Pre-season Friendly in Beijing: Arsenal vs Chelsea|22/7/17| 1240 BST|ITV1 & Arsenal Player.

[samshere]

Bird's Nest Stadium

Fans at Beijing airport

Date:

Saturday 22-7-17

Time:

12.40 pm BST. -- 7.40 pm Beijing.

Live TV coverage;

ITV 1 (UK)

Streaming;

Arsenal Player, Chelsea Player.

Team news:

Chelsea:
Rudiger (leave), Bakayoko (injured), Hazard (injured), Costa (leper), Matic (unwanted) are not expected to feature for Chelsea.

Arsenal;
Walcott not fit to feature tomorrow according to Wenger.

That's a scary portrait of Özil they got there.

 

[Santi's Left Foot]

You lot have got short memories-

http://dailycannon.com/2016/01/walcotts-brilliant-record-against-chelsea/

Make that 7 now, he scored in the 3-0 win last season too.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Let's do the old rope-a-dope. Play like utter ****, get them overconfident and then smash them in the Community Shield. Last time we did that they went into a 8 month tailspin featuring weekly Mourinho meltdowns.

 

[Mendy]

Lets smash these Gold diggers... We don't like Russian gold diggers..

 

[Plutarch]

I'd like to see us put out an actual proper central defence in this game, made of real defenders. But I'm not getting my hopes up. Not having Mustafi, Holding or Gabriel in the squad reduces our options, but we do have Bielik, Mertesaker and Koscielny. Monreal too, he plays well there.

 

[Linson]

Arsenal are looking very thin in defence for the final game of their pre-season tour, having played Mohamed Elneny at the back as a result of a lack of options, meaning it could be a cobbled together side that faces Chelsea at the Bird’s Nest Stadium on Saturday.

http://dailycannon.com/2017/07/kolasinac-recovering-from-a-virus-in-the-camp/

Yay! I love a good cobbled together side...

 

[yybecause]

Is arsenal.com having this game on reply rigjt after the match?
I'll miss it cause of work and I need to see the game as soon as I get home later on. Would prefer not to know the score, that's why I need a reliable source where to see reply (5 hours after the game ends), so i dont end up googling it and seeing result

 

[Lacaz1fan]

We are getting to the stage where the real team should play. Lets see Özil Laza and Iwobi ahead of Xhaka and Ramsey. Chelsea stand no chance. Not even with prorata.

 

[yybecause]

God knows who's feeling well enough to start actually.
But yeah.. time to field teams who are actually goong to play together more then on rare occasions.

 

[Rimaal]

Matchday, swooners!

Wenger said this game "is not a friendly", Hazard and Costa are not in the Chelsea squad, So...

 

[Ewarwoowar]

Matchday, swooner!

Wenger said this game "is not a friendly", Hazard and Costa are not in the Chelsea squad, So...

Who are these guys? Did they participate in our FA Cup final masterclass? I did not notice!

 

[neimad]

Hopefully we play a bit better than the Bayern game. Get some more fluidity in to our passing game and more cutting edge. COYG :bounce:

 

[Mark Tobias]

@Rimaal great OP as usual .

Second this @Rimaal

 

[Tir Na Nog]

 

[Hunta]

Just want to see Nelson in one of the AM spots.

 

[razörist]

Somebody please tell me how many hours and minutes left untill game time. Between me coming back from vacation with time difference, and timedifferences with the squad and UK I have no clue. I want to watch Arsenal.

 

[{reed}]

Somebody please tell me how many hours and minutes left untill game time. Between me coming back from vacation with time difference, and timedifferences with the squad and UK I have no clue. I want to watch Arsenal.

2h 20min

 

[razörist]

2h 20min

Thank you!

 

[Trilly]

Ffs these games are always on when I'm traveling

Haha

 

[Makingtrax]

Arsenal manager Arséne Wenger has revealed Sead Kolasinac was suffering from sickness against Bayern Munich which led to his short-lived appearance at the Shanghai Stadium.
“ He was sick as well. We have a little virus in the camp,” he said, reports Arsenal.com. The former Schalke man wasn’t the only person to suffer, with Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott, Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud also named by Wenger. “Aaron finished [feeling] bad, Walcott, Mertesacker, Giroud (too),” he added.

The virus going around the camp isn’t believed to be serious and should pass in the coming days. But Arsenal still have another friendly before they return to London so Wenger might have to make changes as a result.

Arsenal are looking very thin in defence for the final game of their pre-season tour, having played Mohamed Elneny at the back as a result of a lack of options, meaning it could be a cobbled together side that faces Chelsea at the Bird’s Nest Stadium on Saturday.

http://dailycannon.com/2017/07/kolasinac-recovering-from-a-virus-in-the-camp/

If it's not injuries, it's viruses. No wonder Wenger's not selling anybody ffs. We need a squad this size to field one team of eleven.