Chelsea vs Arsenal official thread

Agooner wrote:Djourou!

another quality performance from this 19 year old youngster.

He looked good, but what about senderos hey?

Oleguerisntthatbad wrote:

FeyDerGeileWeihnachtsmann wrote:Chelsea is so much better with Robben or J.Cole in the team, much more pace. Surely Mourinho must see this.

Well then he would have to admit that he was wrong in signing Ballack and Sheva. Instead he tries to change his succesful system.

History proves that changing a winning team is almost never succesful. So why would that work with Chelsea With the signings of Ballack and Sheva, you get the "Real Madrid" effect. Too many captains at one ship. Sheva should never be playing in the EPL anyway.

Great win for Manchester, if Giggs and Scholes stay fit the title is theirs.

J cole is a fanstic player, he should always be starting

Robben must start.

L r d wrote:

Agooner wrote:Djourou!

another quality performance from this 19 year old youngster.

He looked good, but what about senderos hey?

senderos doesn't play well against drogba, he is fine against all other forwards.

Who do you leave out? It must be sheva if anyone

LuisYouAMerryChristmas wrote:J cole is a fanstic player, he should always be starting

Robben is far better

FeyDerGeileWeihnachtsmann wrote:

Oleguerisntthatbad wrote:

FeyDerGeileWeihnachtsmann wrote:Chelsea is so much better with Robben or J.Cole in the team, much more pace. Surely Mourinho must see this.

Well then he would have to admit that he was wrong in signing Ballack and Sheva. Instead he tries to change his succesful system.

History proves that changing a winning team is almost never succesful. So why would that work with Chelsea With the signings of Ballack and Sheva, you get the "Real Madrid" effect. Too many captains at one ship. Sheva should never be playing in the EPL anyway.

Great win for Manchester, if Giggs and Scholes stay fit the title is theirs.

My money would still be on Chelsea.. they are a machine and will eat up Man Utd's lead slowly, but surely (unfortunately)

Hamburg 1-2 Arsenal

Man Utd 0-1 Arsenal

Arsenal 3-0 Tottenham

Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal


...all without that over-elaborate poof with his socks pulled over his kneecaps.

has Jose been crying??

I am fucking pissed off.

Why is it that Chelsea are impossible to beat at home? they always come up with some wonderstrike/penalty/header...etc

Its so fucking annoying!

Im dissapointed now.

Chelsea had mroe chances but they always will have more chances at the bridge so to score and be winning was fantastic. Even if they did hit the post a few times, its still annoying to loose from a goal that should never have happened.

decent game is should have ended 3-2 if helb has stayed compose and Essien and Lampard has scored but a draw is the proper result fo both teams.

Djourou is Class Senderos is Shit. could have cost arsenal the game and that foul and drogba was a Penalty/

Gilberto MOTM

ParktheHeraldAngelsSing wrote:I wish AGooner was here to comment on Eboue vs Robben.

how many times did he go past him?

Eboue was very good today.

Agreed Gilberto MOTM easily. He put in a fucking monster tackle on Drogba at the end with the goal at Drogba's mercy.

Anyway, crap game overall. No quality really.

L r d wrote:Only caught the last 30 minutes, but i thought it was good stuff, could not look away. Hleb blew the chances to win the game, top corner side foot finish, but he blasted it over like a clown. the lemon almost fucked it up at the end there. Incredible goal from essien.

1-1 suits me fine anyhow

nah it was a dreadful game last 20 aside. zero combinations and football between slug, ballack, essien, shev and drogba. chelsea's only real threat was set pieces as usual while arsenal did their usual possession in front of the opposition without ever threatening. last 20 great though.

Well Done Arsenal

i thought you would lose today because of the players you had missing.

- - - - - - - - - Almunia - - - - - - - - -

Lauren - - Toure - - Gallas - - Hoyte

Walcott - Diaby - Rosicky - Ljungberg

- - - - - - - - - Baptista - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - Henry - - - - - - - - -


You beat Man Utd, Liverpool and draw against Chelsea, yet your 18 points behind Man Utd.

I blame chelsea for the first 70 minutes. Their 4 man central midfield meant that there was never any space at all to actually play football.
It cost them as well.

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:I blame chelsea for the first 70 minutes. Their 4 man central midfield meant that there was never any space at all to actually play football.
It cost them as well.

YOU HAD 5 in the middle!!

Essien goal should not have stood but fair result in the end.

Good, or at least fun, game - but low on quality. We rode our luck at times, but I thought we'd nicked it when Flamini scored. Still, the Essien wonder strike was worthy of any match. What a goal that was!

Jingle Bellack wrote:

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:I blame chelsea for the first 70 minutes. Their 4 man central midfield meant that there was never any space at all to actually play football.
It cost them as well.

YOU HAD 5 in the middle!!

No, we played a two on the wings and three in the middle. You played four in the middle thus compacting the game even more.
You were meant to be the home team...

He certainly is the best midfielder Chelsea got.

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:

Jingle Bellack wrote:

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:I blame chelsea for the first 70 minutes. Their 4 man central midfield meant that there was never any space at all to actually play football.
It cost them as well.

YOU HAD 5 in the middle!!

No, we played a two on the wings and three in the middle. You played four in the middle thus compacting the game even more.
You were meant to be the home team...

Except your wrong. You lined up to defend. You left Adebayor up top and only got your wingers forward when he had the ball. Thats a 4-5-1. You cant call our formation last year a 4-5-1 and not expect the same treatment. Gilberto-Fabregas-Flamini-Hleb and Van Persie (not in that order) were flat. yes they got forward, but then so did all the chelsea midfielders. Slightly ironic comment there kevin...

Hilario- 3 . had feck all to do and still managed to balls everything up. Worst kicker in the league?
Cole 5- Simply shit
Terry 6- didnt have much to do
carvalho- 6- Tough day from ade
geremi- 5 - didnt do anything
Lampard- 3 . Have no idea how he has reached this level with so little ability. Laughable midfield work
makalele- 6- happily watched arsenal pass the ball in front of him
Essien- 6- would have been a 4 but for the goal
ballack 3 - Who?
shevchenko- 3- Im officially writing him off. won't recieve any help from chelsea's midfield and the rest of his game is not good at all
drogba 6- diving, moaning idiot but a menace all the same

Robben 8- How he does not start is beyond me


Lehmann- 3- Oh dear. were you watching otto?
Eboue 4- disgracefully naive
senderos 2- worst player on pitch which was quite an achievement today
djorou- 6- average
clichy- 5- chelsea have no wingers so had nothing to do
gilberto 8- everywhere. one man midfield
cesc- 5- no influence
hleb- 6- brilliant technically but actually slows down the counter attacks.
flamini 5- goal should have been saved and did little else apart from foul
RVP- 6- decent enough but didnt do enough
Ade- 7- tireless effort. Give him a partner and he may turn into a very good player.

not really. You are failing to comprehend that Hleb and Van Persie were Wide, meaning that they did not take up nearly as much space in the middle as your players did. Playing a 4-5-1 with wingers was the only option we had to combat you playing your 4 man central midfield. Im not saying we didnt play a 4-5-1, but our 4-5-1 allows for more space in the middle than your 4 man central midfield.

KevintheRednoseReindeer wrote:not really. You are failing to comprehend that Hleb and Van Persie were Wide, meaning that they did not take up nearly as much space in the middle as your players did. Playing a 4-5-1 with wingers was the only option we had to combat you playing your 4 man central midfield. Im not saying we didnt play a 4-5-1, but our 4-5-1 allows for more space in the middle than your 4 man central midfield.

I get what you mean with them "being wingers" but as much time as they spent out wide, they easily spent the same amount of time in the middle. And your original comment was "Chelseas midfield was clogging up the park". Chelseas Midfield diamond does clog up the park, but today it was Arsenals midfield five that clogged it up.

Rafa the Grinch wrote:Hilario- 3 . had feck all to do and still managed to balls everything up. Worst kicker in the league?
Cole 5- Simply shit
Terry 6- didnt have much to do
carvalho- 6- Tough day from ade
geremi- 5 - didnt do anything
Lampard- 3 . Have no idea how he has reached this level with so little ability. Laughable midfield work
makalele- 6- happily watched arsenal pass the ball in front of him
Essien- 6- would have been a 4 but for the goal
ballack 3 - Who?
shevchenko- 3- Im officially writing him off. won't recieve any help from chelsea's midfield and the rest of his game is not good at all
drogba 6- diving, moaning idiot but a menace all the same

Robben 8- How he does not start is beyond me


Lehmann- 3- Oh dear. were you watching otto?
Eboue 4- disgracefully naive
senderos 2- worst player on pitch which was quite an achievement today
djorou- 6- average
clichy- 5- chelsea have no wingers so had nothing to do
gilberto 8- everywhere. one man midfield
cesc- 5- no influence
hleb- 6- brilliant technically but actually slows down the counter attacks.
flamini 5- goal should have been saved and did little else apart from foul
RVP- 6- decent enough but didnt do enough
Ade- 7- tireless effort. Give him a partner and he may turn into a very good player.

Glad i missed the first 60 then

Rafa the Grinch wrote:Hilario- 3 . had feck all to do and still managed to balls everything up. Worst kicker in the league?
Cole 5- Simply shit
Terry 6- didnt have much to do
carvalho- 6- Tough day from ade
geremi- 5 - didnt do anything
Lampard- 3 . Have no idea how he has reached this level with so little ability. Laughable midfield work
makalele- 6- happily watched arsenal pass the ball in front of him
Essien- 6- would have been a 4 but for the goal
ballack 3 - Who?
shevchenko- 3- Im officially writing him off. won't recieve any help from chelsea's midfield and the rest of his game is not good at all
drogba 6- diving, moaning idiot but a menace all the same

Robben 8- How he does not start is beyond me


Lehmann- 3- Oh dear. were you watching otto?
Eboue 4- disgracefully naive
senderos 2- worst player on pitch which was quite an achievement today
djorou- 6- average
clichy- 5- chelsea have no wingers so had nothing to do
gilberto 8- everywhere. one man midfield
cesc- 5- no influence
hleb- 6- brilliant technically but actually slows down the counter attacks.
flamini 5- goal should have been saved and did little else apart from foul
RVP- 6- decent enough but didnt do enough
Ade- 7- tireless effort. Give him a partner and he may turn into a very good player.

Harsh on Lampard but that would be your agendas.

Other then that..

Awful game which could have come from the Championship.

`What a BORE that game was - i switched over to CNN - anyway am happy with the result!

Man le'Arse played better but still way inferior quality of footy compared to the hogh-octane Redbloods style - and The Chavski...ZZzzzzzz!!!!