This weekend’s game is huge for Chelsea and for Arsenal, but Blues manager Graham Potter knows it’s particularly big for him.
He’s not had too many big Premier League tests yet, and he’s coming in for increasing criticism for not knowing his best team. Paul Merson was critical of exactly this on Sky Sports today, noting that he and the other 4 pundits could all guess the lineup for tomorrow and probably none of them would be right. It’s a fair critique of a manager still finding his feet.
You can see Merson make his point in the clip embedded here: