Arsenal v Chelsea, Sunday December 16, 4pm.

[RocktheCasbah]

Just seen on F365 that fat Fwank pushed one of our ballboys over whilst Eboue was being taken off- anyone see this?

Regarding Eboue, undoubtedly he's a horrible piece of work, but it was great to see him take out the thug Terry- who, as my Sp**s supporting mate observed, was out to injure one of our players from the 1st minute.

Gutted we didn't manage to live up to my wildly optimistic 5-1 prediction, but what a great feeling to beat those f'ckers again. And an added bonus that it was Gallas who scored it.

And Gael Clichy man of the match...

 

[Mbaki Mutahaba]

It was a satisfying win in the end, but the first half seems to be symptomatic of how our big games are going, which is a concern for me. As sharply as we can shift the ball in midfield, the games against United and Chelsea have shown that we can be reduced to having almost no shots on goal for a full half of football when we come up against a midfield that works efficinetly in tandem with it's defense.

Mate, any top team when they play against another top team that is mostly focusing on a draw will have a hard time to create chances. You better get used to it..its symptomaatic..its just quality opposition..and there is quality opposition in teams like Manure.Cheslki or in CL. Shots on goals against quality teams happens when you fail to penetrate. We dont have too many shooters..besides RvP. Maybe we should have taken more shots from outside but with Cesc..and chelsea backline closing us down. i dont think the shots will have been that effective. Dont read too much in shots taken. It was a good win..Chelsea are still a good side and playign a midfield of lampard,Obi,Makelele..penetrating was always going to be difficult.

 

[Legend#1]

Just seen on F365 that fat Fwank pushed one of our ballboys over whilst Eboue was being taken off- anyone see this?

Regarding Eboue, undoubtedly he's a horrible piece of work, but it was great to see him take out the thug Terry- who, as my Sp**s supporting mate observed, was out to injure one of our players from the 1st minute.

Gutted we didn't manage to live up to my wildly optimistic 5-1 prediction, but what a great feeling to beat those f'ckers again. And an added bonus that it was Gallas who scored it.

And Gael Clichy man of the match...

No, I saw it, purely accidental.

When Fwank turned to throw the ball, his flabby child bearing hips just swung and hit the ball boy.

 

[USArsenal]

symptomatic in that we won the match.. i'll take that symptom...

 

[RocktheCasbah]

Ah. Fair enough, he's still a c.u.n.t. though.

 

[EMIR8_SOLDIER]

We also kept a clean sheet for the first time in about 4 matches


Rightttt, the happiness died out yesterday, this match was more about justice to me and of course winning

But justice turned out to be much more sweeter

Lets get this blackburn thread hooked up

 

[celestis]

What really impressed me yesterday was they way that our midfielders and defenders shut down Joe Cole and Lampard , especially Cole who has given us a torrid time in the past.

 

[USArsenal]

yeah, good thing.. if we hadnt, we wouldnt have won... good to keep one against another top 4 club too...


(although, to be fair, this was the first match in quite a while with almost our whole first team available)

 

[EMIR8_SOLDIER]

All our retuning players lost their energy towards the last ten minutes but we showed persistance and character to pull out the vital win

 

[USArsenal]

yeah, Cesc especially looked like he ran out of gas in the last 10-15 minutes.. if he was at full strength, he probably would have buried 1 or both of the fantastic chances he had... (both were shot right at Cech)..

 

[Clrnc]

true, we really wasted alot of chances at the end, so my heart was still in my mouth when chelsea attacks. i was thinking whether our missed chances will come back to haunt us.

i thought the referee was **** yesterday, i don't think any of our tackles deserved red, neither do i actually think terry deserved red. but cole does deserve red for that punch on cesc.

 

[tam1886]

Caption time.





"Bendtner shock at Fabregas giving Cole what he wants"

 

[KingReyes]

Looks like Cesc is looking for his mobile phone.

 

[lagos]

Just heard that Terry broke 3 bones and will be out for six weeks

 

[tam1886]

Just heard that Terry broke 3 bones and will be out for six weeks

Good

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 70,00.html

 

[bojed]

hopefully it'll be for 6 years.

 

[Biggus]

What I meant was, if we had faced a full strength Chelsea at Stamford Bridgski without van Persie, Flamini, Gallas and Touré and not lost, then we'd have felt pretty pleased with ourselves.

Yeah- without Essien & Drogba they look half the team.

 

[Illusion]

Just heard that Terry broke 3 bones and will be out for six weeks

Good

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 70,00.html

6 weeks for such an injury seems a bit optimistic to me, but I am used to Arsenal injury recovery times, which seem double Chelsea's. If that was one of our guys I guarantee we'd be told 6 weeks but it would be more like 3 months.

 

[number_0]

can someone explain to me why the eboue foul on terry was a yellow card, i dont think eboue was the player who stuck his foot in, it was terry, and i thought he landed it awkardly, no yellow card for me....

and credits to the boys, after the first 15 minutes we knew we wont have things played our way with the chelsea dirty style and the ref, so we actually started playing DIRTY ourselves, with legs flying everywhere, diving and constant argueing....

this is the first time i see this generation of arsenal ever play dirty, and i am proud of them.

now excuse me i have to read the papers and see why chelsea think they deserved to win that game

 

[USArsenal]

Caption time.

it puts the lotion on its' skin.........