It’ll be good to see Bellerin and Chamberlain as wing backs, it might work in our favour.
Certainly for Chamberlain, who is in a good bit of form.
Although a few pre season games trying them out in those positions would have been preferable to a Cup Final against the best team in the PL.
I just hope Mertesacker doesn’t play, he really would be a weak link.
The fact we are clear underdogs might also work in our favour.
Please win it, to stop Chelsea winning the double and Terry getting another winners medal.
Or last. Dunno tbh, penalties in the end are luck of the draw, so he’s probably just been unlucky/maybe not quite as spry as he was before. Still, I wouldn’t buy the logic that he’s naturally bad at penalties and although I’m not sure there’s really actually that much factor other than luck (see: Fabianski in 2014) in penalties (unless you just kinda stand there like Oblak did, or have the weird thing Szczesny did with basically losing any chance of saving a decent penalty by moving to one side before the other before it was corrected), I’d probably take Cech over Ospina in a penalty shootout.
Mainly just felt like reminding how majestic he was in that tournament. One of the main reasons Chelsea swindled that CL.
Still haven’t decided if I’m gonna watch it. I’m supposed to be locked in to other plans and though it’s no big deal to just arrive a couple hrs late after the game I will feel pretty stupid once the likely happens and Chelsea start dominating/our football makes me want to engage in self-flagellation. But I kinda feel like I’d have to renounce my status as an Arsenal fan if I don’t watch it?
Im digging at the bottom of my hope barrel for this one. It’s like everything in the universe is working against us coming into this match. Red cards, injuries, concussions, who’s the ref… is it Mike Dean?
Just gotta watch, support the team and pray for 90 minutes. Stranger things have happened. Fucking COYG.
I’m actually really gutted because I start work tomorrow at 6pm which is around the time this game kicks off, going to have to record it and watch it later on (which will not be the same as I will already know the result) and I won’t get the same live emotions during the game, so annoyed really