Are Arsenal and Chelsea faring well in the unofficial London Championship?

Liverpool’s three league defeats this season have been away to Burnley and Bournemouth and at home to Swansea, who at the time were propping up the table, and so Saturday’s game can not be taken for granted.

The LIverpool manager Klopp could be seen exchanging words with a fan standing behind the dug-outs after a first-half back-pass towards goalkeeper Simon Mignolet was met by a collective groan around Anfield.

Oxlade-Chamberlain got a kick on his knee this evening but Wenger was confident he would be fine for the weekend.

Watford had been struggling before the shock victory over Arsenal, but the confidence from that result should help give them the edge over Burnley, who are the worst away team in the division with only four goals scored in 10 games.

Before Tuesday, Arsenal had not conceded any league goals in the opening 15 minutes.

Former Blues striker Hasselbaink believes their current system is perfectly created to counter Arsenal’s possession-based attacking game and can only see one outcome in the Sky Live game.

But as they go head to head on Saturday in the Premier League, who’s winning this season’s London Championship and perhaps, are Tottenham now top of the tree? A telling stat was that Arsenal had no shots on target while Watford had six. “It was not good in the first half, especially in the first 20 minutes, when we were beaten in the duels, and they were sharper than us”, Wenger said.

“We weren’t surprised, every time we play here it is very difficult, it’s hard”, David Luiz explained to SFR Sport Chelsea in an interview after the game.

However, Leipzig have looked far more impressive at home than on the road, where they lost their last two matches to FC Ingolstadt and Bayern.

After Chelsea drew 1-1 at Liverpool on Tuesday to stretch their lead over the chasing pack to nine points, Arsenal’s visit to Stamford Bridge has a potentially defining feel to it.

Wenger, though, was putting on a fearless face. We lost and we want to respond in the next game.

Watford’s last three-point haul came two weeks before Christmas with victory over Everton, but this result will ease the pressure on manager Walter Mazzarri.

If Chelsea do win the title this season, Zouma needs to make five appearances in the Premier League to receive a winners’ medal.