Historically, Arsenal has the advantage in facing Chelsea.︾

From 1998 to 2004, the two teams met 16 times in various competitions, and the Gunners won 11 times, which is an overwhelming advantage.

However, in recent seasons, Arsenal has been a little weak against Chelsea. The last time Arsenal defeated Chelsea was in February 2004. Brazilian midfielder Edu's goal allowed Arsenal to win 2-1 away. At that time, Chelsea's coach was still Ranieri.

Since Mourinho took over Stamford Bridge, the situation of the two teams has undergone a reverse change. Chelsea has won 4 times in the last seven encounters, while in the last four matches, Arsenal only scored one goal in Chelsea, which was on the Community Shield last season.

Speaking of facing Chelsea, Wenger's biggest headache was Drogba. Last season, Chelsea won three matches against Arsenal, winning all three games, and Drogba scored all three goals in three games.

Before this game, Arsenal faced a central defender crisis. The rear-back Toure was suspended due to cumulative yellow cards. Galas was injured and had only 20% chance of playing. Jolu was also injured. Whether he could play was unknown. In this way, Wenger might be forced to use Gilberto to play the central defender and partner with Sendros, and Drogba once left a considerable shadow on the latter.

But now Zhang Tiehan has leapt past Drogba and became the player that makes the Frenchman the most troublesome. Fortunately, Wenger has almost no real way to suppress Zhang Tiehan. For two seasons, the French have to face this problem, and he has never thought of a solution yet. Zhang Tiehan led Wigan to defeat Arsenal when he was in Wigan Athletics, and he still frequently broke Arsenal goals at Liverpool. Zhang Tiehan is almost Arsenal's nemesis. In the teams against him, as long as Zhang Tiehan is on the losing side, Arsenal will be the losing side. In this regard, Drogba is much stronger. After all, Arsenal had a draw against Chelsea.

In short, Wenger is a headache for preparing for the game.

However, the good news before the game is that Chelsea is having an "internal" conflict, and this "internal" conflict is really not small. Shepchenko and Grant are in the ring game. In any case, there will definitely be some turmoil in Chelsea, so that Arsenal will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Before the game, many Arsenal players expressed their confidence in defeating Chelsea.

"We want to defeat them!"

"As Mr. Wenger said, we will work hard!"

"Arsenal has not achieved good results recently, but it is different from Chelsea! I believe we have a good chance!"

"The whole team is full of fighting spirit!"

"We will definitely win!"

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Looking at these words about Arsenal players expressing their fighting spirit, Zhang Tiehan felt speechless. He now felt that Chelsea is like an oss. Arsenal is here to challenge the ss. They lost repeatedly against other teams, and when they were playing against Chelsea, they were full of fighting spirit?
Chapter completed!