Happy Independence Day Nigeria. We love you regardless.
We Love Arsenal too. Tonight, we play our first home match in the UCL against a strong Napoli side. They are unbeaten in the Serie A and have had a good start to the season as have we. Gonzalo Higuain comes to the Emirates for the second time since his move to The Arsenal failed. We played Napoli in the Emirates cup and though it was a pre-season match, it wasn't easy by any means. They were 2 nil up before we fought back to draw the match through Koscielny and Giroud. A careful look at this Napoli side and you know they have many very good players in Hamsik, Insigne, Higuain, Inler, Callejon, Reina and so on. Mesut Ozil welcomed his former team mates but apologised for having no presents for them...please, do them the honour of receiving your first Goal, Mesut.
Team news: Rosicky is back in the squad and should start the match IMO. Looking at the players who have had to start on the wings due to injury issues, I'd say he should have a shot at replacing Wilshere or Gnabry on one side of the field of play.
The Manager has said it's like an obsession wanting to add the UCL to his CV which is a good thing for us. I hope the desire and willingness to follow up with action is also instilled in the players enough. The Likes of Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Man City? (duh???) Have teams good enough to win the UCL. That doesn't stop other teams from pulling off upsets and getting a chance to hold the trophy. Dortmund came close with a carefully built rather than bought team. We are in a group hard enough to start with which has Dortmund in it. A win tonight will give us a mighty advantage albeit a home match because it puts the pressure on the other teams. Hopefully Giroud will get a post birthday goal and Ramsey continues his rich form in front of goal.
Let's do the rest on twitter tonight. #COYG #ARSNAP #AFC
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