Arsenal - Chelsea 24/09/2016
Arsenal - Chelsea 24/09/2016
In this meeting of the 6 th round of the English Premier League Arsenal accepted Chelsea. This great derby comes at a crucial time of the season for both participants in it. "Gunners" were very mediocre in the first rounds of the campaign having recorded several frustrating result. The loss from Liverpool to launch their act very negatively and created new variations in subsequent rounds. The sharp criticism of Arsene Wenger finally were silenced after the team manager of the French out of the crisis and is now enjoying its strongest shape for a long time. Three consecutive wins in the last league circles greatly improve the confidence of the team and put him in the best possible position before the big derby with Chelsea.
The season of "blue" develops in a completely different way. For a long time they recorded victory after victory, but their strong series found its end of "Liberty" in the local tie 2-2 Swansea. Round later the team of Antonio Conte household suffered defeat by Liverpool and put an end to a phenomenal series of Italian mentor of his consecutive households without loss occurred.
Problems Chelsea were dictated mainly by problems in the protection plan, which in turn is related to the absence of captain John Terry. He received a nasty injury during the visit of Swansea, and still is not clear whether you can take part in the big derby with Arsenal.
"Reds" were without Olivier Giroud in the last round after French international has had a slight injury foot that left him outside the group for the visit of Hull City. However, Alexis Sanchez erase Olivier lack of strong performance and two goals to win 1-3.
The interesting thing here is that one of the last teams come to win "Emirates" is precisely Chelsea. "Blue" won the derby on 24 January this year thanks to the goal by Diego Costa, which continues to show amazing scoring qualities. The Spain international has 5 goals in the last five league rounds and definitely the most important player for the team this season.
I expect Arsenal to play one of the best matches of the year and win the derby of the round, which definitely gave request for the title.
Forecast: 1