ARSENAL VERSES CHELSEA.

Arsenal visited Chelseas home ground at StamfordBridge, on 30/11/2008. This was Chelseas fortress as they had gone eightyfour matches without defeat till Liverpool broke that record. And Arsenal last won there in 2004.
Arsenal came to this match in the fifth place after defeats by Stoke and Manchester Cty.Also there was the William Gallas incident very much in the air with the armband now on Cesc Fabregas, would there be a division in the team?
Chelsea were top of the table with a ten point lead ,and even with Drogba doing a three match ban for throwing a coin back at the crowd, and Joe Cole out with an ankle injury. Chelsea were very strong with Terry, Anelka, Lampard, Cech, Deco and the rest. Chelsea had a lot of experience and stars as well.While Arsenal had youth and less known stars in their line up, Theo Walcott was missing due to a dislocated shoulder.
The fans had their share of hate, the Chelsea fans taunted William Gallas who joined Arsenal from Chelsea , And the Arsenalfans taunted Ashley Cole for moving from Arsenal to Chelsea.
Arsenal were vulnerable in the defence as usual for the first twenty minutes. The goal came in a tragic way for Arsenal as Arsene Wenger had replaced Michaal Silvestre with Johan Djourous.
In the 34th minute the Chelsea winger Bosingwa centred the ball for Anelka to score but Johan Djourous, tapped the ball by mistake into the net.It was an own goal. the thought on everyones mind was howwould Arsenal respond.
And respond they did with Denilson passing the ball for the Dutch man Robin Van Persie to score a goal , there was a suspision of an offside but the referee Mike Dean gave the goal. And in another three minutes Robin Van Persie scored a lovely goal beating Petr Cech all ends up
Arsenal won the match 2-1.
There was a funny incident by the fourth referee , who should the wrong number for a substitute, the board showed No10 , this was the number od Joe Cole, who had an ankle injuryand was not even a substitute. The real number was 20 that as Decos number.
Scolari is still mad at the referee Mike Dean for giving that first goal , he has asked Dean to atleast say sorry. I dont think it will be coming , we have seen it all the time , and arsenal has suffered greatly with blind bats called referees.And Wenger has told Michel Platini that monitors should be used like all other sports.

CHELSEA VERSES NEWCASTLE UNITED.

The match between Chelsea and Newcastle was suposed to have been an entirely one sided affair. It was a match between the top club in the E.P.L and a club which was struggling and and which was already up for sale with the help of a bank called Seymour Pearce.
On paper Chelsea was definately the better side with astring of costly players, and very talented ones to.
But this is football ,and it did not work out that way at all.
Yes the match was an entirely one sided game, how one sided you can see by the stastics. Chelsea hhad 24 shots on target, and 12 shots of target, and at the same time Newcastle did not have a single shot on target and had 2 shots of target. Chelsea also had a goal disallowed as Joe Cole was clearly offside.
The Newcastle defence did a good job they were a wall against, Anelka, Cole, lampard and Deco.But the hero for Newcastle was clearlyShay Given, There was an incident in which Given cought the ball with both his legs behind the goaline, but the important thing was the ball did not cross the line, when he fell down. The law clearly states that for a goal to be scored the entire ball must cross the goaline. In the end Scolari was cleary frustrated at the draw