Gunners better than Blues – Zola

Arsenal are a far better football team than Chelsea, says West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola. The tiny Italian, who is a Stamford Bridge legend from his playing days at the club, even claims the Gunners are on par with Barcelona, widely regarded as the best football team on the planet. “When we played Chelsea last week they probably didn’t play with the same quality or intensity as Arsenal. Arsenal are terrible, if you leave them a little bit of space because they punish you,” said Zola after the Hammers lost to Arsenal on Saturday. “Arsenal, along with Barcelona, are the team who are playing the best football in Europe probably. They are very good to watch. Whether they are going to be able to do that until the end I don’t know. That is the question that everybody is asking.”