Chelsea vs Arsenal
Match pulse
Who won: Arsenal 2-1
Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 on Saturday, February 21, 2004 at Stamford Bridge. Goals for Chelsea: Eidur Gudjohnsen (1'). Goals for Arsenal: Patrick Vieira (15') and Edu (21').
Play by play
- 94'
Arsenal have now put nine points between themselves and Chelsea, and with Manchester United having just drawn 1-1 with Leeds, the Gunners have seven-point advantage on the Red Devils.
- 94'
Full time and Arsenal celebrate a crucial win. Chelsea arguably deserved more from the game but they could not convert the pressure into goals.
- 93'
Bridge again on the ball, he switches it inside to Makelele, but Lauren reads it and tears forward
- 92'
Bridge turns Henry and gets it to Cole who floats a decent ball into the box, but Lehmann is quick to smother the danger
- 91'
Lehmann claims the ball and launches a huge kick straight to his opposite number
- 91'
Another corner - four mintues of added time to be played
- 90'
Hasselbaink delievers a poor ball to the near post. Henry gets a booking for a bad foul on Brigde and nearly talks his way into a second!
- 89'
Chelsea win a last minute corner, can they make it pay!!?
- 89'
Foul by Ljungberg on Makelele as Chelsea try to break
- 88'
Ljungberg shapes to shoot but is up-ended by Terry
- 87'
Pires knocks it in and Chelsea defend, but it is not cleared far and Arsenal build from the throw in
- 87'
Henry wins a corner for Arsenal - and they won't be rushing to take it
- 86'
Clichy gets the ball to Edu, who passes to Lauren and he to Gilberto as the Gunners play keep-ball
- 85'
Lampard launches a long ball toward Hasselbaink, but he is outnumbered and Lehmann comes off his line to clear
- 84'
Hasselbaink tries to hassle the keeper, but without success. Jimmy thought Lehmann was wasting time
- 84'
Lehmann gets to the ball just ahead of Hasselbaink but has taken a knock in the process.
- 83'
No sign of Jose Reyes, which is a shame for thefans who are keen to see more of the exciting Spaniard
- 82'
Pires takes a tumble in the penalty area and the ref ignores it - if it wasn't foul, why wasn't it a booking for the Frenchman's acrobatics?
- 81'
Hasselbaink wins a corner and takes it himself - but this time Melchiot is penalised for a foul
- 81'
Last ten minutes. Is it the last ten minutes of Chelsea's title dream?
- 80'
Ljungberg heads the ball into the net, but the refs has blown for a foul in the build up by Vieira on Melchiot
- 79'
Sullivan again denies Gilberto after the freekick was taken quickly - Corner ball
- 78'
Lampard gets a booking for a rash tackle on Edu - frustration creeping in
- 78'
Change for Arsenal - off goes Bergkamp and in his place Ljungberg
- 77'
But they can't make use of it and Arsenal are back in possession

