A small way to make up for this season

Beating Arsenal tomorrow.

Yep, sounds a pretty mental thing to say in our current form but if there's a team I have wanted to beat the most since we have been in the Premier League, it's these lot.

We've beaten Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs (twice) but the closest we have ever come to winning against Arsenal is the draw we got on boxing day, with Steven Fletcher getting the equaliser.

In fact that game summed up why I really do hate Arsenal. Like two years previously, we had a man sent off for the reaction of the Arsenal fans and players. Had Nenad Milijas made that tackle in the following game against Bolton, he would have barely had a foul given against him.

Most importantly though, it's who the majority of my friends support down south here in London. You can imagine the stick I've got over the years!

On to the game, I'm crapping myself. We've seen since Connor took over how vulnerable we are to a team who can pass the ball well, being picked apart by Fulham and Man United in humiliating thrashings.

So how do we set up for this one?

We've gone 442 in the last three outings and taken the lead in all of themm butd then gone onto lose them. I'm convinced that in this game we will go back to one up top, with two wingers and three central midfielders.

I expect that lone striker to be Steven Fletcher, but I'm hoping it will be Kevin Doyle. 'Fletch' has been anonymous in recent games and if he'd been more livelier, perhaps we could have done better in them. He's a class footballer but he's looked like his mind is somewhere else, unsurprisingly. Doyle I think would bring a bit more energy up front and perhaps more chance of holding onto the ball.

In midfield I think we will go with a trio of David Davis, Karl Henry and David Edwards. Doesn't sound very exciting, but I think it's the best we can go with. Edwards has come in for a lot of stick lately, but I think he's been performing well. He's given us movement in the middle and the desire to win the ball back. With him advanced and Davis and Henry holding, it gives our two wingers license to attack more. And if we are to have any chance of getting anything at all it will be from Kightly and Jarvis, our best two players lately.

I can see TC going with this:

Hennessey

Zubar
Stearman
Bassong
Ward

Kightly
Davis
Edwards
Henry
Jarvis

Fletcher

Anything less than three or four is a bonus, as I can really see us getting torn apart. We need to keep ourselves in the game and have a go at the centre backs, because without Koscielny they are certainly weaker at the back. Let's hope the City game on Sunday took a lot out of them!