Chelsea will be without striker Armando Broja, but Benoit Badiashile could be involved. Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo are available following international duty in South America.
Arsenal will make late assessments over Bukayo Saka, William Saliba and Leandro Trossard.
its been only 2 minutes and that 2 passes is so bad
Don’t think Chelsea will be much of a problem honestly. They have wins over a struggling Fulham and Burnley recently, but I believe they know they’re outmatched. As long as we don’t get complacent and allow them back into the game in the second half it should be smooth sailing. 2-0.
Partey CB if Saliba is out?
Why would we do that?
Because Kiwi is kinda raw and we saw Partey RB this season already. So Partey CB is not a big stretch.
We have Tomi and Kiwior that can play in that position, why on earth would our first replacement be a CM who has never played there? It’s not even the most logical of our midfielders seeing as Rice has exceptionally limited experience there.
this is not fifa or fm
I haven’t played Fifa since Fifa 18 lol so I wouldn’t know what you mean.
you don’t put players in position they have literally never played before just because
It is a pretty big stretch. It’ll be Tomi at CB most likely
Zinny-Gabriel-white-Tomi I’d think
What I wouldn’t give for us to absolutely smash them, away no less
Can we just do some football already.
So bored.
The media are talking Chelsea up and trying to bring them up to our level and talk a Chelsea win into existence. Ignore it. “But our underlying numbers against relegation fodder mean we’re going to create chances”. Even if you do manage to get anywhere near the goal against the best defence in the league, who’s finishing them? Obviously we can’t underestimate any team, but please. We should be winning this comfortably.
Raya
White-saliba- Gabriel- Zinny Partey Ode Rice Saka GJ Martinelli
Havertz, ESR and Jorginho sub on to close it up. Havertz scores. 5-1 Arsenal 😜
5-1? Who scored from Chelsea? Not Mudryk, right?
Chelsea claiming they’re picking up steam after beating burnley, whilst we just rather convincingly beat city. There’s levels to this
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves and say it was convincing. Great defensive performance, but we won off a face deflection lol. That game could’ve gone either way and we were a bit lucky to get the 3 points (brilliant game management from Arteta with the subs though)
Compare that to any of our games vs city in the last 5 years, thats the best we’ve looked in a long time.
Haaland was a complete non-factor in that game, and that’s the most toothless they’ve looked in attack since Pep took over.
Granted, they were missing key players but it’s football and sometimes the circumstances just work in your favor. A statement performance nonetheless though.
whilst we just rather convincingly beat city
i won yes but disagree that we beat city rather convincingly
still feeling good about tomorrow
We managed them. That’s all you can do. We played them better than anyone in 6 years.
Chelsea dominated them in the Champions league final.
6 years is a stretch
Examples then
google is your friend mate
One of the biggest criticisms of this team is that were too emotional and lose our heads in key moments. We kept it cool vs City, which reflects incredibly on the team’s mentality development
Chelsea getting a bit too big for their britches constantly going on about “underlying stats” event Bryce had the easiest opening run of any team in the league and still sit bottom half. Hope we put them right back in place tomorrow and remind them why they’ve been in hiding the past year
Arsenal 3 Chelsea 0 Corner goal from Gabriel. Outside the box from Ø and a tap in for Jesus. Easy as that.
Saliba bike for 4
Please and thank you 🙏🏼
Lol. I really havent been on any social media related to football since we last played but where is all of this confidence coming from w all of the Chelsea fans?? Its actually quite interesting. I mean its the right mindset imo but cmon… you beat burnley and who else? Their upcoming games are brutal af too. Hope their players aren’t feeling the same way
I don’t blame them. I felt it before the Citeh game that we’d win. Although it seems to lean more into delusion for them
Chelsea fan here and most certainly it’s a combination of Saka’s fitness giving the illusion we may be playing a weakened Arsenal, while we’ve had 3 wins on the bounce with the squad seeming to (start to) click, I mean our attackers are actually scoring goals, never thought we’d see the day. Essentially we’re high on Vitamin D(elusion) so expecting no less than a 3-0 onslaught /s
Yeah it seems like the light at the end of the tunnel has been spotted for you guys. Whether it’s just oncoming headlights and not an actual exit is yet to be seen.
Honestly there is too.much talent and Poch is good enough manage to get them going in the right direction. But hopefully it takes some time
Sometimes you just have to fake it till ya make it I suppose… anyways, hope its a good game. 🤙🏼
Spot on hoping it’s s good game!
They underestimate Arsenal. I mean for a reason, we’ve historically been bottlers/poor performers when it really counts. However it doesn’t make sense considering we just beat the best team in the world.
We’ve also beat them 4x out of the last 5 games. You’d think they’d be a little more humble and recognize the changing tides by now.
Need Havertz, Eddie and Rice to all score
Need havertz and Eddie to not start
Kai Havertz hatrick incoming.
2 - 1 to Arsenal
Raya - Tomi, White, Gabriel, Zinchenko - Odegaard, Jorginho, Rice - Jesus, Eddie, Martinelli
An away match? Clean sheet.