Match day thread for the away London Derby at the Emirates.

I know we have Copenhagen up first, and our match day threads, and forum traffic, are a bit slower than the norm, but this is Arsenal, so thought maybe some met want this up early to begin discussing it.

4-5-1 for me, Conte at Man city plan.

James

Fofana

Tosin

Colwill

Gusto

Caicedo

Lavia

Enzo

Cucurella

Neto

Edited March 10, 20251 yr by axman2526

Not overly pessimistic nor optimistic for this one. They share pretty much the exact same complaints that we do. A low key 1-1 draw is a fairly likely result.

Think we can get a draw, but it depends if everyone shows up.

Sanchez

Gusto Tosin Colwill Cucurella

James Caicedo Enzo

Palmer Neto Nkunku

Edited March 10, 20251 yr by Sconnie Blue

Keeper

James Fofana Colwill Cucu

Caicedo Enzo

Sancho Palmer Nkunku

Neto

I GAVE MY TEAM YESTERDAY

JORGENSEN

CHALOBAH FORFANA BADIASHILLE TOSIN COLWILL

LAVIA CACIDEO ENZO

PALMER CUCURELLA

DROP DEEP, THEIR DEFENDERS WON'T HAVE ANYONE TO MARK

Not expecting a point and expect a hammering.

3 hours ago, bluetrooper said:

Not expecting a point and expect a hammering.

My feelings exactly.

Cant see past Gooners getting all 3 points if I'm honest, same if I was a dishonest person as well.

If Lavia is fit enough for 70 minutes he starts for me. His passing through the lines makes us a much quicker team and that helps Palmer especially.

Don’t think Maresca will be brave enough to do that as it’s Enzo who would make way and he’s been pretty decent in a sh*t period for the club.

My team would be 4-3-3 with no number 9 and the 3 attackers given licence to roam

Sanchez

James

Fofana

Colwill

Cucu

Caicedo

Lavia

Enzo (as an 8)

Nkunku

Neto

Palmer

I have zero faith in us getting anything from this game. We simply don’t have it in us. We don’t score and can’t defend

Edited March 15, 20251 yr by JM7

Hopefully we can improve on last season's result in this fixture.

A 3-0 or 4-0 defeat perhaps ... 😎

Joking aside, I think we might spring a huge surprise and sneak a draw or a narrow win (it's the hope that kills you LOL)

I can’t see us scoring.

2 - 0 to Arsenal, set pieces goals.

Chelsea will lose for certain, hope we don't get humiliated. My only hope now is if we can miraculously qualify for the champions league, we certainly don't deserve to. Change manager next year

12 minutes ago, Hitherto said:

Chelsea will lose for certain, hope we don't get humiliated. My only hope now is if we can miraculously qualify for the champions league, we certainly don't deserve to. Change manager next year

If we finish in the top 5 we’ll absolutely deserve to. League position very very rarely lies at the end of a season

Really shows how poor the PL is this season that we could, if we were not so inept now and managed by a fool, actually go within striking distance of SECOND place if we could beat Arsenal.

Palmer goal and assist makes it 2-0 Chelsea as Marescaball bores controls Arsenal to death

Evissy demands we pay tribute to Boehly and Clearlake for personally leading their team to this result

6 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Palmer goal and assist makes it 2-0 Chelsea as Marescaball bores controls Arsenal to death

8 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Evissy demands we pay tribute to Boehly and Clearlake for personally leading their team to this result

20 hours ago, 19seventyone said:

If Lavia is fit enough for 70 minutes he starts for me. His passing through the lines makes us a much quicker team and that helps Palmer especially.

Don’t think Maresca will be brave enough to do that as it’s Enzo who would make way and he’s been pretty decent in a sh*t period for the club.

Has he? 😅

Win rate when he starts has been 35%, win rate without him jumps to 81%, despite his xg looking good on the surface level stats, it’s clear as day, a Caicedo-Enzo midfield will never work. The good days, where he contributes a nice pass, the odd goal, or ‘chances created’ are all offset by the lack of balance there. Those two have been given enough time, the Lavia injuries and others being loaned out, all to cater for the sporting directors golden boy, and yet still. A successful future, is without him.

Least when we lose we’re still 4th

18 hours ago, JM7 said:

I have zero faith in us getting anything from this game. We simply don’t have it in us. We don’t score and can’t defend

This is why I won't be watching.

If Arsenal turn up, we're absolutely screwed because I haven't seen for a long time, us matching the opposition who put in a good performance.

Match Day!

Come On Chelsea!!

In my parallel universe there's a school of thought that we can always get something from a game against Arsenal regardless of the sleepwalking fetish of our current manager.

I can see us taking a point in a dull if not cagey encounter 1-1.

Cmon you Chels.