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Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal: Drogba magic-flick, Alex thunderous free-kick
Chelsea's win 2-0 over Arsenal in the Premier League continued, at Stamford Bridge on Sunday (03/10/2010). Didier Drogba magic-flick scored from most unbelievable angle in the first half and Alex scored with thunderous free-kick in the second half. They now occupy the top of the standings with 18 points, or four points ahead of Manchester City in second place.
The result was quite a relief to Chelsea, because since the early minutes, they are more often threatened. In the first two minutes alone, they made two errors that led to the execution of Marouane Chamakh and Laurent Koscielny. Luckily for them, the execution of both deviated from the target.
Chelsea have not given a reply, when in the ninth minute, Andrei Arshavin fired accurately into their goal. Thanks to Petr Cech's rescue, Arshavin shot off into their goal.
After that, Chelsea played a mastery of the ball and tried to slip an attack. However, Arsenal play disciplined and able to close the space feed Chelsea.
In addition, Arsenal also played aggressive and straightforward. As soon as the ball, they then proceeded to build an attack. The result, besides barely threatened, they are pretty consistently make Petr Cech's ups and downs.
Unfortunately, the impressive performance was not followed by the clinical finishing that goal would not go to follow the execution of what they did.
While Arsenal have not found the perfect solution to a final resolution, Chelsea failed to provide the first serious threat by Didier Drogba in the 34th minute. However, his shot successfully blocked by Lukasz Fabianski .
Do not want to lose the moment, Chelsea maintain the intensity of the attacks until finally managed to excel thanks to Drogba. Utilizing feedback Ashley Cole, he sent the ball into Arsenal.
Arsenal tried to reply to that goal. However, although able to suppress and dampen the host's insistence, they failed to equalize until the halftime whistle sounded.
Entering the second half, Arsenal had the ball more and consistent attack. In some occasions, they were able to end it with execution. However, poor finishing performance plus Arsenal Cech making futile efforts.
At least until the 70th minute, Chelsea locked. Chelsea is trying to attack, but they always ran aground groove bait before it got to execution.
During that period, Chelsea only created one chance, namely through Anelka in the 60th minute. At that time, he managed to steal the ball from the mastery of Sebastien Squillaci. He dribbled into the penalty box and in a duel one on one with Fabianski, firing the ball which unfortunately deviated to the left side of the goal.
Remove from the 70th minute, Chelsea trying to move into the middle of the fight arena. The game was marred fierce struggle for the ball. Chelsea managed to steal at least two occasions attacked but always failed to finish the execution because the game caught off-side Arsenal.
Arsenal themselves trying to improve the quality of their attack by including Tomas Rosicky replaces Abou Diaby in the 70th minute.
Arsenal game does look more aggressive, but on the other hand, their defense more often missed Chelsea's attack.
In the 83rd minute, for example, Anelka managed to steal the ball and tried to penetrate the fortress of Arsenal. Koscielny who had escorted him to stop violating Anelka.
Who would have guessed, that violations led to Chelsea's second goal. Dean to award Chelsea a free kick executed Alex. He fired a shot that lodged in the upper left corner of goalkeeper Fabianski in the 85th minute.
After that, Chelsea is able to maintain the pressure and created several chances. Unfortunately, the execution is carried out Essien in the 87th minute, for example, raw in the hands Fabianski.
Arsenal themselves even lose determination. Besides helter-skelter to survive, they also increasingly difficult to provide a threat. The result, though no longer conceded, they failed to reduce the long lag until the whistle sounded.
Over 90 minutes, Chelsea had the ball as much as 48 percent and seven shots off accurately from 17 experiments. Meanwhile, Arsenal created four golden opportunity from 16 experiments.
Team Line-up:
Chelsea: Cech, Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole, Ivanovic (Ferreira 73'), Obi Mikel, Ramires (Zhirkov 83'), Essien, Malouda, Drogba, Anelka
Arsenal: Fabiznaski, Koscielny, Squillaci, Clichy, Sagna, Wilshere (Emmanuel-Thomas 81'), Song, Diaby (Rosicky 70'), Arshavin, Nasri, Chamakh
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