Chelsea vs. Arsenal match thread. 5/10/14 2.05pm (SS1)

Marty McFly

Kirby wrote: »

If Ozil isn't in the middle of the pitch, he isn't worth anything.

Like Mata, you only get the great things out of them through the middle.

Agreed play him through the middle or not at all.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

Take Schurrle off!

Yup needs willian

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

A lot more often than I'd like, I've noticed that he doesn't come to collect the ball and the Chelsea players have obviously copped on because they are just making that extra step and collecting the ball virtually unchallenged.

He did that 3 times that I noticed a few matches ago. It's incredibly frustrating.

Crackle

Schurrle having a poor game, won't be on for much longer I would think.

Kirby

AdamD wrote: »

How Is his position relevant to that horror touch?

The touch was a microcosm of his game for several months. Wengers persistence with this is horrid management.

Play him through the middle or don't play him.

Our passing is absolutely shocking today considering our game is based primarily on possession and passing. :mad:

tayto lover

Too slow giving the final ball.
Allowing Chelsea to get back.

AdamD

We get to the box then stop every time

AdamD

Shoot ffs Welbeck

Quazzie

Why is the game being stopped for a finger injury

TimeToShine

FFS player starts rolling around and all our momentum is gone.

Arsenal have too many lads standing. No movement off the ball. Far too easy to defend against. Only Sanchez shows any form of urgency

niallo27

Stopping the game because he hurt his ****en finger. What's the ref doing.

efb

Finger injury oh ffs

Kirby

AdamD wrote: »

Shoot ffs Welbeck

Too many bodies between him and the goal. He wasn't going to score from there and did the right thing pulling it back to the edge of the box.

Marty McFly

Nice play by Wilshere there.

Would like to see that shot again. Looked like decision should have went our way.

Soups123

TimeToShine wrote: »

FFS player starts rolling around and all our momentum is gone.

Awful from ref for a sore finger

Slattsy

Typical Chelsea ethos, drop and roll and stay down.

hadepsx

Like 2 eggs in a hanky

Soups123

Soups123 wrote: »

Awful from ref for a sore finger

Ref having a stinker

efb

Atkinson was never a ref I rated

Crackle

Mikel....oh dear

Kirby

Right man on.....but wrong man taken off for Arsenal.

Right man off.....but wrong man on for Chelsea.

Soups123

Poor decision from Arsene Cazorla has been class

tayto lover

The Arsenal passing in the Chelsea half has been very poor.

Marty McFly

Should be Ozil coming off, although it must mean Ozil going central and Ox going out wide.

GavRedKing

Mikel, ffs. :rolleyes:

TimeToShine

Cazorla off surely means Ozil into the middle? About time

How can it take so long for players to get forward!?:mad:

Fuhrer

So, Mikel is still a chelsea player then

Soups123

tayto lover wrote: »

The Arsenal passing in the Chelsea half has been very poor.

It's been very good bar final third. Chelsea packing the defense and we are trying to force it abit

duffman13

Takes Cazorla off and leaves Ozil on! Bad call, Sanchez looks ready to boil over! Can see him doing something daft

Timmyctc

The sooner they implement a forced period on the sidelines for stopping the game due to an "Injury" the less we'll see stupid stoppages cutting up teams momentum. As is players just go down when they're up against it. Get a minute of "treatment" walk to the sidelines then run straight back on. If they had a mandatory 2 -5mins on the sideline we'd see a lot fewer fake injuries.

GavRedKing

Arsenal better in the 2nd half

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

How can it take so long for players to get forward!?:mad:

Agreed. We're absolutely walking. One would think we were 3-0 up and not 1-0 down. A dream to play against. Only Sanchez showing any form of urgency. Wouldnt consider Santi the worst of us today either. Ozil has been fúcking pants.

Slattsy

This match is awful.
Arsenal controlling things.

Kirby

Timmyctc wrote: »

The sooner they implement a forced period on the sidelines for stopping the game due to an "Injury" the less we'll see stupid stoppages cutting up teams momentum. As is players just go down when they're up against it. Get a minute of "treatment" walk to the sidelines then run straight back on. If they had a mandatory 2mins on the sideline we'd see a lot fewer fake injuries.

That's completely daft. You would have teams hurting the opposition and then using the man advantage to score.

Fuhrer

Costa has been pretty quiet today, Drogba to come on?

Timmyctc

Kirby wrote: »

That's completely daft. You would have teams hurting the opposition and then using the man advantage to score.

Im just spitballing. They need something. Theres nothing stopping players injuring other players now , except yellow and red cards.

Kirby

Retrospective punishment would work. That's the answer to most things. Diving, faking injuries, fouls not seen, etc. Video evidence needs to be used after every game and isn't. It would solve a lot of problems.

duffman13

duffman13 wrote: »

Takes Cazorla off and leaves Ozil on! Bad call, Sanchez looks ready to boil over! Can see him doing something daft

Hopefully he'll shake that Ozil and tell him cop the fúck on. Getting tired of the excuses for him too.

tayto lover

Soups123 wrote: »

It's been very good bar final third. Chelsea packing the defense and we are trying to force it abit

The fact that we haven't had a shot on target goes against that.

Crackle

Fuhrer wrote: »

Costa has been pretty quiet today, Drogba to come on?

Drogba is injured. Remy is on the bench but Costa can't do anything if the ball never gets anywhere near him. Chelsea are in shut up shop mode and I fear, like at City, it'll prove to be a mistake.

Quazzie

Kirby wrote: »

Too many bodies between him and the goal. He wasn't going to score from there and did the right thing pulling it back to the edge of the box.

Frank Lampard scored half his goals with deflected shots through packed boxes. There is two ways to look at it. One. There is an increased chance it will be blocked, but also two if it makes it through it's almost a guaranteed goal as a deflection will take the keeper out of the equation.

LightningBlue

Great work by Costa to set up that chance.

Sugarlumps

Ball by Costa, eye of a needle.

Timmyctc

Kirby wrote: »

Retrospective punishment would work. That's the answer to most things. Diving, faking injuries, fouls not seen, etc. Video evidence needs to be used after every game and isn't. It would solve a lot of problems.

But it will never be implemented properly. The player could say "I actually had a sore finger and the stoppage helped me recover" Unless the refs cop on and enforce the "Only stop the game for head injuries" there needs to be some incentive to discourage the fake injury stoppages.

Costa has everything. Best in the league

Marty McFly

Deleted User wrote: »

Hopefully he'll shake that Ozil and tell him cop the fúck on. Getting tired of the excuses for him too.

Yea it not like he had a MOTM performance only a couple of weeks ago when played in his preferred position or anything.

duffman13

Welbz has been fairly anonymous in this one!