Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Match Preview: Arsenal v PSV

The crunch match. Round II... fight! PSV Eindhoven travel to The Emirates in a huge Champions League clash that will decide Arsenal's season. The Dutch Champions have a 1-0 advantage from the first leg so The Gunners need to win by two clear goals to qualify for the Quarter-Finals.

Arsenal are aided with a huge boost, inspirational captain Thierry Henry is fit to start against PSV this evening. Manu Adebayor and Kolo Toure are also avaliable, as their suspensions only apply to domestic competitions. However, Tomas Rosicky, Justin Hoyte, Phillipe Senderos, Manu Eboue, Mathieu Flamini and Robin Van Persie are all still injured. As for PSV, dangerous striker Jefferson Farfan returns from injury. But they also have injury problems. The hero of the first leg, Manuel da Costa is out as well as former Liverpool flop Jan Kromkamp. Gomes, Cocu, Salcido and Alex all face late fitness tests but are expected to play.

Team Prediction:
--------------------------------Lehmann----------------------------------
Djourou----------------Toure-------------Gallas--------------------Clichy
Hleb------------------Gilberto-----------Fabregas--------------Ljungberg
---------------------------------Baptista----------------------------------
----------------------------------Henry----------------------------------

Score Prediction:
Arsenal 2-0 PSV

Scorers: Hleb and Henry

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