Italian Valentine Date. AC Milan vs Arsenal Review

by @JayJaxin

Morning Gooners!

For two reasons, I was looking forward to the month of February and trust me it had nothing to do with Valentine.

One, we welcome back the Champions League and two, the NBA All-Stars game!

So after lots of booze on Vals night and a boring Barca/Leverkusen game, I’m wondering what was worse? The game or the hang over? 😐

Anyways back to what’s of interest to us Gooners, the game against AC Milan.

With our record against Italian teams looking like this;

Played 29: Won 14 | Drawn 9 | Lost 6

I’m hoping we can continue with a win tonight, and if recent history repeats itself, we should have no worries at the San Siro.

Speaking of worries, Milan have got none or so it seems, Because they have some positive team news. Players like Christian Abbiati, Alessandro Nesta, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Alexandre Pato are all back from injury and Ibrahimovic is fully rested due to a 3-match suspension on their local front after a slap to the face of Napoli defender Salvatore Aronica.

We might have some game on our hands though. Even thought their recent run has been W-L-D-L-L,  let’s hope they don’t wake from their slumber yet as most teams tend to do against Arsenal.

With no new injuries in our team except Mertesacker needing a surgery on his foot which for me makes the Center Back selection a lot easier for Wenger, I expect the starting 11 to look like;

@13Szczesny13

@Sagnaofficia @TeamKoscielny6 @T_Vermaelen05 @TeamKieranGibbs

@AlexSong @Arteta_Mikal @aaronjramsey

@TheoWalcott14 @Persie_Official @AndrArshavin23.

Also, I expect to see King Henry end his second spell at Arsenal with a goal just because i think 230 seems nicer than 229.

In other related news, The Vermanator says he knows all about Ibrahimovic from their Ajax days.  We’ll see about that, won’t we?

Wenger: 'Zlatan for Dummies' , did you guys finish the book yet?

Yeah, before I sign off quick shout out to Bacary Sagna, yesterday was his birthday. Hope his pretty wife @ludivinesagna gave him some Birthday… Whats that Jeremih’s song again?

Here’s wishing The Arsenal team a  good and injury free game.

I’m guessing this will end 1-2 in our favor. What does your crystal ball say????

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