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Chelsea vs Arsenal (LC) Wednesday 14th January 20:00 GMT

He needs to get used to it. The alternative is Gittens or Garnacho which I would say is worse.
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I thought he shone tonight.

Maybe he can bulk up a bit but his ability to create needs to be shoehorned into the team strategy. Rosenior needs to free him up and get opponents on the backfoot.

 
We just simply can’t defend and our keepers are sh*te, clear what we need to address to become a better side but I’m sure the board have got another left footed 12 year old South American winger for us instead.

 
I thought he shone tonight.

Maybe he can bulk up a bit but his ability to create needs to be shoehorned into the team strategy. Rosenior needs to free him up and get opponents on the backfoot.
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I agree. Plus getting a relationship with Palmer would give opposition defenders nightmares

 
Hopefully the yes man will try and get a settled defense before the second leg, swapping players for the sake of it shows how crap we are, Pedro is so poor and should only be a sub, Garnacho deserves his chance now and should be given the next 4 or 5 games, if he can get James at RB, Caicedo and Santos (or Lavia) behind Enzo (or Palmer) and a striker (maybe Neto)

 
Arsenal looked like they would score every time they went forward. Palpable unrest from the crowd everytime rickety rob has the ball at his feet. He is useless

 
Tonight is why arse dont win the major trophies .. They should've buried us.

But they didn't and we are in with a shout if we can field a full strength side in the second leg.
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If they don’t get enough corners they won’t score enough goals.

 
Think its academic to be honest. No way does this team win at the Emirates. It was a Man City vs Arsenal final as soon as the draw was made.
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I'm not sure why you are acting like we lost 0-3. 2 goals at Arsenal is entirely possible for this team, especially with our 3 best players back.

 
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We’ve scored twice, Sanchez f**ked up twice, and a great goal for Arsenal. Makes it 3-2.

Missing our best players too, it’s not a terrible result.

Imagine if James, Caicedo and Palmer was playing tonight… Could be a very different result.

I quite like how Rosenior encourages individuality. Never saw any of that under Maresca.
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Yeah, true. But being the plucky underdogs when playing at Stamford Bridge is a fall from where we used to be.

Still, gives us a bit of hope for the 2nd leg

Come on you BLUES

 
Arsenal looked like they would score every time they went forward. Palpable unrest from the crowd everytime rickety rob has the ball at his feet. He is useless
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Is Sanchez the new Jackson?

 
From the small bits I saw he showed better hold up play as well then likes of Delap or Pedro.
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I think Rosenior is much more likely to do this than Maresca.

 
I'm not sure why you are acting like we lost 0-3. 2 goals at Arsenal is entirely possible for this team.
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No team has scored 2 goals at the Emirates this season and if we did do so, do you really think that we will keep a clean sheet there, with this defence and the managers tactics of inviting the opposition onto us.

 
We weren't great but Sanchez cost us the game, who knows what would have happened if he hadn't cost us 2 goals.
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Not sure--they are better everywhere and will likely win it again at home.
It’s entirely possible the game would have unfolded very differently without Sánchez’s blunders, and they still might have found a way to win.

It's single elim, so it's definitely possible to beat a better team, but it usually takes a very tactical + pragmatic strategy (aka defensive) and more experienced players and roster.

 
Yeah, true. But being the plucky underdogs when playing at Stamford Bridge is a fall from where we used to be.

Still, gives us a bit of hope for the 2nd leg

Come on you BLUES
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Unfortunately that’s where we are now.

The positive we can take from the way things are now is, Arsenal have been at their absolute peak for 3 or 4 years now and what do they have to show for it? Absolutely f*ck all.

 
I will take that. Considering we had our three best players unavailable/injured then on top of that Delap also being out, Gusto being out and the already confirmed absentees, then considering we were playing arguably Arsenal’s best team available, we did well. When they went 2-0 up and then again 3-1 up, I feared the worst and they could have put that to bed. Gabriel missed a glaring header.

I am pleased with the fight shown against a top team and we have given ourselves a fighting chance in which hopefully the players aforementioned are back.

Estevao was brilliant tonight. Cannot believe how Maresca stopped playing him. He was up against one of the best FB in Europe in Timber and caused him many problems. He was a shining light.

Well played Garnacho for working on his finishing too. Got us back in game twice and now has given us something to fight for. Realistically 3-1 would have been too difficult to overturn, however 3-2, much better optimism.

COYB!

 
Think its academic to be honest. No way does this team win at the Emirates. It was a Man City vs Arsenal final as soon as the draw was made.
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This....👍..........

+ If the tackle on Trev for their 1st had been committed by a blue shirt, Var would have went into overdrive & red would have been the result, awful decision for them not to intervene in this......he could have pulled out of it, Trev got up too quick...we need to learn Arteta's dark arts

 
Thanks to Garnacho's goals the Arsenal win was limited to one goal margin. Hard to see us overturning it at their place but you never know. At least it will annoy Arteta and force him to put out a decent team to finish the job off in the second leg.

 
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