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Me when I watch what Arsenal will do to Eddie Howe tonight

Wullie is the type of guy to follow Paul Merson on Instagram just to keep his football opinion up to date

Naive little princess. Other than Cardiff and Newcastle, the 7 other losses were the top 7 sides in the table btw. Aye Rafa did a job on the naive little princess Watch the last 20 minutes of that match when Rafa changed to 3-4-2-1 to shut Eddie out he had no awnser we could have score 4/5 on the break that match too. What do you think Aubameyang and Lacazette are going to do to them tonight?

If Kepa starts Sarri may as well give Kepa his house keys and his wife and tell the lad he doesn’t even have to pull out

Rafaball for me We don’t have to ALL fantasize over these Jokanovic and Wagner naive style managers like sheep in 2019 do we?

Eddie “9 away losses in a row conceding 24 goals and scoring just 3” Howe isn’t a wind up they are facts. Eddie Howe has nearly conceded the same as Huddersfield no one knows it because the media never talk about it that is why everyone views the likes of Eddie Howe and Wagner as modern style coaching God’s because the media don’t mock managers who can’t defend. They just sit and mock the Champions League winning manager every week that has organised his side to have the best defence behind Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea with £3million defenders instead People now just get their opinion from listening to Paul Merson these days that is why naive managers like Eddie Howe are so overrated because we have Paul Merson telling us how good he is every week while slating Rafa. Funny how the media favourites Eddie Howe, Wagner, Jokanovic all ended up having the worst defensive records 2 of the 3 went down due to their style yet they are “Playing the right way” what a load of rubbish. I said earlier on in the season it would be the reason why us, Palace and Burnley stay up and the likes of Jokanovic and Wagner go down. I also said in November who ever sacks their media loved attacking manager first out of Huddersfield and Fulham and gets Big Sam will stay up. Huddersfield decided to refuse Big Sam an interview and get another Wagner type instead while Fulham fans now want Wagner Do they BOTH not realise yet that style has took them BOTH down And the OPPOSITE has kept us and Palace up Just funny hearing posh Fulham fans want their Jokanovic “identity” back what’s that conceding 3 and 4 every game? Rafa knew best

Eddie “9 away losses in a row conceding a whopping 24 goals and scoring just 3” Howe should be a fun watch FOR the Arsenal fans tonight Only question is will it be 3, 4 or 5?

I remember thinking surely Eddie Howe has kidnapped Rafa Never seen us give a team the amount of space in behind and in front of the back 4 as that match it was like Eddie Howe had setup our lines between defence and midfield

Incorrect, as young Eddie Howe - loved by all and sundry, coasted to a to nil win at home to West Ham. Once again suggesting his moniker of Prince Eddie of Boscombe is apt. West Ham had Andy Carroll up front smarty pants easier to get away with playing open when up against the pace of Andy Carroll. You must not remember how many one v one and 2 v 1 situations West Ham got into with Arnautovic, Anderson and Hernandez against our defence. You play open against them players and give them lots of one v one situations they will beat you more often than not. They absolutely slaughtered us for opening up surely you saw that Want us to go back to 4-4-1-1 and play as open as we did against them again? Thought not.

I think we will see a massive difference from when we foolishly decided to an play game with West Ham in a 4-4-2 to the 3-4-2-1 that we will play this time at West Ham. Biggest mistake by Rafa of the season was that match having done so well in 3-4-2-1 to change back to 4-4-2 and play an open game with West Ham was absolute suicide they absolutely slaughtered us because of it. It was like Eddie Howe had kidnapped Rafa and set the team up for the match

Roughly £17M for those 3 players is tremendous business like. Love how our whole defence Lascelles, Schar, Lejuene and Dubravka cost the same as just 1 Nathan Ake While Bournemouth have conceded nearly as many as Huddersfield and only Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea have conceded less than us. Rafa

Looked like he might of gobbed in his face straight after too Very strange reaction to fouling someone.

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Thought exactly the same..he is cold as ice. Seems to have a great temperament about him Looks the real deal

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Wolves 0 shots on target against Huddersfield Bet the Wolves loving media won’t be all over that stat like they would Rafa

Rafa Given us the best Newcastle defence we have EVER seen in the Premier League

Outstanding And that is why he starts instead of Fernandez because Lascelles is the best we have at dealing with high balls into the box and complements Schar and Lejuene. Burnley just had no plan B to us having Lascelles they targeted Foyte against Spurs but Lascelles had all the awnsers for us such a rock of a performance from the captain tonight.

Brighton had as much as 68% possession and 16 shots against these in Burnley’s last away game. Hopefully with Almiron we will have to enough to break these down and beat them tonight. Just hope Heaton doesn’t have one of his superman performances that he has been having

This. I think without fresh legs we will most likely see a tight slow paced leggy performance from both sides 0 v 0 or 1 v 1.

Aye can’t see him changing back to a 4-4-2 just to get Dummett back in.

True Rafa did say about protecting his development though and not moving him too fast. I hope he plays against West Ham so he can show Rice who the all round package is

More than likely given the quick turnaround between games. Guessing Kenedy, Ki and Diame are the front runners to come in Shelvey still seems way off a start. Maybe.. Dubravka Schar Lascelles Lejuene Yedlin Kenedy Diame Ki Perez Almiron Rondon With Ritchie, Longstaff, Hayden back and fresh for West Ham away