Before this weekend’s Premier League match against Chelsea, former Arsenal striker Ian Wright showed concern about the Gunners’ chances.

Even though Arsenal defeated Chelsea twice last season, Wright admitted that the prospect of facing an entirely different Chelsea team at Emirates Stadium on Sunday is frightening.

He believes Mikel Arteta’s team might suffer yet another humbling defeat against a ‘devastating’ Chelsea side that is expected to give a debut to new transfer Romelu Lukaku.

Having suffered a 2-0 defeat to Brentford the previous weekend, Arsenal will be looking to bounce back in this encounter, while Chelsea cruised to a 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace last time out.

“Since Lukaku was linked, Romelu has been talking to me consistently, so I know it is happening but I’ve to keep quiet”, Wrighty said on the Wrighty’s House podcast from Ringer FC.

”All the time I think this is fine, but when I see how Arsenal got beaten against Brentford knowing that Romelu will be there.

“I knew that this was going to happen, watching how we play, seeing how Ivan Toney and Mbuemo dealt with our defense, let’s face it, Lukaku with the players he now has, it is going to be devastating against most defenses.

“I know that Arsenal won twice against Chelsea last year and it did change Arsenal’s trajectory, Bukayo Saka came in, Emile Smith Rowe came in, We kind of started to create.

“We are now dealing with a completely different animal. We are dealing with one of these hybrid dinosaurs they created in one of those Jurassic Park films. We are dealing with a Chelsea team now that are so ready. We saw that when Thomas Tuchel got there, another elite manager.

“He sorted the defense out. And that you throw Romelu Lukaku into that mix, into a team that’s so confident, this frightens me. We have got Chelsea where they now think they can win the Premier League.”