Quote from: TastyChillySauce00 on Today at 03:16:46 AM

The home advantage will help Chelsea a lot, but I'm worried. Our opponent will likely have their captain and playmaker back. The new report says that Arteta has confirmed Odegaard will play against Chelsea and our biggest problem is him. Lavia and Caicedo must focus on man marking Odegaard.

Arsenal was getting several bad results when Odegaard was absent due to the injury, but he's coming back now. It means Arsenal may be threatening us through a line breaker pass by him. Our team shall mark him with a man.

With this information from Arteta, Declan Rice will miss this big match and Odegaard will be able for playing but not sure he will start with a debut 11-players or will be used as a substitution for Arsenal. Both Rice and Odegaard are very important for Arsenal in defense, ball control and attacking, so the absence of Rice will affect Arsenal's distant defense ability and if they won't have Odegaard for most time of this match, their attacking system and attacking power will be affected too.

Quote from: tusandii on Today at 02:59:23 AM

And it should be noted that the current Chelsea coach is Enzo Maresca not Pochettino so the one who deserves praise is Enzo Maresca because Chelsea's revival this season is thanks to him.

Maresca is not Pochettino and he has less experienced in Premier League and in big matches than Pochettino. So far Maresca does his great job for Chelsea but we will need his performances in more big matches to have clearer evidence on his management capability.

This match with Arsenal will be one of these in this season, and meeting Arsenal-in-crisis looks to be perfect for Chelsea to find a win.