The plan to beat Fulham.

[West Derby Villan]

Wolves were the next Barca and we hammered them 4-1 , they were champs, fuck the fuckers

[tomd2103]

I think the plan will be exactly the same as it has been over these two legs - stay solid and try and hit them on the break.  It's Bruce's approach and I would expect the same team unless Elmohamady is fit and Whelan replaces Jedinak.

[Pete3206]

Score 1 concede 0

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[eamonn]

Score 1 concede 0

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Boring boring Arsenal?

[ChicagoLion]

I think the plan will be exactly the same as it has been over these two legs - stay solid and try and hit them on the break.  It's Bruce's approach and I would expect the same team unless Elmohamady is fit and Whelan replaces Jedinak.

Agree, I don’t think Bruce knows any other way to play, it’s attriitiona, it’s not very pretty and it is mostly effective.
I thought that we did start pressing higher up the pitch in the second half last night.
I don’t think we can afford to give Fulham the same time and space though.

[Axl Rose]

I think we'll just play better against Fulham, as we did against Wolves. Fulham's threat comes from wide, so employ Hutton to shackle Sessegnon and someone else to do the same to Fredericks(?)

I think with Jedinak in front of the defence, Grealish being Grealish, and Grabban/Kodjia getting more involved, we'll be more than a match for Fulham.

Mitrovic is their biggest danger for me. But with our defence, I feel confident.

We'll be ok.

[Deano's Mullet]

From what I remember from the October game Fulham were like Jaap Stam's Reading - lots of tippy-tappy passing round the back in their own half with no urgency, even when they were a goal down.  They're a different beast now though.

They looked vulnerable at the back against Derby so if Snod and Albert are in top form and Lewis/Kodj can convert their crosses then we have a chance.  Hopefully we'll give it a go for them to be in forward enough positions to do so.

Fulham were like that over both previous home games

[Drummond]

Score more than them.

That's a silly plan.


We need to concede less than them.

[Matt Collins]

Derby showed lots of ways to play them in the first leg

Get men behind the ball, in a narrow shape, and get super tight to mitrovic

Break with really direct running and pace from midfield. For me that means Onomah - who was great at villa park against them - rather than hourihane

Whelan not Jedinak because the threat is so different

Get crosses onto the back stick where we can beat their fullbacks in the air. Snodgrass and possibly Grabban wide

Having said all of that, the first goal is going to be critical. If they get it, I really can see us struggling. If we get it, we’ve seen how effective we can be

[Legion]

GF > GA

[Richard E]

GF > GA

Are those netball positions?

[themossman]

In not so worried about mitrovic. He's a flat track bully who looks good against championship centre backs. We don’t have championship centre backs though.

[cdbearsfan]

We just went from underdogs to favourites in the last few minutes. Don't suppose some Fulham type has got injured or something?

[Tony Erdington]

GF > GA

Are those netball positions?

Goals for greater than Goals against.

sounds like a plan.

[Risso]

We just went from underdogs to favourites in the last few minutes. Don't suppose some Fulham type has got injured or something?

Would it not be the bookies just opening for business, and updating their odds now we're in the final and not just the semis?  Also presumably taking a few quid on Villa to win as well.