Haribo cup semi-final 1st leg Chelsea vs. Arsenal

WoollyRedHat

Biggest game of the season if not this decade.

London Blue vs. London Red.

Captain Jack will be leading the gunners out. Sanchez will sit on the bench for the last time with Arsenal, with a helicopter due to pick him up at half time.

There's also a greek giant on the bench should things go south
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There will be banners, there will be banter and it's live at 8.

Arsenal:

Ospina, Chambers, Mustafi, Holding, Bellerin, Wilshere, Xhaka, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, Welbeck, Lacazette

Subs: Macey, Mavropanos, Mertesacker, Elneny, Nelson, Walcott, Alexis

Chelsea:

Team to face Arsenal: Courtois; Azpilicueta (c), Christensen, Rudiger; Moses, Kante, Fabregas, Drinkwater, Alonso; Hazard, Morata #CHEARS

Tonight's subs: Eduardo, David Luiz, Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Willian, Pedro, Batshuayi. #CHEARS

Barr

If its half as good as last weeks match it should be a cracker.

Quazzie

10 minutes in and it's a boring enough affair so far.

irishman86

Iwobi must have been told to play more like Sanchez, sadly the lad thought Wenger meant lose the ball in dangerous positions

Soups123

We play way too much football JW cut them through the middle we get into there box then bring it back to the half line from there 18

Agent Coulson

Want some VAR action so Wenger can moan about that after the game.

Barr

Morata hatrick tonight :pac:

Quazzie

Will VAR have authority to get Hazard a booking for diving, or just reverse the penalty?

irishman86

Quazzie wrote: »

Will VAR have authority to get Hazard a booking for diving, or just reverse the penalty?

Only if its to get a player sent off i think

Vicxas

Jesus, Drinkwater is awful this match so far.

Quazzie

How many times has Hazard thrown himself to the ground and got a free?

Barr

Don't think Kante was expecting that.

Kicking someone on the foot isn't a foul now.

Soups123

VAR is deadly not slowing it down and the suspense when he's having a look is deadly

Barr

Refs just winding up Wenga for the craic.

Quazzie

Deleted User wrote: »

Kicking someone on the foot isn't a foul now.

Only if you're Belgian

WoollyRedHat

As i watch you from a VAR.

Barr

Is there away goals in this ?

Barr

Barr wrote: »

Is there away goals in this ?

No still 0-0.

WoollyRedHat

Barr wrote: »

Is there away goals in this ?

No, Arsenal are playing.

OwaynOTT

Soups123 wrote: »

VAR is deadly not slowing it down and the suspense when he's having a look is deadly

They need a screen to watch like in the hurling. Is it a penalty... n

wandatowell

Soups123 wrote: »

VAR is deadly not slowing it down and the suspense when he's having a look is deadly

I feel Sky are gonna have to up their production a bit to add to the suspense. Maybe having a camera on the VAR and the incident on a split screen so you can see his/her reaction as the replay is being viewed.

All that incident showed is that there is absolutely no point in trying to stay on your feet when you feel contact.

Barr

I thought looking at Moses face was suspense enough.

pistolpetes11

Me watching this game

martyos121

Wilshere injuring himself is the biggest surprise of the night.

That’s how you know it’s been dull and predictable.

Barr

Christensen should have done much better there.

fullstop

Quazzie wrote: »

How many times has Hazard thrown himself to the ground and got a free?

He loves the old 'drag the foot on the ground until you feel contact' trick.

fullstop

fullstop wrote: »

He loves the old 'drag the foot on the ground until you feel contact' trick.

There's absolutely no point in not doing it.

fullstop

wandatowell wrote: »

I feel Sky are gonna have to up their production a bit to add to the suspense. Maybe having a camera on the VAR and the incident on a split screen so you can see his/her reaction as the replay is being viewed.

They also need it sponsored by a big corporation like KFC do in the NRL.

fullstop

Deleted User wrote: »

There's absolutely no point in not doing it.

Why? It's basically cheating. He is the one who manufactures the contact and then goes down and gets a free.

fullstop

fullstop wrote: »

Why? It's basically cheating. He is the one who manufactures the contact and then goes down and gets a free.

Try and avoid contact, get kicked anyway, try to stay up, no penalty. **** it, go down with any contact.

Barr

What was that from Iwobi :pac:

Quazzie

Barr wrote: »

What was that from Iwobi :pac:

Just the standard from the useless fúck

So much classic Arsenal on display tonight.
Iwobi is useless.
Wilshere gets injured by the ball.
Ospina is an absolute clown.

Maybe we'll get a goal just to shut me up. :P

pistolpetes11

Deleted User wrote: »

So much classic Arsenal on display tonight.
Iwobi is useless.
Wilshere gets injured by the ball.
Ospina is an absolute clown.

Maybe we'll get a goal just to shut me up. :P

awful game , but get out 0-0 or even 1-0 down and its a good result for Arsenal

fullstop

Deleted User wrote: »

Try and avoid contact, get kicked anyway, try to stay up, no penalty. **** it, go down with any contact.

There's a bit of a difference when you're instigating the contact yourself to try to con a free or penalty. There was one on the first half where he nutmegged someone, kicked the ball miles in front and thought the tackle was coming, but it didn't so he dragged his right foot behind him and tripped over to get a free.

monkey9

This is brutal stuff.

Berserker

I think Arsenal might sneak this 0-1.

fullstop

fullstop wrote: »

There's a bit of a difference when you're instigating the contact yourself to try to con a free or penalty.

Where's the line exactly? How much onus is on the player in possession to avoid contact?

fullstop

Deleted User wrote: »

Where's the line exactly? How much onus is on the player in possession to avoid contact?

I think you know full well but sure each to their own

pistolpetes11

fullstop wrote: »

I think you know full well but sure each to their own

Bako on now , Arsenal will be worried :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

ERG89

Which set of fans are dumb enough to be calling the other team facking sh*t?

pistolpetes11

ERG89 wrote: »

Which set of fans are dumb enough to be calling the other team facking sh*t?

They would both be well within their rights doing so tonight , one of the worst games Ive watched between them

Come on the Bat man

Barr

Good riddance to Morata.

Berserker

ERG89 wrote: »

Which set of fans are dumb enough to be calling the other team facking sh*t?

Arsenal fans singing that to Morata.

pistolpetes11

they couldn't go back now could they ?

Now that was silly game played on a good bit before they went back for a look

suicide_circus

I give this match 2/10

Berserker

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

they couldn't go back now could they ?

Oh, yes they can.

fullstop

You may award the try

Barr

VAR is painful.