El Class Match Thread Arsenal -v- Chelsea Sunday 4PM

mobby

Ah great goal the masters teach the kids

wandatowell

Keeper caught at his near side again just like against Ronaldo.

NOTHING has changed. We were fooled. This is still the same team that cant defend for ****. Sure we'll be the lower teams but against the big boys NOT A CHANCE.

Roll on city on Wednesday

randomname

awful goalkeeping

That_Guy

adox wrote: »

Terrible from the keeper.

To be fair it came at him with some pace. His positioning was all wrong though in the first place.

Hank Scorpio

wouldnt be surprised if chelsea win everything this year! drogba is the best striker in the world on this form

CHD

Pighead wrote: »

It's a fair point CHD. I admit, I hadn't considered the whole hustle angle. Fair enough so. Chelsea to win 3-0.

See Pighead.

Bandit12

Shocking from Arsenal. No backbone in their squad and same old same from Wenger. Drogba as much as i dislike him is in the same class as Torres. Simply awesome. Chelsea to walk the league this season.

Headshot

I feel sorry for Fabregas

kenon

Mightily impressive Chelsea. They are so good at the back.

CHD

Get in. 5 points clear. Arsenal beaten 3-0 at the Emirates.

Pighead

Pighead wrote: »

It's a fair point CHD. I admit, I hadn't considered the whole hustle angle. Fair enough so. Chelsea to win 3-0.

Once CHD let me know that Chelsea have been hustling in their recent away games it was pretty obvious that todays match was gonna be a 3-0 stroll in the park. Nice call Pighead.:cool:

Johner

****ing buzzing after that.

That_Guy

Full time.

Chelsea are just different class this year so far... apart from that little hiccup against Wigan.

4 attempts at goal from Arsenal I think overall. Poor poor performance.

Raskolnikov

Arsenal were simply bludgeoned into submission. Very impressive.

Crann na Beatha

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Green Hornet

Whats the story with Arshavin? Not the same player that I thought Arsenal bought last year.

Maybe it's just frustration on my part but I really dont think he's worth his place at the moment.:mad: Looks like he couldn't really care less.

Hank Scorpio

Green Hornet wrote: »

Whats the story with Arshavin? Not the same player that I thought Arsenal bought last year.

Maybe it's just frustration on my part but I really dont think he's worth his place at the moment.:mad: Looks like he couldn't really care less.

i think he has some serious attitude problems..

Barr

Men against boys - Arsenal never looked like winning

Frisbee

Headshot wrote: »

I feel sorry for Fabregas

Really? I feel sorry for the players who had to play with Fabregas today. He was atrocious

CHD

Frisbee wrote: »

Really? I feel sorry for the players who had to play with Fabregas today. He was atrocious

Yup, him and Arshavin didn't show up.

That_Guy

Frisbee wrote: »

Really? I feel sorry for the players who had to play with Fabregas today. He was atrocious

I think differently. Some of the passes he picked out today where quite good. He was the best of a bad lot imo.

tony1kenobi

I thought Nasri was Arsenals best player today.Overall performance was poor.Hope this isn't the start of a rut.Novemeber is nearly over so fingers crossed!

Frisbee

That_Guy wrote: »

I think differently. Some of the passes he picked out today where quite good. He was the best of a bad lot imo.

Thought Nasri stood out as our best player

Bandit12

Frisbee wrote: »

Really? I feel sorry for the players who had to play with Fabregas today. He was atrocious

He was the same against Man U in the semi's last season. He's easily bullied out of a game. Has his head been turned by Barca?

OPENROAD

Bandit12 wrote: »

He was the same against Man U in the semi's last season. He's easily bullied out of a game. Has his head been turned by Barca?

No

RasTa

Arsenal where robbed.

Royale with Cheese

Bandit12 wrote: »

Has his head been turned by Barca?

You should get a job writing for the Sun. He has a bad game = he wants to leave the club.

CHD

RasTa wrote: »

Arsenal where robbed.

How so...

Johner

RasTa wrote: »

Arsenal where robbed.

I hope this is some sort of unfunny joke.

Barr

RasTa wrote: »

Arsenal where robbed.

Robbed of any chance to even trouble Cech

Bandit12

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

You should get a job writing for the Sun. He has a bad game = he wants to leave the club.

Yeah because i'm making that judgement on this one game alone :rolleyes:

Bandit12

RasTa wrote: »

Arsenal where robbed.

Sure they where.

everdead.ie

RasTa wrote: »

Arsenal where robbed.

Those Liverpudlian thieves have made there way to london!!!!!!

PHB

Arsenal now 8 points behind the leaders. Gona need to do something in January I think to deal with Van Persie not being available, they are a different side without him.

Headshot

Frisbee wrote: »

Really? I feel sorry for the players who had to play with Fabregas today. He was atrocious

I dont know where you came up with that conclusion

for me he was Arsenal's best player today, just a pity the strike force was ****e today

DazMarz

Brilliant result today. Defensively solid, attacking well... Even when possession crept into the 30% range for Chelsea, Arsenal just lacked the killer instinct.

Arsenal can cruise past teams like Wolves, Hull, etc.

The three biggest games they've played this season against Man City, Man Utd and now Chelsea, they've lost.

Chelsea can take extreme confidence from this now. Played Liverpool, United, Arsenal and beaten all of them.

RasTa

Bandit12 wrote: »

Sure they where.

So says Arsene

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger on Andrei Arshavin's disallowed goal in his side's 3-0 defeat by Chelsea: "The referee cancelled a goal and nobody understands why. What is he doing? I watched it five times and nobody touches Cech - he lets the ball down, we score and he (Marriner) cancels the goal. If you watch it, it's a Chelsea player who does it - Eduardo is behind the ball. I think that was a very big turning point in the game today."

CHD

RasTa wrote: »

So says Arsene

Oh, well then.. He rarely moans and bithces.

Frisbee

Lol don't know how anyone can say Arsenal were robbed.

We were shíte almost to a man.

Bandit12

RasTa wrote: »

So says Arsene

Please tell me your joking.

PHB

I still think that Wenger's approach to defeat is the wrong one. While Fergie and Mourinho alternate between blaming the ref/weather/whatever, sometimes they just come out and say, they were the better team. It depends on the loss, and each response has a different effect.

Wenger comes out always and blames it on something. It's extremely rare he will accept he was bested, which Arsenal were tonight.

monkey9

PHB wrote: »

I still think that Wenger's approach to defeat is the wrong one. While Fergie and Mourinho alternate between blaming the ref/weather/whatever, sometimes they just come out and say, they were the better team. It depends on the loss, and each response has a different effect.

Wenger comes out always and blames it on something. It's extremely rare he will accept he was bested, which Arsenal were tonight.

Especially when he is wrong about the incident he speaks off

OPENROAD

PHB wrote: »

I still think that Wenger's approach to defeat is the wrong one. While Fergie and Mourinho alternate between blaming the ref/weather/whatever, sometimes they just come out and say, they were the better team. It depends on the loss, and each response has a different effect.

Wenger comes out always and blames it on something. It's extremely rare he will accept he was bested, which Arsenal were tonight.

He did against Sunderland, no different to Fergie imo and other managers who don't see incidents in matches but who don't get stick for saying they did not see things.

x PyRo

We're brutal in the big games. No balls and guts but no complaints with anything in the game. Ref was good, not much diving or bad fouls.

Fair play to Chelsea. They deserved it.

Pitty we don't have a player that will shoot instead of trying to dance his way into the goals. Then maybe we'd put up a fight.

Chelsea will win the league. Class team.

L'prof

I don't think we were shíté but, I certainly don't think we were robbed either. We didn't look anywhere near as dangerous as Chelsea going forward today. I was very disappointed with the first 2 goals, a hint of luck in both of them I feel but, Chelsea were just far, far, far too strong for us today and deserved the win.

segadreamcast

Green Hornet wrote: »

Whats the story with Arshavin? Not the same player that I thought Arsenal bought last year.

Maybe it's just frustration on my part but I really dont think he's worth his place at the moment.:mad: Looks like he couldn't really care less.

Yeah, a strange case this. Based on the final third of last season, it seemed as though he was going to be amazing this season.

I put a bet (albeit, a very small one) on him to be this season's top scorer. I will not be seeing that money back at all. Strange transformation for the worse.

L'prof

PHB wrote: »

I still think that Wenger's approach to defeat is the wrong one. While Fergie and Mourinho alternate between blaming the ref/weather/whatever, sometimes they just come out and say, they were the better team. It depends on the loss, and each response has a different effect.

Wenger comes out always and blames it on something. It's extremely rare he will accept he was bested, which Arsenal were tonight.

He does but, if he feels the ref has made a mistake which may (may not) have changed the game he'll never just accept the defeat.

dazzday

Men Vs Boys

Sums it up perfectly.

Time for a radical overhaul Arsene.

efb

Patience is the key. Arsenal are going in the right direction.

GavRedKing

Great result for us today, I thought we fully deserved it, soaked up the Arsenal pressure. OIt would have been a different game if they had RVP and Daiby fit IMO but still I would be confident we could have still got the points.

About the goal, if Wenger cant see the high leg on a keeper thats 6'5 and has the ball at his chest then he has got serious eye sight problems, couple that with what I beleived to be a handball on the edge of the box by the player that played it back across, think it was Nasri it was no goal, good finish though.

Arsenal will be back but at the moment Chelsea are playing aswell as they ever have.