Didier Drogba spent one more night of dreams with the jersey of Chelsea. The Ivorian was the big hero at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal was crushed with two great goals to enhance the indestructible image for Chelsea.
The Blues took a deserved victory away from home and planted their flag and great candidate to win the Premier League title.
From the first minutes, it started producing the duel between attempts to relay short pass against the deployment of Arsenal and Chelsea’s physical strength.
It is a meeting between the Premier League’s strongest attack and best defence, Arsenal had been on the front foot during the opening exchanges. In 41th minutes, Didier Drogba broke the drought on the scoreboard. Ashley Cole burst down the left and threw a soft center to the heart of the area to accommodate Didier Drogba his right foot and nailed the ball right on the square.
Arsenal’s disaster continued when Chelsea got their second goal. Ashley Cole crossed the ball into the danger area again. This time, Arsenal’s defender, Thomas Vermaelen tried to clear the ball but the ball back to his own goal.
In addition, Arsene Wenger tried to lead the comeback with the entry of Theo Walcott, but break the Chelsea defender is far too difficult to perform. Arsenal were unlucky not to reduce the gap when Andrey Arshavin had a goal chalked off after a foul by Eduardo on Cech.
Petr Cech has initially saved well at the feet of Eduardo although as Cesc Fabregas played the ball back into the area, the Croatian forward was adjudged by referee Andre Marriner to have kicked the ball from Cech’s grasp before Arshavin slammed the ball into the net past a ruckus of Chelsea players on the line. Then, Arsenal began to lose depth and Chelsea began moves in greater comfort, along the entire field.
At 86th minute, Chelsea was awarded a free kick. Didier Drogba was the one to take the freekick and dispatch a stunning strike into the corner of goal from 25-yards out
Chelsea gave a demonstration of their domination in the Premier League and crushed arch-rivals in the city. The Arsenal was surrendered at the feet of the best English team of the moment.
