DuncanRG

He can't play until Old Trafford. Tough selection this one - Long's a banker to start but as fans we can't really judge the boys' fitness so not sure who we'd rest.

That's probably right, but only while Sanchez was on the pitch.

No chance considering there was a 3-3, a 3-2 and a 2-2 today. Glad to get the Arsenal monkey off our backs - we were seriously unlucky not to win our other two home games against them since we came back up. With their injuries I expected to be the better team and we were. Another comprehensive group performance with great understanding and killer instinct to make chances, though we wasted a lot of them and had to rely on Arsenal mistakes. Ward-Prowse's performance in front of goal was really disappointing. The lad can't finish, I hope he's working on it. Wanyama man of the match by a mile.

Surely there were better moments for the fans of Southampton football club?

For me it's between signing Ronald Koeman, which made me believe we'd be okay after the summer, and the win at the Emirates, which confirmed it.

I can only remember a handful of games since promotion where we've got all the stands going, and they were all in our first season back. The 3-1 win over Liverpool was particularly good

How many players described as wonderkids have actually gone on to be successful? Well under half I'd imagine...and most of them played for us.

We really should have bought Ronaldo. Everyone knew he looked good at Sporting Lisbon.

You don't have to be swept off your feet to be impeded. Going down is a way of indicating to the referee that you've been fouled...whether you actually have or not. It's also a way of accepting a free kick instead of advantage, which is almost always given now if a player stays on his feet and keeps the ball. Mourinho is just putting pressure on referees, same as a lot of coaches do when they moan about diving. None of them really believe their club has it worse than others unless it's a big club/home advantage thing.

We're half way through the season. We are literally playing every team again.

Seems a nice bloke.

Containing Sanchez is the key. If we can do that without opening huge gaps in midfield we'll do okay.

You can see the natural order slowly crystallising at the top of the table now, but get a result against Arsenal and we've got a great chance of keeping them at bay through the next run of fixtures

Rode our luck throughout that game but always looked strongest when push came to shove defensively We'll miss Morgan against Arsenal.

Wise to take off Yoshida here - Chelsea are very good at drawing fouls from defenders under pressure. Cracking performance from Maya considering he was out of position

He's partially on his way down I suppose but the leg is no doubt impeding him How did we let Hazard have that kind of space in the box?

It was the wrong decision - stonewall pen

Tadic had to do better there, but we're building well.

Timing's the sucker more than anything. Chelsea will come out raring to go so we've got to nullify that and ensure we can stay on top of Mikel and Matic

God, Chelsea are good. We're defending really well but they're still finding little cracks. Wanyama unusually quiet so far

Buzzed for this. I haven't felt this up against it since our first season back but if we can control spells of the game and take a chance when it comes we have every chance

So...what's the five year plan?

We've lost to Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs already and are still ahead of them. Nothing is decided solely by head-to-heads and nothing is decided in January. Anyway, didn't you already declare our top six chances over? Almost as if you're doing it for a rise...

Link? Fonte's posted this photo but it only looks like a stud cut, certainly no bone visible:

Christmas is a quiet time of year on the football pages? I think Liverpool put Adam forward because he's well spoken and has a more interesting story than most Liverpool players - jumping ship etc.