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00:00October, but Chelsea had yet to concede a Premier League goal at Stamford Bridge
00:03And that record faced a stern test as Arsene Wenger's high-flying Arsenal arrived in West London
00:09The last victims at Stamford Bridge had been Manchester United whom Chelsea had dispatched
00:135-0, a result that confirmed Gianluca Vialli's title ambitions
00:18Vialli continued with Chris Sutton up front alongside Torre Andre Flo, while Gianfranco Zola had to be content with a place on the bench
00:25Chelsea had a poor recent record against Arsenal and with Emmanuel Petit partnering Ray Parler in midfield and Tony Adams alongside
00:32Martin Keown at the centre of their defence, the Gunners once again looked a difficult side to break down
00:40Dennis Bergkamp had to sit this one out, but there was still enough talent on the pitch to suggest something very special
00:47Your match commentator is Martin Tyler
00:49More than four years now since Chelsea last beat Arsenal in the league, though they have knocked them out of the League Cup in more recent times on a couple of occasions
01:00Frank Leboeuf, an early header for Martin Keown
01:08With the wind gusting around Stamford Bridge, it might be a little bit awkward gauging the longer passes
01:15Chelsea have not conceded a goal at home
01:19In the Premier League or the Champions League so far this season, so that's one immediate target for Arsenal
01:26To win that particular record, and they of course have been the side that have set the defensive standards in this league
01:33But Chelsea at the moment have been more solid
01:37Roy Wise concedes a free kick here
01:40Petit getting back in the groove across the dicks
01:42Ray Parler's had a bit of a stomach upset
01:46And that's necessitated a change amongst the substitutes for Arsenal today
01:51They've brought in another midfielder, Paolo Van Natsa, just in case Parler can't go the distance
01:55Concerned about Petit in that respect, lack of match fitness as well
01:59Touched by Flo, Parler in quickly, Keown for company
02:04Brian Lesaut playing on the left-hand side of midfield these days, ahead of Babayaro
02:09And his persistence is an old rivalry there between Dixon and Lesaut
02:14Dixon was sent off after a fracas with Graham Lesaut in this fixture last season
02:21And it's Dixon who gets a card here at Stamford Bridge
02:26Inside a couple of minutes today
02:30For his pursuit in vain of Lesaut
02:44Petit
02:46Over Mars
02:48Maybe a chance to have a run at Ferrer but
02:50He was looking up away from the ball to see what was on
02:53In terms of support and
02:55Pushed it too far ahead of himself
02:57Lovely flick by Petit
02:59Parler fastening on to it and shot a long way wide but a shot
03:09Very much back in some style
03:14Parler hit it with plenty of power
03:21Wise
03:24Here's Sutton
03:25Oh and that must have been close but the flag has stayed down
03:30Arsenal not happy with that
03:34Chelsea get a corner, there might have been more in the offing
03:45And it's wise to take it
03:49Plenty of Chelsea players prepared to attack it
03:51Desai is there, Flo of course and Chris Sutton
03:54Coming through the crowd and getting to it
04:01Sutton also a scorer against Manchester United in the 5-0
04:04His first Premier League goal
04:06For the club he joined for £10m from Blackburn
04:09In the summer
04:15It is
04:16Maybe he had it too high
04:45Nice cue by Babayaro
04:48He's sorting it out for Leboeuf and he hasn't done that
04:53And Shouker Kanu
05:00Not Chelsea
05:02With this faultless defensive record
05:06In home league games were looking vulnerable here
05:09But actually
05:12Could have been cleared
05:15Sir Richard Attenborough
05:17A long time
05:18Chelsea
05:19Devotee
05:23Fede
05:27Lifted forward by Dan Petrescu
05:31André Flo
05:33His size is conspicuous but he does have a very good touch on the ground
05:37Not really borne out by the
05:39Last attempted pass
05:43Wise
05:44Only got Sutton to try and find
05:46Chris Sutton is offside
05:47David Seaman
05:49Not looking across and spotting the flag and having to
05:51React to the situation as if the flag had stayed down but
05:57Wise got it forward
06:00But Sutton
06:02Was too far forward
06:03Wiseau
06:05Wiseau is just being tapped back there
06:10Dixon
06:11Another little cameo of the contest really
06:13Players
06:14Given no time to dwell in possession
06:16Wiseau
06:18Went down
06:19As Leboeuf
06:20Backheeled the ball
06:24And
06:27Alan Wilkie
06:30And
06:31Not
06:32Too
06:33Impressed
06:36Another foul
06:37By Schüker
06:38Over on that far touchline
06:39He's
06:41Cautioned
06:50Free kick to Chelsea
06:53No support
06:54Sensing this might be the moment
06:55Against their London rivals
06:58Free kick
06:59Just being tapped back
07:00Free kick just being
07:01Caught maybe on the wind
07:05Some wondering whether he was caught unfairly
07:08By a marker
07:10David Seaman
07:11Who never seems to bat an eyelid
07:14As if this was a training game
07:17Letting the ball run behind
07:24At least
07:25Continuing at the moment with the experiment of being wired
07:27For sound with their
07:28Assistance
07:30Hasn't always worked
07:33But amidst the bedlam
07:35There is the atmosphere at Stamford Bridge
07:38It is efficient
07:39It must
07:40Certainly help the communication skills
07:42Between the officials
07:50Now the pushing
07:51Given against Keown
07:53Something might have been playing a part as well
07:54But Keown
07:56Taking the
07:58Blame
08:00So a second chance in quick succession for Chelsea
08:02To get a free kick into
08:04The right sort of area
08:05Into
08:06The Arsenal penalty area
08:10Just change the angle
08:12Which made good sense
08:14Sutton behind
08:15Desai
08:20Delivery was better
08:23As the ball was rolled to
08:24Celestin Babayaro
08:25Looked as though
08:26Desai was favourite
08:27But it was over him
08:28It rather died on
08:29Chris Sutton
08:30He stooped
08:31But he didn't conquer
08:33Parler
08:37Kanu
08:40And Shuker
08:46Should be a corner
08:47But that was
08:48Neat passing from Arsenal again
08:50With Freddy Jungwirth
08:51Cutting the ball back
08:52Towards Shuker
08:54Nicely
08:55Weighted ball by Kanu
09:04Petrescu
09:05Looks across towards
09:06Torriandri
09:07Flow
09:08Oh
09:09Cuts it in the corner
09:10Sweet as you please
09:15First blood to Chelsea
09:16At Stamford Bridge
09:20Petrescu's cross
09:23And Flow
09:25Leaving Seaman
09:26Flat-footed
09:29Perfect placement
09:30From the Norwegian
09:31Who got his
09:33Goal-scoring touch
09:34Back in midweek
09:35In Turkey
09:36With a vengeance
09:38And has certainly
09:39Added to it
09:40With another
09:41High-profile goal here
09:46Leberth
09:50Adams
09:53And held by
09:54Chris Sutton
10:05Dixon
10:12Dixon again
10:16Kanu
10:17Oh
10:18The ball dropped
10:19For Mark Overmars
10:20It came to him
10:21Very quickly
10:22After
10:23A rescuing
10:24Clearance from
10:26Chelsea
10:27Just had to lean back
10:28Slightly Mark Overmars
10:29It meant it was
10:30Very difficult to
10:31Keep it down
10:33Desai
10:36Leberth
10:47Kieran Slow to
10:49Pick himself up
10:53And
10:56He heads off
10:58For the half-time
10:59Team talks
11:00At half-time at
11:01Stamford Bridge
11:02Chelsea 1
11:03Arsenal 0
11:06And team
11:07Got the second half
11:08Under one
11:12And the
11:13One goal scorer so far
11:14Challenging with
11:15Manu Petit
11:16Martin Kieran who went in
11:17At half-time
11:18Just touching a
11:19Bruise around the nose area
11:23To resume
11:29Overmars
11:32Really is
11:33Persistent right now
11:38Flo
11:40Is found
11:41But
11:42Chelsea couldn't build
11:43From that
11:44Dixon
11:45Caught in possession
11:46By Graeme Lesauve
11:47Thierry-André Flo
11:48Pushed out by Seaman
11:49Flo goes in again
11:53Arsenal caught
11:54In possession
11:55In their own defensive
11:56Third
11:57Lee Dixon here
11:58His old
11:59Adversary
12:00Graeme Lesauve
12:02And Thierry-André Flo
12:03Letting fly
12:05A bit depressed
12:06On the Arsenal bench
12:19Mabiyara
12:23Lesauve
12:36And the yellow card shown to
12:39Petit
12:40Denis Wise
12:41Will take the free kick
12:50Changing the angle
12:55Wise
12:56And the
12:57Goal
12:58Scorer
12:59Denis Wise
13:00And the
13:01Goal
13:02Scorer
13:03Denis Wise
13:04And the
13:05Goal
13:06Scorer
13:07Denis Wise
13:08And the
13:09Goal
13:10Wise
13:11Lesauve
13:132-0
13:14Dan Petrescu
13:16Unmarked
13:22The player who crossed
13:23For the first goal
13:26Surprises himself maybe
13:27By heading in the second
13:29But Arsenal were nowhere near him
13:35Lovely work by Wise
13:37And
13:38Superb delivery
13:39By Graeme Lesauve
13:40Take nothing away from Chelsea
13:41We're getting players into
13:43Scoring positions
13:45Well
13:46Arsenal
13:47Revered for their fighting spirits
13:48They're going to need all of that
13:49And a bit more
13:58Dixon
14:05Kanu
14:07Well
14:08This is
14:09Maybe a chance for Arsenal here
14:11Made
14:13Very few attacking inroads
14:14In the second half
14:16That Oshuka
14:17Wanting to just change the angle a little bit
14:19Chelsea have put
14:21A four-man wall
14:22It isn't quite as tight as it should be
14:23This may be now
14:25That's Dixon
14:28Concentrated on
14:30Accuracy rather than power
14:32And the
14:33Goal
14:34Scorer
14:35Denis Wise
14:36And the
14:37Goal
14:38Scorer
14:39Denis Wise
14:40And the
14:41Goal
14:42Scorer
14:43Denis Wise
14:44And the
14:45Goal
14:46Scorer
14:47Denis Wise
14:48And the
14:49Goal
14:50Scorer
14:51Denis Wise
14:52And the
14:53Goal
14:58Shot on target
15:10Corner
15:17Mark Overmars to take it, half an hour to go,
15:24Arsenal two down at Stamford Bridge.
15:29And Chelsea, stronghold, this fortress mentality still in tact.
15:36Right.
15:37It's not just the defenders who defend.
15:40Collective effort, Dixon.
15:43Fakir.
15:45He's got Jungberg with him.
15:47Instead, the Canu, trying to craft something against Frank Le Boeuf.
15:52Koyet.
15:55Now Flo.
15:57And Chelsea are on the move again.
15:59Thierry-André Flo.
16:02Might go it away himself.
16:13So here's Henry.
16:15Come on, come on!
16:29It's up.
16:41Oh, it's misjudged by Le Boeuf.
16:43Chased by Schüker, Canu in the centre.
16:48Henry just checking with his assistant as to whether that was deflected into the side netting,
16:52but it's a goal kick.
17:01The Blues are bossing it, there's no doubt about that.
17:05Deschamps.
17:07Given the age of some of their players,
17:09this particular Chelsea side, if they are going to win the league,
17:12you do feel maybe this is their best chance.
17:20It's a long, long way to go,
17:22and there are a lot of distractions, of course, coming from Europe.
17:26Pala.
17:30Dixon.
17:32Overmars.
17:33Canu!
17:35And Chelsea have conceded at Stamford Bridge
17:38for the first time in the Premiership this season.
17:41Ed Dahouy's proud record is broken by Canu,
17:44a long leg,
17:47prodding the ball
17:49into the far corner
17:52before Dahouy could get out a long arm to keep it out.
17:56Well, battle very much back on again.
17:582-1.
18:01Still more than 15 minutes to go,
18:02something for Arsenal supporters to cheer about at last.
18:05Oh, and that's a...
18:07little bit short by Ferrer to Desailly in conditions.
18:12They're making it more awkward for defenders now.
18:15Javiero, in goes Keown,
18:18Schüker,
18:20Canu,
18:21and Overmars.
18:23Henry making tracks into the centre.
18:25Schüker is there.
18:28Overmars can't get his cross in.
18:30Maybe Dixon can.
18:31And a burst drawn out of the middle.
18:34Overmars puts it in low.
18:35Canu!
18:372-2!
18:41Well, the Nigerian has made it a nightmare for Chelsea,
18:45but such delight for Arsenal.
18:51And he found space in the back of the net,
18:55and he's got it.
18:57And he found space again,
19:00when Chelsea
19:02had somehow
19:04lost the key to the padlock.
19:12Well, Arsene Wenger still all frowns,
19:15but you might expect that expression
19:17from Gianluca Vialli's face.
19:20Fighting spirit, we talked about.
19:23Arsenal have it.
19:25Arsenal have it,
19:26and they have just shown it.
19:29Schüker
19:31hits the spray.
19:33He's got a wonderful backheel skill.
19:36Showed that at Wembley.
19:38Canu,
19:39he's got all sorts of tricks.
19:41And Schüker and Arsenal
19:43really finishing strongly here.
19:46Well, it's such a surprise the way it's turned around,
19:48really, even given Arsenal's
19:51revered capacity
19:53for digging in deep.
19:56Adams
19:58straight up in the air by Deschamps.
20:02Can Arsenal get a boot to it here?
20:03If they can, there might be a chance for a goal
20:05from Overmars!
20:07It's Arsenal now,
20:08and it's a goal.
20:10And it's a goal.
20:12And it's a goal.
20:14It's Arsenal now,
20:16who are calling the tune.
20:18Three minutes plus stuff, it's time to go.
20:23Penny for his thoughts.
20:26Aguilera.
20:30Poyet has found
20:32goals so often on important
20:34occasions for Chelsea.
20:35It's handball by Dixon.
20:38Referee was prepared to let it go.
20:40The assistant, I think, got it right.
20:43Skipped up.
20:45Definite movement there by Dixon.
20:51Can Gianfranco Zola
20:52produce one of his free-kick
20:54masterpieces here?
21:02They've lost the 2-0 lead.
21:05Can they
21:06get back in front again?
21:07Zola takes it.
21:09David Seaman was covering that post.
21:14Well, there was a touch,
21:15and the decision
21:17is that it came off an Arsenal player.
21:22Zola takes it.
21:24Another corner.
21:26Put behind by Parley.
21:31Something, Poyet,
21:32coming from deep.
21:33Desai as well.
21:34Leboeuf is in there.
21:35Leboeuf!
21:38Well, it took another touch
21:39along the way.
21:40It'll surely be another corner.
21:42Frank Leboeuf, relatively unmarked.
21:44Hit hard in Keown.
21:46Home support rekindled here.
21:54Arsenal trying to push out.
21:56Valerio to play it back in.
21:59Tony Adams to try and win the header.
22:02Corner.
22:06Good response by Celsic.
22:09But
22:10that sloppy spell
22:13found by Kanu's two goals
22:16for Arsenal.
22:17Too high for Sutton.
22:24And we now move
22:25into stoppage time.
22:29A burst out by
22:30Thierry Henry.
22:33And he's run it.
22:36The play looked up too soon.
22:38Maybe the
22:39line's almost been washed out
22:40by the rain on that far side.
22:44Sutton,
22:45trying to guide it on with the chest.
22:46Keown,
22:47a bit tight for Arsenal there.
22:49Wise.
22:51Interception.
22:53We're spying
22:54over Mars.
22:55This is Shuker.
22:57Oh, and Kanu didn't want it there.
23:01Ferre.
23:03Well, it's broken
23:04Kanu's way
23:05and Dehui's right out of the centre.
23:07It's Kanu.
23:08What are they going to do?
23:09Oh!
23:11Can you believe it?
23:14He's flattened Chelsea.
23:16He's hit a hat-trick
23:17at Stamford Bridge.
23:21This is simply extraordinary.
23:26Absolutely amazing.
23:31It is
23:32Chelsea 2,
23:34Kanu 3.
23:39Oh!
23:40Ed Dehui
23:41left-stranded.
23:42The sun is shining on Arsenal.
23:45And a certain
23:47Nigerian
23:48beanpole
23:50who has turned this match
23:51on its head.
23:57And Arsenal want more.
24:01Van Aertsen.
24:03Fowler had a look round
24:04to see if he'd got time.
24:05He has got time.
24:06He finds Van Aertsen.
24:15Well, all of us,
24:16including Gianluca Vialli,
24:17scarcely able to believe
24:18what we've seen
24:19and the way we've seen it.
24:20And this is the man
24:21responsible for it.
24:23Kanu.
24:26Can he get in again?
24:30Final whistle
24:31and no wonder Arsenal arms go up.
24:34Arsene Wenger
24:3550 yesterday
24:37has got his birthday present.
24:40His team were 2-0 down
24:42and they've made off
24:43with three points
24:45thanks
24:46to Kanu's incredible contribution
24:49in the last third of the game.
24:52An incredible story
24:53has unfolded here
24:54before our very eyes.
24:57And Chelsea
24:58who were two up
24:59have to go off
25:00and contend
25:01with a final scoreline.
25:03Chelsea 2
25:04Arsenal 3
25:07An afternoon of dark clouds
25:08then bright sunshine
25:09for Arsenal
25:10and the three points
25:11were like a crock of gold
25:12for Arsene Wenger.
25:13Kanu's finest match
25:14as a Premier League player.
25:15The victory his goal secured
25:17helped the Gunners
25:18towards second place
25:19in the Premier League
25:20that season.
25:21Chelsea eventually finished
25:22in second place.