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Commentary
A lovely effort from ABIDAL scraped the outside of the righthand post.
A weak strike from GATTUSO trickled agonisingly wide.
11¹TRAORÉ stabbed an easy chance past the lefthand post.
13¹GATTUSO waltzed away from ABIDAL and stroked a tame shot well wide.
14¹KÄLLSTRÖM rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
16¹A free-kick from TRAORÉ raced over.
16¹MATIC shot wide.
25¹BORINI's shot was well saved by the Arsenal 'keeper.
26¹The Chelsea 'keeper saved a curling shot from FEGHOULI.
28¹A left foot effort from FEGHOULI was saved by TURNBULL.
30¹The referee yellow cards GATTUSO for a late challenge.
31¹A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing Chelsea 'keeper.
33¹TIAGO made space on the right and touched the ball to ABIDAL who touched the ball over.
37¹VERMAELEN's shot beat TURNBULL but rebounded off the Chelsea post.
10²VAN AANHOLT scuffed a simple chance.
18²GOAL!! MATIC dribbled forward, glanced up and fired a shot into the Arsenal net. (1-0 Chelsea)
20²A clever pass from GATTUSO was placed goalbound by VAN AANHOLT only for FABIANSKI to claw away.
21²A twenty-five yard drive from TRAORÉ caused the Chelsea 'keeper little difficulty.
26²FEGHOULI ran onto a wonderful ball from TRAORÉ but fired his shot wide of the goal.
27²A useful ball from TOURÉ on the left bobbled toward ARTETA who sliced his shot wide.
31²A great shot from BORINI was dealt with by a useful parry from FABIANSKI.
32²The Chelsea 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate shot from Arsenal's PJANIC.

 
Chelsea
 
League position: 22
Home league form: LLXX
Overall league form: LLLLXXXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Ross TURNBULL1Lukasz FABIANSKI
RAFINHA2Cesar AZPILICUETA
(c)Patrick VAN AANHOLT3Eric ABIDAL
Mikel ARTETA4Miralem PJANIC(c)
Kolo TOURÉ5Thomas VERMAELEN
MAZA6Johan DJOUROU
Kim KÄLLSTRÖM7Sofiane FEGHOULI
Gennaro GATTUSO8Armand TRAORÉ
(p)Fabio BORINI9Mikaël SILVESTRE(p)
(f)Nemanja MATIC10TIAGO Cardoso(f)
PAULO Renato FERREIRA11Zdenek SENKERÍK
Manager
Maximiliano RODRÍGUEZ  12  Gaël CLICHY
Henrique HILÁRIO  13  Vito MANNONE
Ariel IBAGAZA  14  Philippe SENDEROS
Jack CORK  15  FRAN MÉRIDA
Liam BRIDCUTT16  Gavin HOYTE
 
Arsenal
 
League position: 21
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: LWLXLLLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Chelsea 1 Arsenal 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 29,079, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Brian McGarry 7½)

Matic 18²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
RafinhaóBridcutt 1² 
  
Gattuso 30¹ 
04
711
31
56
55
1011
46
57%43%
Man of the match: Mikel Arteta