Arsenal V Chelsea, Capital 1 Cup, k/o 7.45pm

Johner

Happy days. Very comfortable win.

Crann na Beatha

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GavRedKing

Clean sheet and a win, 6 wins in a row happy with that.

tayto lover

Thank God thats over. Very risky by Wenger.

GavRedKing

Who gave Jose his shirt? Ozil?

Barr

A real Jose performance , he knows what to do to win.

greendom

Disappointing and a little worrying, need a big response on Saturday

peteeeed

arsene wenger we want you to stay,
good performance from our fringe player, willian and mata ran the show, cesar and betrand played really well, very enjoyable

pistolpetes11

Very efficient performance from the Blues ,

Have to say Chelsea fans get a bit of stick but they were brilliant tonight ,

Looked like Men against Boys , not a bad B team

AdamD

Barr wrote: »

A real Jose performance , he knows what to do to win.

Have a better team?

Duck Soup

Schwarzer was very impressive tonight.

cson

Surely Ozil's shirt he has. Gas, never seen that from a manager before.

GavRedKing

I dont think Willian played well personally, thought Mikel and Essien broke up the play well and restricted Arsenal to half chances, Mata was the pick of the attacking players for us, Eto'o, Willian and KDB wont be starting away to Newcastle on tonights performances I'd say.

GavRedKing

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Very efficient performance from the Blues ,

Have to say Chelsea fans get a bit of stick but they were brilliant tonight ,

Looked like Men against Boys , not a bad B team

That B team would beat a lot of the EPL starting XI's to be fair, as long as we can rotate them when needed we'll have a deep run in this and hopefully the FA cup too.

cson

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Very efficient performance from the Blues ,

Have to say Chelsea fans get a bit of stick but they were brilliant tonight ,

Looked like Men against Boys , not a bad B team

Don't know about that; an individual error and a pretty spectacular shot from Mata were the difference. Wasn't a whole lot in it other than that. Well, considering one team cost circa £142m and the other around £50m.

Alfred Borden

Well done to Chelsea, that second team will take some stopping, cup should be yeers unless someone plays a first team against yee.

Johner

Mata is pure class, on and off the pitch.

Mikeyt086

Juan Mata is an absolute sweetheart. Bless his little Spanish head.

cson

Mata. Always have. Bit pissed we fannyed around getting him the season Fabregas left and Chelsea nipped in.

Btw Wilkins is so annoying in is post match analysis there. "Embarrassing" - you'd swear we'd been flogged 5 nil.

quarryman

Johner wrote: »

Mata is pure class, on and off the pitch.

Switched off. What did he do?

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

I dont think Willian played well personally, thought Mikel and Essien broke up the play well and restricted Arsenal to half chances, Mata was the pick of the attacking players for us, Eto'o, Willian and KDB wont be starting away to Newcastle on tonights performances I'd say.

really , thought willian was right at it, going forward and working back , KDB looked off the pace

Duck Soup

quarryman wrote: »

Switched off. What did he do?

In the post-match interview with Mata and Azpi, Mata was more pleased for Cesar scoring his first goal for the club than his own MotM award. Like just about everyone says, a class act.

Ramsey, Rosicky, Wilshere, Cazorla. They ran through Arsenal like a vindaloo after 20 pints. It's as if there's a tactical problem as Arsenal.

*Ahem what I said last week about Arsenal having possession but no shots as I got chased away from the Arsenal thread for being "negative" and the exact same thing happened tonight with Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla and Rosicky ahead of a more than capable back 4 *ahem.

Soups123

I don't think they ran through the midfield at all tonight. The first goal was a **** up and the second a good finish from a break down the flank. I thought we controlled the middle more but lacked width and movement upfront.

Soups123

Soups123 wrote: »

I don't think they ran through the midfield at all tonight. The first goal was a **** up and the second a good finish from a break down the flank. I thought we controlled the middle more but lacked width and movement upfront.

Chesney's fault for the fault goal, not Jenkinson, nothing to defend the first goal. Lot of possession thought.

Excellent midfield selection tonight by Wenger, especially to put them out defensively without telling them who was on which side, looking at you Ryo.

Soups123

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Chesney's fault for the fault goal, not Jenkinson, nothing to defend the first goal. Lot of possession thought.

Chez wasn't in the squad Jenks header back was soft he gets caught under the ball a lot, gets himself in awkward positions. He was a mess tonight

Soups123

Soups123 wrote: »

Chez wasn't in the squad Jenks header back was soft he gets caught under the ball a lot, gets himself in awkward positions. He was a mess tonight

Derp. Fab ****ed it up :P

AdamD

Deleted User wrote: »

Ramsey, Rosicky, Wilshere, Cazorla. They ran through Arsenal like a vindaloo after 20 pints. It's as if there's a tactical problem as Arsenal.

Deleted User wrote: »

*Ahem what I said last week about Arsenal having possession but no shots as I got chased away from the Arsenal thread for being "negative" and the exact same thing happened tonight with Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla and Rosicky ahead of a more than capable back 4 *ahem.

Ok we can both agree it was ****e but did you actually watch it? There were loads of shots...from the edge of the bloody box. Bendnter was so bad the midfielders stopped giving it to him and began to shoot from everywhere. Arsenal had 12 shots to Chelsea's 14.

As for your first comment they hardly ran through Arsenal at all, in fact they barely created a decent chance, a great goal from Mata and a horrendous error from Jenkinson did it for us.

GavRedKing

12 shots and 1 on target from Giroud.

That is a terrible return although Essien and Eto'o had shots that went out for throw in's :pac:

peteeeed

AdamD wrote: »

Ok we can both agree it was ****e but did you actually watch it? There were loads of shots...from the edge of the bloody box. Bendnter was so bad the midfielders stopped giving it to him and began to shoot from everywhere. Arsenal had 12 shots to Chelsea's 14.

As for your first comment they hardly ran through Arsenal at all, in fact they barely created a decent chance, a great goal from Mata and a horrendous error from Jenkinson did it for us.

well at 2-0 rameries could have gone down when he went through the arsenal defense but stayed on his feet and nearly scored

AdamD

AdamD wrote: »

Ok we can both agree it was ****e but did you actually watch it? There were loads of shots...from the edge of the bloody box. Bendnter was so bad the midfielders stopped giving it to him and began to shoot from everywhere. Arsenal had 12 shots to Chelsea's 14.

Yeah I did watch it, mate actually said "It's as if they don't want to give it to Bendtner."

As for your first comment they hardly ran through Arsenal at all, in fact they barely created a decent chance, a great goal from Mata and a horrendous error from Jenkinson did it for us.

Same old **** tbh, teams don't have to "dominate" to win, just take their chances which when they're good enough they will do. Chelsea had the handbrake on all match and were comfortable.