Fulham (A)

Happy New Year and who would have expected that? Man United, Chelsea and Man City losing, Tottenham drawing and us winning. Well maybe not the last part but still a good weekend for Arsenal none the less. Its just a shame that we couldn't win last week otherwise we'd be 4 points clear of Chelsea, but that's life and all that. Fulham away tonight and a game that is difficult to call. Fulham are all over the place this season and we nearly got turned over by them in the reverse of this fixture, yet their results have been poor.

Luckily for us Zamora won't be playing after his link with a few PL clubs so they've lost that threat but have others in the form of Dembele, Dempsey, Johnson etc. So the defence will be given a run around and talking of defence we've suffered yet another injury, this time to Vermaelen who was playing at full back. I swear at the moment our full back position is cursed, so I would assume we'll see Miquel? maybe?? Who knows.

Anyway the rest of the team managed to scrape past QPR unscathed so I would expect a similar team to start. Unless we get an extension granted by the Ivory Coast team this could be the last time we see Gervinho especially baring in mind the next game is Leeds in the FA Cup and Arsene does like to take risks with these sorts of games. A potential banana skin there but more on that at the weekend. 

Today will be a tough game I'm sure but add another 3 points and we're looking good. Short and sweet today, more to come throughout the week.

Prediction: Fulham 0-1 Arsenal