Exacting revenge at the Emirates

On a cold winter night we stood at the DW watching Arsenal capitulate to a Wigan side that looked hungrier than us, more organised than us and generally performed better than us. Which is frankly embarrasing.

We were woeful. However, football is all about 2nd chances! So now we welcome them back to our manor and now to exact our revenge.

Without wanting to jinx it, our players are all coming back to fitness and form and that can only be a good thing. The league is definitely winnable with the inconsistent performances across the board by all the teams.

Drogba was quoted as saying Chelski can't win the league because they cant string two performances together. Its a situation that all of the top teams seem to be suffering with at the moment and it seems Drog wanted to try a bit of kidology to gee up his beleagured teammates.

The only team that worries me really is ManYoo. They're keeping up that run and whilst they're not setting fire to the league, they're not losing games and thats not going to break their morale, so we need someone rubbish to break them...come on the Brum!!

So onwards to Wigan, team preview to come tomorrow..

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We fought them across every green blade

Talk is cheap, hyperbole for the media. Before this match both sides were firing shots, some of ours were friendly fire, intended to inspire and stoke up our players. Should we have needed motivation for tonights match, it was in no short supply.

Tonight was a massively professional performance by a team wanting to banish some mental demons. Across the park there were some great performances. I don't want to analyse it today, this is best served with a clear head and deployed thought.

Needless to say I'm delighted, our midfield and attach terrorised Chelsea and Koscielny and Djourou shackled the Drog.

For now, its a great night and we're back in second place at the happy end of the Prem once again.

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Ok...so 2:0 then...

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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