12 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

Stewart Robson is a former Arsenal player from the 80's turned pundit. Later played for the Hammers.

So Stuart said Jorghino won't be good enough for Chelsea....  He should say "i really hope" ex Arsenal, Chelsea hater..

Edited August 20, 20187 yr by guddy69

Strange game really, opened it up in style scored two fast goals with some dominant control. The in the second part of the first half disaster strikes we concede two and it could have been a few more easily. In the second much better we were far more composed and got the winner with Cech really having a good day saving a lot of chances. If we can tighten up the back four we could play some exciting football. Mateo had a excellent debut, he was very much involved in the attack and in the defense looking forward to see more of him. Eden again a good cameo from the bench, similar to the one against Huddersfield. Overall as Sarri said time will be needed but we can be very excited by the footy we have been watching at some points in the game.

On 19/08/2018 at 00:34, Gol15 said:

but Arsenal could have scored 5 goals in the first half,

BUT THEY DIDN'T! 

25 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

BUT THEY DIDN'T! 

Can't argue against that 

Sarri-Ball!!!

Trying to unravel Contes rigid playing approach and indeed outdated  and dominating man management style was always going to take time to consign to history . We were told that It would also work massively to our disadvantage particularly in  the early part of the season and specifically against Arsenal who had the advantage of the early appointment of Unai, the early return of their squad and finally their activity in the transfer market.

We all saw that the major work still to be done is mainly in the defensive third but ahead of that the amount of work done going forward is eveident if for no other reasons it has taken the shackles off the likes of Pedro and Willian

Barkley has done really well and looks a snip at £15 million but when Hazard and Mateo can on the whole dynamic of the team changed.

its way too early to get too excited but I came away from Huddersfield impressed and from Saturdays game exhilarated 

We are bound to be weak somewhere as we transition to this beautiful style of play.  I think with time we will be really stable and balanced - for now we just need to keep on outscoring the opposition!  Nothing beats the feeling of dorminating possession and bullying the gooners!  

 

 

Come on Chelsea!!!

Would Arsenal trade Xhaka or any of their new signing for Jorginho? Of course they would, probably throw in Iweobi or Welbeck too.

 

1 hour ago, dhidza said:

Sarri-Ball!!!

Please no, just no.

1 hour ago, dhidza said:

We are bound to be weak somewhere as we transition to this beautiful style of play.  I think with time we will be really stable and balanced - for now we just need to keep on outscoring the opposition!  Nothing beats the feeling of dorminating possession and bullying the gooners!  

 

 

Come on Chelsea!!!

I think you would struggle to find a game we had so much possession in against a top 6 side in the last 5 years. I'm actually suprised at how well we keep the ball already. 

Some improvements to be made when we are out of possession, but I think we will be more than ready for our next big test at home to Liverpool at the end of October.

BBC's MOTD on Arsenal's high defensive line & Chelsea's passiveness of not closing down spaces

 

https://streamable.com/4fxdt

We looked good from midfield to front.

Defensively we really need to tighten up.

Stating the obvious those two, I openly admit !!

Positives off the top of my head for  me were Pedro, Morata, Barkley

Oh and Eden Hazard isn't a bad sub to have is he...

Oh and We Beat Arsenal 3-2.

It's pretty amazing that they had so many clear cut chances with that 38% of possession. I'm pretty sure Sarri puzzled by the collapse in defence for that 20 minutes, looked like players were completely at lose about how to defend the flanks and overlapping runners. Under Conte, we were defending 541 with the 2 CMs drop deep and 2 wide players protect the flanks of the back 5, leaving the striker upfront to battle for scrap. On the weekend, we were literally defending 433 with CMs still pressing and 2 wide attackers not tracking back, there's definitely to be fixed. The final result flattered them, we had enough chances to score the third before they got that break for the goal, even in the second half we squandered great chances. In the dying minute, Hazard/Giroud stuffed up the 2 on 1, Hazard should have trusted himself and be selfish running against 1 defender in the penalty box. Giroud is still in the WC mode of playing the winning non scoring striker.

On 19/08/2018 at 13:14, Dixon said:

Positives -  3 points from a highly entertaining game. Kovacic. Hazard. Morato goal. Promise of Barkley.

Negatives - Very dodgy performance from Kepa. Kante playing too high up the pitch and nowhere near as effective as when he's further back. He is much more effective than Jorghino in front of the back four. Its very early days for Jorghino but I have a bad feeling that Stuart Rosbon is going to be proved mostly right about him not being good enough.

Alonso is way better attacking than defending. Would we keep a forward who was better defending than attacking?  Again, in a flat back four his lack of pace can be brutally exposed.

Luiz and Rudiger are just an awful pairimg.

Some promise and fun to watch again but its very clear Sarri is going to need time to bring in several more players to get us close to where we want to be.

 

 

Cheer up mate, bloody hell !!!

I just love a girl who likes balls sense of humor. never miss hermatch report.

 

A bright start, great atmosphere, for we have yet (if at all) to be jaded by nine months of watching Chelsea pass the ball incessantly sideways as eleven players search for a clue and the manager stands with his arms crossed looking disinterested. Pesto (yawn autospell) picked up skipping about where he left of his last week in the opening two minutes, and shortly after that Jorginho played a great ball through to Barkley, but not even with his phenomenal backside could he stretch his leg far enough to quite bring it down. Arsenal had been out of their own half once that I could recall in the opening minutes and we absolutely carved them open for the first goal. Just a couple of passes was all it took to absolutely rip them open, again with a killer ball from Jorginho. Cue a chorus of Arsene Wenger, he left cos’ you’re sh*t. We could have doubled our lead shortly afterwards when Kante laid it back to Barkley, but his shot was just over. The visiting side were shocking. This was the worse Arsenal side I could remember. They were absolutely woeful off the ball. Are you Wenger in disguise, we sang to the Waxwork Gigolo. Willian was on form, and he put another ball through to Pesto but Cech dived onto it to spare the Goon blushes.
On 19 minutes they slipped through and Aubameyang found himself five and half yards from goal with the ball at his feet. Golden boot my a*se, for he clunked their first chance of note about twenty feet over the bar. They were punished for their wastefulness, for on 23 minutes Morata was off, and not only did he stay on his feet, but he finally got the break he’s been waiting for after winding his way past the defenders and slotting the ball into the net. Cue a load of love heart celebrations, kisses and a mime of painting his wife’s toenails. That was three minutes of injury time alone. But 2-0 up. Behind me the guys had their feet up, lighting cigars. They worked their way in again on the half hour, but Mkhitaryan’s shot was even worse than the last one and we breathed a sigh of relief. 

But those of us that have supported Chelsea for more than five minutes know that this is where the fun starts. Just when you start to relax. Because then we entered the f*cking twilight zone for twenty minutes. We appeared to stop attempting to prevent the opposition from running at our goal. As we fell apart at the back, Arsenal, f*cking ARSENAL, came back from 2-0 down to level the game. I swear to God we were that bad that this time tomorrow our entire back line will be under investigation for match-fixing. Somewhere in South America a distant relative of David Luiz is banking several hundred thousand Brazilian Real from a bet on that one. Rudiger’s mum has just bought herself a lake house somewhere in Germany. Alonso has booked himself in to have an op to relocate his nipples to the right place. (Don’t go looking if you can help it) I can’t tell you how miserable it is to go from laughing at sad Eeyore Arsenal fans to having them jump up and down like they have won the league. They could even have gone ahead when a shot scraped agonisingly wide past the post on 43 minutes. Gonzo (muppet alias) had had enough. “I never do this, going downstairs before half time” he said with a cheeky glint in his eye as he went in search of beer. Gonzo lies.

After a two minute flurry after half time from them, normal service was somewhat resumed as far as all the possession was concerned, but we remained f*cking terrifying at the back and lacking a decisive force going forward. I wanted Hazard on 60. I know he’s not a robot like the Kante Twins and he’s only been back 12 days but please let him be ready to do half an hour. The jokers behind were rolling out the commentator cliches. The next goal is crucial. Whoever scores next could win the game. Still we couldn’t make it happen, despite pinning them in their half. Barkley came close on 58, and then huzzah - as the clock reached 60 on came Eden to rapturous applause. Willian went off, as did our adopted Scouser in favour of Kovacic. And my, what a difference the two made. We looked immediately stronger - they weren't seeing any of the ball. They hooked Ozil, who I hadn’t noticed at all until that point. As he plodded off at the speed of Allardyce after a Sunday afternoon session at a local carvery, it was still the fastest anyone had seen him move. 

We were desperately in search of a winner now. Hazard sent it across the face of goal on 69. They hadn’t been out of their half for fifteen minutes at this point. He was brought down cynically on 72 on the edge of the box. The foul deserved a card. Luiz smashed it. but Cech was up to the save. Were we going to labour our way to a draw having been two up? Giroud came on for Morata with fifteen minutes to spare, just before Kepa spilled the ball but atoned for his clumsiness by flinging himself face first in to reclaim it. Kante headed over on 77 before finally, with less than ten minutes to go, Alonso put away the winner. Boom. We saw nothing of it but a flailing of arms and legs and the ball bobble over the line. We waited a moment to see if the Matthew Harding were celebrating, then the Shed went bonkers. Any chance they might have had of coming good seemed to have disappeared with our double substitution. Eden is Eden, but Kovacic looked good. A similar build to our number 10, he also has the same gait, the same low centre of gravity and its twice as confusing when you've had gin and he’s also wearing Eden’s old number. By now Pesto was playing the cramp card. Good boy. He was on his feet again soon afterwards to put in a brutal tackle, even managing to win the thrown in. Apart form the twenty minute interlude where we were inexplicably sh*t, he was a boss today. Also, any concerns about Alonso playing a more traditional left back role? Not valid against Arsenal. We could have had one more when Kovacic dinked the ball over to Alonso on 86, but Cech’s save was stunning. A deceptive one from them on 89 bounced onto the top of the net, but we were safe. Thank f*ck.

Edited August 20, 20187 yr by mojo

21 hours ago, robdog said:

I have to add this cause Wise is providing some analysis

I was beginning to think Richard Keys had eaten Andy Gray until he came in to shot. Speaking of shot shouldn’t those two have been taken out back a long time ago?

Being at the game, watching Alonso when we were in possession was interesting as he was a lot higher than Dave on the right.

He seemed to do more work as a winger than Willian who was cutting in on his right foot. Willian didn’t track all the way back, when Ars broke Alonso was marking Mkhitaryan and had to leave him to stop Bellerin.

Hopefully either the winger comes back or we move across to make a back 3 with a right midfield player dropping to cover the far post.  

14 minutes ago, Richard P said:

Being at the game, watching Alonso when we were in possession was interesting as he was a lot higher than Dave on the right.

He seemed to do more work as a winger than Willian who was cutting in on his right foot. Willian didn’t track all the way back, when Ars broke Alonso was marking Mkhitaryan and had to leave him to stop Bellerin.

Hopefully either the winger comes back or we move across to make a back 3 with a right midfield player dropping to cover the far post.  

As an armchair fan that only now watches MOTD and highlights on youtube always appreciate the viewpoint from those at the ground.

2 hours ago, mojo said:

 

Alonso has booked himself in to have an op to relocate his nipples to the right place. (Don’t go looking if you can help it) 

 

I hate you, Mojo, now I can only wonder about Alonso's nipples 

35 minutes ago, Valerie said:

I hate you, Mojo, now I can only wonder about Alonso's nipples 

what has been seen ...

..

Edited August 20, 20187 yr by mojo

On 19/08/2018 at 16:44, robdog said:

If Jorghino is so bad, then why did Pep want him at Man City?

This reminds me of a poster called Loss, or something, back in the day when posters sent their submissions to this forum by fax, who reckoned that Mikel was brilliant because Alex Ferguson allegedly wanted him.

Dreadful memory really. 

19 hours ago, mclovin83 said:

Cheer up mate, bloody hell !!!

I'm not sure about that one,either!

Looking back, I wanted to express that seeing Emery's passion when Arsenal equalised was actually refreshing to see.

I'm glad I don't have to witness this anymore-