Derby day at London

Wednesday night and great match expecting us.

Arsenal vs Chelsea

Blues are my favorite team in Premier league honestly. In this match for me they are favorite.

Conte is better menager than Wenger much better football brain, Chelsea have a better - stronger squad and Blues will play much better in future matches, that`s my opinion. Of course this is derby and everything is possible that`s football and we will see. Great great game ahead of us. 

Arsenal vs Chelsea

Conte told the conference at Cobham how successful the rotation of his team selections has been through a December month which was packed with nine games.

``It is very important in my plan to involve all my players,`` said Conte, ``and we are doing a really good job in this situation because we are making many rotations but at the same time our results are positive, and it means all my players are working very well.``

``My target is to have all my players in the peak of their form, especially as there is now the second part of the season and this is the very important part because you are able to reach your target or not reach you target.``

About tonight`s game Conte said:

``For us in this period we must be very focused on our target and tomorrow we have a really tough game against Arsenal. We have to find the right concentration.``

``When you play against Arsenal every game is very important and tomorrow’s game is very important for the league. For sure we want to try our best and get three points and also to give satisfaction to our fans.`` 

Tonight`s game at Arsenal comes too soon for the two players who were out injured over Christmas, David Luiz and Charly Musonda, but both have continued to improve and are in contention to be available for the weekend FA Cup game at Norwich.

Courtois: New year same ambitions

``Arsenal create so many chances and they can always win games against the likes of United, City, Tottenham and ourselves. They are in good form, they drew their last game against West Brom but they will be ready and it’s always tough at the Emirates.``

``The away games are very important and if you want to be high up the table you have to win those,`` Courtois says. ``Our mentality has been good in those games. We go into away matches in the same way we do when we’re playing at home, with the mindset that we have to score and win.``

 

Alexis Sanches, Arsene Wenger, Antonio Conte, Alvaro Morata 

About tonight`s game Wenger said

``We're in a battle - every point is massively important``

He continued on team news…
``At the moment our injury list is quite long, because we lost Kolasinac in the West Brom game and Koscielny. We had already Monreal, Giroud, Ramsey, Ozil out. Who will be available tomorrow? The two who have a little chance are Ozil, who might have a test this morning - but he hasn’t been out at all since Crystal Palace, so I don’t know. With Koscielny, yesterday the medical staff were pessimistic about him.``

Wenger on the improvements he wants to see in 2018…

``To win all the games - that always has to be the target. You want to go in the season with a big ambition, get the team to push itself very hard. We’re in a battle where every point is massively important. That’s why we were so frustrated after the West Brom game. You need to have the ambition to win every game.``

Team news:

ARSENAL: Cazorla (ankle), Monreal (ankle), Ramsey (hamstring), Giroud (hamstring), Koscielny (Achilles), Kolasinac (foot), Ozil (knee - doubt)

CHELSEA: Luiz (knee), Musonda (groin)

No suspensions