Closed Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea

[James 5,332]

Where's the MOM poll?

Bluesmaster no where to be seen, I'll add it when I get home.

[Zoro 151]

Guys, remember we are NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE RESULT BUT THE APPROACH, thank you.

We lost to both Stoke and Sunderland. Losing this game would have put a further dent in our teams confidence. This was the best way to take points off a rival and gain a point. I dont want to see Chelsea play like this all the time but sometimes it is necessary.

[Barbara 15,149]

2 points off top spot at Christmas, outplayed a title contender on their own pitch. Well aren't we screwed? May as well give up now and forfeit the rest of our games this season.

let's bring Benitez back. We played great football at the end of the season with awesome 2x1 plays.

[Waterfall 893]

Anyone happy with this game is basically admitting Arsenal is BETTER THAN CHELSEA. Because that is the clearly the approach Jose thought of here. You don't go and park the bus at a worse team's stadium.

Arsenal have hardly been worse than us this season. Also, we lost at Everton, Newcastle and Stoke, and they aren't even better than us. A point at Emirates is a good result considering how awful we've been away from home.

[haranr 485]

Just to be clear, If Mourinho thinks a draw here is good than fine but it gives the Liverpool game a must- must win and if we fail, Mourinho failed BIG TIME.

[Toli 977]

Anyone happy with this game is basically admitting Arsenal is BETTER THAN CHELSEA. Because that is the clearly the approach Jose thought of here. You don't go and park the bus at a worse team's stadium.

well at the moment, they are in a better form than we are. and they have one proper striker at least.

we should have brought on Mata instead of Oscar...could have had more impact. Oscar is really underperforming at the moment. Mata wouldnt have played worse. Schürrle was a good choice, but we couldnt get him into the game at all and couldnt use his speed properly.

[yuvala 2,167]

Why cant we be this focused and organised against the shitty teams? ...

[Mouri_Matic 560]

We lost to both Stoke and Sunderland. Losing this game would have put a further dent in our teams confidence. This was the best way to take points off a rival and gain a point. I dont want to see Chelsea play like this all the time but sometimes it is necessary.

But you have to take risks in life to success, we got MUCH BETTER PLAYERS than them, why can't we go there and dominate like we did last season? next a draw against Liverpool and Swansea and suddenly it won't look a good result anymore

[Weckerz 3,781]

well at the moment, they are in a better form than we are. and they have one proper striker at least.

Who?

[Zoro 151]

Just to be clear, If Mourinho thinks a draw here is good than fine but it gives the Liverpool game a must- must win and if we fail, Mourinho failed BIG TIME.

How does this even make sense?

[didierforever 7,349]

good result. i dont know what all this pessimism is here, but this is a good point. we kept a clean sheet and got a draw at the home of a fellow title contender. brilliant defensive performance. JT was outstanding. azpi was great. mikel was phenomenol in the first half. but our front 3 bottled it bad. nonetheless 2 points of the top with 1st and 3rd playing in 2 days' time and either one or both of them going to drop points... its a brilliant situation to be in.

cech - good performance. great save off giroud in the end. dint have much else to do though. 7/10

iva - got caught a few times in possesion but was good defensively. 7/10

cahill - decent performance. but again he got bullied by giroud in air balls. a lot of times giroud just simply held him off to let ozil, walcott make runs behind him. 7/10

JT- MOTM. no doubt about it. just fabulous. his positioning is out-of-the-world. but i still dont know what happened on the last corner. it seemed he would get his head on the ball but suddenly let it go. 9/10

azpi - really good performance. intercepted the ball plenty of times and dint let walcott's pace be a harm for him. 8/10

mikel - was absolutely phenomenol in the first half hour /forst half. simply bossed the mid but went awol in the 2nd half. 8/10

lamps - good performance. did a nice job on ozil. was physical and showed ozil who is the boss. also got ahead very well. should have scored amd was very unlucky not to. 8/10

rambo - a few sloppy passes aside, he was brilliant. did the bull work to perfection. arteta got owned by him today. 8/10

willian - great workrate, but really poor decision making in the last 3rd again. he took the shot with rambo and torres free at the far post and too a weak shot, and his pass to hazard/rambo in the other 4 on 3 was a nothing pass. 6/10

hazard - pathetic. horrible. lost the ball almost every bloody time it touched him. a couple of times he tried to take 10 arsenal players on, rest of the times he invited sagna to make a tackle rather than take the initiative and simply run at him. he was supposed to be the game-changer today but instead he was the flop of the match for me. 4/10

torres - amazing workrate. wona lot of aerial duels to get others involved. full of running. well thats all their was to say about him. he dint get a sniff cos we dint create. 7/10

subs -

schurrle- could not impose himself. arsenal were really on top of us when he came in and we simply dint get any oppurtunities. but he SHOULD be starting games ahead of hazard as a LW.

oscar - forst 3 touches, all to the opposition. another rusty performance. after a brilliant start to the season, he has simply been poor to average since his injury and it is hurting us cos the team was made around his workrate.

luiz - i honestly thought he was goiung to score. but not to be.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Who?

Bendtner

[Zoro 151]

But you have to take risks in life to success, we got MUCH BETTER PLAYERS than them, why can't we go there and dominate like we did last season? next a draw against Liverpool and Swansea and suddenly it won't look a good result anymore

Because when we try to "dominate" we cant score our chances and we end up conceding 90th minute goal. We cant go all out against fucking Stoke without losing, how can we do it against Arsenal.

[yuvala 2,167]

But you have to take risks in life to success, we got MUCH BETTER PLAYERS than them, why can't we go there and dominate like we did last season? next a draw against Liverpool and Swansea and suddenly it won't look a good result anymore

We cant because we're not there yet, and we know it.

We cant dominate Sunderland ...

[haranr 485]

How does this even make sense?

It means that If he feels okay to take 1 points from Arsenal when we could have taken 3, he must understand that if we lose points vs liverpool he failedd.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Because when we try to "dominate" we cant score our chances and we end up conceding 90th minute goal. We cant go all out against fucking Stoke without losing, how can we do it against Arsenal.

Whose fault is that? the MANAGER. Why can the likes of Martinez do it with far worse players at Everton? Jose doesn't know how to instruct our team to attack properly so he took the easy way out, by parking the bus like he used to again.

[nachikethas 1,154]

Good performance. Great defending. After all the talk about arsenal free flowing style football hypes they were shit. Well done Jose.now up for the epl.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

We cant because we're not there yet, and we know it.

We cant dominate Sunderland ...

Yes but are we ever going to be there if this is the approach Jose gonna take from now on? what have changed from his 1st spell if we are gonna do this in all the big games against?

[Zoro 151]

Whose fault is that? the MANAGER. Why can the likes of Martinez do it with far worse players at Everton? Jose doesn't know how to instruct our team to attack properly so he took the easy way out, by parking the bus like he used to again.

I dunno. We have had quite a few managers and the most effective way we play is and has been for a while defensively.

[yuvala 2,167]

Whose fault is that? the MANAGER. Why can the likes of Martinez do it with far worse players at Everton? Jose doesn't know how to instruct our team to attack properly so he took the easy way out, by parking the bus like he used to again.

Dont take it personally but some people have to understand that Jose \ any other manager for that matter is no magician.

IT TAKES TIME to build a team around certain tactics and mentallity, especially a team like us who doesnt have a system, changes managers all the time etc.