Home again, at last, in the Premier League for the visit of Chelsea. Here are today’s official line-ups, and it’s a return to the squad for Alexis Sanchez who takes a seat on the bench.
Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Ozil, Campbell, Walcott, Giroud
Subs: Ospina, Chambers, Gibbs, Gabriel, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Elneny, Alexis
Chelsea: Courtois; Ivanovic, Zouma, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Mikel, Matic; Willian, Fabregas, Oscar; Diego Costa
Subs: 7 other twats
Theo needs to pull out a decent perfomance today. Been a bit lacking recently.
Theo hes a really good goal ratio against chelsea, he tends to score against them so I would love to score a cracker like he did against city. And today is the game when theo could break free with one trough pass against that old racist cunt terry and old ivanovic. perfect game for him.
Well….maybe next match, eh, Theo?
Already bench looks so much better than at Stoke. Coyg
I hope we destroy them. COYG!
This team beat City on this ground…enough said.
Flambo-Ramini-Ramflam etc will be crucial today
Ramflam thank you ma’am ; )
COYG…. PLAY TO WIN
Good to see John Terry officially designated as the chief cunt of the team. Or isn’t that what the “C” stands for?
Why sign Elneny,when u want to keep playing Flamini?
Whatever..Time to smash those blue cunts.COYG!
He has only been with us five minutes. He needs to be given time to integrate with the team and learn to play the Arsenal way. Have a bit of patience buddy! It would be ridiculous throwing him in against Chelsea, they would stick a target on his back.
You can’t trough elneny immediately against stoke and chelsea, the boy need to know the team first get a decent training sessions and then put him play, the Fa cup game would be made for him to make a debut play an slowly integrate in the team, you can’t put him in fire straight away.
in case you missed the Stoke game, Flamini was assigned the task of man marking Bojan, and he done it that well, Bojan was taken off, having made no impact what so ever, but hey don’t let little things like that get in the way of having a whing about one of our players.
Does the (c) next to terry’s name indicate cunt?
Clearly as we have no “c” in our lineup. 🙂
Can’t be, otherwise there’s 10 missing…
Real opportunity today! CONYG let’s smash these cunts
I would have loved Gabriel for The BFG today.
Not having Mertesacker on the pitch didn’t exactly help things at Stamford Bridge
Didn’t exactly help today either.
Know it shouldn’t bother me too much, but I hope Gunnerblog didn’t have a point on the arsecast when he suggested elneny may have just been brought in to add another body to the squad. Just a bit disheartening to see the midfield un-changed after a few rather uninspiring performances from that part of the pitch. At least Coquelin’s close to returning.
Theo Theo Theo!
Nice to see alexis back man coyg play well team and solid blocking
It’s a shame our Coq isn’t out there but with Özil in and Alexis on the bench the strength is starting to return.
Please no nervy-heart-in-the-mouth stuff boys, let’s go for the kill from the beginning and then bring on Gabriel in injury time when we’re well in front to kick their inbred Brazilian/Spanish number 10 into row Z.
It’s payback time
Fuck. A red card already.
Fucking idiot merteshit
It’s Ramsey and Flamini that must take the share of the blame, our midfield a nonexistent
f**k you Chelscum, f**k you Costa, f**k you Clattenberk.
Why? Its not their fault he’s sloww and a liability. Christ he ducks when he jumps to head the ball
Oh, piss off.
Awww bless, best go to bed x
The self destruct button on the season was pressed a little early but we all knew it was going to happen.
At best we can hope for a draw today.
At best we can hope that Santi, our Coq and Alexis get on the pitch asap to stop the season imploding.
You can begin the thumbs down….NOW!
Really look like we’re not getting anything out of this.
Someone call Guardiola now.
Mertesacker is a good defender, but he is CRIMINALLY slow. If the entire team isn’t set up to compensate for that, any oposition of decent quality will exploit this blatant weakness over and over and over again. It’s not even as if Costa is quicksilver, he just happens to move faster than your average turtle.
WTF, why have Giroud against Terry? Why not start with Theo and bring Giroud in the second half. Pace scares the shit out if Chelsea CBs.
Why the hell did the BFG slide in? Costa had to beat Cech. Deserved the sending off. Poor decision making by the manager and the captain on the field!
Because Theo has done fuck all for weeks
My God we ae just so weak,mentality and physically.We’ll never beat stoke away,Chelsea or the league.truly depressing
Whatever I don’t care about this match anymore. At least City drew.
Hopefully there will be some lessons learned from this. Not heard them say it for a while
Safe to say we can forget the title, can’t even beat relegation dross like this!!!!
I fancy us in the second half…COYG!
Still creating chances,this aint over yet
It’s always easier to criticise in retrospect but who thinks Giroud would’ve done better than Gabriel for their headed goal?
The guy had just come on and wasn’t on the pace of the game. Monreal should have challenged Oscar to make the cross more difficult.
I think the real problem is Flamini and Ramsey not covering properly.
I believe we v got the players to go all the way… really. But Arsene just keep fucking up his team selections. Mert is too slow for a game like this. Gabriel a player who IMO is the best CB we v got was left out. Forget cunt costa diving he wouldn’t have been put in that position if he wasn’t pitifully slow. Mert is great barring his pace but our best CB pairing is Gab & Kos. Left to the fellas on the pitch to really dig in & get us somthing. They aren’t doing so badly at the… Read more »
Rch I admire your optimism but fact is our current performance is as shocking as DS Barnaby in Midsomer massacre!!! I can categorically say we have NO chance of winning the league – mental strength? One of the strongest squads in the league? Can’t beat dross like chsvski, Norwich, liverpoo and other pony with injuries and poor form!!! I dread the game at manure – one we have no excuse for not winning but will predictably mess up!!! The slump happened in February last time, thanks for bringing it a month forward – I don’t think!!!;
Oh yeah whilst I am having a rant why not play Sanchez and elneny from the start? Take these games seriously you plonkers!!!!
I wish we were able to use the smart foul as well as the likes of the Chelski scum but when we try we get a red. Oh dear.
Result sucks but we’re on points with City. Not much to say. Time to regroup and on to the next. We’re still in this.
Its clear to see that ramsey and flamini are a horrible midfield partnership.. Flamini lacks positional sense, never engages the ball carrier and allows the opposition the chance to engage our final third far too easily and too often. he drops too deep and even platt said it during the game. he sits alongside the defenders in a back 5 almost and thats just too deep. Coq was immense because he always engaged the carrier and hassled. Mertesacker got found out again today. constantly drifts to the wrong side of strikers and its almost like in his own mind he… Read more »