Eh, I’m not so sure.
Emery’s Aston Villa has become our bogey team now fuelled by Martinez’ vendetta against us.
Combine that with our injury crisis and our extremely shakey form, I am not looking forward to this at all.
A loss here and City go top, and we’ll only be 1 point ahead of Villa in 3rd place. We could easily be third by the end of the next game week if this match goes wrong and finally kills off our lucky streak.
We’re at home and we’re largely over our injury crisis. Havertz and Timber are close to a return. Villa have a thread bare squad and a couple of key players suspended.
We have to be winning this. Villa are also going to be coming into their second London fixture in a row. We’re entering our third consecutive home game.
There is no excuse
Fuck me, cheer up a bit. We have won all but one game at home this season, which we drew.
Cristo has a wall up mentally that rivals the Berlin Wall 
I think we’ll actually NEED to do it if we want to get the 3 points.
Emery is good when the game gets a bit chaotic.
Very worried ahead of this, but if we use the quality and the size of our squad we are the firm favourites.
Now I’m thinking whether I’d start Merino up front
Gabriel + Martinelli + Jesus to start. They come as a combo
Our record against the top 10 this season is around 50% win rate, it’s not awful but could be much better. Also Emery has Mikel’s number unfortunately.
Hope he proves me wrong.
Got tickets for this one - 4-0 Arsenal!!
Everything you’ve just described is part of it for me - playing games with these stakes as opposed to the interminable shitters in a struggle not to finish 8th is infinitely more exciting and engaging.
I obviously have my doubts and I picked City to win the league but lately I think we have probably been more unlucky than lucky. Last two games we should have won quite easily. Add that to our large number of injuries as well.
We were dire against Wolves though, for sure.
If this happens one of them is getting subbed off after 20mins with a 3month injury.
Our entire season balances on what will happen first
In true Arsenal trolling dark arts style, I want us to come from behind to win this one with a set piece and an own goal.
2-1 to The Arsenal.
Please win lads
how is this game 19 of the season (which is the half way point) but we haven’t played every team once yet
Happens basically every season
Yeah December always has two close home and away rounds
Evening game at home under the lights, with so much at stake, and having a chance to take revenge. Surely the team will be really fired up for this.
Liverpool on the 8th aswell. What a few weeks for us
I hate playing against Villa.
If you think about it, I think just about EVERY game we played them since Emery got there was so chaotic, it could have gone to both sides… It’s like a roulette.
We just can’t control games against them. We have some good periods, but then they cut through us and all of a sudden it looks very different.
I don’t think ever had a proper full top performance against Emery, even in those games we won. We had some better performances against City or Liverpool in the past years than any of the games against these cunts.
Already quite nervous ahead of this… Wouldn’t mind a convicing 3:0 for a change. 
Yeah, that’d be great.