Arsenal vs Southampton
Sat 10th Sep 15.00
Emirates Stadium
This match still feels a decade away, it’s gonna be a long wait. I always hate this period of the season, we just got things up and running and already face an international break with potential injuries to key players. For some reason it feels like more than 2 weeks.
I think we’ll do Southampton at home - who haven’t started the season well at all - I can see this being fairly comfortable in fact. I predict both Mustafi and Lucas to warm the bench, with Giroud coming back in the team. Alexis moves to the wing to replace Ox, Theo keeps his place.
First game I’m attending for a few years so I can’t wait, plus the more confident vibe around the place with the signings we’ve made. Should be a good day!
I always have a dodgy feeling when it comes to Southampton, they always seem to up their game when we play each other. For pure confidence, I’m going for a win.
I am a little bit bemused by the positivity expressed so far. It has been an evident trend in recent years that we struggle against decent opposition at home, our weaknesses were exposed long ago and teams are becoming more and more apt to adopt tactics against our style of play that a certain someone at the helm of the club is reluctant to change. So with that in mind, while Southampton have started the season poorly, we are just the kind of team they can do well against, even when they get beat by pretty much everyone else and that is an overstatement of course. So while I think it will be awhile before Southampton shake off the changes they went through this summer and pick up form, they will probably still get a result from us.