Draw Premier League: Chelsea 2 - 2 Arsenal | Saturday 21st October | KO: 17:30 BST | Sky Sports

Prediction
Chelsea 0-2 Arsenal

 

[db10_therza]

Oh man. If we actually manage to have our first choice 11 fit and ready for this one…



Ps: yes I’m excluding timber for now. He will be like a new signing….

 

[RandomHero84]

I have this down as a 0-2 in our favour. I'd expect us to be able to field a strong team. Chelsea are poor in the boxes, an issue I think we've had. Problem with them is it's a lot more extreme.

One good game has not changed my mind. Nicolas Jackson will struggle against out back line. Our midfield is better, and we should have Saka back.

Add to this that our away form suffers less lapses than our home. We will not take them lightly, and it'll show.

 

[Tell.]

Chelsea are crap, nothing less than a comfortable 3 goal victory is expected.

If we don't beat this Chelsea side it'll be on the players, I'm absolving Mikel of any blame in advance.

 

[SA Gunner]

Lets finally see what our best team looks like.

Hopefully we show up and perform to our potential, that would be great. Chelsea wont be easy though, they are slowly getting it together.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Chelsea are crap, nothing less than a comfortable 3 goal victory is expected.

If we don't beat this Chelsea side it'll be on the players, I'm absolving Mikel of any blame in advance.

They are far from crap. Their underlying numbers are one of the strongest in the league. This will be a tough game.

 

[Tell.]

They are far from crap. Their underlying numbers are one of the strongest in the league. This will be a tough game.

I'll quote this on the 21st

 

[Tomb Bombadil]

Crazy how many chances Chelsea created per game.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Crazy how many chances Chelsea created per game.

They have done well, but tbf they have had a fairly kind start to the season fixture list wise

 

[db10_therza]

They are far from crap. Their underlying numbers are one of the strongest in the league. This will be a tough game.

Ye this has gone under the radar.

They’re underlying stats both in attack and in defence have been way way better than the league table suggests. They’re not that far away from things starting to click, and we may have already seen their lowest point this season.

Still, we’re gonna smash them.

 

[drippin]

They have done well, but tbf they have had a fairly kind start to the season fixture list wise

They have played 8 games now, this chart includes first 10 games. The next two are against Arsenal and Brentford, a title challenger and a midtable club, so not the easiest.

Those two are not included yet in the underlying stats they have thus far, and are more difficult games of their first 10 matches. They have played for example Luton, Burnley and Bournemouth from the relegation candidates already.

What I'm saying is that the underlying stats can be quite misleading when the first 8 games might even be almost similar level as Tottenham's schedule of 10 games shown below. Which is clearly the easiest in the whole league.

Yeah they have been quite good apart from finishing and especially defence, but it's not looking good, and I also expect a narrow win, max 2 goals, for Arsenal, not many goals overall.

James looks like coming back for this game, which would be a big boost. But he doesn't really have match sharpness or fitness yet.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Won't be easy but if we play Saliba/Gabriel and Partey/Rice they will really struggle to get at us.

 

[Synical]

Yayyyy, thanks for the thread! Was waiting impatiently for it to be put up.

I was worrying about this fixture after the Lens game but feel a bit more confident after we smashed Citeh

However, Chelsea are very good defensively- have only conceded 7 so far, the same number as City (and us tbf) so it will not be a goal fest. Luckily they have trouble finishing, but they do seem to create a helluva lot of chances.

My prediction: 2-0 to us.

 

[Gooner Zig]

This might be the first time (fingers crossed!) that we'll be able to start Martinelli, Jesus and Saka as our front 3 so far this season.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Yayyyy, thanks for the thread! Was waiting impatiently for it to be put up.

I was worrying about this fixture after the Lens game but feel a bit more confident after we smashed Citeh

However, Chelsea are very good defensively- have only conceded 7 so far, the same number as City (and us tbf) so it will not be a goal fest. Luckily they have trouble finishing, but they do seem to create a helluva lot of chances.

My prediction: 2-0 to us.

Don't mean to nitpick but both us and City have conceded 6 goals (joint best in PL) as of MD8.

 

[OnlyOne]

This might be the first time (fingers crossed!) that we'll be able to start Martinelli, Jesus and Saka as our front 3 so far this season.

Praying all goes okay on international break this should be the start of small rotation, with a Rice x Partey midfield and that front 3.

Season could really kick off now but we’ll see.

 

[Synical]

Don't mean to nitpick but both us and City have conceded 6 goals (joint best in PL) as of MD8.

Ah, ok!

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Chelsea have started to gel and Jackson is injured. If Arteta gets our tactics right and the players execute, we should win. They're not to be underestimated as they're far from the total shambles they were earlier in the season and have players who can punish any lapses.

 

[Tomb Bombadil]

They have played 8 games now, this chart includes first 10 games. The next two are against Arsenal and Brentford, a title challenger and a midtable club, so not the easiest.

Those two are not included yet in the underlying stats they have thus far, and are more difficult games of their first 10 matches. They have played for example Luton, Burnley and Bournemouth from the relegation candidates already

How do they measure, how difficult a match is?

 

[SuperMikel]

Better than them everywhere on the pitch. Not to be taken lightly, but we will have the run of play. If we execute our game plan the chances of a win are high.

Would love it if they try and press us.