PL: Arsenal v Chelsea | January 19, 2019 17:30 GMT | BT Sport

[razörist]

He still stuck with the system when AMN came on, let’s hope he doesn’t bottle it and go conservative again

That is true, but he also had 4 defensive midfielders on the pitch. 442 with elneny, torreira, guendouzi, xhaka isn’t what we will normally do. I’m seriously afraid that the back five will come back, but that’s a problem for later.

 

[Camron]

Even El Neny was good.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

I also thought the midfielders were excellent in patches, particularly Xhaka. Was on it today, fully focused.

Didn't start well but after first 10 minutes he was solid as rock.

 

[NieThePiet]

Finally two CBs who made their job reliable.

The Bellerin injury..

 

[Beast Incarnate]

The most solid we've looked this season tbh. The CBs had a stormer and our defence restricted them to half chances.

 

[dka1]

Great result.

Gutted for Bellerin personally. Also not going to be easy to carry on without him or even replace him.

We might aswell go ahead and replace him now.

Put it this way; Litchsteiner is gone in the summer so we need an back up RB anyway.

If there's any chance we can get a decent RB and then spend less in the summer we need to go for it.

Unless we have a young upcoming RB that can fill in?

 

[A_G]

We needed this win today like I dont know what. That was our biggest game of the season so far and we won it.

This was the definition of a season defining game, now if Sp**s drop points tomorrow even 3rd is attainable

 

[2Smokeyy]

Hary Kane is within range now too...

Corrected

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Think Emery got the set up pretty much right on, four at the back works a lot better for us and two up to is lovely to see.

I think Özil instead of Iwobi is the only thing I'd rather have see, think Mesut gives us much more chance of countering effectively as he's much savvier at finding space when breaking out.

 

[Jasard]

Going to have to buy a right back, Bellerin wont be fully back until some way in to next season surely

 

[Penn_]

Great result, slightly soured by Bellerin’s injury and what will likely be a return of the back five.

 

[A_G]

3 wins on the bounce, today was the day I ended @OnlyOne career

 

[tap-in]

That is how you shut up us whinging fans!

 

[krengon]

He still stuck with the system when AMN came on, let’s hope he doesn’t bottle it and go conservative again

The difference is so big, I really can’t see him going 5 at the back now..

 

[field442]

Great first 45 that allowed us to sit back a bit in the second half. I think he needs to rethink his policy of bringing Lacazette off. We need someone up there who can hold it up, especially in a game like today when we kept getting deeper and deeper.

 

[Manberg]

Proud of the performance and the result. Sadly I'm still not confident we'll get top 4.

 

[Jury]

2-0.

Disposed of like a rancid Ukrainian Krokodil zombie off the top of a tower block.

 

[hope1]

Great result. Emery nailed it today.

Özil should have come on instead of Iwobi.

Gutted for Bellerin

 

[progman07]

A clean sheet finally!

 

[Box2Box]

We need a classy attacking right back. We've been weak going forward on the right since Hector was out and we will be again now.