BOURNEMOUTH MATCH DAY BLOG!

Here we are people, match day, a later Saturday kickoff, Arsenal playing Bournemouth.

We’re down at their place, so there’s always going to be a little bit of edge in a small ground with atmosphere, but the mission is clear: exit with a win

Bournemouth were pretty decent against Villa in the first game of the season, dropping an impressive win and running Stevie G ragged. Though our benchmark is a little higher, we need to pick them apart in the same way Manchester City did.

Arsenal were very good at beating weaker teams last year, but what we rarely offered up was something resembling a rampage.

This season we have the tools in the locker to do it. Loads of young players with explosive pace, two strikers that can do serious damage, and a vibe around the club that something special is underway.

It might be a little too early in the season to talk about rotating players, but this is the sort of game where you can bring new options into the starting 11 and get people feeling motivated around the idea they will be included this season.

I want to see bang-bang football out there today, I need it, I had to spend 90 minutes watching a dreadfully one-dimensional Spurs beat Wolves. It is so amusing to me that the media is DESPERATE for this Spurs thing to work because they have Anotonio Conte. They are still the same as they have been for the last decade… and Harry Kane and Son injury away from a real big mess. Also, quite amusing that ‘WORK THEM SO HARD THEY DO A VOMIT’ conditioning approach already has Christian Romero out for 6 weeks.

Transfer goss? Dave Ornstein confirmed what I’ve been writing all week: The winger is the priority.

That said… Youri Tielemans is on the bench today because his head ain’t right. So who knows.

Winger wise, I have no idea what we’re going to do, but it does seem every more likely that Nico Pepe is going to move to Nice, so that’ll free up some wages.

Short post today, see you in the comments!

We will be LIVE On The Whistle after the game today.