Capital One Cup - Fourth Round 29/30 October & 6 November *** Spoilers ***

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Tuesday 29

Arsenal v Chelsea, 19:45, Sky Sports 1 and Radio 5 live
Birmingham v Stoke, 19:45
Burnley v West Ham, 19:45
Leicester v Fulham, 19:45
Man Utd v Norwich, 19:45​

Wednesday 30

Newcastle v Man City, 19:45, Sky Sports 1
Spurs v Hull, 19:45​

Wednesday 6th

Sunderland v Southampton, 19:45​
 
Will Arteta serve his one-match ban on Tuesday?

Not looking forward to Newcastle v City...
 
Yes Arteta will be banned on Tuesday. Could play something like this although I suspect Wenger will stick with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

-----------------Fabianski
Jenkinson---Koscielny--Vermaelen---Monreal
Gnabry-----Frimpong----Eisfeld------Ryo
------------Bendtner----Park

Ironically I expect our league cup back four to be better than our Premiership back four :)
 
Time for us to bend over and expect the worse against Chelsea. Their squad depth is incredible compared to ours and I really can't see us getting through this one. Mata is going to have a field day :(

Edit: This is assuming that both teams rest the majority of their first 11

HangTime said:
Yes Arteta will be banned on Tuesday. Could play something like this although I suspect Wenger will stick with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

-----------------Fabianski
Jenkinson---Koscielny--Vermaelen---Monreal
Gnabry-----Frimpong----Eisfeld------Ryo
------------Bendtner----Park

Ironically I expect our league cup back four to be better than our Premiership back four :)
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I think Mertesacker will play instead of Koscielny and Rosicky will play instead of Park. Park will never play for Arsenal again lol
 
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Can't see Arsenal winning this unless we put out a strong team, which we won't. I'm not sure losing to another top team will do us any favours though.
 
Pretty much thinking we wont get past Chelsea tomo night, not sure if i will bother watching the game.

On another note, Serge Gnabry has signed a long term contract with Arsenal..good news as i think he has potential to become very very good for us.
 
We have to put out a semi-strong team as a lot of the 'youf' are injured. We'll still lose though, I think.

Speaking to Arsenal Player on Monday the boss gave a run down on the fitness of his squad:
“Zelalem is not yet available. He had a knee problem. He is back in full training but he has not played yet. He will play 45 minutes with the under-18 team later this week.
“Serge Gnabry has a problem, he got a kick on the ankle. He will be assessed tomorrow. After that we will decide who plays and who doesn’t play. I will decide [on Tuesday]. Eisfeld has a back problem.
“Frimpong is still short of competition. Isaac Hayden will be involved, Ryo and Gnabry if he’s fit.”
Confirming that he won’t appeal Arteta’s red card, the boss also touched on Mathieu Flamini’s latest problem. Having sustained concussion against Norwich the Frenchman lasted only seven minutes at Selhurst Park before picking up a groin problem.
“He has a scan today and then we will get the results as to how long he will be out. It doesn’t look like a bad muscle injury but honestly it’s too early to give you a precise answer. It’s a groin injury.”
With five midfielders out, seven if you include Abou Diaby and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, numbers are thin on the ground in the centre of the park suggesting Arsene will have no choice but to field a relatively strong line-up tomorrow evening despite a hectic schedule which takes in games against Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United in the next two weeks.
Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilshere, Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey could all be involved at some point after training today, while Nicklas Bendtner, Thomas Vermaelen, Lukasz Fabianski are expected to start.
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http://news.arseblog.com/2013/10/we...lalem/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
 
Looks to be a good round of football on paper with some interesting matches.

Really quite interested to see what Arsenal V Chelsea throws out & I'd like to see Leicester progress but I'm a fan of Jol at Fulham, I'd also enjoy seeing Southampton progress too.
 
Yas786 said:
Pretty much thinking we wont get past Chelsea tomo night, not sure if i will bother watching the game.

On another note, Serge Gnabry has signed a long term contract with Arsenal..good news as i think he has potential to become very very good for us.
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LOL
 
I dread to think what the City score will be.

We can't afford to play our first XI as we need to give our all in the league games. But at the same time, we can't pick a second XI as our depth is terrible. Really not looking forward to these next two games against City and Chelsea...
 
NeedAUsername said:
Rather see Newcastle put a proper team against City.
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I can't remember the last time we put a proper team together against anyone.

So many players playing out of position, it's a joke. Pardew's tactics are laughable to be honest.

Having said that, the big players always produce a performance against the big team, trying to put themselves in the shop window.
 
Robbo said:
Probably more the first part, that you won't watch unless you're definitely going to win. :p
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Oh right, yep again the missus has me out and about tonight so probably wont get to watch the match regardless.

Thats 2 straight Arsenal games i will have missed, might try and catch some highlights later tonight if they are showing them otherwise it will be checking my football app on my phone every few mins:p
 
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