Shaka Hislop
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Appearances Over Time
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And you set up Schalke, and not many can deny Arsenal, certainly for, what, 93 minutes or whatever it was.
And so you take that for what it is.
But given the fact that you're down a goal, you need one to get yourself back in it, albeit you're at the Emirates, I thought...
You saw Manchester United do a job in Arsenal a few weeks ago.
Listen, Arsenal have responded wonderfully well since then, but Manchester United were able to hurt them on the counter-attack, at times they pressed higher up the park, but never you got that feeling from Chelsea, that there was a strategy around how we're going to get a goal or two, or how we're going to respond, or to Craig's point, when it was, let's just keep it tight,
We've got a couple up front in Joรฃo Pedro and Dilap.
Well, anybody who's seen Arsenal play, seen him defensively, mistakes are few and far between.
So the game just kind of petered out.
But there was never that change of approach, or certainly not early enough, from Chelsea.
And that, for me, was the disappointing thing.
Because, yes, it's two legs, you're down a goal, you need something to happen.
You don't want to go gung-ho from the opening whistle.
But at some point, you've got to throw some caution to the wind, and I don't feel that ever came.
Chelsea gave Arsenal the game that Arsenal wanted.
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