Morning all, hope you had a fine weekend. Mine was perfectly acceptable if not particularly inspiring. But what can you do?
It’s Reading tonight and we seem to have had all the build-up over the last two or three days leaving little to talk about this morning. I suppose we could speculate about the line-up but I predict a 4-4-2 with Adebayor and Eduardo up front. The rest picks itself. We’re off top spot in the league at the moment with United winning yesterday but the boss isn’t too worried, saying:
We have two games in hand going into the match at Reading so I will not go overboard about losing our place at the top. While we are top we have the luxury of looking just at our own results without worrying how other teams are doing. But after two draws it is important to get back to winning.
Quite so. You can’t really argue with the draws against United and Liverpool but three points are a must tonight. It will be hard work because Reading are a decent enough side with players that will make life difficult for us, and they’ll be trying to avoid the same kind of result as last season.
Manuel Almunia will continue in goal ahead of Jens Lehmann. The German turned 38 on Saturday but AW says he doesn’t want any ‘presents’, although I’m sure if the boss gave him his place back he’d prefer that to a pair of Dunnes Stores socks and a box of fudge. There’s now just over 6 weeks until the transfer window opens and the boss has hinted there’s time to win his place back but if Almunia keeps performing as well as he has then there’s little hope for him. We’ll see what happens.
Speaking of Almunia the Spaniard has suggested Arsenal will show aggression against Reading. He says:
We are used to playing fantastic football, moving the ball and passing the ball. At Reading, we maybe have to change a bit and be aggressive in our game.
No reason why we can’t play fantastic football and be aggressive. Certainly there’s nothing better than a beautiful, flowing move which leaves the opposition on the floor holding their throats after a series of Ju-jitsu chops to the neck. Hiiiiiya!
As this game is on Setanta it means I will have to go to the pub to watch it. That means I may have to drink a few beers as well. Sometimes life is just one chore after another, isn’t it?
Tresor Mputu? I don’t think they have a cure for that yet.
Sorry there’s not much else to talk about this morning but there you go. More tomorrow and come on you reeeeeeeds.
