Well here we go Arsenal fans. This away game at Chelsea is massive for the Gunners. Win it and we have banished the Chelsea blues once and for all and will be right up there fighting for the Premier League title. Lose it and the old Mourinho hoodoo will be back and our start to the season will be looking seriously downbeat again.
As expected, Arsene Wenger has brought back the players rested for the Champions League game in midweek and so Arsenal will start at Stamford Bridge with the same 11 players that won our last Premier League game against Stoke City.
There is no Per Mertesacker, even on the bench, so Gabrieal and Koscielny continue their new central defensive pairing and they could have their hands full, as Pedro has recovered to make the starting XI and Hazard will surely start to redicover his form sooner or later, while Costa is always difficult to play against.
Chelsea have their own problems in defence though and John Terry has been benched again, while the match up between the struggling Ivanovic and the brilliant Alexis Sanchez should be an interesting one. Hopefully the pace and movement of Walcott and the creative play of Arsenal will prove to be too much for the home team and hopefully their former keeper Petr Cech can keep another clean sheet for Arsenal.
Cech
Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal
Coquelin, Cazorla
Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis
Walcott
Subs: Ospina, Debuchy, Gibbs, Chambers, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlin, Giroud.
Arsenal have a great chance to inflict more pain on Chelsea and Mourinho, but will we perform well and do it?