Wenger’s Arsenal sides were phemenonally difficult to beat when down to 10 men. They used some of their preparation time to train being a man down.
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So Arteta has just given the rest of the league the blueprints for how to beat them. Get a man sent off as they won’t have prepared for it.
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That was mostly because they had Viera in their team and knew he had a fair to good chance of getting sent off 
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Give me strength.
I did find it odd how average they looked, Chelsea certainly didn’t look like the side down to 10 men. They absolutely smashed at the door against Man City a few months back but this wasn’t great.
They will win the title because they are bullies but it’s awful to watch.
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What an idiotic behaviour from Paqueta yesterday. And he’s one of their best/most experienced players. Is he trying to force a move in January, having failed to move a few times near the window’s closure? Pathetic if so.
Always found him a little bit overrated also. Great final ball quality and variety, maybe he’s frustrated that he’s still at West Ham these days, but you gotta be more professinal than that.
Brazil made a big mistake at WC22 when they forced him as a double-pivot alongside Casemiro, mostly behind Neymar central. Just not a good combination. Guimaraes should’ve played much more.
Did Arteta actually say that?? That’s hilarious!
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FFS! Don’t tell Arne that!
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Crazy to think we were in for Bowyer and prepared to pay 9m (before the Dyer fight but after he had been convicted of affray and separately charged with GBH)
Apparently Lee Bowyer really thought liverpool was ‘too far away’:
You wonder if this is a knock on from Guehi.
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Also, Glasner made comments after the Man United about how Palace had missed the opportunity to strengthen their squad etc., which usually doesn’t bode well, especially considering his contract is running down.
I genuinely respect them as a club on all fronts but I think they are a summer window away from not seeing the top half of the table in the following few years at least (Glasner leaving, Guehi leaving, Wharton likely leaving for a big sum, Mateta possibly leaving as well).
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The problem is Palace have one of the smallest, if not the smallest budgets in the Premier league. It needs to sell players to fund squad recruitment or to pay higher wages. Without those, it’s hard to persuade the likes of Guehi or Mateta to sign new deals and stick around while the club builds around them.
Hopefully they have got Dougie’s replacent in and working on bringing in more talent.
They had a tricky summer, with that big question whether they’re in Europe or not, also struggling to improve their depth at CB. The whole Guehi thing got really close to Liverpool, but ultimately I do understand if they pulled the plug on it. The player himself doesn’t seem troubled, he’s been performing fine since. He doesn’t seem like someone who would do differently.
And yeah, at a club like Palace, you just have to keep rolling and find new ones. Parish recently said they’re putting effort in that recruitment. Can’t put too much hope in keeping a team together for anywhere near a decade, it’s unrealistic. But they’re doing some nice things off the pitch for the long term with investments in their Academy infrastructure and soon they will rebuild one of their main stands.
Everton winning 1-0 at Bournemouth
City 5-4 up at Fulham. It was 5-1.
I turned it off at 3-0 
8 mins to be added
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yeah, I can fault them for it, but can also understand how on deadline day the manager can put his foot down when his only option appears to have been that guy they were going to bring in from Brighton, and who I think is still to play any meaningful minutes for West Ham.
Grealish scores his first goal, from outside the box, for 5 years.
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City are a mess. Properly rattled. They are defending like we did against Palace in the semi final years ago.
Palace just had one cleared off the line
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