Birmingham VS Arsenal
Venue : St. Andrews Stadium
KOT : 4PM Local Time
Referee : Monsieur Howard Webb

9th placed Birmingham host Arsenal in a game which sees both sides going all the way to secure maximum points. Arsenal are fresh off a nail-biting 2-0 win over rivals West Ham Utd, picking up maximum points from their last 6 games and look to do more damage,as well as mounting serious pressure on Man United & Chelsea.

Arsenal will be without 1st choice CB pairing Thomas Vermaelen (Suspension), William Gallas (Recovering from injury), But Big Sol could start this one alongside Song or Silvestre  . The midfield looks very much the same with Cesc, Denilson/Song/Diaby.Strikers Nicklas Bendtner or Eduardo could lead the Arsenal attack, with Arshavin/Rozzy/TW/Nasri on the flanks.

Alex McLeish's side are enjoying top-flight football, sit comfortably in the middle of the table and have picked 7 points from their last 6 games & will be looking to grab at least a precious point against Arsenal.


Let's have your predicitons.

1-4 to the Arsenal

Birmingham 0 Arsenal 2

Birmingham 2 Arsenal 3

Birmingham 2 Arsenal 3

4 sure 5 goals

Arsenal defence nor dey inspire confidence at all.

3-2 to Birmingham. A jerome's brace will do the harm.

Go Gunners.

@ edoyad,pls don't remind me about that wicked TV5 red card & D shaky defence,but AW should be able to conjure a formation & game plan that should give Arsenal the 3 points available

I feel AW might play Song/Campbell in defence (and keep Silvestre just incase Sol can't do 90mins), then play Denilson just in front of them to provide additional cover.

Birmingham 0 Arsenal 1

Another three points down the kitty no shaking gunners!

saviola77:

1-3 arsenal
i seriously hope disastre silvestre is not fielded for this one, if he is, i see piquionne having a field day.

*Death*

saviola77:

1-3 arsenal
i seriously hope disastre silvestre is not fielded for this one, if he is, i see piquionne having a field day.

jerome rather,   

Assanal boys will win, for sure

edoyad:

Arsenal defence nor dey inspire confidence at all.

Gives me high blood pressure!

slap1:

Gives me high blood pressure!

[img][/img]Arrggggg Birmingham ,this is the time to avenge what happende on our last visit to this stadium on 28 Feb last year

^^^
One thing is very difinite,we're leaving St Andrews with the max 3 points in our red and white Gooner bag

Potential banana skin for the gone-ers

1-3 in favour of arsenal

Arsenal 3- Birmingham 0. IN WENGER WE TRUST.

Diaby's dribbling just needs the final touch for him to become megastar material. I hope he can reach that level this season staring with B'ham.

Dat is what makes me money. Considering the present arsenal form, Bleep birmingham. Ars 3 bir 1

edoyad:

Diaby's dribbling just needs the final touch for him to become megastar material. I hope he can reach that level this season staring with B'ham.

'Are u see what I saw?'

B'ham aint like when the season started but playin at home could be tricky. With Sol/Mikel/song potential partnership, I see a score draw.

Go Gunners, don't lose the game

Tkb

we dont need a scummie's blessings now!

Thankx sir!

The line up. . .

Birmingham: Hart, Carr, Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Gardner, Ferguson, Bowyer, Fahey, Jerome, McFadden.
Subs: Taylor, Larsson, Phillips, Benitez, Michel, Parnaby, Vignal.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Campbell, Diaby, Clichy, Denilson, Song, Walcott, Fabregas, Rosicky, Bendtner.
Subs: Fabianski, Nasri, Eduardo, Vela, Arshavin, Eboue, Traore.

Arshavin and Eboue are both on the bench.Also good news Silvestre is not in the starting 11.Lets just pray Sol pulls through so we wouldn't have agent Silvestre against Messi et al.

Suffice to state that in our run-ins,this particular match with our journey to Ewood parks are the matches i think are most difficult.I pray we win.

Surprising formation. . . .while I was suspecting Arshavin to be benched, I envisaged Eboue starting instead of Walcott.

Lots of attacking potential on the bench though. . . .I dare say minus RVP, this is the strongest attacking bench we've had all season.

Worrying is the FACT that there is no CB on the bench,what if anything happens to any of our CB?