PL: Arsenal vs Chelsea | Sunday 29th December | KO: 14:00 GMT | Sky Sports

[#254]

No doubt, we ****ed at the moment. And yeah we should fear the worst.

But as @yousif_arsenal says, we have 18 games to go. And had we held our resolve for another 10 minutes, would we have been speaking a different language.

We need to get our ****ing **** together... and it starts with one win, one big win.

United?

 

[YeahBee]

We'll need to pick ourselves up really and fast players need to come back from injuries like bellerin Ceballos and Martinelli

Ceballos has done fuq all

 

[Riou]

Torreira looked world class in the first half and then the opposite. I can't work him out.

It’s his little legs, bless him...tire out quicker...

 

[Gooner416]

You haters should get a grip and stop hating on Arteta. I'm sticking with him even if we get relegated. Just wait a few years if need be. If Pep says he's good then he is good. Surely his days of picking up cones and watching Pep have gained him precious XP as a gaffer. Pep is a coach who have kept up toe to toe with Leicester this season despite having a shoestring budget. mind you. He is miles better than Ancelotti (**** the 3 UCLS) and Nuno. We were so dominant today and had 36% possession and nearly half the attempts on goal as Chelski. If this isn't improvement then I don't know what is. If you do not trust Raul and Kroenke's eye for talent you're a hater simple as that.

You post like you're not a pube hair older than 15.

 

[HollandGooner]

Ceballos has done fuq all

Agreed but hopefully Arteta can use him just like city are using silva

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Hopefully he'll assist Auba with a goal like he did with Aguero

 

[teamsoutheast]

Really concerned about our fitness levels in today's game too. We looked burnt out by 70 minutes. We haven't looked fit enough for a few seasons now.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Really concerned about our fitness levels in today's game too. We looked burnt out by 70 minutes. We haven't looked fit enough for a few seasons now.

That's because our players aren't uses to press highly with high intensity for 90 minutes that's why we sat down and tried to counter in 2nd half

 

[Tosker]

Emery never did this sort of thing - every sign we have a manager who is going to do a great job with this squad eventually

 

[yorch44]

Emery never did this sort of thing - every sign we have a manager who is going to do a great job with this squad eventually

Luquitas crying ... he feels the shirt

 

[DJ_Markstar]

Proud as **** today, thought they played brilliantly for the first 60 mins and deserved to really win the game. Got caught by two sucker punches but it was the first time this season I thought we really dominated a team and played to the level I know these players are capable of.

If we play like this every game we'll shoot up the league table in very little time.

 

[chessygoal]

Chelsea have better team than us specially defensively and midfield Jorginho and Kante are far superior than Torreira or xhaka better youth who were tearing it apart in championship. Lampard is not genius or something they lost 7 games in league today he get lucky like he was getting lucky with his deflection goals.

I don't get this kind of reactions. Lampard is doing great as a young coach, better than everyone expected. He did an amazing job with Villa and has done great so far with an inexperienced team : Mount, Tomori and Abraham are talented but it's their first real PL season, no one expected them to play that much and strive as they do. Zouma was considered a lost cause before this season. And they actually play a nice brand of football.
Chelsea were completely outclassed for 30 minutes and he changed things up. He targeted our left side, sub Kovacic for Odoi and all these decisions were the right ones.
So yes, credit where credit is due. We didn't magically decide to defend, they pressed higher, completely blocked our short pass from the back and dominated us.
I hope we'll do the same thing in a few weeks at their place, and that oppo fans won't react like us regarding our performance and Arteta.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

I don't get this kind of reactions. Lampard is doing great as a young coach, better than everyone expected. He did an amazing job with Villa and has done great so far with an inexperienced team : Mount, Tomori and Abraham are talented but it's their first real PL season, no one expected them to play that much and strive as they do. Zouma was considered a lost cause before this season. And they actually play a nice brand of football.
Chelsea were completely outclassed for 30 minutes and he changed things up. He targeted our left side, sub Kovacic for Odoi and all these decisions were the right ones.
So yes, credit where credit is due. We didn't magically decide to defend, they pressed higher, completely blocked our short pass from the back and dominated us.
I hope we'll do the same thing in a few weeks at their place, and that oppo fans won't react like us regarding our performance and Arteta.

He doing well im not taking out that of him i was praising him earlier this season but to say we have better squad then Chelsea i dont think so specially with injuries we got. The Jorginho sub was important but it's not game changer they created nothing at all despite dominant the 2nd half Chelsea winning today are down to mistakes from our players

 

[bojed]

Proud as **** today, thought they played brilliantly for the first 60 mins and deserved to really win the game. Got caught by two sucker punches but it was the first time this season I thought we really dominated a team and played to the level I know these players are capable of.

If we play like this every game we'll shoot up the league table in very little time.

With Laca up front and Mustafi at the back, no we won't.

 

[morpho]

Sako really turned off for their second goal... I was litteraly screaming at the tv!

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Sako really turned off for their second goal... I was litteraly screaming at the tv!

He was injured he played with cramp for 20 minutes you can he couldn't run. Mustafi should just have take one for team and fouled Abraham

 

[Riou]

...when Arsenal fans see Craig Pawson again.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Keown's verdict. I think he got it spot on

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50942547

 

[freeglennhelder2]

The people saying the squad needs a huge overhaul probably wrote Torreira off, now look at how promising he’s been since Emery left. Not to mention Özil possibly being reinvigorated.

Özil has indeed been much better so far but I can assure you the people who wrote Torreria off on here are still writing him off. He could put in a string of 9/10 performances for the rest of the season - their opinion is set in stone.

When Willock missed the great chance for 2-0 you just felt something bad was gonna happen. Kind of reminded me of one of the many valiant failures under Wenger in these games - especially the naive overcommitment that lead to their winner.

All credit to Auba who put in a superhuman amount of effort in closing down the opposition throughout the game.

 

[mwake]

Arteta with his head in his hands already poor guy he'll have a lot more of these moments.

Hopefully he wont find his hair in his hands