closed Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea

[Pizy 18,370]

I smell a spanking. I'm going 4-1 to us.

[Vesper 28,879]

4 hours ago, Special Juan said:

If fit Kante comes in for Jorginho, a midfield 3 of Kante, Mount and Kovacic, with Willian Pulisic and Giroud the three up top.

and Willy in goal!

[Puliiszola 519]

5 hours ago, Vesper said:

and Willy in goal!

At this point, goes without saying.

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

6 hours ago, Vesper said:

and Willy in goal!

It's what i was going to say...

If thats the case does that mean Kepa is out the door?

And we're gonna win the FA cup, terrific season Frank

[Vesper 28,879]

17 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

It's what i was going to say...

If thats the case does that mean Kepa is out the door?

And we're gonna win the FA cup, terrific season Frank

Willy is the Cup GKer anyway

Kepa must be surely gone

whethera loan or a massive loss sale

Valenica or Sevilla for the loan, PSG for the cut-rate sale is what I am thinking

I cannot wrap my head around how he got so bad

he was NEVER like this before (and I mean going back 5,6 years to when he was 19 or 20)

I ripped the scouting for ages (before the last 12 months or so)

but ffs, we surely had reasons why we bought him

we didnt just go' Oh, he is cute, decent size (not huge though) athletic, young, has looked solid for past 3, 4 years, and Real and many other teams want him so lets spend £140m fucking pounds over 7 years on him'

we cannot be that stupid, no one can

I think (and yes, this is so so often overused) he actually does have serious mental block and mental state of mind issues

I think that Sarri confrontation (and the fact we lost) plus his GF leaving were his 'AC Barca collapse' twin Waterloos

neither has recovered

they are mentally weak souls (which is mind-blowing (to generalise) for a Dane and a Basque, as those are two tough motherfucking peoples by their collective cultures and histories, up to the present times)

[Vegetable 830]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

 

I cannot wrap my head around how he got so bad

he was NEVER like this before (and I mean going back 5,6 years to when he was 19 or 20)

I ripped the scouting for ages (before the last 12 months or so)

but ffs, we surely had reasons why we bought him

I have some suspicions about a reason why…

I mean, I have nothing against Hilario, but c'mon, I'd expect we have nasa-tier coach staff and psychologist, at least send someone to help him, for f's sake. I can't imagine rather terrible keeper to suddenly become mad gk scientist mentor, who can coach and develop young keepers to become THE best on his own. Plus every third of our players mentally collapses because of media pressure and London's weather. Breakups are bad, but it's just part of life and a lot of PL been through real tragedies and managed to get theirs stuff together. We should have re-hired Jose as mental coach years ago  

 

[Tomo 21,733]

14 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

I think we got lucky to win at Emirates. Jorginho should seen red and Leno howler...

Maybe to a point but atleast we were probing and controlling the game. At The Bridge they done literally nothing and scored with their only ventures forward.

[Vesper 28,879]

52 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

I have some suspicions about a reason why…

I mean, I have nothing against Hilario, but c'mon, I'd expect we have nasa-tier coach staff and psychologist, at least send someone to help him, for f's sake. I can't imagine rather terrible keeper to suddenly become mad gk scientist mentor, who can coach and develop young keepers to become THE best on his own. Plus every third of our players mentally collapses because of media pressure and London's weather. Breakups are bad, but it's just part of life and a lot of PL been through real tragedies and managed to get theirs stuff together. We should have re-hired Jose as mental coach years ago  

 

Mou IS mental himself

it is like hiring the lunatics to run the asylum

[NikkiCFC 7,965]

Winning culture in Chelsea has to continue.

It is crazy how even last two seasons when we finished 5th and 3rd we still won a trophy. Fa cup with Conte and EL with Sarri.

Lets do it again. And we also lost Carabao cup and Super Cup on penalties in the last 18 months.

 

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Would love for Frank to win his first managerial trophy.

Honestly think we will lose though. Arty will play a back 5 and we'll struggle to break them down. They were so good defensively against City.

I think they'll counter the hell out of as us if we play 433. I hope frank keeps this tight and continues with 3 at the back, switching jorginho for kante which will domimate their 2. Still play pulisic, Giroud and Willian. Mount will have to sit out.

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[Atomiswave 6,072]

You can bet they will sit back and look to hit on the counter, we must be compact cuz they have fast and decently clinical finishers.

[King Kante 1,486]

37 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

You can bet they will sit back and look to hit on the counter, we must be compact cuz they have fast and decently clinical finishers.

Yeah we need Kante back to track Aubame-blood-clart-yang

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, Supermonkey92 said:

Would love for Frank to win his first managerial trophy.

Honestly think we will lose though. Arty will play a back 5 and we'll struggle to break them down. They were so good defensively against City.

I think they'll counter the hell out of as us if we play 433. I hope frank keeps this tight and continues with 3 at the back, switching jorginho for kante which will domimate their 2. Still play pulisic, Giroud and Willian. Mount will have to sit out.

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Arsenal were good defensively against Man City but so did we when we played them in the league. Furthermore, we all know Arsenal and us can unreliable defensively. So, it's kind of a toss-up on which side will show up in the final.

If we are to win this, we basically need to do what we did against United and Wolves - don't do anything silly, pick the moments to attack (and hopefully score) and then shithouse our way to a win. Might not be pretty but when you get to a final, it's all about winning. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,489]

The gooners really need this, they will choke.

[Strike 7,218]

Arteta may have set up brilliantly against City and Liverpool but I think if Lampard is not naive and if he keeps our defensive shape then this is only going to end with Chelsea probing Arsenal's goal for most of the game just like the two league games this season. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[NikkiCFC 7,965]

Winner of this will face Liverpool in exactly one month!

Bayern is on August 8th I guess players will have only two weeks off after that game.

We lost last 5 CS games!!! 

Kai, Hakim and Timo debut.

[Vesper 28,879]