Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal Player Rating and Match Reaction

[KSE Comedy Club]

Why do we need to be perfect from now until the end of the season?

We need to go on a good run for sure. But that’s always been the case with us and winning the title

My marker is that we can probably be six points off the top by new year and still be well in with a shout

Because that is the only way to 'guarantee' a title win - which we should be doing this year after 5 years of spending millions to compete.
We can afford a couple of games point drops but realistically, no more than 2 games.


From this point in the season:
Liverpool can get a max total of 109 points
Citeh can get a max total of 104 points
We can get a max total of 100 points.

So if we are saying the average points needed to win is 90 - it doesn't leave us with much room to breathe

[Letters]

From this point in the season:
Liverpool can get a max total of 109 points
Citeh can get a max total of 104 points

But they're not going to get those totals are they? If nothing else they play each other.
I don't agree we have to be perfect but we do need to go on a run now - with the games we have we should be doing that.
Do that and Liverpool drop some points - which they're surely going to do - and we can chip away at that lead. If it's 9 points at the turn of the year then I'd agree it's all over bar the shouting, but there's a lot of football to be played between now and then.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I think at this point of the season the points total is largely meaningless

The average points total after 10 games for any team eventually being crowned champions is 22.5 - so we are already 3-4 points behind that.

But we sure as hell are no worse

After 11 games:
2022/23 = 28 points
2023/24 = 24 points
2024/25 = 19 points

I would say we are definitely worse.

[HCZ_Reborn]

The average points total after 10 games for any team eventually being crowned champions is 22.5 - so we are already 3-4 points behind that.




After 11 games:
2022/23 = 28 points
2023/24 = 24 points
2024/25 = 19 points

I would say we are definitely worse.

Apples and Bowling Balls when you compare fixtures

Last season after five games we had the same amount of points at home as we do last season

And away games much tougher, we’d also played more games at home than away from home after 11 games.


Two seasons ago we did the same as last season but in reverse, had one good half of the season, one indifferent half

You realise there’s a big difference between average points total is 22 points and saying no team has won the title without at least 22 points

[HCZ_Reborn]

Also we’d scored 23 goals at this point last season compared to 18 this. However six of those goals were penalties and we’ve had not one penalty given to us in the league this season

And that’s before you factor in that 5 of those goals were against Sheffield United who were pathetic

No injuries to key players or suspensions due to pedantic red cards


Now my contention is that we weren’t great last season in the first half (because we weren’t) but the scope is actually there for us to be in a better position than we were at Xmas last year (where we were just as poor in form).

My general point is, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before and therefore no reason yet to be too despondent. I was definitely hoping that we’d put these poor spells behind us, but that was being incredibly optimistic without a striker

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Very balanced and analytical

Im not generally predisposed to be Optimistic. And I don’t think my current opinion comes from optimism. It’s how unimpressed I am with the other teams in the league

The lack of a striker was I agree negligent. I was scolded for being annoyed at spending so much on Calafiori when we needed a striker.

When you word things like this you make it sound like their was another sentient creature on this green earth that agreed with Arteta's reasoning i.e. getting another CB was more important than bringing in a forward.

Anyway, like IBK said, we'll need a whole lot of luck now and to keep praying the gap doesn't get bigger which could miraculously allow us in January to correct these grievous sins of omission.

[KSE Comedy Club]

But they're not going to get those totals are they? If nothing else they play each other.
I don't agree we have to be perfect but we do need to go on a run now - with the games we have we should be doing that.
Do that and Liverpool drop some points - which they're surely going to do - and we can chip away at that lead. If it's 9 points at the turn of the year then I'd agree it's all over bar the shouting, but there's a lot of football to be played between now and then.

No of course not, but if you took it in the context of what I was saying about the average points total to WTL, then we have far less wiggle room now than both of them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

When you word things like this you make it sound like their was another sentient creature on this green earth that agreed with Arteta's reasoning i.e. getting another CB was more important than bringing in a forward.

Anyway, like IBK said, we'll need a whole lot of luck now and to keep praying the gap doesn't get bigger which could miraculously allow us in January to correct these grievous sins of omission.

I was on another Arsenal forum around August, and I got suspended after people piled on me for making such a suggestion (that it was negligent to prioritise a defender). Though of course I can’t confirm their sentience

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

I was on another Arsenal forum around August, and I got suspended after people piled on me for making such a suggestion (that it was negligent to prioritise a defender). Though of course I can’t confirm their sentience

WTF....they definitely couldn't have been Arsenal fans, probably Spuds....but they can't even enjoy our misery either as they are going through a lot too .

Its actually a bit funny how the newbie mangers (at least the ones who got top teams) are the ones doing pretty well currently. You might want to reconsider that argument you were having with Mac on Abramovich's model of handling the help.

[HCZ_Reborn]

WTF....they definitely couldn't have been Arsenal fans, probably Spuds....but they can't even enjoy our misery either as they are going through a lot too .

Its actually a bit funny how the newbie mangers (at least the ones who got top teams) are the ones doing pretty well currently. You might want to reconsider that argument you were having with Mac on Abramovich's model of handling the help.

Not at all, because there’s a cavernous gulf between saying Arteta is not taking us forward and we should look to replace and embracing the chaos that’s the norm at Chelsea and has been since Mourinho flounced off for the first time back in 2007.

Getting a new coach in with new ideas….great, sacking that coach because it’s not working out within six months? Not so good. And in Chelsea’s case a lot of the time it came down to the fact that they were making poor hiring choices to begin with. Big Phil Scolari, AvB and the phalanx of different Italians they brought in.