I guess Lampard is getting a free pass but their recent results are poor. Any other Chelsea manager would’ve faced serious scrutiny by now.
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There is bound to be an uplift in spirits for Arsenal, but it is hard to judge as Chelsea are either great or terrible, no in between.
Arsenal are there for the taking, but they are attacking well now.
You can already see influence and work of Steve Round.
Lordy, that "defending" from Emerson for the goal.
World Cup Winner Mustafi coming in
Weirdly, Arsenal look a lot like City in terms of intensity and pass selection now that Arteta has had a week there.
It was awful he had no idea where Auba was at all.
True. I think Arteta seems too arrogant like his mentor Pep to adjust to our threat and we'll punish them with counter-attacks.
United has pace unlike Chelsea. So they will cause Arsenal far more problems on the counter
An Arsenal win is much more preferable to a Chelsea win, no doubt but I still would like a draw.
2 behind Chelsea
6 ahead of Arsenal
At least we know they won't sit back, although with their defence it might not be such a problem.
Arteta's body language on the sidelines is like Peps now 
I hope it's not the knee ligaments for Chambers
Are Chelsea just there to make up the numbers or are they actually going to attack at some point?
Main theme is that hopefully Chelsea won't win.
chelsea pumping long ball after long ball. Are you stoke in disguise?
Come on, you guys, need another in next 20 minutes.
Is it Arsenal or is Chelsea just really bad today?
Thought Lampard was supposed to be an offensive genius? They have left Tammy so isolated upfront and have no pace upfront. Also, their midfield is getting overrun.
I think he overperformed initially and now most of his players have dropped back to their level. Needs good backing in January.
We'll find out on Wednesday. Would be lovely to put a pin in their optimism.
Chelsea has pace too. The problem here is that Arsenal has drive and Chelsea doesn’t. If we play with the right mentality as Ole seems to insist on doing, we will go for every ball and challenge Arsenal. That will either give us a foul for us or they will be taken too forward. It’s up to our players to stick one to them.
Kante booked 
Chelsea playing like Burnley yesterday, kicking lumps out of them.
Yellow for Mount.
We haven’t had easy games with these shit heads in a while
In other news Arteta seems to have put Arsenal players on the Pep drug cocktail.
Think he is an Arsenal fan.
Wrong team getting the bookings now...
There’s some merit in that
Combination of new manager bounce for Arsenal and Chelsea being bad.
Yeah, My stream has just reached that stage.Kante booked
Kante and Mount booked within seconds.
Kantes passing is mediocre
Let them lose, I’m tired of listening how Lampard is a genius and Ole is a PE teacher.
If Chelsea lose this, it will be 6 defeats in 8, yet they will stay in 4th
Arsenal are looking good, bit Chelsea need to change something
Not sure I would like David Luiz on any drug cocktail.
Too bad McTominay is injured for this one, he would have been perfect for what you described