Leicester at home 14th 1200

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markyp
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oh dear,lunch time kick off against a team playing high tempo with plenty of pace,been here before haven't we,i cant see anything but a bumming,leicester will be out of sight before weve even realised the games kicked off, 1-3 im afraid and not to us :shock:

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when we won at Leicester earlier in the season one criticism of Leicester city was the fact they played into Arsenal's hand by being open and trying to match Arsenal with football. Leicester have come a long way since then in terms of closing down the opposition. This game is set up better for them than Arsenal , they can soak up pressure , not that I am expecting an Arsenal bombardment , and also have the quality to hurt.
Fear for this game , sadly think it will be an away win.

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Leicester win hopefully

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I think we'll beat them

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I don't think we'll beat them at all, they're up there on merit (+ good injury fortune) and I think they'll have too much energy and pace on the break for us. Would rather be playing them on their own ground.

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They are going to have us for a nice Sunday brunch. Unless we get a win, I hope they go on and win it. This shit, boring league needs a shake up.

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I'm more confident for this game with Alexis, Gabriel and Coquelin all hopefully starting (with Flamini and Mertesacker on the bench) but expecting a draw. When we played them away they seemed to struggle against Theo's pace and it may be another end to end game as they play on the counter so even though he's off form I'd probably start him ahead of Giroud.

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Hmmm I wonder how this will go after todays cocking :oops: of the cherries.. :rubchin: They have a manager who gets the absolute last drop of blood sweat and tears from his team...we have le bumhole....we will probably get bumholed :cry:

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City win.
They'll play their butts off for one another and we'll stroll about thinking we have the devine right to win.

They will start at a cracking pace. We will do our usual let's try and keep it tight in the first half and we'll be undone.
Leicester, quite rightly will show us no respect and will be out of sight before we have even woken up. Please let Bouldy handle the tactics for this one. It's the only hope we have got.

1-3 Leicester (0-3 at half time).

Total Wenger cock up on the cards.

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I actually think we're going to give Leicester a bit of a pasting here......4-1 wouldn't surprise me. When I look at the teams that have done a job on us at our place it's rarely a team that plays as openly and as attackingly as Leicester. Chelsea and Saints did their usual sit deep, break up the play and hit on the break, as did the Shammers on day 1.

I think the game will be like the one at their place. After they dicked City they will come full of confidence and try to play us off the park - big mistake as we'll pick open the gaps and have some of our creative running directly at the likes of Morgan and Huth.

Absolutely 100% confident of a win

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I think we can win, and with City and Spurs playing, we simply have to win to take advantage.

I had no idea why Coquelin didnt start against Bournemouth, however Coquelin simply has to play this week. Before he got injured we were playing great football. We are a different team with an inform Coquelin. Wenger is delusional if he thinks Flamini is in form and warrants to keep his place. He is a disaster waiting to happen and should have been sent off for that two footed tackle. Hopefully Wenger picked Flamini on the basis Coquelin is just lacking a little bit of fitness, because if not, its a unforced tactical error of judgement by Wenger.

I said wins against Bournemouth and Leicester would put us in a great position going forward, and its one down and one to go. We are closer to the league title than some would think, and a win this week will be a giant leap forward.

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GULP! :shock:

Walcott or Vardy ???? :? :? :? :cry:
I think Vardy's predicting 10 - 0 :shock: :shock:

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It will be a great match, but Steveo is spot on. We play much better against open playing sides, and comfortably won away.

This will be closer- 3-2 (I hope)

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I think we can do it if we can get in and around the centre halfs. They'll play deep and try to stifle us, hoping to take advantage of the massive gaps we always leave.

Really could go either way.

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GoonerN5 wrote:Leicester win hopefully
Why ?
Too many idiots here trying to be "made right" rather than wanting to win .

I derive no satisfaction from the fact the club are *word censored* and the manager is an arse ,I still want us to win !

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