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Arsenal vs Chelsea (Community Shield) Sunday 3PM

marv3llous

Qwiss! wrote:
Its not really a competitive match though. And they're not really trophies Cech is going to consider in his collection of what he's won.

It is a competitive match. Cech thing would just be a psychological warfare against Mourinho. As would Wenger finally getting one over him.

Mirth

If we lose, there's no way you lot will shrug it off as a pre season game

marv3llous

And if we win, there's gonna be a great deal of willy shaking going on in here.

Burnwinter

Qwiss! wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
To my mind losing the Charity Shield to Chelsea would have zero impact on our season just as winning against City had zero impact last season.
I remember the exact same discussions taking place here prior to the City game last August.
The notion that it would be a springboard to launch us into the season was rapidly disproved by subsequent performances and results.
It would be really annoying, irritating and it would take some of the gloss off of our pre-season but the suggestion that a loss would derail us suggests that we are fundamentally fragile.
I don't think we are, clearly it'd be excellent to get one over on them but if we don't it'll be forgotten by Monday, if it's not then players and managwnent have priorities wrong.

That just about sums it up perfectly.

Except that "it'd be excellent to get one over on them" doesn't really convey how excellent it would be, 'cause it'd be great even if it didn't have wider significance.

redwhiteAustrian

Maybe my thinking for this is too positive, but I don't think the match will have any negative effects on us for the PL season, regardless of the outcome.

If we lose, we'll have enough games left to pick ourselves up (if necessary) and if we win we finally end this poor set of results against Mourinho, which can't be bad either.

y va marquer

Mirth wrote:
If we lose, there's no way you lot will shrug it off as a pre season game

I will, not a bother.
As I said it'd be annoying, maybe even infuriating to lose to them but the game means nothing.

Winning versus West Ham on the 9th is all that matters right now.

goon

Indeed, we're going to win the league regardless. It is known.

marv3llous

I just want to shake my willy.

dreamlord

If we defeat a Chelsea team that consists of Hazard, Costa, Fabregas, Matic, Terry and Courtois, I will be ecstatic. Last season's City team did not have many of their starters - for that reason, it didn't really amount to much.

Iloveyouarsenewenger

Even if the game has zero correlation with Premier League performances, I don't see why we shouldn't be desperate about getting one over Chelsea in a cup final format. There are no trade-offs here. If Chelsea take this lightly, good for us - let us have the community shield over nothing please.

A loss would obviously continue our mental block against Mourinho. We may not have started well, but, we did well against City last year after that early win. Given our poor record against Mourinho, a win here can only be a boost to our confidence while preparing for the Premier League encounters against his team.

I am, definitely, looking at it as a competitive match and not a friendly. It might not hold the significance of a title decider in the league or a cup final, but, I'd surely give it more value than a run-of-the-mill league match.

banduan

I kinda like the Arsenal winning stuff, ya know, in general.

jones

Regardless of a game having any impact on our season we definitely shouldn't be treating this like a friendly. Fuck Mourinho, if it looks like we're losing the game with ten minutes to go we should put on Flamini and some youngsters and aim for Hazard's knees

Burnwinter

Right, I've planned out Sunday

1530 We go 3-0 up with a brilliant team goal and then pass it around calmly until half time.
1615 Mourinho loses his shit and engages in another laughable touchline scuffle with Wenger.
1700 Match concludes with the announcement that we've signed Benzema.

banduan

Burnwinter wrote:
Right, I've planned out Sunday

1530 We go 3-0 up with a brilliant team goal and then pass it around calmly until half time.
1615 Mourinho loses his shit and engages in another laughable touchline scuffle with Wenger.
1700 Match concludes with the announcement that we've signed Benzema.

1730 Cake is served.
1735 Cake bursts open and out pops a smiling Theo exclaiming "I signed da ting! I signed da ting!"

Burnwinter

😆

Rex

😆

yuv

Of course the game and result are meaningless on the day, but just as obvious that it does mean something. Beating Mou's chelsea is a monkey we need to take off our backs.
For those with short memories, Utd were the same. The win in the FA cup was absolutely huge - we now don't even consider Utd among the "problem teams" for us, but we did, in a big way, before we finally beat them. Gotta do the same on sunday
( and then, obviously, repeat each time we meet them 🙂 ).

Bold Tone

banduan wrote:
Burnwinter wrote:
Right, I've planned out Sunday

1530 We go 3-0 up with a brilliant team goal and then pass it around calmly until half time.
1615 Mourinho loses his shit and engages in another laughable touchline scuffle with Wenger.
1700 Match concludes with the announcement that we've signed Benzema.

1730 Cake is served.
1735 Cake bursts open and out pops a smiling Theo exclaiming "I signed da ting! I signed da ting!"

😆
Close, but no cigar.
You need to be ridiculous, use CAPS LOCK, poor grammar, terrible spelling and OTT punctuation to match RAWK.
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just before kick off when the cameras are on, the team forms a circle chain chanting very loudly, "NEGRITO! NEGRITO! NEGRITO!

Then in the midddle out pops a smiling glen johnson pulling up his jersey to reveal a t-shirt of suarez with a text saying. "OUR SUAREZ IS A FRIEND TO ALL COLOURS!"

this all ends with a loud "we willl never walk alone!" war cry from all the players1[/font][/size]

y va marquer

Don't agree that the FA Cup win lifted the United hoodoo as categorically as you suggest yuv.
We failed to beat them in the league.
I know that it's a neat idea - beat Chelsea in Community Shield => curse lifted => beat them in the PL but
there is nothing riding on the result of this game and it's a neutral venue.
Whatever the outcome, when our PL ties against them roll around this game will not hang over procedings.

Bold Tone

I think Wenger will use the friendly match to further boost Debuchy's match readiness.
GK and CBs pick themselves and on the other flank, Gibbs has looked fitter than Monreal so he may get the nod.
Chelsea are very physical and so Coq is a must and i think he will start with Wilshere on the right wing with Ox coming on at the usual 70 minute mark.
Ramsey has looked very good this pre-season so this would be his chance to displace Cazorla from the first team.
Going by what we have seen, so far, i think the front three would be Walcott, Giroud and Oz.

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