Arsenal v Chelsea Match Reaction

[Özim]

He's clearly not considered good enough, which makes you wonder why as we suspected we bought him, we needed players ready now, not in 5 years.

[Niall_Quinn]

Well , the combo Flamini-Ramsey is the best we have because of Carzola and Coquelin injuries . So if you were the coach who could you pick instead ? New guy Elneny and the inexperienced Chambers ? Metersacker is a slow defender but he can read the game well and bring stability to our defence .
Koscielny and Gabriel look to be the same type of players . Central defendres must be different to compensate their abilities .

Having seem Ramsey and Flamini over the last three games I'd pick myself and you tbf. But that's not the point. As I have already said, it's Wenger's fault we are short there, we knew we had the gap and he ignored it. As usual. But if that's all you have left then you'd better get a performance out of that pair and that comes from having a plan on how to deal with the opposition. Mikel, Gash and Matic vs two disciplined midfielders and we have a prayer. The former three and a big hole and we have no chance. It's not just the selection it's how you then use those players. No way were those two so reckless without the blessing of Wenger.

[Niall_Quinn]

Koscielny has scored 3 goals which is a good statistic for a defender. walcott has scored just 5. Not bad for a winger but he should have had more. But in a real world , if you need a goal, you gamble on a striker than a defender.

Walcott has 3 in the PL, the other two were in the CL. Over the last few weeks he's missed 763,252 chances.

[Niall_Quinn]

He's clearly not considered good enough, which makes you wonder why as we suspected we bought him, we needed players ready now, not in 5 years.

Probably not Arsenal material yet, too much baggage from his previous club. Like forward passing, shooting and tackling.

[Özim]

Hummmmmmm . Walcott has scored a few times against Chelsea. He lately scored a screamer against City. Isn't that enough to convince you he can score in a big game? I know his form has recently been awful but we can not deny he can score goals when he has a real chance.

A decent manager doesn't take his best players off and leave his worst ones on, that makes no sense, Walcott on current form is no more likely to score than Campbell. Moreover Campbell at least creates chances and makes things happen.

Wenger's decisions today were nonsensical, we were lucky not to lose by more, they should have had a dead cert penalty and missed chance after chance to finish us off, if they'd been in better form it probably would have been 6 or more.

[Marc Overmars]

No point protecting Elmo, the league is full of shit kickers, he'll face a new challenge every week regardless. He's played in Europe for a couple of seasons so I'm sure he's familiar with a different level of intensity and quality. Might even have played against Chelsea if he was with them when they faced Basel? But anyway, all he needs to be able to demonstrate right now is some positional awareness and he immediately becomes a better option than Flamini and Ramsey. Without even seeing him play I have faith that he won't be as braindead as either of those 2.

New players come into this league every year and make explosive impacts. Why must we always wrap our lot in cotton wool?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Well , I agree to disagree . It is not what I am saying at all . First of all , we don't know the state of his fitness at all . Was he 100% ready to play today ? We will never know unless we are in the coaching staff . Were he to be our saviour ? Only God knows .

You're probably right about his fitness.

But with a bit of work we should have him on the treatment table soon.

[selassie]

Koscielny has scored 3 goals which is a good statistic for a defender. walcott has scored just 5. Not bad for a winger but he should have had more. But in a real world , if you need a goal, you gamble on a striker than a defender.

5 is bad for a winger that creates next to nothing. Walcott has been really poor this season make no mistake about that. His poor performances have been ignored to an extent because we've been top or thereabouts pretty much all season, now the going is getting tough the likes of him, Ramsey & Oxlade are getting rightly called out for under performing, pretty much every game too.

The sooner the likes of Welbeck, Rosicky, Wilshere and Coquelin come back the better because right now Walcott, Ramsey & OX would be nowhere near my starting XI, we have a title to win, we haven't got time to babysit any of these guys back into form!

Joel Campbell has comfortably outperformed Walcott this season and me amongst many others were calling for him to be sold not so long ago.

[Letters]

No surprises here, Chelsea beat us again, a Chelsea side struggling for results this season still come here and beat us at home, this is really embarrassing and proves we lack the bottle and the collapse we always see is happening again.

And, just as you predicted, City are getting better and better and are now miles above us

A decent team would walk this league, teams are literally trying to hand the title to us and still we bottle it....what's left to say?

Plenty. There's loads of games left, we're level on points with the team you keep crowning Champions elect.
I'm very pissed off about today's result but it would be stupid to throw in the towel just yet.

[selassie]

And, just as you predicted, City are getting better and better and are now miles above us


Plenty. There's loads of games left, we're level on points with the team you keep crowning Champions elect.
I'm very pissed off about today's result but it would be stupid to throw in the towel just yet.

I'm more worried about Spurs at the moment TBH, they've been slowly going about their business closing the gap on us, they have fared very well in the big games too, they haven't really lost one yet, they really worry me, they are solid at the back, have a very good keeper, solid in Midfield and in Kane & Alli have two superb young players.

It scares me that they could be the dark horses this year because I don't really see a big weakness in their team.