Match Day Thread Arsenal vs Chelsea - Matchday Thread

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Venue: Emirates Stadium
KO time: 20:00 GMT
Date: Tuesday 2nd May 2023

Overall Record

Wins: 82
Losses: 66
Draws: 58

Last six meetings

Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal
Chelsea 2-4 Arsenal
Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea
Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea (FA Cup final)

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Ramsdale
White
Kiwior
Gabriel
Zinchenko
Jorginho
Xhaka
Odegaard
Smith Rowe
Trossard
Nelson

 

No chance that we get this team on Tuesday. He’ll play the same team that he did on Friday night.

 

No doubt. Which is getting slightly annoying. Not sure why we spent £25m odd on Kiwior if Holding was going to be our backup centre half anyway.

 

Not a team I was expecting at all. Trossard, Kiwior and Jorginho all start. Partey, Holding and Martinelli benched.

 

I think the changes to tonight's starting 11 are positive and essential. Kiwor can't be worse than Holding, Partey is out of sorts and Martinelli has lacked influence of late. COYG!!

 

3-0. HT. Well, that was way easier than I expected.

I thought Chelsea would come into this with more belief and desire, as it’s a London derby against an out of form Arsenal side, and an ex-player with an axe to grind, but Lampard’s wonky system has given us so much space in between the lines and they’re also dropping so deep, not picking up runners and losing the ball carelessly.

I don’t think we’ve needed to be that dazzling to be 3-0 up, they are just an awful, awful, overpaid side.

I just hope we don’t get complacent like we’ve seen in other games and continue the 2nd half in similar fashion.

 

Kiwior has been excellent, by the way. Begs the question as to why we didn’t see him play sooner, given the technical and speed difference between him and Holding already being this vast.

 

Great half. Best we've played in a while.

Exactly what we needed actually.

 

3-1. Zinchenko for gods sake. That is just so poor to switch off there.

 

Gabriel Magalhaes has gone down 3 times nowadays, just take him off. He’s moving very gingerly. The last thing we need is him being injured too.

 

Finally, he goes down for a 4th time and we sensibly take him off. Holding and Partey on, Jorginho and Gabriel off.

 

This has been a very scrappy game since Chelsea scored. We’ve had a few chances but it’s a shame we haven’t capitalised and got 4 or 5, as Chelsea overall have been that bad.

 

3-1. FT.

A convincing enough win, but we should have really looked to have battered them with a more emphatic scoreline and we looked more jittery and sloppy after they scored. Still need to mature in how we manage games.

They’re a really terrible outfit, though. Genuinely awful. Arguably the worst team we’ve played this season.

 

Absolutely belting chants in the stadium tonight. Loving the change to a Tuesday evening KO and a load of sub £80 tickets appearing. Electric. Chelsea get battered everywhere they go!!!