Villa seek to land knock-out blow on Boxing Day
6 comments December 26th, 2008
Hello all.
I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s festivities – thanks to all those you sent seasonal greetings through the site. I had a great day, and ate twice my own body weight in various roasted meats. Moving has become difficult.
Boxing Day is always a great day for sport. Today Arsenal travel to Aston Villa in what has become a massive game. In the week we lost Cesc Fabregas for almost the rest of the season, we face our closest rivals for a Champions League spot. After they won at the Emirates, defeat would leave us six points adrift and facing a real uphill struggle.
The long-term absentees (Cesc, Walcott, Rosicky and Eduardo) are all out, with Adebayor suspended, but beyond that the holiday period has meant a slight of absence of up-to-date team news. We don’t know if Kolo Toure is available for consideration, or if Nicklas Bendnter will be fit to partner Robin van Persie upfront.
Whoever plays, we simply have to put in a performance today. I don’t need to build it up anymore. Everybody knows how big a game this is.
I hope the match goes in such a way as to permit your Boxing Day to be enjoyable. Till tomorrow…
