My predo was off it seems, though not without its own merit. Taking the positives where we can, we should have been at least 1:0 up inside the first ten minutes. Chamakh had the beating of Chelsea across the ground and we should have used that more.
I was delighted in the way our midfield performed. I thought Wilshire and Nasri continued to impress and Song sat back for the most part and did a decent job of tidying up. Diaby was picked for his power but I wish Wenger had picked Rosicky instead, his guile would have made a difference over 90 mins. Diaby slowed us down going forwards with his dribbling where a quick pass would have benefitted.
Fabianski did well again yesterday, I am very pleased for him. Drogba's flick was at his near post but difficult to judge due to the pace it was hit at so I don't allocate blame there. I felt we were naive for the second goal to allow the Chelsea player such an easy time in the wall, rookie mistake to not put our own player behind him and push him forwards out of the wall. Again, Fabianski no chance.
Despite all of the positives, there are two big negatives. We controlled the game for 88 minutes and didn't score. We were practically toothless upfront for all of Chamakhs movement and workrate we just didn't create enough and we didn't put anything in the onion bag. The second negative is something we've all been driven crazy by, why didn't Wenger try changing it sooner. He could have started ringing the changes at the 70min mark and brought on Vela and gone 4-4-2. Or pushed Arshavin and Nasri further forward for 4-3-3 not the current 4-2-3-1.
Even so, I think we deserved something, in the end all we got was a kicking, but we will play worse and annihalate someone, so there is something to take from this.
Chin up gooners its getting better for Arsenal, least its party town in Wigan, Latics and the Warriors both won! Come on the Pie-Eaters...LOL
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