Arsenal v Chelsea LIVE

Arsenal XI:  Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Arteta, Rosicky, Ramsey, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud

Subs: Fabianski, Monreal, Jenkinson, Flamini, Cazorla, Bendtner Podolski

Chelsea XI: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Willian, Hazard; Torres

Subs: Schwarzer, David Luiz, Cole, Oscar, Mata, Schurrle, Eto'o

I'm nervous and have had the shits today. Not a good mix.

is willian central or they are going with 4-3-3?
anyway

COYG

Jose looks to be parking the bus with Mikel in that midfield 3 with Ramirez and Fat Frank.

I've just heard that gusts of up to 80mph are expected. If true, we need to win the toss!

Kicking into 80mph winds is almost impossible. The last thing we need is to go behind to a Mourinho side.

Sina wrote:is willian central or they are going with 4-3-3?
anyway

COYG

Looks like a 4-3-2-1 for Chelsea. To me, anyway.

Mike Dean  

Interesting team. Thought Cazorla would start

see.. Fraudinho is upto something different...
Mikel + Ramires + Lampard.. usually 2/3 plays as double pivot or deep midfield..
and where will Willian play (?) Ramires probably RW ?
no Oscar.. no Mata..

we need to be careful...

Guys, it's 1:30 am in Bangladesh. Please don't make me regret it.

iftikhar wrote:Guys, it's 1:30 am in Bangladesh. Please don't make me regret it.

me too with you..
kickoff at 1:30 qam Indian time..   

If it's classic Wenger vs classic Mourinho we lose. We always have and it's impossible to implement our tactics against his Chelsea and win. He simply plays too negatively, his entire gameplan is based around preying on our weaknesses, not relying on his strengths and that's what bothers me so much about him. It's a cheap tactic, effective but that's all it is. No style or pride in victory.

Same way when he beat Barca, first he loses 5-0 to a superior side, then he wins a nervy one niller with longball tactics.

Come on boys, let's do this!

Starting Rosicky is a smart move, we could see a Napoli at home game. I hope we dont get disappointment, a must win game.

GET IN THERE ARSENAL

Red card and a clear pen in the span of 30 seconds and we get neither ... Typical

Nah those were soft calls, maybe yellow for Mikel. We need to calm down and stop playing like bunch of butchers, so many miss passes.

There u go, they have 7 attempts on goal and we got 0. We did pretty bad sofar

Wow.  

Dafuq, how is that not a penalty?

shit shit shit performance, giving the ball away all over the place. Poor first touches. Players hiding from the ball. That is the worse we have played this season. Lucky not to be a goal down

EL Patron wrote:shit shit shit performance, giving the ball away all over the place. Poor first touches. Players hiding from the ball. That is the worse we have played this season. Lucky not to be a goal down

Its not their fault, only 9 days rest, they forgot how to play.  

Red card for Mikel? Yes.

Penalty? Not for me.

Still, we look nervous and our passing back to Chez from Gibbs, Vermealen and Sagna has been awful.

The wind will be behind us now. No excuses.

Give them hell, Wenger.

Mikel should have seen red, Mike dean is a clown. Vermaelen looks low on confidence.

Weird choice by Wenger, playing Ozil so far from goal, Rosicky and Ramsey sometimes were ahead of him.

Wenger will tell them they tried their best and 0-0 is a great result. I hope Mata does not come on, we would lose by 2 goals.