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There's the banter. That's right Chelsea drop one nil to Arsenal the London rivals doesn't matter. We'll get into that and more and we'll be joined by Calum Hudson a

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All right Chris weddingham. It's never good to lose Arsenal

But I think last week probably didn't more for what we saw this week than the actual match itself a bit of a rotational squad

If you could read into it Thomas Dukeles options a little bit limited because of injury

Arsenal do just enough in that

Georgina with a gaff that

Hopefully we got all that bad juju out because Chelsea have been pretty clean over the last few weeks

But here's my main takeaway Chris and this does not do anything to settle my stomach headed into two

Finals on the men's side because I'm still trying to wrap my head around Chelsea being a good team and then you drop a result like that and it's

It runs counter to that notion Chelsea are weird

Huh, they're a weird team. It's a it's a bizarre season. It's a pandemic season

I'm not rationalizing this result, but the weird bizarre sequence of events inside the box were Mount Sinjard and Giroud

It's a crossbar twice. It's a weird side

It might be a side that ends up being a Champions League final and that that actually fits a pandemic season for me

But we had the debate last week is this even a top 10 team of the 21st century for Chelsea

I saw nothing in this game against Arsenal that would make me feel strong about them being a top 10 side

But they're a weird team and I don't think this result is indicative of what might come in the final

People may want to knee jerk towards it. I see this result. I see what happened last week

I kind of feel like you can only get up for so many games and this was just a matter of

Not necessarily look ahead game Chris because it's a London rival. It was still important for Chelsea

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