Trying ahead and slightly bit again

Morning all, welcome to a model new week.

Arsenal Girls have been in motion yesterday, coming from 3-1 all the way down to beat West Ham 4-3 in the long run. Very important factors within the WSL marketing campaign, and yow will discover the match report – together with the aim clips – and the post-game response over on Arseblog News.

Clearly now consideration turns to our Champions League tie with PSV tomorrow night time. 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 approach the supervisor thinks one of the best ways to strategy this tie is. PSV have only one win of their final six video games, so not precisely in flying kind, however the opposition and the event can do humorous issues. I assume you’d ordinarily say Arsenal are favourites, however with the problems we’ve got up entrance, it’s in all probability slightly extra even than it might 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 fact is his choices are so, so restricted till we get Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka again. So, until he’s had a brainstorming concept on the coaching floor over the weekend, put together your self for one thing similar to aspect that drew with Nottingham Forest final week, and preserve fingers crossed we will perform a little higher in entrance of aim.

Trying slightly additional forward, it’s a visit to Outdated Trafford subsequent within the Premier League, and even with Man Utd within the doldrums, the taking part in area is levelled by our personal points and lack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 attention-grabbing to have a look at the fixtures that encompass this recreation although. We’ve got our two legs in opposition to PSV to cope with, whereas United face Actual Sociedad within the Europa League.

I do surprise if, maybe, they may prioritise these video games. Which isn’t to say they received’t wish to win on Sunday or put out a massively weakened aspect, however for them the Premier League is just for satisfaction 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 automotive 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 known as Bjorn who was much more attention-grabbing than the sport itself. His fur was so comfortable! 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 eventualities that are helpful to Arsenal (it appears like we’d like all the assistance we will get proper now), however a primary leg which leaves United within the tie however with numerous work to do within the second leg could be best. It might need little affect 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 give attention to their second leg could possibly be useful. Let’s see.

Not so much else occurring proper now, so I’ll go away it there for right this moment. The podcast schedule is a bit tousled this week as a result of James is away, so we’ve moved the Arsecast Further to Wednesday for a post-PSV chat moderately than put one thing out right this moment. Nonetheless, what we’ll do is make our Patreon preview podcast accessible to everybody on the primary Arsecast feed to make sure you have one thing to hearken to. There’ll be an Arsenal Girls Arsecast a bit later too as Tim and Jamie focus on the aforementioned win over West Ham.

For now, have an excellent one, and we’ll sit up for PSV in additional depth in tomorrow’s weblog. Till then.