Arsene Wenger is going to have a dilemma on Tuesday if he is intending to rotate his starting line - up like he has done in Arsenal's last two midweek games, with the massive game
against League leaders Man United next weekend.
Not exact matches
The year before that we did win our opener
against Crystal Palace after beating
Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another
league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway
leaders.
In fact there are at least three key
men at the current
league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match
against them at home, which saw Arsenal inflict their heaviest defeat of the season.
After Barcelona crawled over the line with ten
men to earn a point away
against Celta Vigo, the
league leaders will be pleased to keep their hopes of going the whole season unbeaten alive despite major squad rotation.
A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game
against the Premier
League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's way at crucial points of the game.
Burnley battled their way to an impressive 1 - 1 draw
against Man City at the weekend, with defender Ben Mee taking a very literal approach to stopping the runaway Premier
League leaders in the tracks.
City played for a half with ten
men following the dismissal of Fabian Delph for a terrible challenge and Will Grigg scored a late winner for Wigan as the Latics notched up another FA Cup success
against league leaders City
His approach is certainly different to that of the main goal creators in the team, Cesc Fabregas and Oscar, and that will be important as the
league leaders come up
against more and more teams who play with 10
men behind the ball.
The likes of Chelsea, Arsenal,
Man City and
Man United won their respective games on Boxing Day and Liverpool must win their contest
against Stoke City today to pressurize the
league leaders.
Ebbsfleet extended their unbeaten run to eight matches as they fought back for a 2 - 2 draw
against National
League leaders Macclesfield, who finished the match with 10
men at Kuflink Stadium.