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flying out tuesday from glasgow, hoping to find plenty of pubs that have decided to ignore the alcohol ban and proceed to watch Roma 0 Arsenal 2 (walcott and eduardo)- that'd be class
hope we c the following line up (though i knoe we wont)
almunia
sagna
gallas
toure
clichy
walcott
diaby
denilson
nasri
van persie
eduardo
wenger will probably start his son on the right, play song in a 5 man midfield, with van persie up front alone. i feel were better going at roma, that sitting back trying 2 hit them on the break. walcott may only last 60 mins, but id rather have 60 of him, than 60 of our headless chicken no.27.
eboue should play....frightened the life out of roma in the 1st leg and is playing well, confidence is up and then we got walcott to vcome on if the game aint goin to plan and when roma are getting tired
btw i'm so excited and terrified at the same time. roma could turn up and woop us, it could be a bore draw (fine with me), we could turn on the heat, or it could be very close. i have no idea anymore. but thats why i love champions league more than anything. hopefully we qualify next season or i may cry.
Apparently Cicinho pulled up in training yesterday as well and chance are will be out of Wed too. They're dropping like flies.
Arsenal's Champions League opponents Roma are facing an injury crisis of their own ahead of Wednesday's encounter and could be without as many as half-a-dozen first-team regulars.
While the Gunners have been buoyed by the return of Eduardo and Theo Walcott against Burnley in the FA Cup on Sunday, the Italians suffered setback after setback at the weekend.
Already deprived of injury victims Simone Perrotta and Marco Cassetti, full-back Cicinho became the latest casualty when he suffered an apparently season-ending knee injury in training.