Chelsea vs Arsenal. 4th Feb. 12:30

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

I was going to say that ironically we could do with Giroud in this game. But of course he'd just be fouled out of it and the ref would give nothing. And we wouldn't play with pace down the flanks to utilise him anyway. So scrub that. Get Welbeck on and we'll have to try and thread a needle through the middle.

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You can't be serious? Giroud?

We're playing the best possible team. Tactically, we don't know how to cope with Chelsea. We started bright but that was it.

Atkinson has let them off with every barge and foul both sneaky and blatant.

One push by Pedro was actually given as advantage to Chelsea.

Every flop by Hazard a free-kick.

If we even attempted some aggression, we'd be down to 7 and Xhaka would get an additional 5-game ban by way of a new Xhaka rule.

Relying on football in a league where everything but football is admired.

Gabriel :doh:

WTF is he smoking?

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Originally Posted by RomfordPele

Can't agree with that I'm afraid. This isn't the seventies when you could push a goalkeeper into the net and claim a goal. There are rules. Except they don't seem to apply to Arsenal.

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Didn't we Kos score a goal that wasn't a foul and should have been ruled offside? Let's not act like we don't get the rub of the green and are always victims. I hate when Wenger does it and it's the same when I see fans do it.

We had enough chances in the first half to level it. We bottled all 3 of them. One came even before the Alonso goal

How many fouls is Moses going to concede today? Card out of the question, obviously.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

You can't be serious? Giroud?

We're playing the best possible team. Tactically, we don't know how to cope with Chelsea. We started bright but that was it.

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We aren't playing with pace so we're playing right into the slowcoach chav's hands. If we aren't going to exploit their weaknesses then we at least need to match them physically. But as I said, the ref would put a stop to that anyway.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

Didn't we Kos score a goal that wasn't a foul and should have been ruled offside? Let's not act like we don't get the rub of the green and are always victims. I hate when Wenger does it and it's the same when I see fans do it.

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Yeah, I seem to remember the media mentioning it might have been offside once or twice.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

Didn't we Kos score a goal that wasn't a foul and should have been ruled offside? Let's not act like we don't get the rub of the green and are always victims. I hate when Wenger does it and it's the same when I see fans do it.

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The ref just needs to apply the rules, that's all people are asking for. Just because one ref didn't apply the rules in a different match doesn't mean the ref can ignore them in this one.

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Originally Posted by Thierrymon

How many fouls is Moses going to concede today? Card out of the question, obviously.

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He'll get booked in the 89th minute.