Hello and how are you? Sunday the 25th of January sees the Mighty Cannon play host to Manchester United. KO at the Emirates is at 4.30pm local time. Expected weather is partly cloudy with temps at 7° ( feels like 1°) with 30% chance of rain.
So suddenly United are being ( in some areas) touted as a club with Lazarian qualities, a club that will save the PL from the dreaded Arsenal and bring back the title to the red side of Manchester, which as we know is the only place it really belongs, at least in the media/pundit heart. Well we shall see.
Hincapie and Calafiori were both back in training for the Cannon, but young Gun Dowman is still out of action. So almost a full squad for Arsenal.
Mazraoui is back from the Africa Cup of nations, however Matthijs de Ligt and Joshua Zirkzee are missing for United.
I walked into Statto HQ and while they argued about the finer points of coding in HTML they gave me the match predictions: Arsenal have a 61.1% chance of victory through harmony, while United have a 16.5%. Next up, another CL clash, this time against Kairat at the Emirates. So COYG!
Mills
A couple of weeks ago this fixture would have been considered a gimme, Not so much now? The old “new manager bounce” is in full cry, I mean this new manager is “unbeaten”. Players that United fans well calling useless are now being touted as world beaters, A spirit that was broken is now said to be back to the real United. Mmm. Ok.
I hope they cone here brim full of confidence and have a right go atus, because if they do, in an open game, we should batter them. Shooting boots on lads , leys have a clasic display, because the media keep suggesting we will get jittery in the run in, this is an opportunity to kick that into touch.
Enjoy the game.
Pedantic George.