Curious what would have happened if ESR doesn't score. It's handball and should be a card, but what else?
And Pulisic looks injured... yet again! I suspect he may follow the illustrious footsteps of people like Wilshere whose ceilings are never really attainable because of serial injuries.
Partey v. Jorginho in today's Turnover Challenge Gonna be hard to top the Jorginho performance, but Partey is sure going to try.
Leno's save was decent. But he pushed it right into the middle danger area. We were lucky once again that they didn't have anyone there to capitalize on the rebound.
Auba is way too deep. Absolutely no out ball, and he's fast enough that if there is an out ball it's a 1v1.
Feels like we're trying to emulate Sheffield United with their overlapping centerbacks. Holding and Gabriel have both had the ball on the edge of the 18, driving forward.
As always, I pray, pray, pray we don't try to sit back and manage a 1-0 lead for another 40-50 mins. Please, please, please. Not saying we're completely doing that... yet. But we're showing some conservative signs. Which is understandable. But fvck it! Put Chelski to the sword!
HT 1-0 to the good guys. Just caught a glimpse of Auba shuffling around in their box. He looks knackered. Laca in 2T??
I'm not sure that we're capable of doing anything else in this setup against a good opponent. It invites a ton of pressure.
Can't do the basics, and no team coordination when we press. This looks like a final season Wenger game away to a big team.
So on our goal. Kepa intentionally handled (saved) a backpass. If that's a red it begs the question: are we better off having the ref allow us the goal, or rather playing the bulk of the game up a man, and maybe scoring on an indirect FK from the 6?
I didn't mean that we shouldn't try to take the game to Chelsea. I'm saying that Chelsea are so much better that it's physically impossible.
Combining two different articles that I found via Google, so view them with as many grains of salt as you like: Away teams that lead by 1 goal at any point in a match win about 66% of the time. Away teams playing against 10 men win about 57% of the time. https://towardsdatascience.com/dont-relax-just-yet-dangerous-leads-in-soccer-5e5a28630f03 http://intelligentfc.com/how-does-a-red-card-affect-the-outcome-of-a-football-match/ Take the goal. No idea what the chances of scoring from that IFK would be though.
Signs of a bad color commentator: "Arsenal weren't brave enough on the ball in the first half, lacked belief." Belief isn't going to help a team attack when the striker's starting position is 25 yards from his own goal.
Tierney is down. Hopefully just a temporary knock to the knee, rather than a reinjury after being rushed back. Edit: Was he seriously considering Hector to replace Tierney? Rather than Cedric? Man, I'd really like to know what got Soares so deep into the dog house. Edit Edit: Hector ended up coming on for Saka. I for one am surprised by that.