Chelsea vs Arsenal
Match pulse
CHEAttacking pressure by 5 minutes
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| ARS | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Who won: Chelsea 2-1
Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-1 on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Stamford Bridge. Goals for Chelsea: Juan Mata (6') and Frank Lampard (16' pen). Goals for Arsenal: Theo Walcott (58').
Play by play
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<b>And that's the final whistle - Chelsea win 2-1, but Arsenal produced an unrecognisably better second-half performance and will feel they could have snatched a point from 2-0 down.</b>
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Final seconds, and Chelsea win a free-kick. That should be just about it now.
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The ball is crossed back in, Giroud heads it and it's only fractionally too high, landing on the roof of the net.
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Chelsea under siege. Yet another Arsenal corner...
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Cech punches, Mata clears, Giroud plays it back and a great Cahill challenge stops Walcott from finding a shooting chance.
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The corner is cleared for another corner. Late Arsenal pressure - will it yield any reward?
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It comes to nothing, though. Back come Arsenal. Giroud crosses, and Chelsea put that one out for a corner. Good chance, but not enough Gunners attacked Giroud's cross.
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Cech takes a goal-kick long and Marin wins a throw deep inside the Arsenal half.
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There will be five minutes of stoppage time, and the Chelsea fans don't like that news one little bit.
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Mata takes, Bertrand blasts the follow-up, and appeals for handball are waved away. Giroud takes a very ambitious shot from distance at the other end, and that's no problem for Cech.
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Last two minutes of normal time, and there's a big cheer from the Chelsea fans as Ba wins a free-kick inside Arsenal territory.
- 87'
<img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif">Hazard is off and Marko Marin on. Hazard twinkled in the first half, but wasn't much in the picture after the break.
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Vermaelen takes it low, looking for the far post, but there's not enough curl on the ball to guide it inside the post.
- 86'
Wilshere will take. It's poor, but Chelsea lose it and Cole brings down Sagna on the edge of the box. Another, more dangerous, free-kick for Arsenal.
- 85'
Cole brings down Cazorla on the touchline down the Arsenal right. Dangerous free-kick for Wenger's men - and time is running out...
- 85'
Chelsea seem to have settled down again, and Ba's arrival has certainly re-galvanised them in attack.
- 84'
That would have sealed it beyond any doubt. Ba again does superbly, drifting past Gibbs down the right, but can't get the cross in.
- 83'
Ba breaks the offside trap and races into the area from the left. He goes round Szczesny, but Vermaelen makes a crucial and excellent goal-line block to keep Arsenal in the game.
- 82'
Arshavin runs the ball behind as he tries to make ground down the Arsenal left. Cech kicks long towards Ba, but Hazard is crowded out as he tries to pick up the pieces.
- 81'
A shade under ten minutes left for Chelsea to hold on or for Arsenal to find an equaliser.
- 80'
<img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif">That's the end of the afternoon for Fernando Torres. Demba Ba is on to replace the Chelsea striker.
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Equally uncharacteristically, Mata loses the ball to Mertesacker after a hurried pass.
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Cazorla, uncharacteristically, passes the ball straight out of play for Arsenal.
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