Arsenal

[Daley]

Apparently he's gone off at half time with a knock.

[wev]

Apparently he's gone off at half time with a knock.

On the coaches door from Fergie?

[Lucky]

Is seems Diaby isn't broken & he's even 50-50 for Saturday. Can't see him being risked though, especially with his track record and the games now coming thick and fast, CL in midweek and City next week for starters.

Giroud is fine and will surely join the 'open your scoring account against Southampton club' which has some pretty impressive members, as was mentioned in the last page or two.

[The Fox]

Alleged team changes: Gervinho comes in for Giroud, with Podolski moving up front. Coquelin in for Diaby. Szczesny in for Mannone.

[The Fox]

Team is as I posted, but Gervinho appears to be playing up front. He looked alright there in pre season so we'll see how it goes.

[KRP]

Cazorla and Podolski are linking up well.

[The Fox]

Yeah some of their interplay has been great in the last couple of games.

BOOM

Keeper should have got to that tbh, nowhere near the corner. Still makes a nice change to have a left-footed player score a free-kick

[toythatkills]

3-0, Arteta to Gervinho. Everyone getting involved!

This team, you guys.

4-0!

[KRP]

I was just about to say I couldn't see Gerv scoring..

[humdrum]

Gervinho and another own goal make it 4-0

[humdrum]

Is giroud on the bench? Never mind just seen a shot of the bench,

Would be nice to see him come on and grab a goal.

Actually that a fairly strong bench, got to be one of the strongest I can remember us having in a while.

[The Fox]

Giroud is on the bench yeah. As for it being strong, I agree, and yet we're missing Wilshere, Rosicky, Sagna and Diaby.

edit: fuck me, bring back Don Vito! Jesus

[Mars]

Bloody hell, Chesney

[The Fox]

Good half, just let it slip a bit at the end. Sloppy defending leading up to a howler from Szczesny. Wenger and especially Bould looked furious.

[toythatkills]

I dunno how much more patience Wenger's gonna have with him.

Really disappointed that there's no clean sheet, four in a row would have been stunning.

[Rev]

The part-exchange deal of getting rid of "Was there an international match?" RVP and bringing in O/G is genius. He was massive for United a couple of seasons ago and he's on a rich vein of form today already.

EDIT: I am aware Giroud spoils this joke a bit.

[KRP]

Yep, he has making mistakes more and more regularly. That should have been routine.

[toythatkills]

Yep, he has making mistakes more and more regularly. That should have been routine.

He seems to have had "potential" for years, but he's just not getting any better. He's obviously a cool guy and he's funny, but at some point I think we're going to have to accept that he might just not be good enough.

[Rocafella]

Gutted about their goal, awful from Wojech. Can't really complain though.

We've been fantastic today and Southampton don't know what to do. You could see it coming from the start though, as they're trying to park the bus, but they don't know how.

[Rev]

He had a few moments last season, but his Euro experience must have been a killer for his confidence. He hasn't seemed like the sort of person to give into that so easily, but...Yeah. Not a great return to the team.

[KRP]

He's still young, maybe he would benefit from being an understudy to someone with more experience.

[humdrum]

I'm a actually finding myself irrationally upset that we conceded, especially as we where 4 - 0 up at the time

[Rev]

We're trying to give away another at the moment as well.

[toythatkills]

We're trying to give away another at the moment as well.

Nice foresight

[Mars]

Giroud's coming on

[Petrousgyre]

Brilliant from Ramsey. Never thought I'd say this but I could we have Vito back in goal.

[Rev]

Nice foresight

Just because we didn't manage it doesn't mean we weren't trying!

[Silent Runner]

edit: fuck me, bring back Don Vito! Jesus

Brilliant from Ramsey. Never thought I'd say this but I could we have Vito back in goal.

Seriously though, Don Vito didn't do anything wrong in his 2 games. I wonder if there was any doubt about Chez automatically starting when he was fit? Chez looks well suspect.

[Mars]

Fenton's been a bit poo.

EDIT: lol

[hercules]

Very good result today, shame about conceding. U could see the whole crowd go ape shit as it was such a routine catch. We do look better as a team defending and if not for szczesny it would've been another clean sheet. He needs to be careful and by no means be comfortable as no1