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After a hell of a star in the Season opener match Everton (won 6 -1) and in Champion league Against Celtic (won 2 -0) both away, Arsenal play Portsmouth next up in the Emirates stadium. So i come up with a formation that better suites the current players.


I have gone for a 4 1 2 2 1 formation, its the mix of 4 5 1 (defensive) formation and 4 3 3 (attacking) formation, for the reason that the formation is neither defensive nor attacking.

Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen and Gael Clichy will continue to be the defensive wall, i hope that the form and fitness remains for the rest of the season. Alexandre Song is the defensive midfielder with Cesc Fabregas and Denilson as the central midfielders, I'm pretty sure that they can recreate that they have done in the previous matches not only for the match against Portsmouth but for rest of the season.

Robin van Persie and Andrey Andrei Arshavin are the Left and Right wingers or can call them as strikers. The best word to describe their position is 'supporting midfielders', i feel that thats the best position that suits them, both brilliant dribblers and intelligent passers. Eduardo plays up front, he is the best finisher we have got and he is not injured so why waste him. Many say he is not tall enough to be a striker, but he is a different bread of forward with grate amount of striker instinct which we recently saw in the match against Everton and more over we don't need them to be tall as we got out defenders will be come attacking and scoring in the dead ball situations. I predict a thumping home victory say 3 nil or 4 nil kind of victory.