Arsenal can challenge for League title, feels Chelsea’s Cahill

Wenger was in the spotlight at full-time twice – first when he walked down the tunnel and then when he appeared to swerve a potential handshake with his fierce enemy as the Blues boss congratulated Arsenal’s players for their victory.

“He’s a top player so he’s going to be missed in all sides”, the 34-year-old added. With that in mind, it’s maybe the boost we needed and we go again for the season.

It is the second time in just three days that Mourinho has managed to dodge Arsene Wenger after the pair failed to shake hands at Wembley following the Community Shield on Sunday.

The champions begin their defence of the title with a home game against Swansea City on Saturday and their first away game is against Manchester City, last season’s runners-up, on August 16, which can be seen on Sky Sports 1. We didn’t play our best stuff with the ball, I think Chelsea deserve credit for that, they are a great defensive side, and they stopped us from playing at time.

“It was a good test for both teams a week before the season, everyone has to adjust a bit now”.

Mourinho left Stamford Bridge under a cloud in 2007 little more than a year after landing successive titles but was lured back in 2013 and duly delivered the top domestic prize in May.

– Reuters pic, August 3, 2015.Chelsea defender Gary Cahill feels Arsenal could mount a strong challenge for the Premier League title, following the champions’ 1-0 defeat to their bitter rivals in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday. “In this moment we don’t have this problem and obviously I always felt the respect and he [Abramovich] knows that he has my respect and my pride to work for this club”.

“Preseason is false in many ways because you’re changing the team, everyone’s getting minutes, everyone is trying to get fit and you’re training hard”, Cahill said.

“Chelsea have done that against us ever so well in the past so we sort of used different tactics to get the result”.

“There’s no impact for the season, they won and we were unlucky”.