David Luiz injured for Arsenal. There goes Dundalk's best chance of an Arsenal slip-up on Thursday :P
I think if they can keep them down to a four goal margin, that's a decent enough result. ('Them' being Arsenal - not Dundalk).
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Dundalk getting the name change in!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Arsenal have spent the last 10 yrs being the ultimate flat track bullies, but predictably fall assunder when their weak mindset is exposed.
This game could be a cricket score, unless dundalk show bravery to attack whenever possible.
If I was the dundalk coach I personally wouldn't play shields as he will get filleted against arsenal, but I'm sure the dundalk fans will disagree.
Agreed. However, Shields is likely their best DM/CM, though some would say Slogett. Alot of recruitment needed next year if they are to be near a group stage again. All that being said, it should be easy street for Arsenal tonight. You never know though, as you've alluded to, Arsenal are famously crap at putting small teams away. The 3-3 vs Osterunds (sp?) a few years back being a good example.
Will Gunnersyrus get a game? I want a pic of Chris Shields with him. ;-)
At minimum I hope the lads learn from playing at this level, I hope also that a hammering wont damage confidence in general terms for Sunday. A big maybe is that they will play with such free abandon that they give a good account of themselves. Having said that even Barcelona have shipped cricket scores of recent....
Arsenal as expected playing about as weak a team as possible -
Runarsson
Cedric
Mustafi
Kolasinac
Maitland-Niles
Willock
Elneny
Xhaka
Pepe
Nketiah
Nelson
Subs - Leon, Hein, Bellerin, Gabriel, Tierney, Ceballos, Partey, William, Saka, Aubameyang, Lacazette, Balogun
Austrian teams doing well this week... showing some ambition.
Obv United put 5 past a decent german side so hopefully Arsenal wont take inspiration from that :S
Respectable start for Dundalk midway through the first half.
Rogers with a bit of a brain fart passing a goal kick inside his six-yard box with two Arsenal players lurking, but other than that, Arsenal haven't created much yet.
Arsenal really starting to look dangerous though
Mountney with a couple of bad unforced errors there. Hoofed a cross over the endline unoppossed and miscontrolled a ball out of play. McEleney and Murray looking comfortable on the ball. Shields less so.
Gary Rogers, eh?
Shocked, so I am.
Pity they couldn't hold on until HT, even that would have been a boost.
And another now, giving the ball away and getting punished again.
True. Brian Kerr with an honest analysis of the first half. It was probably a bit silly that Gartland took the quick free instead of slowing the game down.
Still tho 42% possession is a lot higher than I'd have predicted. Fair play!
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