Match Reaction vs Chelsea (away).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Season starter.

Probably not but at least it's not another pumping.

[Letters]

Would have taken that, I guess.

[Niall_Quinn]

Chavs there for the taking. They were shit today.

Wenger has no bollocks and needs to get the fuck out of the club.

I'm not giving him credit for having his midfielders play in midfield and his defenders defend. That's expected as a bare minimum, not as a surprising one-off.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Given we've lost the last five league matches at Stamford Bridge, not a bad performance at all

But you feel the way Chelsea set up benefits us.

We are going to struggle far more this season with teams that employ the high press like Liverpool and Spurs

[Master Splinter]

Clear that Ozil not playing in a pressurised away game made all the difference. The midfield and front three all pressed Chelsea and kept them on edge. Ozil would have been fairying around, losing 50-50s, making sloppy passes and eventually disappearing into the ether where he often dwells.

Lacashite should have scored but I think once he has a big game and gets a few +1s, he'll be fine. He's not really getting more than one or two chances per game. Start him against Doncaster tbh so he can bang in about seven.

Shame Welbz is out for another two years.

Kolasinac is awlsome.

Wenger .

[hobson's choice]

Good result, our play off the ball was immense, Monreal really showed strong leadership out there.

Second half really couldn't do much, but the concentration never lasped, and they weathered every Chelsea attack.

Good team game

Lets keep this up

[Gooner23]

Decent performance. Monreal and Kos were superb. Ramsey was very good on the ball, it's still way to easier for our midfield to be bypassed though.

In fairness I thought we'd get pumped, so pleasantly surprised that didn't happen.

[Marc Overmars]

We're back!

[Cripps]

Defence
Mustafa
Ramsey

Thought Wenger made the right subs today.. laca had a bad day so Sanchez was a good sub. And bringing on elneny to tighten things up.

Particularly happy that we seem to be doing better against this new era Chelsea team.. the old era was horrific.

[Cripps]

Also ozil: please leave.