Arsenal. On fire. Chelsea. At their resilient best. Prospects? A defence vs attack style game. Akin to training session. True test for Arsenal. A game that Chelsea will relish. Hazard can create a moment of magic. Arsenal beware.
That’s it in a nutshell. It’s a difficult one to call. Chelsea could easily do exactly what they did to United last weekend and create one moment of decisive brilliance before retreating back to their 30 yard line where Jose Mourinho has them better drilled than The Channel Tunnel. They let you have the ball until the moment you get to their perceived danger point. Then a player steps out and does his duty to block the threat. It’s as annoying for the aggressor as it is effective for The Blues.
Arsene Wenger currently looks like the cat who got the cream, the tuna and the mouse to play with
Arsene Wenger reported, in his weekly press conference on Thursday, that Per Mertesacker is only 50/50 for the game. We would play Gabriel Paulista anyway, after his impressive assimilation in the English game. The Ox is also still being nursed back to fitness. Other than that, it will be a very similar line up to the one which dispatched Liverpool the last time Arsenal played in the league.
Here’s our best XI for the game which may just end with pundits talking Arsenal up for a late title surge.
Bellerin’s pace may better cope with that of Hazard. Debuchy’s experience may get him in the side however
