal are likely to have Cazorla back from injury.

My predicated line up

-------------- SZCZ -------------
Jenkinson -- Per -- Kos -- Gibbs
--------- Arteta -- Ramsey ---------
Gnarby ------ Ozil ------ Rosicky
-------------- Giroud -------------

Jack, Santi, Flamini to come on.

Really hope to see cazorla and özil start together for this one. Will be interesting to see if Wenger starts with Arteta/Flamini or Arteta/Ramsey, with Ramsey played 2 international games recently (He cant play every PL-game), and Arteta/Flamini. I know Arteta/Flamini sounds a bit to defensive, but with özil, cazorla, jack/rosicky, will have plenty of creativity, and Arteta can do his magic just infront on Flamini.. Lets just wait and see:)

Anyway.. Anyone know if this match is sent live on TV somewhere? 2 weeks without Arsenal and they don`t even send this match live!

finally, something to look forward to this weekend. is ozil fit?? heard he limped back in the german game.
ozil and cazorla ..... thats something everyone been looking forward to.
3-1 to arsenal

Andreas Wæhre wrote:Really hope to see cazorla and özil start together for this one. Will be interesting to see if Wenger starts with Arteta/Flamini or Arteta/Ramsey, with Ramsey played 2 international games recently (He cant play every PL-game), and Arteta/Flamini. I know Arteta/Flamini sounds a bit to defensive, but with özil, cazorla, jack/rosicky, will have plenty of creativity, and Arteta can do his magic just infront on Flamini.. Lets just wait and see:)

Anyway.. Anyone know if this match is sent live on TV somewhere? 2 weeks without Arsenal and they don`t even send this match live!

I think Arteta and Flamini worked brilliantly against Napoli, but not so well against West Brom.

I also think Wenger will tend to keep Ramsey playing as much as possible, unless injured, to keep his form going. At 22, you recover quite quickly.

So for Norwich, I think it will be Ramsey + either Arteta or Flamini.

But I can never guess Wenger's line ups.

Jonathan Prendergast wrote:

Andreas Wæhre wrote:Really hope to see cazorla and özil start together for this one. Will be interesting to see if Wenger starts with Arteta/Flamini or Arteta/Ramsey, with Ramsey played 2 international games recently (He cant play every PL-game), and Arteta/Flamini. I know Arteta/Flamini sounds a bit to defensive, but with özil, cazorla, jack/rosicky, will have plenty of creativity, and Arteta can do his magic just infront on Flamini.. Lets just wait and see:)

Anyway.. Anyone know if this match is sent live on TV somewhere? 2 weeks without Arsenal and they don`t even send this match live!

I think Arteta and Flamini worked brilliantly against Napoli, but not so well against West Brom.

I also think Wenger will tend to keep Ramsey playing as much as possible, unless injured, to keep his form going. At 22, you recover quite quickly.

So for Norwich, I think it will be Ramsey + either Arteta or Flamini.

But I can never guess Wenger's line ups.

I have no doubt about a top athlete at 22 years old have any problem of recovering from 2 maches a week phycically.. But 2 competitions a week have to be very hard mentally! But when things are going the way is it for Ramsey at the moment, mabye the mental part of the games gives him even more energy? If it was my choise I would go for the same as you, with Ramsey and Arteta/flamini..

Wenger saying cazorla is not macht-fit i guess he starts on the bench and gets a run-in during the 2.half! Wilshere and rosicky on each side maby?

With the amount of quality we have in our mid-field right now, not really worried about the team Wenger puts out against Norwich.

It goes without saying that Ramsey must start.

Arteta and Flamini make a good mid-field pairing in my opinion and Arteta really is versatile enough to play alongside a more defensive partner as well (recall his first season at the club). Having said that, I have a feeling he won't be starting against Norwich.

Would love to see Gnabry getting game time again before competition for the wide berths gets really intense. For me, Walcott is the undisputed 1st choice on the right.

Predicted starting XI : Szczesny, Gibbs, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Jenkinson, Flamini, Ramsey, Rosicky, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud.

That leaves the likes of Wilshere, Cazorla, Arteta, Monreal and Bendtner on the bench. Really expect to see Cazorla coming on as a sub and getting 20-30 minutes. The squad does look a bit thin defensively, one injury away from being exposed with both Koscielny and Sagna out.

Meshaal wrote:The squad does look a bit thin defensively, one injury away from being exposed with both Koscielny and Sagna out.

Koscielny played 90 min for France in midweek, and unless something has happened, he`s fit. Wenger also said Sagna is fit in press conference this morning.

Andreas Wæhre wrote:

Meshaal wrote:The squad does look a bit thin defensively, one injury away from being exposed with both Koscielny and Sagna out.

Koscielny played 90 min for France in midweek, and unless something has happened, he`s fit. Wenger also said Sagna is fit in press conference this morning.

That is excellent news

Szczesny Sagna Per Laurent Gibbs Ramsey Flamini Arteta Ozil Giroud Rosicky
I have been waiting quite some time for a thumping so I will go with 5-0. I know I said it before the West Bromwich game and that didn't work really well but I have a feeling we will get a big score soon.

Vanig Bostanian wrote:Szczesny Sagna Per Laurent Gibbs Ramsey Flamini Arteta Ozil Giroud Rosicky
I have been waiting quite some time for a thumping so I will go with 5-0. I know I said it before the West Bromwich game and that didn't work really well but I have a feeling we will get a big score soon.

The old 4-5-1 formation? I think it's good to have either of them on the wing, but it leaves the team a bit unbalanced when we don't have at least 1 traditional winger, like Walcott, Gnabry or Podolski.

Anyone got a decent stream? Can't find many about and the one I'm on is so laggy!

Steve Dawson wrote:Anyone got a decent stream? Can't find many about and the one I'm on is so laggy!

If you have sopcast, this is what I'm watching....but it's not English (Spanish I think)
sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/146691

how have we been playing????
missed the first 40min and now dealing with extremely laggy stream.
is ozil and cazrola combination as good as we expected??

decent streams ???

holy shit!
4 classy goals, 1 one goal of the season from jack, 2 from Ozil and one Ramsey.. Though we didnt control the entire game, I loved to watch Arsenal today..

Im BUSSING!!

Norwich played better than the scoreline suggests, but our class/skill was just too much for them. I think we are being able to control the game more by having the ball less these days. Of course, I think the possession is something like 60-40 in our favour, but this is not the Cesc day Arsenal, the team is keeping shape when we don't have the ball and not letting the opposition do anything with, still would love us to get clean sheets. Needless to say our goals were absolute class. Out of curiosity I'd like to know what mode Ramsey is on! I know he can score goals with his late runs into the box, but I never knew he had THAT much "skillz", he tested the goal keeper with two quality shots before scoring a (sorry to say that) Nasri-esque goal and then the Zidane-esque whatever making a fool out of the opposition. My player ratings:
Szczesny 7: Solid, as usual these days
Sagna 7: See above
Koscielny 7: See above
Per 6.5: Had a good game but failed to clear the ball properly which led to their goal
Gibbs 7: Left footed Sagna
Santi 7: Looked tired but had a key role in our first two goals
Flamini 7: Not that he did a lot, but we lost shape when he came off which underlines his importance
Arteta 7: Looked good literally, some uncharactersitically dodgy passing, but a very good performance overall
Ozil 9: At 42.5m looks like a bargain lol
Jack 8: I'm happy he's responding to the "he plays shit for the national team" and "smoker" shit in the best possible way, by playing well and scoring goals
Giroud 8: I just love this character, does so much to the team, neat assists today
Aaron 9: Discussed him in the paragraph above
Rosicky 7: Did well and his high tempo helped us improve the game
Bendtner 6.5: Encouraging to see that we have an able backup striker in case something happens to Giroud

http://www.footballorgin.com/2013/10/premier-league-2013-2014-arsenal-v.html

for those who missed the match or could not watch it due to extremely laggy stream, like me.
unfortunately its in in spanish or something that sounds like spanish.

after two weeks of no football and tivo still to make an appearance in my country, we do what we can

http://www.fullmatches.net/arsenal-vs-norwich-19-oct-2013-full-match/

in english but u have to download

So it looks like:

1 - Giroud assist for Wilshire goal
2 - Giroud assist for Ozil goal
3 - Wilshire assist for Ramsey goal
4 - Ramsey assist for Ozil goal

Really spreading the load amongst those 4! How long can Ramsey continue this run?

that was some sexy football with booty shaking goals

If this wasn't a game that gave chills to football fans, nothing will. That first goal was good enough to break any defense in world football. That is all.