Well I was not expecting that. For the second game in a row Chelsea struggled against a team in the relegation zone and this time there was no miracle escape.
Chelsea’s draw at Hull means that Arsenal are only 6 points back of the league leaders heading into Sunday’s game. Assuming that Man United beat Portsmouth on Saturday, and Arsenal beat Chelsea, then the Gunners will be 4 points back of United and 3 points back of Chelsea.
Even a draw does not end the Gunners title hopes, as that would only leave them 6 back of United, and Arsenal have a much easier schedule than either Chelsea or Man United.
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Let’s fight,fight,Fiiiiiiiight!!!!!!!!!!!
this is george the g man we changed our formation when we were strong always at 442 just had wrong mentality and aproach and not as strong squad (after invincibles).now we have been playing stupid 451 s which ruins all end of last season cup chances any one can see if they look at it and consider it ,against weak clubs maybe but any half decent ones no ,since these messed up formations every week week out we look vulnerable and we never did with 442 we were only caught by one goal if ever did we lose and they would just sitback and try to defend and as i said due mentality inexperience and aproach and squad we sometimes could not break them down but now we know what to do and with 442 we will domininate if we see 442 you will see ,and so after this ludicrus 451 we went too another experiment 433 much better and effective anything better than that 451 but i still saw the vulnerability in it even in the everton game and all of them i s have been screaming this since i saw us with that joke 451 and have still to this day just not as much with the 433 as i thought maybe since we looked good and won even though looking vulnerable but now my fears are more clear if not certain ,dont get me wrong i think we could pull it off with any formation if anyone can its arsenal .we never looked vulnerable or like conceding with 442 and now we do since these crazy formations in my opinion we were surgicaly dismatled by man city because of this as with these two formations is no balance 433 weakness in defence leads to weakness in attack and 451 vice versa to me this is clear to see as i am a great very talanted footballer and have experince in formations so with this 433 we our very defensively weak especialy on the break with the 442 we will have harmony invinceable defence midfield and attack surely some one must agree does anyone agree,only with strong tall and creative engine players in midfield wud we pull it off barca pull it off but this is in the spanish league which is nothing compared to the premiership eccept barca ,real and they have messi who in there games comes back to win the ball and is always back until they have the ball and then he gets forward
Drogba got his fifth yellow card (before the end of Feburary) last night. will he be suspended next game?
Good question Francis. I will look more into that
No he won’t be suspended. I believe the rules state that the suspension will commence 7 days after the 5th Yellow card was given. Since Chelsea played mid week..Drogba is likely to be suspended for Chelsea’s next match after Arsenal. Bad luck i guess…but i’d rather beat a Chelsea team with Drogba playing so that there are no excuses afterwards
Where is that italian now he can see himself fighting for 3rd position and ending back TO italy!
Yaah, another opportunity 2 close on chelsea. Pls they should just make sure they beat chelsea on sunday.
Yes drogba will miss next match if he collected 5 yellow card
Can’t wait to see carlo and his chav orcs fight for 3rd place…i bet he assumed this was the italian serie A,DULL ITALIAN!!
4 pints back! Methinks you have a drink problem!
More of a spelling problem Dave:)
common my boys, u can win dis chelsea team on sunday as far as ordinary hull city team can draw dem.up gunner.keep d faith.
Defeat is for real champions. They turn it around and make it a pleasure. Lets turn this defeat arong guys. We can pull out something special from our top drawer. BELIEVE!!!
Arsenal will damage chelsea, whose title hope will be in disray.
Go gunner