2. Unleash the Ox against Lampard
Ramires’ red card means that Chelsea will be forced to play Frank Lampard alongside Nemanja Matic in the defensive midfield role. While the Serbian has made the role his own with impressive performances since his arrival in January, Mourinho has fielded a makeshift option alongside him throughout this period in the form of Ramires.
With Lampard playing in the middle of the park, the Chelsea midfield will lack some pace and Arsenal will have to exploit this by allowing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to run at him. The Ox showed in his performance against Bayern Munich that he is more than capable of taking on the best midfielders and with an equally slow John Terry in behind Lampard, the young Englishman might find some joy with driving runs through the heart of the Chelsea side.