Blackburn Rovers (A)

Tuesday was a very good result. If you'd have offered me a draw I would have taken it, the defending was brilliant. Koscielny was piss poor in the first half giving the ball away and just generally playing poor. But whatever Pat Rice said at the half did the trick and he came out the second half and played a blinder as did the rest of the defence, we were throwing bodies in the way of shots and it was a real scrap, we were brilliant. It looked as if RVP's first half strike was going to be enough, but 2 minutes from the 90 Ivan Perisic scored a goal that as the commentator put it "will be number 1 if he ever makes a DVD". Top drawer nothing Szczesny could do about it. But overall a well earned point.

Blackburn pose a real threat this weekend, they are desperately in need of a win and Steve Kean is under serious pressure. Long gone are the days when this would be seen as a banker, now we need to scrap for as many points as possible. So in terms of dangerous players Blackburn have Nzonzi in the midfield, Roberts and Formica who can certainly strike a football. This said they were very lucky to get anything from the game against Fulham.

We have the return of Gervinho, Song and Frimpong all from suspension avoiding another red card would be good. I would expect to see a squad similar to the one we put out against Dortmund. Ramsey faces a late fitness test and is doubtful, Wilshere, Diaby, Squillaci and Vermaelen are all out for sure. I must admit if all goes well I'd like to see Park make his first appearance rather than bring on Chamakh who really has been poor lately. But we shall see what Wenger decides to do.

Form is with us on this one but form means nothing at the minute and we need to continue to take every game one by one and just focus on the one at our doorstep. That said I think we'll just sneak this one but it will be a hard game

Prediction: Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Arsenal