The English Football Thread

[kellzfresh 7,226]

Mane and Chamberlain have done what no winger in Chelsea except hazard can do: face your defender beat him with a dribble and score. No Chelsea winger except hazard can do this. Just petty leg overs and no dribble. 

Arsenal defenders

[communicate 2,703]

This is fun 

[communicate 2,703]

2 minutes ago, kellzfresh said:

Mane and Chamberlain have done what no winger in Chelsea except hazard can do: face your defender beat him with a dribble and score. No Chelsea winger except hazard can do this. Just petty leg overs and no dribble. 

Arsenal defenders

Mane goals was brilliant but chambers is just so bad as CB. 

[nyikolajevics 2,418]

Just now, communicate said:

Mane goals was brilliant but chambers is just so bad as CB. 

 

Chambers is so bad at football.

[kmk108 1,186]

This is great. Both teams are getting a chance to bottle it.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Scoreline's hardly surprising for two teams looking defensively dire . 

Not sure why I'm laughing, like we're not going into the season with Ivanovic-Terry-Cahill.

[communicate 2,703]

These two teams should play more

[Hostedenis 556]

16 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

Scoreline's hardly surprising for two teams looking defensively dire . 

Not sure why I'm laughing, like we're not going into the season with Ivanovic-Terry-Cahill.

Tomorrow'll be too soon, but shortly thereafter looks like we'll have Zouma - Koulibaly. Doesn't sound too bad, although I've yet to see how they do as CB partners.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

1 minute ago, Hostedenis said:

Tomorrow'll be too soon, but shortly thereafter looks like we'll have Zouma - Koulibaly. Doesn't sound too bad, although I've yet to see how they do as CB partners.

Koulibaly is an IF until I see otherwise. 

Granted re Zouma, however I worry to what environment he returns to. Partnering Terry/Cahill with Zouma won't be the biggest problem, but I worry about then the pressure that's on Zouma to basically be so at the top of him game he can cover Terry/Cahill's own shortcomings. I guess it's a moot point if we do sign Koulibaly, but should we not and end up signing a sideman we're going to be incredibly fragile at the back..

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Bournemouth and Arsenal's defenders make Cahill and Ivanovic look like Baresi and Maldini in their prime.

[Pizy 17,860]

Having watched everyone else this weekend I'm feeling a bit more confident. Everyone else is just as shit defensively as we are.

Get Hazard firing like he has been and Diego back to being himself and we'll be in business.

[communicate 2,703]

Finally real football is back. Euro was awful.

 

[Special Juan 27,090]

Arsenal

[Hostedenis 556]

22 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

Koulibaly is an IF until I see otherwise. 

I agree, which is why I said it looks like we'll have Zouma/Koulibaly. Not a certainty. 

I do hope Zouma can return to the form he was in previous to his injury.

[iceboy 992]

Really can't wait for Arsenal fan tv. Should be fun 

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

you guys won't be laughing when you see what west ham will do our defense if we do not score at least 4 goals on Monday night.

west ham will score 4 goals against us on Monday night that's how bad our defense is at the moment.

[iceboy 992]

Well having seeing all our rivals now I am more confident with our team. We really really can do something beautiful this season. 

[Beigl 1,386]

Well having seeing all our rivals now I am more confident with our team. We really really can do something beautiful this season. 

We have to wait to see what happens tomorrow, I wouldn't put it past West Ham to score two or more goals against our bad defence. A bad start to the season could leave us in trouble.