Our attack was completely toothless without Ozil vs. Newcastle and you'd keep him on the bench? For who to play CAM? Santi? Not as good as Ozil is at that position. Ramsey? Not as creative as him nor is CAM even his best position.
How did the pairing of Gabriel and Kos do against Stoke? Or did we dominate so much that they weren't tested? I would imagine Wenger going back to the Merts and Kos partnership for this game, but be interesting if Gab started... (my god, can you imagine him against Costa - (it'd be like two peed off cliffs coming together!)
Anyone heard Mourinho's little outburst when he interrupted Roberto Martinez's press conference and then says "****ing hell" at the end? There's a 16 second audio clip of it on YouTube, but here's the transcript of what happened. Mourinho: Roberto, next time tell me to go before you because we have to travel. Roberto: I don't control that Jose, I don't control that. Mourinho: ****ing hell. Journalist: Has he done throwing his toys out the pram? Roberto: When he beat us 6-3 last season he was such a nice man. I prefer him like that. Jesus and he says he's not feeling the pressure? He's losing his cool with every minor thing. The scenes if we beat them next week will be too good to miss. Genuinely.
And if Wenger chooses not to do the interview first (away team etiquette) just to p1ss him off. Now that would be priceless.
Personally i think the journalist should line up a load of toys ready for mourinho so when he starts an interview he can literally throw some toys out of his pram!
This will be the game Moureen uses to hype his team up. Beating a rival is the quickest way to regain confidence. So I expect a much more motivated Chelsea for this game. If we do beat them I can see a full on Moureen meltdown happening.
That's what I'm worried about - I imagine Moureen will be well fired up for this game and will have the team highly organised and motivated. I can't see them being as poor as they have been. If they are however, then that surely underlines that Moureen has lost his head and is having a meltdown!
Definitely the case, Maureen will get his troop fired up for this one big time. Even if they don't play well enough, he will make sure he'll stifle our play and make it a war of attrition.
Yea, we ain't gonna get loads of chances to miss like we did against Stoke, so someway or other we need to be more clinical.
Hopefully we can get an earlyish goal like in the community shield and then we can dictate the pace of the game without exposing our back 4 to Hazard/Pedro.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34251778 This is what Nigel Owens (the rugby referee) has to say about mourinho and other football managers. I have to say I'd love to see him ref mourinho - Owens would have him in the stands before Jose could even reach for the toys in his pram!
Sad to say but I think the trip to Zagreb & the p*** poor performance together with the lunch time kick off leaves the deck heavily stacked in Chelsea's favour. Also Mourinho usually out-thinks AW .
We will probably lose, and the excuse will be put down to "early kick off", some of the excuses have really gotten desperate at this club. We made Zagreb look like one of Europe's top teams yesterday, so wouldnt be surprised if we make an average Chelski look like world beaters and that they're back again.
You should be fine, all the fans having a #meltdown on Arsenal Fan TV said Wenger only played a Carling Cup team
It is about time you put Chelsea in their place as the 5th best team in London after Spurs, your good selves, West Ham and Palace.
