Morning all, welcome to a model new week.
Arsenal Ladies had been in motion yesterday, coming from 3-1 all the way down to beat West Ham 4-3 ultimately. Important factors within the WSL marketing campaign, and you will discover the match report – together with the objective clips – and the post-game response over on Arseblog Information.
Clearly now consideration turns to our Champions League tie with PSV tomorrow evening. Mikel Arteta received’t be holding his pre-game press convention till this night, and I don’t suppose there’s going to be a lot in the best way of crew information. At this level, all we will hope for is that we don’t have any extra points, and that everybody we at the moment have stays wholesome.
Then it’s about how we arrange, and what manner the supervisor thinks the easiest way to strategy this tie is. PSV have only one win of their final six video games, so not precisely in flying type, however the opposition and the event can do humorous issues. I suppose you’ll ordinarily say Arsenal are favourites, however with the problems we’ve got up entrance, it’s most likely a little bit extra even than it could be.
We’ll hear extra from the supervisor later, I can’t think about he’s going to be too open about his plans, and the truth is his choices are so, so restricted till we get Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka again. So, until he’s had a brainstorming thought on the coaching floor over the weekend, put together your self for one thing similar to facet that drew with Nottingham Forest final week, and preserve fingers crossed we will do some higher in entrance of objective.
Trying a little bit additional forward, it’s a visit to Previous Trafford subsequent within the Premier League, and even with Man Utd within the doldrums, the taking part in area is levelled by our personal points and lack of attacking availability. It’s fascinating to take a look at the fixtures that encompass this recreation although. We now have our two legs in opposition to PSV to take care of, whereas United face Actual Sociedad within the Europa League.
I do marvel if, maybe, they could prioritise these video games. Which isn’t to say they received’t wish to win on Sunday or put out a massively weakened facet, however for them the Premier League is just for pleasure now. If they need European soccer subsequent season (and so they’ll want it or Sir Jimmy will lay off one other couple of hundred folks and make them actual eat stale crusts and gruel from a van within the automobile park), then the Europa League is now their solely pathway to that.
They went out of the FA Cup yesterday to Fulham. I watched a little bit of that in a pub, however I used to be distracted by a 3 month previous Bernese Mountain Canine pet referred to as Bjorn who was way more fascinating than the sport itself. His fur was so smooth! After which I checked out Bruno Fernandes and I guess his scraggeldy beard stuff is just like the bristles on an previous broom. Anyway, the FA was one other avenue to Europe which is now gone, so it’s all in on the Europa League for them.
I realise I’m attempting to dream up situations that are useful to Arsenal (it seems like we’d like all the assistance we will get proper now), however a primary leg which leaves United within the tie however with plenty of work to do within the second leg could be preferrred. It might need little influence on our recreation on Sunday, however maybe if there are crew choice choices that must be prioritised for one recreation over the opposite, United having to deal with their second leg might be useful. Let’s see.
Not lots else happening proper now, so I’ll depart it there for at present. The podcast schedule is a bit tousled this week as a result of James is away, so we’ve moved the Arsecast Additional to Wednesday for a post-PSV chat reasonably than put one thing out at present. Nevertheless, what we’ll do is make our Patreon preview podcast obtainable to everybody on the principle Arsecast feed to make sure you have one thing to take heed to. There’ll be an Arsenal Ladies Arsecast a bit later too as Tim and Jamie focus on the aforementioned win over West Ham.
For now, have a superb one, and we’ll sit up for PSV in additional depth in tomorrow’s weblog. Till then.
