Pizy

----------------------Ba------------------------ Schürrle------------Mata-------------Hazard --------------Mikel---------Ramires------------- Cole------Terry-----------Cahill------Ivanovic ----------------------Cech---------------------------- I'd really like to see a more powerful and balanced side like this against a physical Stoke side who are at home. Ba and Schürrle should be able to deal with those defenders and we'd still have flair and creativity up there with Mata and Hazard. Mikel in for Frank since he just started and played a full match midweek. Prediction: Stoke 1-3 Chelsea

I'd be absolutely delighted if we only signed one player and he was a top class CM. We can sustain a title challenge with our current crop of strikers if we just solidify the middle of the field. Address the striker issue in the summer. Ba and Eto'o will be gone, possibly Torres too, Lukaku back, and we can hopefully add another.

Fucking RIDICULOUS skill! I jumped out of my seat yesterday when he did those 3v1's down the left touch line.

I hope we buy that detestable cunt.I want him to be OUR detestable cunt.

Think about regular performances like last nights and imagine, DREAM if you will, what it would be like with a world class striker up top as well. Hazard was shitting on them so hard that there was HALF OF THEIR SIDE trying to mark him! Imagine Falcao or Suarez with so much space in an around the box. Defenders would be shitting themselves trying to not only worry about Hazard, but then they'd have Mata/Oscar/Shürrle/Willian/Lukaku/New Striker to worry about as well. The kind of stuff I fantasize about. We're literally just 2 pieces away from being an utterly dominating side. And Lukaku next season may rectify one of them without us spending anything. Just a top class DM to allow Hazard and company more freedom going forward and we're all set.

Hopefully someone does a "every Hazard touch" video tonight.

Wonder how those Stoke ogres are feeling right now. They'll just lump it up into our box and throw it in long at every opportunity.

Can we please, please, PLEEEEEASE buy Suarez!? Another hattrick today. We'd be utterly unstoppable with him. No way they sell him in January though.

Sorry I get upset when our team does its best to shoot itself in the foot.Happy for the win of course, but every one of their goals was easily preventable.

That was one of, if not THE most embarrassingly bad defensive displays I've witnessed. All of their goals happened the exact same way. Our players couldn't find the damn ball and it looked like a game of pinball in our box. Shocking. I'd be furious if I were Jose. Hazard was God tier tonight though luckily.

A good poacher like Ba would suit this game more than Torres does at the moment. Think he would've done better with some of the opportunities Fernando had that first half.

As always, would've gone with Mikel over Lamps. Other than that, sexy team. Should be able to do the business, but I have a feeling we'll make this as hard for ourselves as possible like we always seem to do against bad teams.

I get the feeling we won't be buying anyone.

They won't. That's the type of match that's Arsenal's forté. They always smack the minnows around. It'll probably be a 4-0. I'm not expecting Arse to drop many points against anyone other than the top sides.

Have a feeling Le Arse will start to slip up soon enough. Of the utmost importance that we get all 3 points against the likes of Sunderland and Stoke. My preferred team tomorrow: --------------Torres------------- Schürrle----Mata----Willian ---------Mikel------Ramires-------- Cole----Terry-----Cahill----Iva --------------Cech--------------

Have an awful feeling that he'll end up at United if we don't jump soon. He and Barkley both. Not saying I want Barkley, but these are just the type of player they love to buy. Perfect Cole replacement.

I absolutely love Oscar, but he often looks amazing against weak opposition. He fades into the background a lot of the time and goes missing when we need him the most and doesn't exactly make everyone around him better. Mata does.Only problem is that when we play quality opponents Hazard/Oscar/Mata doesn't seem to work well. Such a frustrating problem to have since you don't want to see either of Juan or Oscar on the bench. All the more reason I wish SO FUCKING BADLY that we had a world class DM so that Oscar could move back to CM. Think it could be his best position.

This team should have 3 undroppables. Cech, Terry, and Juan Mata. This guy has played almost no football for us in the league and was pure class today. And you could easily tell he wasn't even at his sharpest. The only time Mata should be on the bench is when we need bags of pace to exploit an opponent. Oscar has looked out of it for the last few matches. Time to give a fresh Juan Mata a long run of games.

Willian is so silky smooth!

Willian is so silky smooth!

Oscar and Lamps for Shürrle and Mata please.

We are getting fucking DOMINATED by Basel! This is absolutely embarrassing so far.

Has Oscar had a single touch in 22 mintutes?

Can someone please explain to me why/how we're making Basel look like a top Premier League side here!? FFS. Don't see any way they don't score at least one here today.

Jose better have one hell of a player lined up to swap Mata for. Think he's almost certainly off in January. We'll regret selling him immediately unless we bring in someone as good as he is.