Ashley Cole spoke about the game against Arsenal on Monday and he was warning Arsenal for a fit Chelsea!

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"We've been disappointing in our last six games and it's a big contrast to how we started the season, but we have a lot of big players back to fitness and it's going to give us a boost. Any team who has their top players out is going to be affected. The players who have come in have done a good job but you're always going to miss JT, Lamps and Essien. We seem to play better when they are all in the team, hopefully we can start to push on. They're major players for us and we have missed their personalities, desire, will to win and leadership. We have been unlucky in games, even though we haven't been playing well. We have still had a lot of shots and chances. It has not gone our way but, now the big guys are back, hopefully we can turn our season around because it is getting to the important part. We're fourth in the table, we have to get back on track and start winning again."

We all know we missed players that are the captains of the team Lamps and JT. These players are vital for Chelsea because they encourage Chelsea to play harder and not give up! We had 2 weeks to practice and we're expected to be a fit strong Chelsea!

Tottenham are more exciting to watch than Arsenal, according to the man who managed both north London clubs, George Graham.

“We all go on about Arsenal, their possession and all that but Spurs are really exciting to watch," said Graham in the Star.

“That’s because they have an end product to all that possession and beautiful play.

“They have shots on goal and they have wonderful ­crosses coming from both flanks.

"That’s makes them really exciting – and it’s something Arsenal still have to work on.

“They’ve got to have more end product to all that passing and possession.”

And Graham went on to predict that Tottenham would get past AC Milan in the UEFA CHmapions League last 16, while Arsenal would lose to Barcelona.

"I think Spurs will win against AC Milan, I really do. On their day, they can beat anyone at home.

“Facing Barcelona is going to be really difficult for Arsenal because Arsene Wenger will just go for it.

“There will be no tactics, there will be no Jose Mourinho there, keeping it tight and winning 1-0.

“Arsenal don’t have time to implement a defensive strategy before then.

“That doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes a whole season, if you work day in, day out on the training ground.

“Arsene only believes in going forward. But Barcelona are the best team in La Liga and the best in Europe.”

Graham also says Gunnners boss Arsene Wenger had gone too far in neglecting physical strength in favour of technique.

“I’d love to sit down with Arsene, one-on-one, and ask him what he thinks of his great side that went the season undefeated," he continued.

"You look at the difference in technique, physical power and mental power.

“They had a wonderful combination, which made them such a successful team.

"Arsene had height in there, in Patrick Vieira, Emmanuel Petit, Tony Adams, Sol Campbell and Steve Bould and there was power throughout the team.

“I cannot understand why he doesn’t try to replicate that now.

“It just seems they have gone overboard with technical players and have forgotten about the other side of the game.”