PL: Chelsea v Arsenal | August 18, 2018 17:30 BST | BT Sport

[boyinneedofhumor]

Disagree. Lacazette made an error but those are the kind of things that happen when a team who’s not very good defensively invite pressure for 45 mins.

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Give Emery full credit for our first half performance (we should have been 6-2 up), but I also think he deserves the blame for the second half. Guess we’ll have to get used to a manager who actually changes stuff at half time but this time around I think he ****ed it.

Gotta admit, I feel somewhat differently. We'll just have to agree to disagree, but mine would be as follows...

At 2-0 : O no, not the same sh*t again...

At 2-2 : Now this is something different I'm seeing. If this were any of the previous few seasons, our players would be labouring away without a clear belief or dancing without a beat.

Up to the moments before they scored the 3rd, yes they're getting the grip.
But still... my sentiments then was that it could still go either way. We have a chance against run of play.

And I enjoyed that moment when one of ours (I forgot whom) put in a tackle on Hazard when he came on and he grimaced...

 

[BobP]

Apology accepted, you adorable little tyke.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

He wanted to join us after the Leicester season and said we had interest, but in the end we didn't show we wanted him enough and he went to Chelsea. The story gets even sadder because we couldn't have sign him for even cheaper when he was in France but Grimandi didn't approve.

 

[rich 1990]

He wanted to join us after the Leicester season and said we had interest, but in the end we didn't show we wanted him enough and he went to Chelsea. The story gets even sadder because we couldn't have sign him for even cheaper when he was in France but Grimandi didn't approve.

Yes but Hydro, under Wenger, we could have signed everyone in Europe.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Yes but Hydro, under Wenger, we could have signed everyone in Europe.

And we chose not to sign Kanté, instead we signed Xhaka. My bet is that Wenger wanted both but we could only afford one of them, but that is just guessing so wont go further with that.

 

[tap-in]

Watching this goal gives me huge hope for the season ahead!

 

[Jasard]

Watching this goal gives me huge hope for the season ahead!

Do hope we get a bit more confident in our passing around the back though. Get the feeling we will see some sloppy indecisive passes under pressure and concede a few times this season. Think maybe City had a bit of a problem like that in their first season under Pep though if I remember right?

 

[tap-in]

Do hope we get a bit more confident in our passing around the back though. Get the feeling we will see some sloppy indecisive passes under pressure and concede a few times this season. Think maybe City had a bit of a problem like that in their first season under Pep though if I remember right?

I'm happy to wait until 2019/20 to win the PL tbh I think we will concede far less than we did last season, not difficult I know. What we need now is to get our attack clicking. They are all a bit rusty I guess, Auba needs a lesson or 2 from Iwobi

 

[celestis]

Do hope we get a bit more confident in our passing around the back though. Get the feeling we will see some sloppy indecisive passes under pressure and concede a few times this season. Think maybe City had a bit of a problem like that in their first season under Pep though if I remember right?

Not like this no . Come on guys we've had plenty of better team goals in the last 5 years . What we are looking after the Wenger era is better defensively stability and organised structure .

 

[berric]

Do hope we get a bit more confident in our passing around the back though. Get the feeling we will see some sloppy indecisive passes under pressure and concede a few times this season. Think maybe City had a bit of a problem like that in their first season under Pep though if I remember right?

Yep then Pep bought Ederson and Laporte for 100 million and fixed the problem. I can't see Emery doing similar that's why it has to click with Leno and some of the youngsters. Very difficult.

 

[Jasard]

Yep then Pep bought Ederson and Laporte for 100 million and fixed the problem. I can't see Emery doing similar that's why it has to click with Leno and some of the youngsters. Very difficult.

To win the league sure but hopefully we can break back in to the top 3 in the next couple of years. I can't imagine a side like us that doesn't spend colossal amounts winning the league any time soon unfortunately. City finishing behind a squad like ours would be a massive failure.

 

[Mark Tobias]

FOund this comment on a Dailyfail article about Jack facing us this weekend. Thought it was relevant.

"... I quite fancy our chances.' ". He must be one of the very few who do. I watched the Chelsea v Arsenal game, as a neutral. Despite losing, Arsenal regularly split the Chelsea defence apart with good team play. If they can do that against Chelsea, what hope is there for the tame West Ham defence?

 

[berric]

To win the league sure but hopefully we can break back in to the top 3 in the next couple of years. I can't imagine a side like us that doesn't spend colossal amounts winning the league any time soon unfortunately. City finishing behind a squad like ours would be a massive failure.

Yes, that is what I'm expecting with this structure too. A nice system and some smart recruitment and I think we'll be fine.