Arsenal have won 10 of their last 11 Premier League games.
Their team is pretty solid now because Ospina and Coquelin have made them more reliable.
Best guess against relegation fighters?
Well, Burnley are 19th, QPR are 18th, both on 26 points.
Alexis Sanchez will relish this challenge today.
His explosive edge and insatiable appetite should allow Arsenal to scrape three hard-earned points in the 5.30 kick-off.
They haven’t lost to a team in the bottom half of the league and don’t want to start now. If they maintain their scintillating form, they’ll finish second.
It’s a very interesting weekend of football.
Will QPR beat Chelsea tomorrow in the 1.30pm Sky game?
Depends on Luc Remy and set-pieces.
The Manchester derby at 4pm? United will annihilate Citeh.
I’m convinced that Herrera, Mata and Fellaini will take City apart.
This morning Chelsea Kevin was in John’s greengrocer shop and while we were talking it started to rain, so I stayed under the canopy much longer than usual, swapping opinions and having a laugh..
Kevin said, “I’m gonna have a fiver on Arsenal to win the league. I’ll do it this morning, before they beat Burnley and the odds go down.”
He was serious. A lifelong fan, he thinks Chelsea have been playing sh*t recently.
I said, “Soon as Costa pulled up with that hamstring, I thought he’d be out for a month. Remy’s just a poacher, he doesn’t run about.”
“But his ratio of goals to minutes on the pitch is phenomenal,” said Kev.
“Rob Green played against him a lot in training,” I said. “Says he’s very clinical, very accurate. He knew where Remy was gonna put it but couldn’t stop it.”
John and Kevin both insisted that De Gea is better than Courtois. But I wasn’t having that.
The first big match I ever saw was Arsenal v Burnley at Highbury.
My dad took me from Stevenage and it was a 2-2 draw and Mel Charles scored two goals.
I’ve only been to Burnley twice. Once to interview a player for Radio Times, and, before that, when I was at uni in Manchester, to see an FA Cup replay against Bournemouth.
The original match had finished 1-1. A friend, who was a good referee and did some reporting for me on the student newspaper, was a Bournemouth supporter.
Tony had a car and asked if I fancied it and Burnley hammered Bournemouth 7-0.