The Arsenal-Chelsea-Man Utd Best XI
by Ollie Irish | 17th, March 2010
By Ollie Irish
With three clubs neck and neck in the Premier League title race this season, I thought it would be interesting to come up with a composite Best XI selected from the squads of Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd (NOTE: The selection is based only on this season’s form).
After you’ve checked out our team below, please add your own XIs.
There you go. Five Chelsea players, four Man Utd players and a couple of Arsenal stars. Agree/disagree? Let’s have it…
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Areshavin over Valencia surely. he had a lean month prior to his injury, but overall he has been sensational this season
with no disrespect to evra…surely ashley cole has been the better left back this season
dont know why people think ashley cole is better than little patty evra. Evra is the best left back in the world by a mile.
no vidic or Arshavin? dear, oh dear.
So, you’re being controversial? no Rio or Carvalho?.. I didn’t bother looking at the rest.. you literally picked the worst centre back pairing
Not a serious piece, a spoof.. or if it is serious, an embarrassment
I went for:
Cech
Sanga Terry Vermalen Evra
Fletcher Fabregas Ballack Valencia
Rooney Drogba
My team is based on pace and Goals.
No 4 Rio has done nothing this season as he has ben injured so he cant be in the top 11, Carvalio i can make a case for but i chose Terry for his hard work and leadership
@ Luke. You are a bit of a cunt, aren’t you. You believe what the big boys tell you down the pub. Or what Jamie Redknapp thinks. Bless.
The XI is based on form THIS season. Rio has been out for much of it, so you’ve displayed your utter football ignorance on that score. Carvalho? He’s done alright, but not as well as Terry (who I hate but who I concede was awesome for the first two thirds of the campaign and has only recently lost form) or Vermaelen, who has made some mistakes, yes, but overall he’s been a revelation in his debut Prem season.
Now fuck off and don’t come back. Thanks.
SAGNA AT RIGHT BACK ,SWAP SONG BILABONG FOR FLECHER , FAT FRANK SHOULD NOT EVEN MAKE THE BENCH , MALUDA AND ARSHAVIN ON THE FLANKS
I went for:
GK Cech
RB Ivanovic (one of the most underrated players in the Prem)
CB Vidic
CB Terry
LB Ashley Cole (best form in a Chelsea shirt until the injury)
RM Valencia (shaping up as a first rate winger)
CM Fabregas
CM Fletcher
LM Malouda (Arshavin’s a better player, but Malouda’s form has been more consistent)
CF Drogba
CF Rooney
charming blog..
nice grown up response.. I take you’re Rio comment, fair enough. but the Terry thing is an embarrassment.
I wont come back sure, you’re fairly corrupt in the way you skew peoples comments.
What is Lampsy doing here?
Cech
Sagna Vermaelen Terry Evra
Arshavin Fabregas Lampard Fletcher
Rooney Drogba
Subs: Van Der Sar, Vidic, A. Cole, Giggs, Anelka, Malouda, Berbatov
@ Luke – Ok, you got me at a bad moment, so sorry for being a tad aggressive. But to say I picked literally the worst centre-back pairing, then cite a player who has hardly played all season, is frankly absurd.
And to call Terry’s form an embarrassment is only an embarrassment to yourself – it’s classic tabloid-fed short-termism. “Oh, JT’s been shit in his last few games, therefore he’s been shit all season.” You couldn’t be further from the truth – Terry was the proverbial rock until February, in quite outstanding form. Go back and watch him if you don’t believe me.
Cheers
Ollie
GK – Cech
RB – Sagna
LB – Cole
CB – Terry
CB – Vermaelen
CM – Fabregas
CM – Essien
LW – Arshavin
RW – Valencia
St – Rooney
St – Drogba
I never said Terry’s FORM was an embarrassment, I think Terry’s an embarrassment… great against the Stoke but will let you down against Brazil or Spain, when those nippy talented skillfull footballers will show him up.. Terry is nothing without Carvahlho or Rio..
He has a talent, his strength is valuable, and I sincerely believe that he should partner Rio in England’s defence, which says more about Englands defence than his defensive quality.
His recent off pitch shenanigans have only highlighted the mistakes he always makes..
And with this team, I could pick a Arsenal/Man City/Liverpool team that would take it apart…. Lampard! ha ha!
P.S. Do you always alter peoples comments when you don’t like them? I think that aint cool, you either allow the comment or not, but to stick an insult about the size of my penis (I actually have a big dick)on the end maybe says that you shouldn’t be moderating comments.
@ Luke – enough fawning, you have proved yourself to be a humourless dickface. Surely Terry’s form is the only creterion for such a list?
As for Lampard, he has 12 league goals and loads of assists. So consistent, season after season, yet knocked by one-eyed fans (like you).
Your PS only confirms my first thought. You’re a cretin (note the spelling of ‘You’re’) with a tenuous grasp of English and few opinions of your own. But don’t stop commenting. I like a laugh.
I’m not the one completely losing my cool, to the point where I doctor peoples comments, accuse them of listening to Jamie Redknapp (a heinous crime), call them a cunt, or tell them to fuck off and then say they have a micro penis (by altering my own comment). Really desperate with the criticism of my spelling as well.
You support Lampard, go ahead.. you certainly cannot be accused of not having a laugh.
P.S. Thanks for removing the offending remark you included in my original comment that I didn’t make by the way.. that’s what really pissed me off (not really ethical is it?)
P.P.S. Your Mum
This is what i came up with
Mannone(because lets face it all the #1 keeper have been shit this season)
Sagna-Terry-Vermaelen-Evra
Arshavin-Fabregas-Lampard-Malouda
Drogba-Rooney
Never mind with Lampard because Song has really been Arsenal’s rock.
Cech
Sagna-Vidic-Vidic jr (Verm)-Cole
Arshavin-Fab-Lamps-Malouda
Rooney-Drogba
Actually, I might even put Song in the center with Fab instead of Lampard. They pair nicely, Song has turned into a right beast in the mix of things.
Cech
Ivanov – Terry – Vermelaleon – Evra
Valencia – Song – Fabregas – Malouda
Drogba – Rooney
No idea about the fantasy team selection but I’d pick the boy Luke Rowe
over that tosser Ollie any day. Did I mention my massive dong?
OK idiots, you all forgot about Michael Owen
I think with me and Elvis having massive dongs and the fact that Ollie IS a massive dong means that we should be discussing a massive dong XI
Foster
Belleti Senderos W.Brown Traore
Eboue Anderson Mikel Nani
Vela Owen
Ollie.
You and your articles are the best and wholly representative of the debate, fun and humour football creates for true fans, not pretentious nitpicking fools like Luke and his posse who spend their day carping on about trivial details and ultimately pissing of those that seek to enjoy football not moan like baby-back bitches.
Cheers
When they prove everyone wrong and win the league, the best XI will be the Arsenal team…
…OK I’m kidding.
Having looked at it, I completely agree with Chavez in comment #14:
GK – Cech
RB – Sagna
LB – Cole
CB – Terry
CB – Vermaelen
CM – Fabregas
CM – Essien
LW – Arshavin
RW – Valencia
ST – Rooney
ST – Drogba
Well done.
All spot on although i’d swap Lamps with Milner & possibly Vermaelan with Dunne
I wish people could have grown up discussions on football websites. People telling other people they’re cunts and they should fuck off (from their own blog!) and others posting fake I won’t come back threats is a bit immature to say the least.
An argument in my opinion is more constructive if you first work out what you agree on and then discuss the differences, not in the way it has been here.
Ollie – on form over this season your team is similar to what mine would be. I think putting that this was on form this season in the initial post may have saved some of the reactions above!
I wouldn’t have Cech in there. It’s my opinion that he hasn’t been the same dominating presence since Stephen *unt did him in. He makes mistakes that stem from indecision and that’s never good for a defence. I’d put Van Der Sar in despite how little he’s played, basically by default (I don’t think any of the Arsenal keepers have made a case for themselves!)
@ Simon – You’re right of course. But you can imagine how incredibly frustrating it is when people come on here and basically say “You’re shit” without any counter-argument of their own.
The point is, Pies is a non-club specific blog, which makes it incredibly hard to please everyone all the time. And I detest the tribal bullshit that surrounds the game. Love the game though.
essien hasn’t played enough football this season. quality player but blighted by injury. after last seasons performances i really expected arshavin to kick on this season but i think he’s been underwhelming although i suspect my expectations were too high for him. Lampard has obtained good stats this season despite himself. I haven’t been that impressed with him but just goes to show his quality if off form he still notches up the goals/assists. i’d go with:-
GK Cech
LB Cole
RB Ivanovic
CB Terry
CB Vermaelen
RW Valencia
LW Giggs
CM Fabregas
CM Fletcher
ST Drogba
ST Rooney
just realised my mistake haha, this is arsenal – chelsea & man utd, in that case the line up is spot on :$
how much you wanna bet that Luke post up the comments sayin’ we support Luke
and
Cech
Ivanovic-Terry-Brown (underrated imo)-Cole
Fletcher-Lampard-Fabregas
Arshavin Rooney
Drogba
Fletcher,
you’ve got rocks in your head…..he is shite
Malouda and Arshavin should be in
Sagna over Ivanovic
right i dont even know what you guys are winging about but i dont even think some of this seasons best players have been within the top 3, people like milner have been spot on this season
fuck the top 3, on this seasons form id have
GK Hart
RB Sagna
CB Vermaelen
CB Dunne
LB Evra
RM Valencia
CM Fabregas
CM Lampard(i know not at his best but still notching up his stats)
LM Milner
ST Rooney
ST Drogba
the strikeforce really picks itself aha
Form
GK Cech
RB Ivanovic
CB Vermaelen
CB Vidic
LB Evra
RM Valencia
DM Fletcher
OM Lampard
LM Arshavin
CF Rooney
CF Drogba
Based on 442
My personal team would be
GK Van Der Sar
RB Ivanovic
CB Rio
CB Terry
LB Evra
RM Valencia
DM Essien
CM Fabregas
OM Schoals
LM Arshavin
CF Rooney
based on 451
You are a bias Chelsea supporter
how can so many people forget RVP?
Who will be the manager? Probably Ancelloti even though he hasn’t proved himself in the EPL
Arshavin really deserves to be on this list. Not sure about Ivanovic or Lamps (you might accuse me of anti-Chelsea bias there, and maybe you’d be right!!).
Good luck picking a keeper out of those 3 teams! Personally I agree with the comment about van der Saar – he’s not played enough this season to embarrass himself.
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idk about cech, he’s kind of the reason chelsea are behind in the title race now… if he took off that stupid helmet then maybe he could dive post side and not be so scared.
were’s van persie ???
Van der Sar
‘Vonovic Vermaelen Vidic ‘Vra
Valencia Vletcher Vabregas Vieira
Van Persie Vela
See what I’ve done there, see?
I like to think that those pictures in the last pic are their sex faces.
Ho, ho.
Sagna in for Ivanovich
Song in for Fletcher…
But i’m an Arsenal supporter so I may be slightly biased.
where the heck is alex song. only most consistent defensive midfielder this season. feltcher has nowhere played as good as song this season. arshavin has been way better than valencia lampard shouldn’t be in tjis line up. malouda should.
U lot r crazy
GK – van der sar
RB – sagna
CB – Varmaelen
CB – vidic
LB – evra
RM – Valencia
CM – fabregas
CM – fletcher
LM – Arshavin
CF – Rooney
CF – Drogba
Ugliest team ever, get Nev in there
GK – van der sar
RB – sanga
CB – terry
CB – vermaelen
LB – evra
RM – valencia
DM – song
CM – cesc
LM – malouda
CF – rooney
CF – drogba
GK Van Der Sar
RB Neville
CB Ferdinand
CB Vidic
LB Evra
RM Valencia
CM Fletcher
CM Fabregas
LM Nani
CF Rooney
CF Drogba
GK – Edwin van der Sar
RB – Branislav Ivanovic
CB – John Terry
CB – Thomas Vermaelen
LB – Yuri Zhirkov
CM – Cesc Fabregas
RM – Antonio Valencia
LM – Florent Malouda
CAM – Frank Lampard
RF – Wayne Rooney
LF – Didier Drogba
GK-Edwin Van der Saar
RB- Bacary Sagna
CB-John Terry
CB-Thomas Vermaelen
LB-Patrick Evra
DCM-Micheal Essien
CM-Cesc Fabregas
CM-Samir Nasri
LS-Didier Drogba
ST-Wayne Rooney
RS-Robin Van Persie
Right, the correct answer is:
Van Der Saar
Ivanovic-Terry-Vermaelen-Cole
Valencia-Fabregas-Lampard-Malouda
Rooney-Drogba
Cech
Ivanovic – Terry (C) – Vidic- Cole
Nani – Lampard – Cesc – Malouda
Rooney – Drogba
Right, speaking as an Arsenal fan, even I wouldn’t put choose that many gunners.
GK: Cech
RB: Ivanovic
RCB: Vidic
LCB: Vermaelen
LB: Evra
RM: Valencia
RCM: Fabregas
LCM: Lampard
LM: Malouda
RS: Rooney
LS: Drogba
Subs: Van de Sar; Terry, Cole; Song, Arshavin; Anelka, Van Persie
Nani sucks.
Vander Sar
Sagna
Vermalen
Vidic
Evra
Valencia
Fabregas
Lampard
Malouda
Rooney
Drogba
Subs: Cech, Ferdinand, Cole, Fletcher, Nani, Arshavin, Essien.
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Czech
Sagna Vidic Terry Cole
Essien
Arshavin Gerrard
Fabregas
Drogba Rooney
incl. Lpool too! (gerrard)
GK cech
RB ivanovic
CB vidic
CB Vermaelan
LB Evra
RM nasri
CM essien
cm fabregas
lm arshavin
st rooney
st drogba