Two
Stoke City players make up the Top 10 in the EPL Stats Centre in terms of tackling so far this season: Steven N'Zonzi (15 tackles, 11 won) and Marc Wilson (14 tackles, 12 won).
Stoke City player ratings: Grant 6; Johnson 5, Shawcross 6, Martins Indi 7, Pieters 7; Adam 5, Allen 7; Diouf 7, Afellay 6, Shaqiri 6; Crouch 7.
Stoke City player ratings: Grant 4, Bardsley 2, Shawcross 7, Martins Indi 7, Pieters 5, Cameron 6, Allen 6, Sobhi 7, Walters 6, Berahino 3.
Aaron Ramsey clearly has a very good relationship with Arsene Wenger, as the Arsenal boss has played a huge part in the Welshman's development and especially helped him on the long road to recovery after that potentially career ending challenge from
the Stoke City player Ryan Shawcross.
The biggest problem with N'zonzi is the fact that he was
a Stoke City player.
SEE ALSO: Chelsea FC wages: Eden Hazard on 4x more than John Terry How three rumoured Chelsea signings could fit into Conte's 3 -4-3, including # 80.5 m duo Chelsea 4 - 2
Stoke City player ratings: 9/10 for hero Willian while assist - king Fabregas gets 8
SEE ALSO: Chelsea 4 - 2
Stoke City player ratings: 9/10 for hero Willian, Fabregas gets 8 Man United hoping three - time Euro champ snubs # 450k - a-week to sign for Mourinho Chelsea reject # 50m transfer bid, but record 2nd offer incoming, # 25m salary could tempt 14 - goal hero to leave
Stoke City player ratings: Grant 5, Bardsley 4, Shawcross 4, Martins Indi 5, Pieters 4, Whelan 5, Adam 4, Sobhi 5, Allen 6, Arnautovic 5, Crouch 3.
Stoke City player ratings: Grant 6, Johnson 6, Shawcross 7, Martins Indi 7, Pieters 5, Shaqiri 4, Cameron 6, Allen 3, Arnautovic 5, Walters 7, Berahino 5.
It should depend on the opposition which players start, against
a Stoke City a player with pace like Walcott should start ahead of Giroud because defenders like Shawcross deal easily with crosses but lack pace when they are turned facing their own goal
It didn't take long for us to take the lead when Cissokho's shot bounced off
a Stoke City player into the goal; we doubled our lead with a goal from the man himself Luis Suarez!
What a debut for new
Stoke City player Jese!
And the omens are good, very good in fact, as Stoke boast a 100 % record at home to Blackburn in the league, a run they'll be eager but confident of continuing especially with the prolific scoring form of Kenwyn Jones up front, who has now scored in all four games he's played in as
a Stoke City player this season.
There are media reports that
Stoke City player Phil Bardsley might be moving to midlands rivals Birmingham City, or possibly even newly promoted Newcastle United.
Not exact matches
Chelsea do not play until Monday and hopefully they will find the trip to
Stoke as unhappy as the Gunners did recently, but Man
City have just gone into a 3 - 0 lead at home against Crystal Palace and that puts the reigning EPL champs level with Jose Mourinho and his
players and a hefty 13 points ahead of Arsenal and a massive 18 points ahead of Liverpool.
I du n no what to say... All English
players in our team are useless, walcott only cares about the money I couldn't even see Walcott both in attack and defence We could have gone 5 pts clear of
City for God's sake...
stoke match is now a must win...
Chelsea have brought in Asmir Begovic from
Stoke City, and signed AS Monaco forward Radamel Falcao on a loan deal, and both
players came on as subs during the club's 2 - 2 opening weekend draw with Swansea
City.
Will our
players be ready to battle it out against a
Stoke City team that will fight for everything?
As expected, Arsene Wenger has brought back the
players rested for the Champions League game in midweek and so Arsenal will start at Stamford Bridge with the same 11
players that won our last Premier League game against
Stoke City.
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte will be far from impressed with his
players as they allowed
Stoke City to find an equaliser just a minute into the second half.
But Bournemouth, West Ham,
Stoke, Everton,
City and West Brom we need to play our Top
players if we want to stay in the PL race
Shea cost
Stoke City # 2.5 m, a decent price for a
player who is just 22 years of age and certainly has the potential to be a success.
SEE MORE: Manchester United Prepared To Steal # 62m Arsenal Target As Falcao Replacement Arsenal Vs
Stoke City: Live Streaming & Premier League Preview Arsenal &
Stoke City Combined XI: Four Potters
Players Make The Team, Exposing Gunners» Lack Of Steel
Joe Allen's match - winning penalty sparked wild celebrations by the Liverpool
players last night as they beat
Stoke City to reach the Capital One Cup semi-final.
Stoke City have been even more unfortunate in the injury stakes: with nine
players receiving treatment they're currently top of the Premier League's injury table.
lets see how arsenal do in their next 3 games saints,
stoke and man
city we have most of our
players back so no more excuses i expect min 7 points from these games
SEE MORE: Man
City player ratings vs
Stoke: England ace claims MOTM as
City soar to league summit Man United favourites to sign # 124m superstar in January, deal set to be given the green light Spurs star set to follow footsteps of Messi and Beckham with new sponsorship deal
Nicholas also played up the importance of Ryan Giggs and his role within the coaching staff, as he believes that the Welshman's furious reaction after the loss to
Stoke City as he stormed off the pitch may well have fired up some of the attacking
players in the squad.
With a week to go before
Stoke City come to the Emirates in the Premier League, Wenger will want his
players to squeeze every ounce of effort from their legs.
Stoke City have on the other hand released and offloaded a number of senior
players including Ricardo Fuller, Salif Diao, Jonathan Woodgate and Danny Collins.
No Premier League
player can match Pogba in terms of near - misses, but
Stoke City can also count themselves short on luck, with Potters midfielder Charlie Adam hitting the woodwork four times.
Wenger may use the European clash as an opportunity to rest
players, with a home clash against
Stoke City on the horizon the following weekend.
I look at our team and then look at I don't no man
city cheese
Stoke and so on and there
players look like men but our lads look like kids.
This is despite manager Jose Mourinho asking for referees to protect his
players more before the Blues» match against
Stoke City.
However without seeing the
player for real, I think I would still prefer for Arsenal to look no further than
Stoke City's Jack Butland as the next potential Arsenal number one.
Stoke City have signed some decent
player's, So don't disrespect them without looking at their squad.
He has plenty of international experience, To think that he hasn't been roughed up before is ridiculous,
Stoke City have always been known for their Rugby style of play, especially against Us, But that doesn't mean that all their
player's are all built like Rugby
players?
Boro,
City, resurgent Leicester, Spurs, who will destroy us on our current form, Man United with Mourinho, who Arsene has never beaten, and
Stoke and Southampton away where his record is terrible and the fact that fixtures are coming up in 2 - 3 days mean either those
players start turning up or we'll continue with our abysmal run.
Lucky to draw at Everton (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied away to newly promoted Leicester (Defense), 2 pts lost Should have beaten
City @ Home (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at
Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive
players at the time, (Defense)
Coq was worst
player on the pitch he is a
player for
stoke city or barmsley at best, holding midfielder is crucial buy next window to protect the back four not to make it harder
Wolves fans certainly didn't see the best of Bothroyd, and the
player didn't exactly do too much when farmed out to
Stoke City on loan last season.
Arsenal have been linked with a number of options in defence in recent times, and their need for a new
player in that part of the pitch was made all too clear again after this weekend's disappointing 3 - 2 defeat to
Stoke City.
But one
player he won't be able to tempt to the Etihad and the obvious riches that entails will be
Stoke City striker Peter Crouch.
A
player like Flamini won't play for
Stoke city Westham Everton Swansea Saints Westbroom even at Blackpool he will struggle to get games.
this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great
player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving
players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class
player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team
player you could put him on the left against man
city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against
city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at
city they should have never lost to
stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all
There was some interesting statements from Arsene Wenger in today's Arsenal v
Stoke City pre-match press conference, and the one that most of the media took up on was what Le prof said about the ongoing contract discussions with our two star
players, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez.
SEE ALSO: Top 10
players in world football ranked by hotness of their WAGs, from Luis Suarez's wife to Mario Gotze's girlfriend Ten oldest football clubs in the world, featuring
Stoke City & Nottingham Forest Seven most overpriced Premier League
players, with Everton's «# 50m» Ross Barkley & Liverpool star
I am sure that Arsene Wenger wanted his
players to be sharp yesterday, but they and we are all aware that the Europa League game this week is far more important than a Premier League clash with a
Stoke City side that is mired in the relegation zone and playing pretty poorly.
While Arsenal should be feeling confident about today's game in the Premier League, with the visitors
Stoke City enduring a wretched record against us in London, Arsene Wenger and the
players should also be aware that Mark Hughes will be bringing a confident and in form team to the Emirates today.
At the same time,
Stoke City look set to have two of their five injured
players fit and available again.