Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal

a superb backheel from the ever-so-scary didier drogba and a powerful free-kick from 30 yards sealed the 5th consecutive win for the efficient blue lions over the beautiful and elegant but fruitless gunners.

details of the match is here.

as usual, arsenal played beautifully and made chelsea look like the beast but were (unfortunately for arsenal fans, such as myself T_T), as said, no match for the beast.

in this extraordinary london derby, arsenal played like fireworks; playing gracefully and sparks were sent all over chelsea's half with the likes of samir nasri, young jack wilshere leading the attacks. however, as eye-catching as sparks are, they don't last. and that was proven when most of the attacks were neutralised by chelsea's defenders while the rest are wasted (most of them were marouane chamakh).



chelsea, however, played like nuclear bombs. people don't launch nuclear bombs that often. but when they do, they made sure the impact is devastating. chelsea was like that and didier drogba was the best way to define chelsea's ways of playing. knowing the dreadful impact of destroyer drogba, arsenal made sure (or tried to, anyway) that drogba didn't to touch the ball. this is evident when drogba had about half the chance chamakh had for arsenal and scored an inch-perfect backheel while chamakh wasted his. sigh. felt like crying when drobga scored his 13th goal against arsenal in 13 matches. had almunia been between the posts instead of fabianski (he performed well, in my opinion), or chelsea being a little but more lucky(anelka missed an open goal after intercepting squilacci's back pass and dribbling past fabianski), chelsea would have been easily 4-0 or 5-0 up. and they did this with less possesion and less shots on (and off) target!! even wenger knew that arsenal had advantages in that aspect but didn't take the chances and at this kind of level, you get punished when you don't take your chances.

but on the up side, we finally saw that fabianski is not as bad as he is said to be. true, he makes mistakes (and quite dreadful sometimes) and he was a bit shaky but which keeper doesn't go nervous when drogba runs at you with the force of a charging bull? but he performed well and made some good saves. could've done better with the 1st goal but the second one was just beyond any keeper. wenger could sleep well now knowing that arsenal's goal are in hands safer than almunia