Don't think we'll smash you 4-0.

Our defence will likely include Chambers who hasn't played in a while and Holding who is low on confidence. Elneny and Wilshere will play in the middle. Walcott supporting Giroud up top but the rest of the side will be made up of youngsters mostly olaying out of position

There will be a lot more than 20k. For many the League Cup is the only chance of getting tickets - and at £10 a pop is easily affordable.

Thank you for your advice and as there is not rule against changing one's bets I'll go for 35k. However I'm sticking to 4-0 as the gulf seems much wider than when we last met and came so close.

Don, the difference between them and us now and in 2005 is probably about the same.
We were in L1 then and Arsenal finished in their usual fourth place in the PL.
Then and now their squad included International players from all over the World and Mr Wenger was in charge.
Obviously they will not play their first choice team tomorrow but they didn't back then either.
They did include two or three of their top players though and probably will this time, with a couple more on the bench just in case..........

Just going to enjoy the day with baby lanza.
Hound....did i miss your summary of the Scunthorpe game

No sir, I wasn't at the game because I was away on a golfing weekend with a bunch of mates.
By all accounts we were second best and unless DF gets this bad run sorted, I hate to say this again, but we could well be in a relegation scrap again.
As you may know, I am still not convinced that DF is as a good a manager as some people want us to believe.
In recent times, with us and others, he has averaged one point per game in L1.

Same

Well I'm more optimistic I'll go 1-1 with us to lose on penalties . Copps to score. Crowd 26626.
Re DF . Living a charmed life at the moment. Lots of poor decisions both on and off the field. Bring in 'Arry as an advisor!

3-1 arsenal

may to score

38592 spectators
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5-0 arsenal crowd 34999, sorry can't be positive at moment

I can't be positive either; 5-1 to Arsenal, May to score. Crowd 36,000

Rovers to win 1-0 Rowe scoring and the crowd being 48000

Was going for the draw but just seen arsenal have walcot girould and sanchez upfront and we are playing with a lone striker May. So can see a heavy defeat coming 6-0 crowd no idea 29999

Arsenal 5-1 Rovers sadly
May to score
Crowd 42424

4-1 Arsenal
Rowe to Score
41550

King Chomprrrr:
5-1 Arsenal
May to Score
42555

So proud of them all

3 buses got puncture all hit a bollard near groub9.
Looks like its going 2 b a long night

Got home at half past two and now at work trying to keep my eyes open, but it was worth it !!.
After twenty minutes i thought we were going to get hammered.
Sanchez was pulling all the strings - what a fantastic player he is.
However, we then put together a couple of nice passing passages of play and it seemed to settle us down a bit.
Our chances were few and far between and may almost scored just before half time.
As ridiculous as this may sound, we matched Arsenal in the second half, our play was really good and some of the passing was very composed and imaginative.
Arsenal were still top quality but their defenders made a couple of bad decisions latish on and May and Mandeville both both clear but were not fast enough to get away from unbelievably quick defenders and the chances were gone.
Blair hit the bar with a great header from a corner.
Overall this was a performance for us to be proud of and a few Arsenal fans that i spoke to afterwards were very complemantery about us.
Although we lost, it was a good night for us really.
The players all worked their socks off and i just hope there isn't a carry over into the Plymouth game with tiredness being an issue.

Nice 1 hound.
We got back to keepmoat at 4.25am.
We played so well to a man.
As you say ...can we carry that on to Plymouth

Lawlor, who allegedly cant make a save, was superb.

Yep and not only on the floor.
We are in a good position in that department with 2 good keepers

My internet has been down, but my report would have been almost identical to Hound's. It looked worrying for the first 15 minutes; we seemed mesmerised, but nevertheless got the crucial tackles in to keep them out, but then we started to be positive and grew in confidence.

As soon as I saw Marquis and Mandeville were missing form the starting 11, I assumed he'd bring them both on at half time or early in the second half and they both had that little extra bit of confidence which could have brought us a goal. I think he might have brought them both on at the same time rather than leaving Marquis till 15 minutes from the end. They looked good in that final period. However, the entire team gave 100% and the passing in the second half was excellent.

Lawlor was top class.

As Hound says it was pace, balance and movement that marked the difference between the teams and what Arsenal produced was a pleasure to watch, vaguely reminding me of what we could sometimes do under SOD.

This was a real tonic to their morale, putting in a real quality display against such a skilful force and even though we needed a fair ration of luck, it was by no means a 100% siege once we got through those first 15 minutes.

The Arsenal set-up was impressive, pre-match, half time and away supporters made to feel welcome.

The stewards were very tolerant - too tolerant really of people who would not sit down and not even take their seats, so we had to stand for 90 minutes in order to see. Amazingly too, quite a lot of them were more interested in making gestures and attempting to taunt the home support rather than watching the match right at the time when we were at our best and might have got a goal.

It was a great night and how we played was far better than I expected. Wenger was impressed and thinks we will retain our status, so all is well with the World once again.

Excellent match reviews. We did show a bit too much respect in the first half an hour but with Sanchez on form and all the Arsenal defenders being so fast it was always going to be a tall order to score goals. I enjoyed the match but I did not enjoy the charmless antics of the idiots who got on the field nor the flares merchants. When everyone is searched and patted down you have to wonder how they got them in. We were also lucky - our bus got back at 02.30!

Apologies to Liam Mandeville.
I thought it was him who went through late on but having watched the highlights it was Whiteman who dilly dallied.

That surely must put some pride back in the players minds. Let's hope we carry it on for the rest of the season. Hold your heads high boys, you deserve it