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Arsenal fans get the result they deserve

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I did not go last night.

It had nothing to do with it being a dead rubber in Europe’s second tier competition. Instead I went to see an Oasis tribute act at Alexandra Palace. They were average.

Looking at the result and reading some reports, Arsenal were well worth their 6 goals to nothing result. The fans who turned up to watch the Arsenal got the victory and performance they deserved.

I imagine a lot will be written today by the media about the missing Arsenal fans last night.

The club released an official attendance figure of 54,648. As everyone knows, this is the figure of sold tickets, rather than fans through the turnstiles. Fans like myself, with a season ticket who had pre-paid for yesterdays game but did not turn up, are included in that figure of 54,648.

Anyone who has seen any pictures of the game yesterday – or watched on TV, will see that the figure was no where near the 54,648 mark. The ground was barely half full.

The media will use this to bash Arsenal. Like always they will ignore that Spurs, who won the Record Premier League Attendance Trophy earlier this season, played in front of a half full Wembley on Wednesday for their dead rubber in the Champions League.

But enough about attendances.

I have not seen the game last night, so I do not know about the performance, but at 6-0, the fans who did get themselves out on a cold Thursday night in a meaningless game at least got a decent result to cheer on.

Unlike the bore-draw against Belgrade a few weeks ago, Arsenal stuck 6 past BATE Borisov.

Reading through social media, Jack Wilshere comes in for a lot of praise, and everyone seems to be back on the Wilshere needs to start bandwagon.

As I discussed last time we beat BATE back in September, there is a big difference between performing against the likes of the Belarusian farmers, Doncaster and Norwich, and being Premier League ready.

Wilshere has blown hot and cold in the performances this season, and a 2nd start in 3 days against Southampton will be premature for the wannabe figure skater.

We are more likely to see him start in the consecutive mid week games against West Ham – one in the league, one in the Copacabana Cup.

With Arsenal set to play 7 games between now and New Years Eve, the squad will need to be used to its fullest and Jack will get his chance to show that he is Premier League ready.

I am off to hide in the meeting room after just 3 hours sleep last night. Have a good one

Keenos

10 reasons why Arsenal will beat BATE Borisov + Starting XI

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  1. Even though Arsenal have little to play for, much of the starting XI are playing for their futures
  2. Except for Theo Walcott, who is playing for a move to Everton
  3. BATE Borisov have so far won just 1 of their 5 Europa League games THIS CAMPAIGN
  4. Arsenal beat BATE Borisov in 4-2 in Belarus, without getting out for 2nd gear
  5. BATE Borisov’s have yet to win an away game this season in The Europa League. Their last away game in the competition finished in a 5-2 defeat at Koln
  6. In fact, in 20 European group stage games, BATE Borisov have won just 3 away games
  7. The bookmakers have Arsenal 2/5 favourites to win
  8. Alexander Hleb is the greatest BATE Borisov player of all time. Alexander Hleb
  9. The Belarusian league finished on November 26th. BATE Borisov won. Their players would have spent the last week and a half on the Krynitsa
  10. BATE stands for Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics. We are literally playing a team of farmers

Predicted Arsenal starting XI:

Ospina

Chambers Debuchy Holding

Nelson Willock Elneny Maitland-Niles

Wilshere Iwobi

Giroud

Keenos

Does anyone care that Arsenal are playing tonight?

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Genuinely, is anyone really that bothered that Arsenal are playing tonight?

We are already guaranteed to go through top of group in the Europa League. We are playing a bunch of Bulgarian (or somewhere in Eastern Europe) farmers who will probably do a shift on a building site in London today- or they would if they had CSCS.

Whilst BATA Borislav do have something to play for – 1 point splits the three awful teams in our group, from an Arsenal point of view, it is a meaningless game.

Occasionally when we play these sort of dead rubbers, the excitement is that we will get to see a few of the youngster who we have been hearing about. But we have been playing the likes of Ainsley Naitland-Miles and Reiss Nelson throughout the group stages. So there is little excitement surrounding these players.

Arsene Wenger could pull a rabbit out of the hat and play a complete XI of youth players, but the reality is the likes of Per Mertesacker, Mathieu Debuchy, Mo Elneny, Jack Wilshere and Olivier Giroud will start.

The game is expected to be the lowest ever attendance at the Emirates. I would be surprised if there are more than 40,000 people at the game. 30,000 would be my nearer estimate.

I myself am not going. Liam Gallagher is playing at Ally Pally Thursday night and I am going to that.

No one wants my ticket. Not even for free.

It is the type of game where you have to think the club need to do something about the ticketing. Even though mine is just £15.0 so price is not the problem, the demand is not there. Maybe the club give season ticket holders the option to donate and those tickets can go to the clubs foundation partners, such as the Willow Foundation, or to local schools.

My hope is that Arsenal do put on a performance, score 5 or 6 goals, make it worthwhile for the fans who have got themselves out of their warm abode. Do not do a repeat of Red Star Belgrade. A dull 0-0 in the freezing cold.

Personally, I m buzzing for LG.

Keenos