What happened to their experience at the Emirates this season when we beat them. If experience was so important then Silvestre would be one of our best players. Talent is far more important
I am still trying to understand the reasoning for Cesc playing in the half striker role. My first thought was that Wenger didn't want him to be in the middle of central midfield going in for 50:50 tackles and doing damage to his knee after being out for so long with the problem
Arsene Wenger may have a job on his hands in motivating the players to go hell for leather but to be honest, I do not think Arsene will be instructing his players to do that
The lovely guys at the Daily Mail are on the verge of selling Tomas Rosicky, as you know they are in charge of all Arsenals transfers
Arsenal and Barca on top of their games would be just total football. No bus parking, no time wasting, no route one crap just sexy gorgeous triangles. Many people look at triangles and think very little about them.
Much has been made of Cesc's role further forward and I have little doubt that he is better suited to the deeper role alongside Song, Denilson etc. I cannot help but think that Arsene has 'balancing the team' firmly in his thoughts
What is it with these former players of ours? unless they are asked to speak about their former team mates from their management. It is quite annoying though. Hleb's role at Barcelona is now 90% Cesc poacher, the other 10% is to warm the bench for the Barca stars
I mentioned before but I would have liked to have seen us line up 4-2-3-1 with our creative players doing what they do best and ask them to hand Chelsea some questions
A battle that interests me is Walcott vs Cole. I can almost hear the words of John Terry telling Cole to go in hard in the opening minutes but he will have to catch Theo first
Another option Wenger has if he is not sure about playing Gibbs in such an important game is to bring Song back into the center of defence with Mikael Silvestre moving across to left back