We now have a run of games where we need to keep the pressure on Tottenham and Chelsea who rather conveniently play each other this weekend. I personally think the winner will end up 4th, but we shall see. Its really one of those games where any result works for us depending on how you look at it. Chelsea win, it pegs Tottenham back, Tottenham win it pegs Chelsea back and a draw gives us the opportunity to make some ground up on both of them. Of course this only applies if we beat Aston Villa.
Villa are a team who we always seem to have a problem with, they were the first team we played at the Emirates and it was a 1-1 draw. Aside from the cup comeback earlier in the season, they seem to have a decent run against us at home. But this season they have been all over the place and currently sit 15th. On top of that Darren Bent is out for the season (thank god) as is Fabian Delph, so hopefully we can turn it on and get 3 more points. Team news is pretty similar to Wednesday, I would expect a similar team to start but I have my suspicions that Ramsey may fall back to the bench given his poor run of form at the moment.
So Aston Villa, players to watch for are obviously Agbonlahor, Petrov, Ireland and N'Zogbia. They can be dangerous going forward but at the back they lack pace and I think that's where we'll get in behind them, its the sort of game where if Walcott plays as we know he can, he'll have a good game. The momentum that we have at the moment is great, we just need to keep it up.
Now I'm sure some of you are aware that we don't exactly have the best relationship with Villa fans, mainly because they're all wankers, but hopefully there's a good turn out and we really make some noise. COGY!
Prediction: Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa
