As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna will be out for at least three weeks due to the ankle injury he suffered at Chelsea.
Sagna headed Arsenal in front at Stamford Bridge last Sunday before collecting the knock prior to Didier Drogba's double for the Blues.
The defender was forced to pull out of the France squad to face England on Wednesday night and could even be out for up to five weeks.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger told the club's official website: "He has an ankle injury and the first news that we have is that he could be out for quite a while.
This was bloody predictable! As if we hadn't had enough bad luck recently the minute he went off on Sunday I got that sinking feeling and sure enough as he limped toward the bench they got their equaliser.
The fact his injury came in the immediate aftermath of that crunt Terry's masterclass in sportsmanship (hoofing the ball off near our corner flag after we'd stopped our break for cole's non-injury) just sums it all up!!
That is bad, he is been one of our most consistent players this season. Not sure about his potential replacements, Hoyte and Eboue. Hoyte got loads of opportunities last season but in this season, he's hardly played and doesn't look good enough for use. As for Eboue Let's see if he is better at right-back than at right-wing. If he isn't then what is the point of keeping him?
RocastleRock wrote:Not sure about all this West Ham loving you got going on K a r e l ..
We've no West Ham fans on my forum, we've put them all in cages
This will give Wenger the excuse he needs to not drop either Toure or Gallas on Saturday. I expect Toure to move to right-back with Big Phil at centre-half.
dvbrisgooner1 wrote:This will give Wenger the excuse he needs to not drop either Toure or Gallas on Saturday. I expect Toure to move to right-back with Big Phil at centre-half.
The more I think about it the more I am inclined to go along with this move cos at least with swiss phil we will have someone at the back that might be able to cope with long hoof ball bolton The thing about the other option is that it makes you think that if eboue wasnt good enough in that position for wenger then how confident will he or his team-mates be if he was put back there - note I said nothing about how it would affect the fans confidence in eboue
Only concern I do have though is that it generally takes senderos a few games to back into stride and god knows how dropping him recently has affected his confidence
dvbrisgooner1 wrote:This will give Wenger the excuse he needs to not drop either Toure or Gallas on Saturday. I expect Toure to move to right-back with Big Phil at centre-half.
The more I think about it the more I am inclined to go along with this move cos at least with swiss phil we will have someone at the back that might be able to cope with long hoof ball bolton The thing about the other option is that it makes you think that if eboue wasnt good enough in that position for wenger then how confident will he or his team-mates be if he was put back there - note I said nothing about how it would affect the fans confidence in eboue
Only concern I do have though is that it generally takes senderos a few games to back into stride and god knows how dropping him recently has affected his confidence
Can't argue with that. I'd also bring Lehmann back as (quite apart from the fact he's better than Almunia) I think he organises the defence well and Senderos seems to be a lot calmer with Jens behind him.
augie wrote:Only concern I do have though is that it generally takes senderos a few games to back into stride and god knows how dropping him recently has affected his confidence
hes only bin out the side wat 3 games shouldnt take to long, with bolton likely to play long ball bollox hes positioning isnt really gona have to be great
Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna will be out for at least three weeks due to the ankle injury he suffered at Chelsea. 
good boy.
