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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akim Walere.

Chelsea took a point from Arsenal, despite once again being down to 10 men.

So will their ill discipline, stop them, being title contenders?

All right, with us today, we've got Jack Pitt, Brooke.

We've also got Adam Crafton as well.

Adam, the points were shared at Stanford Bridge on Sunday, despite Chelsea, being down to

10 men for the entirety of the second half.

Was it a chance missed by Arsenal from your perspective?

I guess so, but I mean, there's still five points clear in the start of December.

They've been to probably some of their hardest games already in terms of, you know,

they've been to Liverpool, being to Chelsea, being to Old Trafford.

So I think they should be really happy with where they are.

And if you'd have offered them a point, I think, at the start of that game

that have taken it. So you always want to win every game, but I don't think it's like any

kind of disaster that they didn't, you know, take too many risks in that game. Yeah. I mean,

Leslie we spoke about obviously Arsenal fans not being the ones that aren't convinced that this

team is actually

quite good and can actually win the title.

But I mean, I did wonder how Arsenal would fare without their main two centrebacks playing

Silibeau and obviously Gabrielle.

How do you think the team coached without it?

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