Arsenal must start well despite injuries, says Arsene Wenger

The Colombian – signed on loan from Monaco – was brought in by Jose Mourinho following the departure of Didier Drogba this summer and will compete with Diego Costa and Loic Remy for a place up front this season.

Jose Mourinho has expressed concerns over the fitness of Spain worldwide Diego Costa. “I have something to give back to this club and my story with this club hasn’t finished yet”.

I think the story of this Premier League season will be that all three promoted sides will stay up. In fact, he sounds a bit more perplexed when you hear what he had to say after the match against Fiorentina.

The Chelsea manager says he behaved well last term, before pointedly referring to the moment he was pushed in the chest by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger at Stamford Bridge last October.

Just for something different I’ll go Arsenal.

Chelsea, who lost last weekend’s Community Shield to Arsenal, have also never been beaten by Swansea in the Premier League, winning all four encounters at home and claiming a 5-0 triumph when these sides last met in south Wales in January. The visitors threatened first, Matias Fernandez testing Begovic low to his right.

Midfield: There isn’t likely to be too many surprises in midfield either with Nemanja Matic set to start along with Cesc Fabregas in the middle of the park.

“The positive news with this injury is that it’s not a recurrence of one of his former injuries”. But the game-changers are Hazard and Costa for Chelsea.

Falcao believes he knows his team-mates well following Chelsea’s pre-season tour to the United States. Swans fans are understandably excited about the signing of Andre Ayew from Marseille after he scored on 10 occasions in the previous campaign, and those thinking he may get his scoring underway at Chelsea can back him to do so anytime at 9/2.

And, most importantly, they triumphed in the Community Shield for a second successive year, in the process of landing a blow on defending champions Chelsea with a 1-0 victory at Wembley.

And Fiorentina’s Gonzalo Rodriguez’s close-range finish after 34 minutes proved decisive. “But we have a hard start with two derbies and Liverpool in our first three games”, Wenger was quoted as saying by goal.com on Thursday. “As a group of players we’ve been together for a good number of years, so there’s a real team spirit and sense of togetherness”. “If I’m doing good and the club here are happy with what they gain, if everybody’s happy, we move on”.