Chelsea away. Sunday 5th October. 2.05pm.

If Wenget drops Sanchez for this, he will have achieved his biggest WUM of the season.

We have to attack with Welbz, Sanchez and Oxlade to have a chance. They're all coming in to form, are pacy, tricky, hard-working and are potentially devastating on the counter-attack. Packing the midfield will just unbalance the team again and play into their hands.

I hope Wenfer is brave. Recent evidence suggest he won't be.

And play Diaby or Rosicky instead of Flamini. He's just completely out of his depth in every aspect.

We've long since had the tools to beat them....even on their own ground. It's just our set up is continually naive and/or wrong.

He is a loathsome man at the best of times but let's face it....the special one doesn't leave anything to chance. He will have his plan and the moment one of his players show signs of not implementing it correctly, he will prepare to remove them. Wenger prefers the more organic approach.

A draw if we're lucky....but I'd love to be wrong. I honestly haven't given more than a second thought to the distance between us and the league leaders all season, as it is clear we cannot win the league....or CL for that matter.

You forgot the League Cup.

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Originally Posted by Steve French

You forgot the League Cup.

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That's beneath us anyway. :crying:

:lol: Yes I did!

I reckon the only way we'll stand à chance of getting anything from the game on Sunday is to limit Chelsea to 0 chances all game. A simple statement, I know, but as people have already said, even à half-chance against our unstable defence will probably find its way into the net.

I'm just hoping we stand and fight. Go toe-to-toe with them. It's a London derby. Unfortunately, that won't mean à lot to the players out there, but it means everything to the fans. Schalke and Manchester City exposed Chelsea and showed that they're not the world-beaters the BBC and Sky would have you believe. Let's hope Wenger has à strict game plan and enforces it fully.

been thinking about this game for the last few days and managed to dream about it last night. the game was 3 or 4 minutes old and guess what? we scored an own goal! i dont remember the rest but it sounds like another foot shooting will take place.

We've got better players than them but the result will hinge on the managers and the decisions they make. If Wenger sits down and studies the chavs and picks the team and strategy accordingly we have what we need to beat them. We already know Maureen will do what it takes to get a result, hopefully Wenger won't play into his hands. We'll have a good idea of the result as soon as we see the team.

If Wenger can swallow his pride and set us up appropriately and drill a concrete plan to nullifying them we should be able to get something. They're good, but we're also very good on paper as well.

If it's the usual laissez faire approach from Wenger then it's going to be another thrashing.

This is the formation I'd play


--- Ches ---

--- --- --- Chambers

--- --- --- Merts

--- --- --- Kos

--- --- --- Gibbs

--- --- --- Alexis

--- --- --- Flamini

--- --- --- Wilshere

--- --- --- Ox

--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Ozil

--- Welbeck ---