I'd consider starting Diaby for this, for all the crap he gets for being a crock, when fit he is a big physical presence, as Sanj said, Wilshere will get destroyed by Matic.
Alan smith on sky said gooners were going to give fabregas stick...is that true? If so why? Thought arsenal chose not to buy him back so it aint like he's done anything wrong
Agreed. A spud with sense, whoever would have thought it. I guess some people still feel betrayed that he left for Barcelona. If my boyhood club came in with a big money offer, i'd hardly say no. And regarding the Chelsea move, that's all Wenger's fault, he had the chance to re-sign him but said no, because we have Ozil, who he then goes and promptly plays out wide, meaning Cesc could have come back.
Bag of Halloween haribo, big tube of smarties, bag of peanut m and m's and a bottle of San Miguel! Ready for the game
Arsenal team: Szczesny; Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs; Wilshere, Flamini; Cazorla, Ozil, Sanchez; Welbeck.
#Arsenal team to play Chelsea: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Wilshere, Flamini, Cazorla, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck #CFCvAFC #Arsenal subs: Martinez, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Campbell, Podolski #CFCvAFC EDIT: beaten to it
Will be Ozil wide left, Alexis wide right. Welbeck through the centre. Would expect Cazorla to take up the central position behind the main striker.
Then they're going to destroy us down the left AND through the middle. Honestly, as long as we concede less than 3, i'm satisfied with today's result.
I think the idea is for ozil, Cazorla and Sanchez to occupy various positions across the front. Whether that's how it works out who knows, but I think wenger wants to see our forward players rotating a lot to make it difficult to watch them. We have players who can play in different positions so hopefully they take advantage of that.
Pleased we've gone for a more packed midfield rather than ozil and Cazorla both central tbh. We need to keep things tight and wenger has obviously picked this team for tactical reasons. People accuse him of not thinking tactically but today he has obviously looked at the players available and gone with a less attacking team. Think people should be pleased with the team.
So irritating watching all this talking about fabregas at Chelsea on sky sports. Not looking forward to seeing him playing against us.
Mourinho saying they want to win but a draw will be a good point. He says they won't play for the draw. We will see!
It's obvious that's what he has done because in his pre match interview that's exactly what he said. Obviously obvious
15 minute delay due to some of our fans letting off flares so Chelsea have stopped the rest of our fans entering the stadium... Ffs.
aaaaand even the dross that is man u sh1ted go TWO places above us. kinda puts our first 6 games into perspective dont it .
