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Saturday 8th November 2008
KO - 12:45 BST
 

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Anderson-son-son needs to play this one, bully little Cesc about the pitch...
 

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Jacob's prediction

Line-up:

-------------------------VDS---------------------
Neville-------Ferdinand-------Vidic----------Evra
Ronaldo-------Carrick------Anderson-------Park
---------------Rooney------Berbatov-----------

Score: Arsenal 2 - 2 Manchester United

Goals: Rooney, Ronaldo

Player to watch: Rooney
 

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Arsenal will be missing Adebayor for certain. Most likely Walcott and maybe Sagna as well.
 

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-------------------- Van Der Sar --------------------

--- Neville ----- Ferdinand --- Vidic --------- Evra ---

--- Ronaldo ---- Anderson --- Carrick ------- Nani ---

---------------- Rooney ---- Berbatov --------------

Subs: Kuszczak, O'Shea, Evans, Fletcher, Park, Giggs, Tevez


Anderson should play; we need power and driveto run over Fabregas and also speed to take advantage of Silvestre's errors.
 

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Arsenal will be missing a ton of players. Sagna's probably going to be fit, though - he was on the bench against Fenerbahce and stayed there.

They will, however, be missing Adebayor and Walcott and possibly Eboué. The usual casualties - Rosinjury and the gradually recovering Eduardo - remain sidelined.

van Persie is suspended after bumming Sorensen.

Do you know what this means? Plenty of width for us to exploit. Nasri and Vela could be on the wings, which I think could result in absolute carnage if we play it correct.

Of course, if we take Liverpool as an example and stick Anderson and Rooney on the wings, we will be very unhappy indeed.
 

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When is Scholes supposed to be fit? Miss him badly
 

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Jacob's prediction

Line-up:

-------------------------VDS---------------------
Neville-------Ferdinand-------Vidic----------Evra
Ronaldo-------Carrick------Anderson-------Nani
---------------Rooney------Berbatov-----------

Score: Arsenal 2 - 2 Manchester United

Goals: Rooney, Ronaldo

Player to watch: Rooney
That was last season mate, even the line-up is the same (exception of Berbatov & GNev)
 

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It worked didn't it? A soft last-minute goal conceded to take our win away
No, no, not disagreeing, good line-up and one that could be effective. Anderson needs to bully that queer Cesc and we need to attack the wings, would like to see Nani go to the byline rather than come in inside and feck up as he does oh-so constantly....
 

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VDS

Wes
Rio
Vida
Evra

Ronnie
Carrick
Anderson
Park

Rooney
Berbatov

Subs: PIG, Nevlle, Fletcher, Oshea, Giggs, Tevez, Nani

Score: Arsenal 1 - United 2

Scorers: Rooney, Ronaldo
 

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gallas might be fit for this .. tweet went off injured tonight
 

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Team should be...

GK: VDS

RB: Brown
CB: Ferdinand
CB: Vidic
LB: Evra

RM: Ronaldo
CM: Carrick
CM: Anderson
LM: Park

CF: Rooney
CF: Berbatov

Subs: PIG, Neville, Evans, Fletcher, Giggs, Nani, Tevez

They'll be no late goals for them this time, 1-2 Berbatov and Tevez from the bench.
 

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Silvestre major doubt, suspected broken nose.
 

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Anderson will start on saturday, Evra got abit of a rest tonight which he has looked like he has needed in the past few games.

Im thinking the starting line up will be something like this:

VDS
Brown Rio Vidic Evra
Ronaldo Anderson Fletch Park
Berbatov Rooney
 

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I'd go for

--------------------- VDS -------------------
Neville ----- Rio --------- Vidic ------- Evra
Ronaldo --- Carrick ---- Anderson --- Nani
------------ Berbatov --- Rooney -----------
 

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For those putting Brown in their line-ups, Fergie said he might be out for a few weeks with the ankle knock.

Time will tell though.
 

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Fletcher, Anderson and Carrick will probably start in midfield.
Ronaldo, Berbatov and Rooney attacking players.
 

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3rd time lucky

Bets are going on a late Arsenal goal.
 

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Ronaldo's free kicks are shit, O'shea is shit, Da Silva is shit, Berbatov finishing is shit, Tevez is shit, our defence is fecking shit, and we are missing too many chances.

Can't see us winning this with all this problems.
 

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United are due a great performance hopefully it is today
 

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Ronaldo's free kicks are shit, O'shea is shit, Da Silva is shit, Berbatov finishing is shit, Tevez is shit, our defence is fecking shit, and we are missing too many chances.

Can't see us winning this with all this problems.
well you're a barrell of laughs aren't you
 

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-------------------------VDS---------------------
Neville-------Ferdinand-------Vidic----------Evra
Ronaldo-------Carrick------Anderson-------Park
---------------Rooney------Berbatov-----------

Can't help thinking we'll play a 4-3-3 but I'm not sure who would play up front.

Seems a bit odd that Ronaldo played tonight, I thought he'd have been one of the ones to get a rest too. Makes me think he might not be playing and we'll have all three strikers playing up front with Fletcher in for Park.
 

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I'm worryingly confident going into this match, just like I was before we played the Scousers at Anfield.

This scares me.
 

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I am pretty sure you guys will win this. But im hoping for a great much all the same. As long as we put up a fight and make it interesting. I will always be devastated just after a loss. Going down the coast for the weekend and i have been phoning all pubs and clubs to find out whos playing it, so far i have someone open to 1am, with telecast starting at 11:30 i think thats half an hour too short. We emailed the owner of the pub and asked if we could have special consideration :P
 

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---------Vds----------
Nev----Rio--Vidic---Evra
---Carrick--Anderson---
Ronaldo--Rooney--Park/Nani
-------Berbatov--------

Arsenal should be worried by their attacking options with Rvp and Adebayor certainly out and Walcott a major doubt. I fully expect it to be a tough match, but if we manage to keep solid at the back, they will have problems beating us.
 
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I'm worryingly confident going into this match, just like I was before we played the Scousers at Anfield.

This scares me.
It should. Arsenal always manage to give us a tough game no matter their circumstances. Im not taking anything for granted despite them having a longer injury list than us at the moment.

They will no doubt be looking to prove they play The Worlds Best Football™ against us. They could certainly outscore us if we give them too much possession. So we will need to mix things up and play with a level of work rate, physicality and directness that they cant match.
 

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Vds

Neville
Rio
Vidic
Evra

Carrick
Fletcher
Anderson

Rooney
Ronaldo
Berbatov

1-1 with a late jammy draw from Arsenal. We can't afford to slip up, but I feel we will.
 

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looks like silvestre broke his nose, so who do they have left in defence?

Toure??

we should rip them a new one, but i'm starting to get worried about our rubbishnes when berbatov and rooney do not start.
 

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looks like silvestre broke his nose, so who do they have left in defence?

Toure??

we should rip them a new one, but i'm starting to get worried about our rubbishnes when berbatov and rooney do not start.
Toure, Djourou

Fabregas played with a broken nose but i think its a bit different for a defender.
 

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So no Van Persie, Adebayor or Walcott.

Are we going to see a Vela, Bendtner partnership?