ConigliarosPotential said:Don't look now (at the Everton-Palace score)...
Too late. I've been looking about every two minutes for the last hour.
Huge for us if it holds up.
Edit: Mirallas claws one back.
ConigliarosPotential said:Don't look now (at the Everton-Palace score)...
With a one point lead?DennyDoyle'sBoil said:Arsenal are all but done and dusted now for top 4.
As a neutral, I think I have a bit of perspective that recent-history-traumatized, fatalistic Gooners might not. Anything can happen of course. But Arsenal have a lead, only one pursuer, and a quite dramatic schedule disparity. No more mid-week games in other competitions, and a return to health. They look no more precarious to me rhan City at this moment, and of course if City falters, Arsenal have another route to top 4. But more than that, Arsenal are a horse who knows every bump in this path, and Everton are not. Doing what they must against mid to lower table teams in April is not a position they are unfamiliar with. Seeing Tim Howard in the Champuons League would be fun, but, baring a sale, I don't think it will be in 2014-15.mikeford said:With a one point lead?
Surely you jest.
Saying that, can't be understated what a massive favor Tony Pulis has done us today.
DennyDoyle'sBoil said:if City falters, Arsenal have another route to top 4.
Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:Don't sleep on the Everton-United match this weekend. United have been in very good form for the last three weeks and are plenty motivated to beat out Spurs for the last Europa League spot. The match this weekend is really the key remaining fixture for them and they'll be better rested. I wouldn't be locking in three points for Everton there by a long, long shot.
Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:Don't sleep on the Everton-United match this weekend. United have been in very good form for the last three weeks and are plenty motivated to beat out Spurs for the last Europa League spot. The match this weekend is really the key remaining fixture for them and they'll be better rested. I wouldn't be locking in three points for Everton there by a long, long shot.
Zomp said:
I disagree. I don't think they want the extra travel.
soxfan121 said:
Did you talk yourself into it? Or, at the end of this post, were you like, "shit, I wish I believed that"?
Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:
Maybe a little of both. But have you watched them recently? Their last two league games and the Bayern matches were probably one of their best stretches of the season.
SidelineCameras said:Well Man U isn't doing us any favors, but whatever I hate rooting for them anyway and good show by Everton against Moyes.
Blundatola said:You won't be seeing any of Ben Arfa. He didn't make the trip to London due to fitness apparently. I'm recording this match, but don't expect to need to watch it this evening.
As remote as it might be, so long as the possibility of finishing third exists, I believe you have to play for it. Without the guarantee of the group stage, the team might be a little less free spending in the transfer period than it might be with a top 3 finish.sachmoney said:More importantly, it puts Arsenal in commanding position to lock up fourth place. With a win or a draw, it's ours. With an Everton loss to City (I don't know who people want to win the league here, it seems to be split between Liverpool and City overall), fourth is locked up even before kickoff on Sunday. I would anticipate that a full squad is featured Sunday regardless, with it being the last home game and all. Locking it up this weekend would be great as far as resting key players for the Cup final.
Not even the FA Cup to finally get your precious hardware?mikeford said:Nothing is more important than finishing above the scum.
Nothing.
Smiling Joe Hesketh said:Not even the FA Cup to finally get your precious hardware?
given the choice of only one and not both, I'd pick finishing above Sp*rs.Smiling Joe Hesketh said:Not even the FA Cup to finally get your precious hardware?
mikeford said:given the choice of only one and not both, I'd pick finishing above Sp*rs.
Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
I don't know you, but you're coming across as just an awful fan. My goodness.
And here I was hoping Arsenal would win the FA Cup. No longer.
Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:
He doesn't speak for all of us, or most of us from what I can tell. I just want Arsenal to succeed and don't really give a fuck about Saint Totteringham's Day. Lording it over a lesser club with fewer resources just doesn't have a lot of attraction to me.
mikeford said:Nothing is more important than finishing above the scum.
Nothing.
I'd choose FA Cup for sure. Ten year trophy drought is long enough. And we all know they will go nowhere in the CL as usual. It's nice to have the prestige (and money) of it but ultimately meaningless since they'll be drubbed out again. Give me a cup, I'm thirsty.Smiling Joe Hesketh said:Not even the FA Cup to finally get your precious hardware?