Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Arteta, Rosicky, Ramsey, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud
Subs: Fabianski, Monreal, Jenkinson, Flamini, Cazorla, Bendtner, Podolski
Chelsea: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Willian, Hazard; Torres.
Subs: Schwarzer, David Luiz, Cole, Oscar, Mata, Schurrle, Eto’o
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Excited to see Walcott and Rosicky in there!! Can’t wait for kickoff. COYG!
Boys need to overcome mental block they may have against chavs and turn in a performance. a smashing performance!
COYG!!!! 3 points please
Theo scores first anybody?
I would say Arsene has done it Per fect with that lineup – TR7 is going to be huge tonight
yeah this is 100% the starters i was hoping for with Koscielny out
I’d want Flamini for Chelsea’s muscle though. With arteta
absoloutly kaking it right now, COYG
Hope we don’t face the same cunt officiating we got at the etihad
Hoping Cazorla comes off the bench and scores so we can all sing “Santi Claus is coming to town”
Pre-match punditry…
“Blaaaaahh mental strength….. Blaaaaaaaah big games…… Blaaaaaaahhh Mourinho hoodoo…..”
Fuck this! *mute*.
Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea
Mehn! This keeps appearing in ma face “theo hatrick” “theo hatrick” anyone care to shed some light on it?
Great to see Poldi back on the bench, have a feeling he could be vital tonight.
LETS SMASH T*ERRY AND THE SCUM.
……T*rry…….
Could we not just put Diaby on the bench to scare Terry?
Personally I would’ve gone with:
Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Arteta, Rosicky, Ramsey, Ozil, Walcott, Giroud.
But what do I know!
Welsh Jesus, Giroud and Walcott to kick off the Christmas please. Thanks Santi.
Pete cech: “wdf? Is that prince poldi on the bench?”
Hmmm, bit worried that Flamini’s not playing. This looks a bit gung-ho
I AM SO EXCITED, YOU GUYS
Hate to be the one to point it out, but we don’t have any back-up central defender (bar Sagna).
Any one else absolutely loathes Ivanovic?
I hate his fucking nose… alright… ok. I’ll calm down… get some tea.
My general rule is if they play for Chelsea I hate them.
Best line up we could’ve gone with. Good work Arsene.
Really hoping ozil shines tonight. an awful amount of bollox being spoken about oz. owen has had his pop. this evening on irish radio mark lawrenson and cascarino talking utter shite about ozils lack of ability in big games and that madrid are not crying after him. fucking sick of these clueless english and irish one eyed pundits. time to make them eat their words. 3:0 come on u gunners.
the fans have to play their part tonight. Dont wanna hear those chelsea fans singing maureens name.
We have got to show those cunts where their place.
*is
Gary Neville “to be in fourth at the end of tonight would be a real dampener. It would have an effect on the players”.
Would it really though? Considering we’d only be a point off top spot, I don’t think it’ll effect the players too much.
According to the live blog line ups, Chelsea have got Eto’oxlade-Chamberlain on their bench!
COYG!
So excited that Poldi is back and ready to be called upon!
COYG!!!
All i want for Christmas is a win for Arsenal. Win,Lose or Tie, i am Gunners till i die…..
Best line up arsene,I pray we give em hell COYG
Tonight we become Arsenal
halftime. it looks bad. no mojo. chel$ki look more dangerous . bad feeling. ramsey is having a bad game. arsene should change things now not wait his ussual 70 th but what do i know. flamini for ramsey and santi for ozil.
Walcott need to play on the wing second half and stretch Chelsea!
Dean being a nump, just hope he don’t cost us the Muppet!
We played so well we didn’t need any subs?!?
Looked pretty rubbish out there. Toothless. Win the league? Not likely. Not like that we wont.
Giroud is hopeless tbh
The fuq are subs for?
sorry but if arsene doesn’t see that ramsey and ozil need a real break then we are fuck big time. please give the keys back to santi and rest ozil a bit cause he need to adjust to EPL. frustrating game, and no incentive a very few but we could have steal it if only we had a world class striker