If we win the Premier League BUILD Arteta a statue! | Man City vs Arsenal Preview FT @Gooner_Lee

I guess push right back Charlie. People deluded I'm back again. Come on Ian. Boy and with an introduction like that there's nothing more to be said. People deluded I'm back again. I've got my good friend Guna Lee here addressing the elephant in the room which is City vs Arsenal. So yeah, what you saying my guy? We've got a lot to go over still in this opening. Listen man, listen bro. It's going to be a crazy weekend boys. If we're going to be a good next weekend going into the next couple of games it's going to be a sticky one bro. Yeah, we're going to chalk it up man. Like you said there, before we get into the nitty gritty of City obviously international break's done. We've got bare fixtures in April. How do you feel man? There's some difficult games, some difficult grounds. There's not no margin for error. This is what we asked for, no? It is, it is. But you just wanted, it's a hard one. I kind of didn't want the international break because you kind of wanted to go into the Man City game. Do you know what? I'm also wanting the Chelsea game to be done. But obviously they're not in the FA Cup no more. So they're in the FA Cup. So obviously we had to move that game. But yeah, listen. For me I think, I know it's that famous old saying but I think you have to just take game by game. I really do think that because I don't think you can kind of say yeah, well one player's going to play in this game. I think you've got to just play your best team and whoever's fit for the next game, play them. Because in this time of the season, it's crunch time. You know the famous saying from Sir Alex Ferguson, squeaky bum time. And it really is. I don't know about that. We can say squeaky bum time. I don't know what that is. Are you talking to yourself still? I don't know. Maybe that's over them side there. We don't do that. I don't know what's going on over there, man. I don't know what's in the water, bro. Yo, yo, yo. It's crazy. Macho's all right, man. She's cool, man. She's all right still. But yeah, yeah. But no, for real though, man. It's going to be really tough. To say certain players can play certain games, I just think you've just got to play. And I think it'll be less training and more games just focused on that. And that's it, really. Let me stop you there, yeah. Because I don't think you're wrong. Obviously, I believe in... It's a difficult one where I'm not Arteta, innit? You could play the same team. If something goes left against City, you know, we might be... For instance, we might be saying, keep the team the same. We don't beat City. We're sitting here and saying, maybe this could have happened. That could have happened. Hindsight and all of that. I remember Mikel Arteta said, we've got one of the Finnish squads. And me and you have both seen the fixture calendar list. There's no margin for error. The games are coming thick and fast. But do you think this is the time, not necessarily to make wholesale changes, but he needs to be cute and clever and rotate where he can because we've got Luton as well. So yeah, where are you at with that, man? Because many people counteract that. I think you kind of just hit the nail on the head. I think you've just got to be cute and clever. There's certain games, if you're 2-0 up, you're 70 minutes gone, and you know you're in control, it's a risk. But take players off. You've got five subs for a reason. Take players off. At Luton, I'm not going to say that you look down on your opposition, but you might want to change a few players. Or if you say, you know what, I'm going to play the strongest team and you rotate heavily in the second half if we're 3-0 up, for example, and you hope that the players can see it out. This is the game, or these are the kind of games where you want to put Timba in if he's fit and ready. You want to give Tomi a few minutes. Give Partey minutes. You want to give players to maybe on the periphery or on the outside or the rotational players a chance. Hey, Zeus, he needs to get minutes. Listen, I don't like him at all. I think he's a horrible footballer, but someone like Eddie, you know, the fact that we brought him on... That is true. Bro, forget Eddie. The likes of Martinelli, whoever it is that's not had enough minutes. ESR. Nelson and then Mandip. Ron! Smith-Roperies! Holy-holy! It's a change. Listen, even someone like ESR is effective. My thing has always been, and you know this, I've never said that ESR's not the quality like that. I don't think he's amazing, but it's just the fact that... He is, he is. I used to play like that at the Emirates. But my point has always been more so like... You've been consistent on your Smith-Roperies. I've never said, oh, he's dead. I'm just more like, no, we need to calm down. The manager's going off one and a half season of him playing good, and that's my thing. But someone like him can make a difference in the squad and in the team and do something different. So listen, let's see if he can come off the left, or let's see if he can come on the left eight row instead of Trossard, for example. So there are opportunities for players and there's going to be, you know, games where these guys can come in and be the finishers in the squad, both for games. So yeah, there's plenty of games, man. So I think you're right. Arteta just has to be cute with it. What's your immediate thoughts in relation to City-Arsenal-Denman? Because it's like, it's a madness. Bro, you see my thing with the Arsenal fans, yeah. Bro, people are going crazy with it. They're like, yeah, I want the full team. I want this, that and the other. Bro, if I see Walker out, if I see Stones out, I'm celebrating, bro. I don't need to sit here and have anybody justifying to me, oh, yeah, we beat them. If we do win, if we win, and they're not, they ain't got their full squad, oh, it's because of that. We didn't have ours when we beat Liverpool and City. Nonsense. Bad times. Last season, Partey out. Tommy Yasui was on right back. We didn't have Ben White, I think it was. Bro, there's bad times. Last season, Saliba, how many times have we gone into big games and we're always crying? This season, we may not have Martinelli. So, listen, man, I don't care. Going away. Didn't have Saka against City last time, actually, to end your point. There you go. We didn't have Saka. Obviously, you have her since start. Some people don't rate him fine, whatever, but listen, for me, I just think that, and I don't think Partey played either. listen, I think all Spurs fans are going a bit crazy with it. I think you have to remember who you're playing up against. We're playing up against a treble-winning team. Big dogs in this. Bro, they're not here to play games, man, and I think that we can beat them. I'm not sitting here saying that I'm mad shook, but it's going to be a difficult game, man, and if we win it, I'm not going crazy. I'm going to, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm on your wave. I'm not going to go crazy with it, bro, because I think we've got so many other hard games. I don't look at the league table, bro. Listen, we've got so many other hard games away from home. Oh, that's a lie, because you looked at it last week, but anyway. No, I think it was AI, man, it was AI. Listen, listen, don't make me have to pull up the videos, bro, because the videos are dead, bro. Ain't no editing, brother. Ain't no editing, man. That was the first time, Wallahi, that was the first time I ever looked at the league table, still. That was crazy, bro. I don't know what Arsenal have been doing to be top. Madness. If you didn't know, Arsenal are top of the league, still. Last season, we were top for time, so I just need to see that in May if I'm honest with you. But no, for real, man, I just think it's going to be a tough game and I think if we win, I don't want to go crazy with it because we've got Man Utd away and I think they're going to try and ruin the party in Spurs away. Listen, it's only, I think, on Saturday, it's a week until we play Brighton away. Bro, that is not an easy game, bro. So, yeah, I think... Three games in ten days, essentially. Yeah, yeah. And then the week after that, we've got Champions League, so I'm not going crazy with it at all, man. I'm not going crazy. Do you think these things can come back to haunt us because I can't remember the numbers and that, but I think in the space of when we're going into the North London Derby, we would have played like four games and I think they've got 13, 14, 15 days off. I think it's 15. See, even that, basically two weeks or two weeks in a day. Do you think that can haunt us or is that actually a benefit because many people say Spurs will be fresh. Other people say we could be, you know, we could have momentum. Does this period and these things, again, going back to what Arteta said about a thin squad, do these things make you nervous? Well, it depends if you believe him if he says we've got a thin squad. I don't think we've got a thin squad. I think we've got a squad that can handle most of these games. I do think we've got a thin squad in the sense of the absolute top 14, 15 players, all of them being absolute quality but I don't think we've got a thin squad. We've got two left-backs. So we've got three left-backs. We've got, what, two right-backs. We've got three centre-backs. We've got two keepers of good quality. We've got how many midfielders? We've just spoken about Eassar that he doesn't get to play. Fabio Vieira is back. We've got Odegaard. We've got Partey. We've got Jorginho. We've got Rice. That's a bunch of players. How many men did you say? And again, big them up for being fit. How many men are they going to stay fit for? That's what I'm saying. Right now, I'm seeing all of them fit. The only one I know is Martinelli. Timba is actually back. He's been training since February. Tommy Astley has played in the warm-up against QPR. So has Partey. Listen, man. Hey, Zeus, I don't know if you're going to chat about it today. I just saw a news article about it. Literally, I was a bit late because I was actually just wearing up from upstairs. But as I saw it, I saw something pop up on my phone about he wants to play a big role in the title. He's fit and firing. So listen, man. That's news to me and you said that at the right time. Where did you see it? I'm going to tag you in it now. I literally saw it as I was coming upstairs. It was from the sun, isn't it? No, it wasn't from the sun. But my point is though, that we've got bare players, man. We do have bare players and I know you're saying that they're not always fit. I hear you. But right now, at this very moment, the only player that we know that looks to be... Oh, it is the sun. Sorry, it is the sun. Yeah, Jordan Davis. The only player that looks to be out, confirmed like that, is Martinelli. So how can we... And if you've got a man like, hey, Zeus, coming out saying certain things like he wants to be the player to, you know, play a major role as you can see on the screen, we have to take a man at his word. I mean, this is the same guy that said he wanted to come in and be the number nine and he's been terrible in terms of goal scoring. We've done him dirty but you're right. But my point is is that he's... This is... You can only... you know how it is, bro. You have to take a man's word for what he says. Yeah, yeah. That's all you can do. like for me, I'm just saying that we've got enough I feel to play most of these games. Yes, I don't think we've got the absolute 100% quality to go far in everything. So Champions League we might fall a bit short but we've got enough, man. We've got enough and we've got to just go to these games with confidence. I think that's what it is. And again, as you keep speaking about and you've spoken about the rotation. I think you're bang on the money and for me, you know what, to be fair, you are right. I am kind of, you know, scaremongering and I've been bitten a number of times paused by Arsenal. I am expecting injuries and all of those sort of things. But for me, I like that from Gabriel Jesus. You know, I know he said the whole goal scoring thing but I do think he's a big game player. I do think he's someone to be counted on. I do think people kind of forget and obviously no two games are the same and all of those things but he put in an effing shift when we beat City. So I'm looking at it that you're at the Etihad. You saw what happened to us last season. Could this be one where you make the difference? And it's kind of on brand that you mentioned that because as you said, Martinelli might be a doubt. There's rumours about Saka, Big Gabriel and Martinelli. I'm not a physio but I think Big Gabriel will be there. I think Saka will be there. Martinelli's been out for a while so I don't know. Many people point towards Trossart starting which I've got no issues with. Trossart's a good player but assuming that left-hand side that Martinelli's not involved, bro, are you starting Jesus? Because for me, I think Jesus has to start. I'm not removing Havertz because I think and I would go with Havertz up front and whatnot but I think this is a game for Jesus. I'm not going to cap, man. Especially because he helps defensively and Big Up Kirio, he's been doing his thing but that's a battle out there with an informed Phil Foulden or something of that ilk so he helps out in that regard, man. I'm not sure. It's tough. You know what? I am because I do like Trossart. I know. Listen, last week we did a show with Jess and I said, look, Trossart, I would sell him. Not because he's not good. Shout out to Jess, man. She was emotional. Yeah, yeah. Not because I don't like him. I think he's a quality player but I just feel like he's somebody who you can get money for and we can kind of reinvest somewhere else in the squad but I just don't see him as a left winger and I don't know if he's someone who starts a game against that high intensity team like Man City so I think he's probably by default the player that has to go there. Now, do I think he will play? No, because I think Trossart will play. He's the first person up in that position and people are going to say I'm crazy. People are going to say I'm flip-flopping but I'd probably rather even play ESR there. I know what ESR has. Oh, that's a shout. To me first, we've all done it off the left. That's my point. I don't know how to go back that one. Bro, I know what he's done there though, man and that's my thing. I know what he's done there. I saw him against two seasons ago against Aston Villa, against Spurs. He scored a goal. He has played off the left and he's done quite well so I'm not going to sit here and say he can't do it. It's just about can you do it for 90 minutes and I don't know if he played against QPR but you know, this is a squad game, man and that's what it's about. I think for me, look, Jesus is probably the best option to play off the left. We saw what he did at home. He played off the right because it was he was played no, yeah, he was. He played off the right. He did. He played off the right and Ketia played up front and that's what it was. Yeah, yeah. And then obviously Havertz came on with Martinelli on the left. Okay, cool. Makes sense. But yeah, no. For me, I think you're I think you've got it spot on. I think Jesus is he's the best option. He's got the skill. He knows how Man City play. I think he can get in between those spaces. Obviously the finish The moments we bought you for. There you go. Not just him. Zinchenko to a degree Declan Rice Havertz even. All the guys that come to this football club with a degree of well-rounded experience, man. So I think you're right still. Yeah, yeah. So it's listen, it's going to be tough and obviously as well the other part of it is if Man City are playing certain players like Walker's not playing or John Stones is playing not playing, sorry. Then it kind of I think the manager will think, okay, well I can get this player in there to negate against that or whatever it is. So listen, it's going to be tough. It's going to be a tough game. I think the players have to put it all out on the pitch. And hopefully obviously we come out winners, man. How do you feel about Rodri and Kevin De Bruyne? Because I think all the talk with the game at the Emirates was there's no Rodri blah, blah, blah and he's a great player but they miss Kevin De Bruyne. I do think there is a correlation between him not being there and us kind of keeping Harlem quiet. Now, big up Gabriel and Saliba they've done it at Wembley done at the Emirates. I'm not taking anything away but they're going to be back, man. And these are two big boy footballers. Well, I think the bigger player is Rodri. I think if Rodri doesn't play I think we've got the chances of us winning go up exponentially, man. I think the fact that those that guy because it's not only the tracking back it's not only those naughty little fouls and giveaways that he does it's not only breaking up the play it's the finishing, bro. The guy's clutch, bro. He's a villain. We've seen it against us. Against us? What was it? Two seasons ago? January? Yeah. Bro, and he came on like he was a World Cup, bro. I'm like, bro, calm down. Where's some irrelevance? The celebration has burned me. Yeah, bro. I'm like, bro, calm down a bit. But anyway, listen fair play, he scored the goal and that's his villain arc, innit? But I don't know, man. I think if you've got no Rodri you've got such a big chance to win the game. De Bruyne we know what De Bruyne is, man. He's going down as a Premier League goal. He's going down as one of the best players in the position. Him, he's in that cluster with Gerrard Lampard Bergkamp if you want to put him in that kind of number 10 role et cetera. But I think for me Rodri's the guy, man. If you especially with no Stones possibly I think he's the guy that you have to stop. And it's I mean this is going to lead into my next point. This is why I would play party. Oh, this is why I like the way you structure your sentences because it ties into what I was going to ask you. Like you just alluded to it that you play party. Me personally I'm fighting the demons and it's one where I'm happy I'm not Mikel Ortega, bro because my natural bias is Odegaard, Rice, party. That's amazing. Take nothing away from Jorginho because I think Jorginho is better in these games than in the North London Derby. But why would you start party? Is he necessarily fit enough for the duration of this? Listen, as I said I'm going to keep saying it. It's a squad game. Juvio could start the game. I'm not saying he has to finish it. He ain't got to finish the game. Jesus could start the game. I'm not saying he has to finish it. Listen, we saw against I know it was a bit different because obviously he was unwell but we saw against Sheffield United we were 5-0 up at half time he made subs. This is what it's about and you're right going back to your point I think Ortega has to be cute he has to be cute with these players because really and truly it's not about just this one game. Let's say the worst case scenario we lose. Bro, we've got to think about the next game. We can't do what we did last season where we dropped points against Liverpool then we dropped points in the next game and then we dropped points in the next game. We can't do that. So I think for me I'm more worried about the fact of losing players but I think from what we saw last season we need legs around those two midfielders because last season when we played them away obviously we hold them played and he got spun like a donut again on the halfway line but I'm more worried about just the midfield I don't want to be overrun I don't want to have all that pressure on Declan Rice thinking he's got to do everything man that's why I'm putting Havertz and Jesus because of the work rate and I know when you think of a team like City whether he has a good game or bad game Kyrgios has been doing what he's doing but that's just where I'm worried because as you know City they you know the play might be on the right hand side players on the other side are making certain movements and then it's the player that you can't even see on the TV that makes the difference so it's a techy one man and I go back to I don't remember the game because it feels like we've played City so many times but I want to say it's the game you spoke about with Rob Holden was it Kevin De Bruyne I think it was Kevin De Bruyne and after the game he was saying something along the lines of when Pep was saying let them go and do that you just stay there and capitalise on that and that's where I'm looking at it where is this game going to be won and lost what is it saying what do you make of it as a whole then as well because it's techy I think I'll ask you a question in a second but I think for me I'm more worried about Jorginho playing isn't my problem it's Jorginho if he loses the ball we know he's a fantastic player he's got all the guile he's got all the skill his range of passing is second to none but there are so many things where I'm just thinking if you lose the ball your legs it's not to say you're slow it's to say you're 33 years old and you can't track back the way that De Bruyne can track back But they're good at that kind of thing Yo that's crazy Yo who's editing this sh!t bro I'm not lying man there needs to be a pause on all football related talk just a universal one That's crazy still but my point that I'll say really. They're good at pressing, innit? They're good at pressing. So, I think they're going to earmark the likes of Jorginho. As good as he is on the ball, I'm just scared if he loses it, I don't want to have him in here. Bro, I'm shook. Even though we've got Gabriel Magalhaes, sorry, and Saliba back, sorry, I'm just not, I'm not wanting to see his man running at our defence like that, bro. I don't want to see that, man. That's just scaring. So, I would rather have two monsters in there, in Declan Rice and Partey, however long he can kind of play the game for, whether it's 50 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes at a push, and then you bring players on, because not only does that help you defensively, but offensively it helps you as well, because if you press them, you win the ball back higher. You've got fresh legs in that, yeah. You've got three players in that midfield, oh the God, we know he's the pressing monster. We know Declan Rice, we see what he does for England and Arsenal, and Partey can do it. In fact, I would feel more comfortable seeing them in there and getting back than the likes of, than the likes of Jorginho. He just looks to be the weak link defensively in terms of coming, tracking back. That's it. So, that's my thing. But who would you play? Do you know what? You're converting me with the Partey thing. It's one where I wish I was a fly on the wall at London Coley and I knew how fit he was and all of that jazz. If it's just on ability and my natural bias, of course. Like, I think us fans, with the greatest of respect to Havertz in midfield and Jorginho, I think everyone wants to see, at least for a season, Partey, Rice and Odegaard. I'm leaning towards Jorginho. I do, I would, I agree with what you're saying. I feel a lot more comfortable with Partey, but just from what I know as an ignorant fan that Jorginho looks relatively fit, Partey, I don't know what you're on. And as much as I want to play you against City, like I said, I'm not a physio, but if you play, you get some sort of setback and then you're out for, you know, not just City, but the other games, it's Kalash. So, I'm more on the, if it just plays Jorginho, because I hear what you're saying. I think we have to think about their weaknesses, but I don't think we can rock up there, not saying you're saying this, but rock up there like pussies. I was like, we've got things that we can harm them with. In many ways, attack is a form of defence. And, you know, if you've got Havertz dropping in midfield, if you do play Gabriel Jesus, he's going to put a shift in. I think it kind of evens itself out because I think this game will be typically what it's been on the City, against City, sorry, in that it will come down to fine margins, you know, City nine times out of 10, like me and you would be all day watching on YouTube highlights of them beating us up. But I do think in the last couple of years under Arteta, they've been closer contests. Now, obviously we've had the Tomi Asu mistake with Ramsdale caught off his line. Sometimes the fine margins have just gone against us. So, I'm not too sure, but I would lean towards Jorginho, man. Kind of what you said at the start, like I know momentum's kind of irrelevant now because we're not playing anymore. Well, we weren't playing for a set, but I just think the team's kind of picking itself really. If I was going to make changes, it would be, if there was an assurance taken off and away from Kyrgios that Tomi Asu is fit to put in a shift, I might lean towards him. But then it goes back to what we said on Jesse's stream that Tomi Asu is one of them players, it feels like he needs a run to kind of get back to what he's good at. Obviously, I mentioned Jesus. I would play Havertz because Havertz, he might not be pretty, he might not score. And I know he's in March madness, but I just need you to drop into midfield. And obviously Benjamin White, Gabriel and Saliba make up, they speak for themselves. Would you make a Raya? Because you've been critical on the guy, like, is this a game for you where, not that you want to see Raya called into question, but he could be like, all right, cool. That's a performance now. Listen, let me refer back to last season for a second. Last season, I think it was, I think it was, there was a stat that every single player bar I think one scored a goal for us. Every outfield player scored a goal for us. There was like 18 players. So what that said to me is every single player had a moment to kind of solidify themselves into this Arsenal team or Arsenal. I think it was actually probably only like Iassada didn't score. No, no, no, that was because he was injured. That was because he didn't score. Not even like, oh, he's dead. I'm just, let's just say he was injured. He was out for the whole season, so he didn't get an opportunity. But Fabio Vieira scored. Obviously, El Nene was out as well. So everybody in the squad, that I think 23, 25-man squad, made an impact. We saw Ramsdale, okay, he didn't score, but he made, he had fantastic performances last season. Gabriel scored. Saliba scored. He had his moment against Bournemouth when he scored that wonder goal. He was a goal of the season contender last year. One of the goals of the season. Ben White. Everybody made a contribution to Arsenal. Raya, for me, I feel like he's had his contribution against Porto this season, but I want to see you solidify yourself this season, this game, as somebody who is an Arsenal keeper. I want to see you make a difference. And it's not to say that I want to see you diving around and making 25 shots. I just want you to, in the big moments, in those clutch moments, I don't want you to have a Lunds away performance in you. Because this is the game where we need you. Because the last line of defence is you, my guy. So, when all fails, you're the guy that's meant to stop them. That's your only objective. I was out of trouble, yeah. Bro, that's your only objective, to stop the ball going in the back of the net. You've got to think centre-backs, they've got to do certain things. Full-backs, they've got to do certain things that are more integral to the way that you have to build up and play as a footballer. A keeper, he's got two jobs. Kick the ball out from a goal kick or from any sort of position, throw the ball out, and stop the ball going in the back of the net. That's your two jobs, brother. That's it. That's your objective. You're right, you're right, you're right. So, I want you, and again, I'm being very simplistic with this because we know that he's got to do other things than that. No, I mean, everyone listening can read between the lines. We know the ball-playing goalkeepers and all that jazz. For me, I just want you to put in a performance where I know that you're alive and you're there and you're part of the Arsenal squad. You've made a player tangible difference. If we lose and he concedes a goal, it doesn't mean that, oh, he's been the worst player on the pitch, but be there and show up and show out. Show that you are part of the squad and you are the guy. And listen, people are going to say the poor old thing, yes, yeah, he did look good in that game, but I want to see it now in another big game for me to show me in the Premier League that you are Arsenal's keeper because people keep going back to this whole, oh, last season, Ramsdale made some mistakes against Southampton. He made mistakes against Porter, Poulmer, et cetera, et cetera. West Ham, he didn't do this, but nobody remembers all the good stuff that he did. And the fact that, as I said to you over and over again, they don't put context of the defence when Holding was in there. The brother, I keep saying, this guy is in Crystal Palace and he can't even get into their first team. Can't get in. But even with the freaking injuries, bro, it's crazy. He's living a movie, to be fair. No, he's like, he's like the perfect player because he's like, like Rob, not Rob Holding. What's his name? Scott Carson. He's a perfect keeper. You know what I'm about to say, it's like he's a third choice goalkeeper. He gets all the trophies and he doesn't do no work. He doesn't do anything. You just see him in the changing rooms. Just see him in the changing room and that's it. So for me, I'm just like, look, put context into the fact that, yes, Ramsdale made mistakes, but also the squad, the team wasn't playing well. We were shifting goals as a team. Older Guard was shifting goals and shifting, losing the ball. We weren't doing certain things to kind of keep the ball. And it was a collaborative thing as much as him. So all I want is, all I want is Ryan to make a step up, show up and show out. Whether we lose or win, just show up and put in your performance. That's it. That's all I want. And for me, then I can say, look, pay the £30 million or whatever it is. And it's not just of one game because he's been good for a few weeks, a few months now. But I just want to see this now. When it crunch, crunch time, the same way how everybody gets onto Ramsdale last season in the crunch time, because before that, remember, he was good. Before the crunch, before the... He wouldn't have died by that Southampton mistake in my opinion. Bro, he's going to... And the West Ham game. No, no, no, no, no. The West Ham game, he was poor as well. Yeah, yeah. Because he saved that goal from a... That would erase a lot. As you know yourself, football fans, for all these players, even the players that I might not be fond of, they've got a small memory in it. Like, they only remember week to week. And I do think that's what people remember with Ramsdale, unfortunately. But people forget this guy is goalkeeper. He's the current goalkeeper of the Premier League. Yeah, PFA. He got PFA nominated. No, not nominated. He won it, brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in the team of the year. He won it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got 13, 14 in the city. Clean sheets. Bro, this is the current holder. Current holder, you know. And people act like this guy's some scrub. He isn't. And that's all I want. I just want you to show up and show out. That's all I want you to do. Don't make yourself a hero. Don't try to do no stupidness. Don't lose the ball in the points that you need to. Or if you do, don't make it in a sense that you're making it a tangible point to say that you're the reason why we conceded the goal. Because Spurs at home, I think you were poor. Lunds away, I think you were poor. There's been other games that I can earmark and I think, you know what, you could have done a lot better with that. You could have really done a lot better. Chelsea away. Chelsea away. But I think of, I look at the game when we played Brentford a couple of weeks back. Did I think he was poor? No. Did I think you were amazing? No. I feel like you could have still saved the goal, but I'm not putting it on him, if that makes sense. Like I'm not saying, yo, you're the reason, but I feel like you could have done better. And that's, I just want to have a top keeper. That's it. And I keep, I always say like, people think, oh, it's because English bias, but I don't care who it is. I keep saying to people, I want England to fail with everything. I want Saka, I don't want Saka doing nothing in England regards, but I don't care about England. It's just the fact that I think he's a better keeper. But prove me wrong now. Show up, because you've been good for the last however many weeks, months. You played against, for Spain against, was it Chile the other day or whatever it is? Yeah, yeah. So... I think he did well at Anfield away, if I'm honest as well. I think him and Odegaard did not perform. I don't think they, both of them got enough praise for what they did. But if we're going to win this game, we're going to need to have a shot. We're going to have to have some moments where we're riding our luck. And that luck might be from the set. Look at the Emirates, Declan Rice cleared it off the line, where Ryan started a bit nervous in that CED, if I'm honest. There you go. And again, I just want you to be the person that, if you can save us, save us. If there's a point where, yes, Fran, you can see the goal, don't make it the obvious thing that you're the reason why. Because currently we've got people saying Keller has better than Ryan, Keller has better than Ramsdell. And I don't think that is true. Yeah, that's a ---- shout, man. Big him up, but I don't think you're better than either of them. Do you know what I mean? And I don't want that kind of label on man, because I feel like Raya is a good keeper, but I just don't think he's top echelon yet. And if he can get there, fair play to him. Being devil's advocate though, like, do you not feel calmer with Raya in goal? I'm not saying he's a better goalie, but do you not feel calmer with Raya as opposed to Ramsdell? Because I must admit, Raya does, I do get that from Raya. I don't think he's perfect, but I do get that. I do think Ramsdell, sometimes his erraticness can spread to other players, if I'm honest. Yeah, yeah. And I think if you saw the interview, I think last season, where he said that he loses focus and stuff like that. Yeah, you don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that, bro. I think that that's a shambles for you. That's maybe why you can't be a top level keeper at this moment in time under Arteta, man. There you go. But I do, and you're right, I do feel calmer with Raya. I do feel more at ease with Raya. Obviously, at the Games, you do like to feel a bit pumped up when you have your keeper with Ramsdell. Yeah, it's like the thing with Ramsdell. It's like a fan on the pitch with you. It's like random, really. There you go. So, it is a tough one. But listen, I'm not here to say that any of them are rubbish. I just have a preference currently. I feel like Ramsdell, given the opportunities, I feel like he can show he's a top keeper. But as I said, I do feel Raya is a good keeper, and I think he's been good for, I would say, the majority of the season. Just over half of the season. No, he's been good for the large part. There's been a couple moments like everybody, but I think Raya's done okay. And do you know what? To be fair to Raya, not the Chelsea mistake, because there's no excuse for that. As you said, the keeper's the last line of defence. I do think Raya could have done better at numerous moments that we've both said, but there's other moments where he's been let down. And also, when he looked a bit nervous at the start of the year, I don't know. But in hindsight, I'm probably attributing a bit of that to the whole noise around him and Ramsdell and all the playing at Arsenal and stuff. So, he just needs to keep going. If we do beat City, what statement does this send out? If it does send out anything. I think, do you know what? I'll be real with you. I think it's more for the players. I think it's more for the players to say, look, we can go to Spurs away. We can go to Man Utd away and win. Because everybody, I think, currently thinks Man City are still favourites. We could be third come the end of the weekend. There you go. And rightly so. I think everybody thinks that Man City are favourites. So, I just think for the players, you know, you're going to get people online saying all kinds of crazy stuff. But I just want everybody to just almost take it off a titch, relax a little bit. I know it's difficult. Yeah, yeah. We've beat them. We've beat them away for the first time since 2015. Yeah, yeah. They've won 12 of the last 13 games against us. It's a bad number. It's crazy. And that's the thing. It's not even been draws. They just beat us. Comprehensively battered, really. I think that's what we need to do. We need to go to the ground and just beat them just to say, look, let's just keep it moving. Not to say that, oh, yeah, we're the best team in the world. Because anybody can beat anybody on any given Sunday. So, I think it's just about the players knowing that they can beat the top teams. Because it goes into Champions League. Because there is a, you know, if I ask you again, currently, who do you want to play in the next round if we get there? It's City. As you said last time, it's the devil we know versus the devil we don't know. I don't know about Real Madrid or City, but I'd rather them. And I personally feel if we do beat Bayern Munich, as I said before, I just think that's written in the script really and truly. So, yeah. And just to add on top, if we do then beat them, we've got them again in two games. And we've beaten them. We would be the only team that could have beaten them home and away. Because Liverpool have drawn both games against them. Man United, they've beaten them both games. Hold on. Have they beaten them both games? No, I don't. I think I heard City's record against the top six is kind of crazy this term. No, but hold on. Have Man City beaten Man United home and away? What, this year? They haven't done that. I don't think they've done that. Let me look. Man City beat them. They beat them in the last one and they came back from behind. Wait, hold on. Man City played them twice. I don't know. I can't remember. No, you're right. You're right. They beat them 3-0 at Old Trafford. And then they dealt with them 3-1 in March. Well, a couple. You're right. Pretty much, we're the only team. And Spurs have drawn against them. So, we're the only team that can, if we beat them on Sunday, can beat them home and away this season out of the top six. That's the thing. Pep ain't going to. Not that, obviously, I'm saying the obvious. But that's another thing. It's like, Pep is probably sitting there like, you know, I've let my little brother Arteta go over there. It started off as a bit of a joke. Now they're looking kind of serious. We can't let them man beat us three times in the space of a year slash twice in the league. That's unheard of. We're fighting for our lives. So, that's where I'm a bit like, they're going to be serious about this. But at the same time, I do think, you know, without being arrogant, I think, you know, your confidence is dictated by results. And we've done well. We've shown we can go away from home and cope with the temperament. I actually think in the last game, well, in this reverse fixture last year, I think in between, we weren't terrible. It's just, you could tell with Rob Holding, not that it was just him. It was a ticking time bomb. You knew what time it was going to be. There was a couple of times it's like he was signaling for help with Harlan. So, as I always tell the fans, and I'm saying it for myself as well, we wanted this. Like, yeah, there's nerves, there's excitement, there's all of this. But this is the realm we wanted to be in. And I want to obviously beat City and one day get into that realm where me and you were talking about City, but we're not talking about how great it would be to beat City. It's normal. If they beat us or we beat them, it's normal. A bit like if they play Liverpool. So, I don't know. But could you argue there's never been a better time to play them and beat them? Depends on the injuries. It depends on the injuries. They do look like they can be got at generally across the 90 minutes this season, even though City has proven they're worth it. There you go. I think the fact that they've not been blowing teams away this season, I think the fact that we were, listen, before the international break, we were scoring quite a few goals. We got over the hurdle of the Champions League against Porto. We had just beaten Brentford. I know it was 2-1, but we had still just beaten them. Still got points on the board. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we've still got points on the board. But yeah, I just think for me, I'm very, I'm very, should I say, I'm not optimistic. I just think that we've got a good chance to beat them. I think we've got a good chance to beat them. It's just definitely a must not lose. We cannot lose. You can't win, don't lose. If we lose the game, I'm saying that the title hopes go from 40%, 50%, 40% down to 5%, bro. You need a lot of luck. It's already out. Well, for me, I have to correct myself because up until this point, I still kind of maintain and did maintain that it's out of our hands. We need a bit of fortune and stuff. By the end of the day, I don't look at the league table, but if we are top, then it is in our hands. Then you start to creep back into what I was saying. If you lose, I think it's one where if we win, I'm not going to get excited and say we're going to do this thing because football is weird. Like you could beat City and then go lose to Luton and then we're having a very different conversation. If we lose, I'm not going to get excited. I still think we just have to keep going, but then you're reliant on City dropping points. And unlike Arsenal, they've been in this territory with competing on multiple fronts, multiple games, and it being the business end of the season. What I'm hoping is, as you know yourself, you know, if you're learning to ride, if you're learning how to cook, you put your hand in fire, it burns you one time. You're not going to want to put your hand in the fire again, innit? So I hope the burning of how last season ended is above all what drives us and has been driving us since January, man. So I don't know, but I just want a competitive performance, man. If we lose this, no one wants to lose, but it's how you lose. Don't have too much respect for them because I do think last year, I don't know, these players never had a conversation with them, but just watching it on TV, it looked like, honestly, to me, it was won or lost in the dressing room. It only looked like Benjamin White, it only looked like a couple of men looked like they was with this. A couple of other guys looked shook, so I don't know, man. I don't know. It's going to be a big game. It's going to be a big game, and I think we've got players that can step up. I do think, and the other point is, I know we spoke about it earlier on, but I think the other point is, if you do play players like Jorginho, they can step up. They have got that kind of big game mentality. They've been there before. And that's where I feel like when you play Partey, I do feel like he puts his head down a little bit. I do feel like he makes himself like a scapegoat with some of his, not performances, but he's... He's a bit shook at times, let's be real. Yeah, he can be a bit lacklustre at times. He can be a bit lacklustre when certain things don't go his way. And even, to be fair, just to go back on my point as well, last season, when we played Man City away, he was the reason why we conceded the first goal, with Rob Holding, because he didn't track KDB. He was getting batted up by Grealish in that victory, and that was crazy. That's crazy from him. Partey, I couldn't understand that, man. It's crazy. This guy is crazy, you know. When I say VB, you know... That's all I think about when I see Grealish. Lovely footballer, but all I think is you look like Victoria Beckham. Yeah, it's going to be a tough game, and I do think that we can do it. As I said, do I feel like I'm going to go crazy? No, I'm not. I feel like a lot of Arsenal fans will go crazy, but I'm not going to lose my head. I'm going to obviously be happy about the victory, but I'm more... Get to the Spurs away and still be top. Get to Spurs away and still be top, because I think we've got... We've got Lew in at home, Brighton away, I think we've got Chelsea, and then we've got Spurs. So, yeah, just get to that game, still being top. If we can get top, be top by then, bro, then I'm going to start believing, for real. You're right. For me, it's a shoot-out now. You've got 12 cup finals, including the two on paper in the Champions League. Oh, yeah. This is it, bro. These men... This is it now. Everything you've been working for for the last two, for some of you three seasons, all the pain of last year, it comes down to this, because unfortunately, as you know yourself, a week's a long time in football, so you can imagine a year. There's different talking points, different protagonists and heroes from August to May, but all that matters is where you start and where you finish. No one in two years from now is going to go back and say, oh, but we beat City, we beat Liverpool, we lost it, it gets pulled away. All that's going to matter is, is your name etched with something in history? And that's where we need to go. We need to go from now not being an exciting team, but we need to be a cerebral team. And for me, last season, I'm sure most Arsenal fans would agree, and probably this year, in many ways, we deserve to win something. We deserve something in history that marks this off, but then I could be devil's advocate to my own logic and say, if you don't get the job done, do you deserve anything in life? I don't know. But like you said, these are tough games. We forgot about Villa as well. Yeah, yeah, Villa and Wolves as well. Emre, Emre Settins, Gary O'Neill. The thing that I look at is that I think that Aston Villa, because they're away from home, I think the fact that, you know, they have a high line, we should be able to penetrate. I want revenge there still. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And obviously it's in between the Champions League games, which obviously can throw up kind of a bit of a curveball. But listen, man. Back to what you said about rotation as well. You've said it a few times, and obviously we've got Brighton three days before Champions League. So you've said it a few times that I think the logic says that the manager needs to rotate. And I think we've been wanting to be here, bro. You know, you've been doing content long enough to go through the... Charles, Charles. First Champions League Arsenal watch-alongs, you know. The doldrums, exactly. The doldrums that we've been going through, yeah, where, bro, like, I remember we was Europa League and like, I think it was Socrates. I think it was the last game for Emery. And Socrates took, like, five minutes to hit the last throw-in. And we needed a goal, bro. And I'm like, those were hard times. They were the trenches. Real, real trenches. This is where we are now. This is where we need to be. This is where we want to be. So, you know, we may not have the squad to go all the way in all the competitions. But this is the big game, man. This is the big game. This is the big time. And let's hope that we can do it, bro. Because Sunday, there's going to be a lot etched in history. Hopefully, we can do it. As I said, the first time since, what, 2015? That's nine years. Yeah, we had Coquelin and Santi Cazorla and Monreal in them, man. And, you know, last time I checked, they're not here anymore. And what was it, Giroud up front? Giroud up front and these kind of men. Yeah, if that's 2015, yeah, that was Giroud. So that's crazy, bro. So, yeah, man, I'm not too sure whether or not we can do it. I do think we've got enough. But, you know, the players need to go out there. I think some of the players, Sakhar, I feel like he needs a big game. I think second is a huge, huge game because the last few times he's either not been there as you spoke about or he's been locked up by Ake. So, he needs a big game. I think, not for me personally, but I think for for rivals especially, I think Older Guard needs a big game because, you know, they call him goes to guard against the big teams. I don't, I just think that's absolute nonsense. But I think just for the people that are going to say, yeah, he doesn't turn up for this game or that game, that's going to be a, you know, a big moment for him. And then you've got the defence. I think they just need to step up. I think if that works, then I think we've got enough to nick a win somehow, some way because, listen, I think we've got quality and, yeah, man, let's just go, let's get there, man. I wish the game was tomorrow. I just want to get out of the way. I wish we played it before the international break. I do wish that. It would have been lovely to have two games of City done. We know our fate already, but the Football Guards have got something else for us, bro. Yeah, I wish, I wish you had played the Chelsea game. I wish they went in the FA Cup and I wish we had played City just before the international break. But, you know, you can't, you can't write your own script and, listen, right now, we're top of the league. No matter what anyone says, we're top of the league. well, yeah, I'm telling you, we're top of the league. we, we win our, we win out, we win enough games, we win the league. So, I don't think Liverpool are going to win out and I don't think Man City are going to win out. it's on the players, man. The players need to, they've had enough rest. I think, it's what, Havertz has had a few minutes over the international period. Over 120, I think, in Poland's last game. Zini's come off the bench. Rice has played both games. Obviously, Saka's pulled out the team. Benjamin White's had his shenanigans with Southgate. So, it's a bit of a mixed kind of batch, really and truly. I think it's only really four players that we need to kind of worry about. the Brazilian boys stayed at home. In fact, I don't know for Jesus, actually, but Martinelli and Big Gabriel. Decon Rice played both games. Raya played, I think, one or two games, but he's a keeper. So, I'm not worried too much about that. You've got the, the defence pretty much stayed at home. So, they should be, will be rested. Kivio played, I think. Kivio played, but the thing is, you can rotate him with Tom Iasi. You can rotate him with Zinchenko. So, that's fine. You've also got Jorginho, as you spoke about, but regardless, he doesn't play every game anyway because he can't, like physically, he can't. So, that's where you need a party to come in and do. And what you mentioned with Havertz, Havertz is kind of, obviously, I'm not watching Germany, but I think he scored. So, maybe, you know, his confidence that he left to go to Germany, it returns really. and then on top of that, let's just go back to the map. The matter of the fact is, we've got Jesus. We've got Jesus, who's meant to be the number nine. So, well, he is the number nine. He's meant to be the goal scorer. So, listen, you can rotate. Man don't have to play every single game. And that's where, going back over and over, the man just needs to be cute with it. That's where he's got to earn his chops. Literally, literally that without earning his chops. So, yeah. Alright, my last question for you there, Brodsky, score prediction. I'm going to be optimistic. I'm actually going to say, my heart is saying 2-1 Arsenal. My brain is saying 1-1. I just think it's a draw. I hope we don't lose. I want to say I don't think we're going to lose, but I just never know, man. I do think we're walking away from point minimum, but where are you at? You know what? I was going to say a draw. I think it's going to be a draw. I feel like Arsenal will have some really good moments, but I feel like we're going to lack a bit of cutting edge. I think Arsenal will go ahead and I actually do think Arsenal are going to ---- the bed a little bit, unfortunately. Not because they're not good players. I just think that Man City away. City away. They're just no joke, Bro. When you see Pep Guardiola, it's spooky, man. What is it? Obviously, you've got Haaland as well, but I think there's status or like Man City ain't lost at home in the Champions League. I know it's a different competition for is it like two, three years? I don't think they've lost at the Etihad in a whole minute as well. I couldn't be wrong. It's their results. Etihad is different. I can't lie. Yeah, man. I'm not here to downplay them. I know a lot of players, a lot of fans are kind of saying, yeah, play their strongest team and that. Bro, like you lot need to chill, man. So yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to go 1-1. I think we're going to go ahead. But I feel like, yeah, we're going to we're going to, not bottle, but I feel like we will put in a bit of a shaky performance and kind of be happy to take the 1-1 and move with that. So I'll take a draw. I will take a draw and kind of see how it goes out for the next few games because obviously we've got Luton at home. We should take care of them. Brighton, obviously, as we spoke about, Wolves, Aston Villa. Then we get to that big game, which is the North London Derby, man. I can't lie, man. It seems like it's going to be a jam-packed end to the season, man. But as you said earlier, this is what we wanted, man. So Lee, man, hopefully the next time we speak, you know, we're still in jubilant fashion, man. Let people know where they can find you, my guy. You lot need to get onto him about his own YouTube channel because he's being lazy, people. He's being lazy. He's always welcome on my platform. He's a pleasure to have, really, because of all his opinions. But he needs to look after his own house. I know, I know. You lot, abuse him on Twitter and that. I know. For now, you'll see me on Twitter, innit? You'll see me on Twitter. But yeah, listen, I will, I will. I promise you. Bro, work's just mad, bro. Work is crazy. I know I keep saying I'm going to be, but work's been mad. But I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming back. I just need a bit of time to get there. But yeah, listen, right now, I just want to see Arsenal win, bro. I just want to see Arsenal win. I'm just enjoying Arsenal winning, bro. After that, everything else is secondary, bro. I just want to see Arsenal win. Trust me, man. Like, I'm dreaming of the title parade, but I'm sure you lot, I'm sure the fans, them, are feeling like we're feeling. But it's the, the dream is free, the hustle's sold separately, bro. And it is the hope that kills. So as much as, I'm not going to lie, with our title, it's very difficult for me to urge caution because I understand it. As you said earlier, some fans go too mad and start saying we're the bees' knees, we're the this, that, the other. But it's hard not to be optimistic because we've been a sleeping giant. Now I think it's a case of we're a competent side now. We're doing all the things we've asked for years. Now let's get over the line or build to getting over the line in the prem. I don't even want to talk about champs yet because I think you have to bully the domestic team first. But we're in the champs. See what we can do there. I just keep being the envy. You know, people question Mikel Arteta. Now when I see United fans on Twitter or any manager that's in a bit of trouble, they're always like, oh Arsenal stuck with Mikel Arteta. Our team is very different. It's not the same. But that tells you how we're manoeuvring so it needs to continue, fam. It needs to. 100% man. And that's the thing, bro. For me, I'll be real with you, bro. If we win this Premier League, bro, Arteta, there might be certain statues that have to go outside that stadium, bro. And on that note, we'll end it because that's the title of the vid. I got what I needed. Yo, Arteta! I got what I needed. I'm not lying. I was thinking of a title for this. I got this. This ain't just Man City Arsenal preview. Listen, I've got my title, man. Yo, yo. AI, bro. AI's the crazy thing, bro. But on that note, people, like, comment, subscribe. Let us know your predictions and all of that. Lee, let me let you get out of here. I'm off to do another video with someone else. So yeah, man. Everyone stay safe. Stay blessed. Follow Lee on the socials. Peace, my guy. Peace to the fans listening. Safe. Peace. The boys is going to actually go now and defend the undefeated. GG.