Arsenal are a team who feed on confidence and on the back of comfortable away wins against Man City and Newcastle within the last week, confidence should be the one thing we're not short of.
We bring our confidence back home this weekend and invite the troubled West Ham to join it. The Hammers are sitting on the bottom of the table and have only won one game in the league this year (quite humorously against Spurs) and considering our recent form I'm pretty sure they will not be looking forward to the trip.
Fabianski will return in goal and Koscielny should have done enough to regain his place in the centre of defense alongside Squillaci. Gibbs is out injured so Wenger's mini dilemma of who should be our regular left back can take a back foot with Clichy keeping his spot.
Alex Song recently came out explaining his ridiculous hair style, giving the credit to his girlfriend who told him there were too many players with dreadlocks and he should try something different, personally I think that's a cover a story and the truth is Wenger grabbed him by his legs and shoved his head down a recently bleached toilet and threatened to keep it there until he agreed to stop his pointless forward runs, Alex refused to agree and Wenger gave in to his losing battle once the hair turned white. Whatever really happened may actually be a good thing as his pointless forward runs are starting to produce an end product and against teams like West Ham he'll have the opportunity to continue adding to his goal and assist tallies.
Fabregas has built up game time over the last week and should now be ready to pull all our strings again and work his magic from the midfield, the question is who will be the third member of our midfield? Nasri has been outstanding recently and fully deserves a place in the team but with Walcott back, will it be a straight battle for the attacking spot or will Wenger move Nasri back into the centre of the park? I hope Nasri ends up playing next to Fabregas because that combo makes me stupidly excited.
Bendtner has come back in great form but I feel it's still to early in his return for him to start today so Chamakh should keep his place and Arshavin should return.
Goonerfish's lineup:
Sagna - Kocsielny - Squillaci - Clichy
Song
Fabregas (c) - Nasri
Walcott - Arshavin
Chamakh
Score Arsenal 4 - 0 West Ham
Today should be a comfortable game for a team over flowing with confidence, as long as that confidence doesn't turn into complacency but I think our players will have learnt that lesson from the West Brom game.
I fancy Walcott and Fabregas to get on the score sheet again today in a game should again give us all that feel good factor for the weekend.
Till next time,
Goonerfish.
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