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MOTD- Chelsea 6-0 Arsenal

By on March 22, 2014

Referee Andre Marriner’s mistake in sending off Kieran Gibbs instead of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain certainly made it’s mark upon Arsenal’s match in the North London derby, but Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger should be happy to welcome the mistake as an excuse for his side’s inexcusable loss. It was supposed to be a celebratory night for Wenger, managing his 1000th match in charge of Arsenal, but Chelsea, and Marriner, were in no mood to cut The Gunners any slack, stomping all over their rivals at Stamford Bridge.

Just four minutes into the match Chelsea made sure they had gotten that massage across to Arsenal, with Samuel Eto’o going as far as taking an early lead. Andre Schurrle played the forward in down the right on the counter, and Eto’o turned Gibbs inside-out before curling a low shot into the bottom left corner. By this point Wenger must have had his worries. However, those thoughts undoubtedly increased tenfold over the next quarter-hour.

In the seventh minute Schurrle slotted a low effort into the bottom corner from fifteen yards, and it only got worse for Arsenal as Marriner mistakenly sent Gibbs off after Chamberlain had amazingly tipped Fernando Torres’ shot around the post at full stretch. Eden Hazard tucked the resulting penalty into the back of the net, capping off the hectic opening with Chelsea’s third.

We came to kill and in ten minutes, we destroyed.” – Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho

The match calmed, and although Arsenal limited the Blues to three for the next twenty-five minutes, the inevitable fourth came four minutes before the end of the first half. Torres was flicked in down the right wing by Schurrle, and after romping all the way towards the byline the Spaniard cut the ball back into the middle, where Oscar came in and bundled the ball past Wojciech Szczesny to put the came to bed.

But Chelsea weren’t satisfied, and made it a rout as Szczesny weakly a palmed Oscar’s low effort from the edge of the box into the back of his own net to gift Mourinho’s side a fifth.

Oxlade-Chamberlain would have saved that.” – The Guardian’s Scott Murray

Mohamed Salah put the icing on the cake in the seventieth minute when the Egyptian coolly placed the ball past Szczesny into the bottom corner, yet it hardly mattered, Chelsea had already won. Wenger’s day had already been ruined.
Man of the Match: Andre Schurrle.

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