Inter - Arsenal (6 Nov 24) [1-0]

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In an ideal world he would've played a heavily rotated squad against Venezia.. but apparently these spastics can barely be trusted to beat the 17th placed side at home anymore.

We've got an international break after Napoli anyway. These games against big names like the English sides are a chance to make a statement and where repute comes into the equation. Limone should rotate minimally for the next two matches and just gun the first team hard.

Fucking Darmian at LWB is just taking the absolute piss. Playing for a draw. Playing not to lose. By definition, loser shit.
 

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You guys keep thinking we live in ideal world, guess what we don't lol. If we did, wed have better players coming off the bench and none of our starters are injured. Our full squad barely beat Venezia and you guys expect us to rotate against them? Lol
 

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yeah im pretty pissed theres no Dimarco or Barella. Where is our attack going to go through? Frattesi is not a creative mid at all and Darmian-Dumfries there is zero creativity on the wing. Seems like were conceding possession already. If Bastoni is injured and you have to play Bisseck I get using Darmian but at least put Barella in the game. Frattesi against Arsenal is not a good fit.
 

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It's a possible lineup not official lol.

If it was real, Frattesi can score goals, that's why he plays him. Maybe if Barella wasn't allergic to scoring he'd play. And none of our strikers can score either so there's that. Without Frattesi we're playing for a 0-0.

It might be smarter to try and keep a cleen sheet until 65' and then introduce Frattesi since he's the only goal-scoring threat though.

Not sure what would be the ratio behind Darmian's starting since he shied away from scoring too against City and backheeled the ball like a pussy. Maybe that disallowed goal vs Empoli gave an idea to Simone that Darmian can score too lol.
 

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For people in their 30s Arsenal was a very popular pick in here during our childhoods due to Wenger and the great team he had built in late 90s-early 2000s. The bullying i had received at school after that 1-5 loss 😭
Ah man, i watched that in a busy London pub. Was awful!
 

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Ah man, i watched that in a busy London pub. Was awful!
Cuper trashed them 3-0 at the Highbury. Then Moratti sacked him and we managed to crash out of the group with Zaccheroni after winning the first two games with Cuper. Cuper was bad in the league for 7-8 games and that was enough for Moratti to sack him. I'd rather Cuper stayed until December at least since he knew how to play in Europe and brought us two semi-finals. He wouldn't have been eliminated from the group like Zaccheroni and certainly wouldn't lose 5-1 to fucking arsenal at home.
 

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This has all the making's for a juicy game, excited for this.

Saying this, following it from the UK, I will have to see replay's of the 5-1 thumping over, over and over and over and over again and hear about it pre game, during game and post game. Sound that.
 

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In an ideal world he would've played a heavily rotated squad against Venezia.. but apparently these spastics can barely be trusted to beat the 17th placed side at home anymore.

We've got an international break after Napoli anyway. These games against big names like the English sides are a chance to make a statement and where repute comes into the equation. Limone should rotate minimally for the next two matches and just gun the first team hard.

Fucking Darmian at LWB is just taking the absolute piss. Playing for a draw. Playing not to lose. By definition, loser shit.
watch Darmian score tomorrow
 

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I have always thought that their 'famous' 5-1 win over us was a fluke. We had a mental collapse in the last 10 minutes of the game for whatever reason.

One more thing that I always find funny is how their fans & the English pundits hail that win as a famous & glorious moment for their club. Dude, that was the BEST Arsenal team ever playing against one of the worst Inter teams in history. We were a fucking joke that season, losing to the likes of Brescia, Empoli, and Udinese at home. I also remember us getting absolutely destroyed by Roma that season. The actual result was actually 6-1 or 7-1 or something. The referee did us a favour in that game by incorrectly disallowing a few Roma goals to save us from a further more embarrassing score line.
 

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I have always thought that their 'famous' 5-1 win over us was a fluke. We had a mental collapse in the last 10 minutes of the game for whatever reason.

It was a fluke. We had a PK just before they scored their 3rd and half the team was complaining to the ref..
Then we just switched off.
It was a poor performance and team morale was low at the time, many injuries, so that didn't help.

One more thing that I always find funny is how their fans & the English pundits hail that win as a famous & glorious moment for their club. Dude, that was the BEST Arsenal team ever playing against one of the worst Inter teams in history. We were a fucking joke that season, losing to the likes of Brescia, Empoli, and Udinese at home. I also remember us getting absolutely destroyed by Roma that season. The actual result was actually 6-1 or 7-1 or something. The referee did us a favour in that game by incorrectly disallowing a few Roma goals to save us from a further more embarrassing score line.

Yeah, that game vs Roma... Collina was the ref iirc and VAR wouldn't have let us get away with just 4 :lol:
 

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And we had already changed to coach during that autumn from Cuper (4-4-2 guy) to Zaccheroni (3-5-2 guy).
 

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This should have been a blockbuster game IMO, but it looks like it might be a dry affair. No Rice and Calafiori, plus a barely recovered Odegaard, vs a heavily rotated Inter.
 

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Saying this, following it from the UK, I will have to see replay's of the 5-1 thumping over, over and over and over and over again and hear about it pre game, during game and post game. Sound that.
You should do what I'm doing and just go watch it in the stadium. You're not getting me in Milan, Tesco Woosh ads!
 

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Would be on 10 points with 4 games to go.

Leipzig is complete dog shit, Monaco and Sparta all winnable too. The only real threat is Leverkusen.

So lets see which Inter turns up. Coz we have seen alot of bad versions this season.
 

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Some famous wins on the continent today.

Sporting destroyed the mighty Man City, while Milan showed all their 7CL DNA to outplay Real Madrid in the Bernabeu - while we lost all 4 games against Madrid in 2020-21.

Huge performances from these teams to make a bold statement and give themselves a massive confidence boost.

Meanwhile Inzaghi: Darmian at LWB
 
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