GWT: PL Matchweek 5

[Peen]

Saved by the brilliant call

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Ha! Excellent.

 

[Cassano]

Lool Channing Tatum

 

[Blender]

Ok time to get Moses off the field.

 

[Peen]

That was the most Victor moses thing I've ever seen

He dummied himself so hard

 

[Peen]

Ok time to get Moses off the field.

Agree. Put Bats on and shift Morata wide and go for it

 

[booyakasha]

stupid stupid by Luiz

 

[Cassano]

Absolutely disgusting.

 

[Peen]

The right call absolutely..

 

[Blender]

Stupid challenge by Luiz.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Deserved red, but that could've been way worse.

EDIT: I mean the end result of the contact. Not trying to defend the tackle.

 

[Evilo]

Right call indeed.
Though you could say Luiz has every right to try to take the ball and he looks to the ground and as such doesn't see the Arsenal player

In all seriousness, that's not only bad because Luiz was great, but the last minutes without him might be very tough.

 

[Peen]

Deserved red, but that could've been way worse.

Totally

Could have easily been a broken leg

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I would've given a second yellow to Kolasinac there.

 

[Blender]

A draw just isn't good enough.

 

[Evilo]

I love how to Chelsea players and fans (in the stadium), every foul is a yellow now
As if the Luiz foul didn't deserve the red.

 

[Cassano]

Great game.

 

[maclean]

Nervewracking finish

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I love how to Chelsea players and fans, every foul is a yellow now
As if the Luiz foul didn't deserve the red.

You'll note that my exact words on Luiz were "deserved red"

EDIT: Didn't catch your speedy edit. Disregard.

 

[Peen]

Still pretty annoyed by the tactical setup today

Alonso was always going to give up the space behind to Bellerin.. should have had Rudiger playing to cover that. Alonso's pace issues seemed to be neutralized with Rudiger covering. Plus he's just better than Cahill.

Arsenal did **** all with bakayoko on the field.

Moses is always a gamble.. one that is best utilized as an energy substitute or rotation player.

And Hazard seemed fine.

Oh well. Onto Atletico..

 

[Evilo]

You'll note that my exact words on Luiz were "deserved red"

EDIT: Didn't catch your speedy edit. Disregard.

Yeah, meant in the stadium

 

[Adonis Creed]

Good away performance.

Lack of Zeste provided nothing again been **** so far.

Xhaka was decent...quite a miracle

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Still pretty annoyed by the tactical setup today

Alonso was always going to give up the space behind to Bellerin.. should have had Rudiger playing to cover that. Alonso's pace issues seemed to be neutralized with Rudiger covering. Plus he's just better than Cahill.

Arsenal did **** all with bakayoko on the field.

Moses is always a gamble.. one that is best utilized as an energy substitute or rotation player.

And Hazard seemed fine.

Oh well. Onto Atletico..

Yep, pretty much all of Arsenal's offense came from the right side, and it was almost entirely because of Bellerin's pace advantage. Rudiger might not have been a bad idea, especially after how Cahill was shaky at midweek.

Bakayoko is very quickly becoming a favourite of mine. My hope going forward is that we switch to a 3-5-2, with a midfield of Baka-Kante-Fab and Hazard sitting behind Morata. Use Pedro and Willian as high energy subs.

I thought Moses had some really positive moments today, so I'll give him credit for those. I would've preferred Zappa, but that's the way it goes.

Hazard should've come on earlier, but we're a totally different team with him on the pitch.

Atletico isn't until next week. We have Forest at midweek, then Stoke, then Atletico.

 

[Adonis Creed]

Oliver was fantastic today too...rare that I mention that from a ref...was spot-on on 98% of the decisions.

 

[hatterson]

Not watching and box is unclear. Was Luiz a straight red (and thus 3 game suspension) or a second yellow (and thus 1)