Match Day Thread Arsenal vs Chelsea - Matchday Thread

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Venue: Emirates Stadium
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
KO time: 20:00 BST

Overall Record

Wins: 83
Losses: 66
Draws: 59

Last six meetings

Chelsea 2-2 Arsenal
Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea
Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal
Chelsea 2-4 Arsenal
Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal

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Looking forward to this one.

 

I am too. A huge opportunity to twist the knife into Chelsea and to win 4/5 league games this month heading into the Spurs game on the weekend.

 

Have to say. We are a bit fortunate that Chelsea’s two best players this season - Palmer and Gusto - aren’t playing. We absolutely have to take advantage of that Chelsea side.

 

Partey finally getting a start.

He needs a big performance.

 

Excellent first 10 mins. Best we've played in a while.

 

We should be two goals up and they should be down to 10. Jackson's challenge on Tomiyasu was absolutely terrible, how's he not even been booked for that? VAR pathetic yet again.

 

Sakas had a terrible start though.

 

Saka’s a lucky boy. He gave away a very cheap and unnecessary corner that Disasi should have scored from. Don’t do that again.

 

Rice goes close with a great effort. Unlucky.

 

Didn’t realise Nicolas Jackson was faster than Saliba. We need to keep an eye on that.

Saka should have shot. He had a favourable angle and was a clear sight on goal, he delayed it too long.

 

Madueke got around Tomiyasu way too easily there. We need to be careful we don’t get isolated in 1v1s in wide areas and don’t make the game too transition-based because Chelsea have a lot of pace in their attack.

 

Havertz should have laid that off to Odegaard who would have had a clear chance on goal. Why did he shoot when he had two players in the way? That’s such a poor decision to make in that situation.

 

It’s nuts that we have such little speed and dynamism in our attack. The only player we have is Martinelli and he’s on the bench. Really need to get one in the Summer.

 

Should have at least 2.

Thomas Partey has been excellent. Finally seeing our best midfield playing together.

 

HT. 1-0.

We should have killed this game ages ago, but we didn’t and Chelsea got back into it. They’ve had slightly more of the ball but we’ve had the best chances by far. To be fair, they’ve had some decent chances themselves, but we’ve been far too complacent. Very un-Arsenal like.

We need to make sure Chelsea’s forwards aren’t left in a foot race with our defenders because they will outpace and stretch them.

We need to gain control of the game better and stop turning over possession so carelessly.

 

2-0! White!

Just what we needed at the start of the second half. We’ve been all over them since the restart and finally we put one of our chances away. Great team goal from us but Chelsea’s marking was diabolical.

 

3-0

Great work from Havertz.

This midfield is class!

 

3-0! Havertz!

The ex-Chelsea player scores and celebrates against his former club. He’s really not had a good game tonight but he’s made it 3, so who cares lol.

What an unreal pass by Odegaard btw