Chelsea against Arsenal

Ballack is getting flustered, trying to kick any Arsenal midfielder who comes his way. Bad loser that lad.

Malouda has a crack at goal. Nothihng wrong with that you may feel, except it was on his rotten right foot. Atrocious effort.

Four minutes to go...

Ivanovic gets an overdue booking for bringing down Clichy as the left-back poked the ball past him. He should be off in fact, after swerving a deserved booking for a foul on the same player earlier.

Bendtner's job will be to sit up top and hold onto the ball as much as he can to waste time.

Adebayor is coming off, Nicklas Bendtner is on in his place.

Right, hold on to your hats. Arsenal sitting in for the points now, Chelsea onslaught imminent.

Deco is off, Miroslav Stoch comes on for his debut. I know. Who?

More numbers back for Arsenal now as Song, Nasri, Denilson and Fabregas try to get a foot in to disrupt Chelsea's playmakers.

Lampard shoots now, but it is well, well wide. Desperation setting in at the Bridge, but don't rule them out just yet.

Great interception from Clichy as Ballack looked for Malouda. The Gunners are bang up for this. Another great tackle from Sagna this time.

Malouda shoots but the ball was always rising.

Chelsea win a free kick, 30 yards out in the left channel. Malouda over it.

Fabregas is at it now, swapping passes with RVP and only being denied by a risky challenge from JT. Arsenal still committing plenty forward though.

Another promising move from the visitors as RVP, Adebayor and Denilson combine. But the latter's cross is far too strong and out of reach for all concerned.

Fabregas looks for man of the moment RVP but Jt barges him out of the way this time...

What a huge 20 minutes in this season's Premier League title race. If Arsenal hang on they are right back in it...

Cole fires in a low cross and it is only a yard behind Kalou.

He struck it well but it was always a touch too high. Nice direction but poor execution. Malouda on for Mikel.

What a run from Clichy! He beats two men before Ivanovic hauls him down. How he hasn't been booked I do not know. Free kick, 25 yards out and central. RVP over it already.

Oh for a Drogba eh?

Poor touch from Adebayor as Clichy charged up in support of him. No sign of Arsenal sitting back - yet.

Fabregas breaks forward and feeds Adebayor, the striker knocks it back inside and Terry has to be on his toes to intercept a ball for van Persie. End to end stuff now.

My word. You should have seen Scolari's face when the second goal went in. Arsenal getting the rub of the green now...

What a turnaround! Arsenal have had two chances and they've scored twice in three minutes!

The free-kick is floated in, Adebayor nods down and van Psersie swivels and hits a half volley into the far corner! Amazing!

GOAL! Van Persie again!

More danger for Chelsea as van Persie looks to unleash a volley. Then Mikel gives away a foul on the right hand side.

JT gets a yellow for a two footed, studs-up tackle. Lucky maybe just to get a yellow in fact.

Oh dear, van Persie was a clear yard offside when Denilson touched the ball through. A big rick from the linesman.

Great touch from Denilson after Nasri fed him and Van Persie leathers it into the top corner with his right foot. Game on!

GOAL! Van Persie!

Bosingwa flagged offside.

Arsenal need more out of their front two now, the ball just isn't sticking.

More promise for Chelsea as Anelka gets into the area, his dink over Clichy is a tad too overhit for Deco to reach though.

As Chelsea break, Anelks gets the ball on the left but dinks a nothing cross into the area about 15 yards ahead of the onrushing Lampard.

Adebayor takes a nasty tumble after Ivanovic clipped him, then Van Persie wastes possession again.

Adebayor gets in over the top but poor control allows Terry to hack clear. He doesn't look fully fit to me the big Arsenal striker.

Real chance for Lampard! Kalou tries to slide a pass through to Anelka, Djourou gets a foot in but it falls to Lamps, 18 yards out and he flashes a left foot shot wide.

Gallas and Anelka clash chasing a ball and the defender gets a rather fortunate free-kick.

Deco's sublime pass finds Cole but his cross is cleared by Djourou.

Van Persie is penalised as his stray arm catches Lampard.

Oh dear, Nasri breaks beautifully and charges at Chelsea's outnumbered back line. He chooses to find Adebayor when van Persie was free as a bird on the left.

Lampard gets down the left and squeezes out a low cross but Nasri is in sharply to clear.

We begin again...

Van Persie wastes the free-kick and Chelsea break, Anelka flicking a header wide after a good ball from Kalou. Half time. Super stuff.

Last chance for Arsenal this half. Free kick 40 yards out.

The first lull of the half, as it draws to a close.

Cole's ball, Anelka chasing, Almunia claiming.

Ominously for Arsenal, Chelsea haven't conceded a second half goal in the league this season. Strong stat that.

Denilson fires wide from the edge of the box after nice work to fashion an opening.

Kalou is flagged offside, again! Anelka flicked on and he burst through but shot right at Almunia. Not that it mattered by that stage.

Goalflash! Porstmouth 3-2 Blackburn, Sean Davis with it.

Fab hits a shot but it is lacking in power and Cech swallows it easily.

By the way, Everton lead Spurs at White Hart Lane, while Blackburn have come back from 2-0 down at Fratton Park to level it up at 2-2 with Pompey.

Brilliant first time ball from Lampard into the path of Kalou but his touch is poor. When Almunia slid out to claim he clattered into Djourou. An uncomfortable few minutes for the young defender.

Ivanovic is off for treatment after tangling with van Persie.

Van Persie has two attempts at bringing down a cross, then gets a snapshot away that forces a good save from Cech. Then Cole gives the ball to Denilson and the midfielder goes down. No pen, quite rightly though.

Superb tackle by Sagna to sprevent his side going 2-0 down. Deco's cute ball was about to be struck by Kalou before he slid in.

That's seven goals Arsenal have conceded without reply in the Premier League recently...

Djourou may have turned it into his own net but Almunia must take his fair share of blame. It was his poor throw that let Chelsea back in.

Almunia claimed the corner, but a poor throw handed it back to Chelsea, Bosingwa crosses, Djourou slides in at the near post and diverts it past his 'keeper.

GOAL! Djourou own goal, Chelsea lead!

The wall does its job as Ballack tries to dink one into the near corner. Adebayor got the touch. Well played sir, justice done.

Huge chance this....

The referee is having a mare here. He awards Chelsea a free-kick right on the edge of the area despite Gallas getting a huge chunk of the ball as he challenged Kalou.

Lampard finds space in the area but his cross is a bit too loopy and Kalou's header is tame. Then Adebayor is penalised again when he got a shove from Ivanovic. Poor decision.

Great interception by Cole as Denilson dinked a ball in for Adebayor. Then Cech comes out to claim a cross but fumbles. He gets away with it though as no-one in a Red shirt can profit.

Great move from Chelsea, ball spreaded wide for Bosingwa and his cross is nodded powerfully goalwards by Lampard but Almunia clutches on.

Adebayor chops into Ashley Cole but is penalised. Nowt wrong with that I thought.

Sgna gets his bonce to a Ballack cross as Kalou lurked. He's done quite a bit of that so far.

Almunia comes charging out to clear as Anelka chased down Deco's through ball.

Cracking game this.

Kalou flagged offside again. Wrongly. Again.

Bosingwa diddles Nasri first, then Clichy but spoils his brilliant run at the last after firing a shot well over the bar when plenty of colleagues were amassed in the boc.

Oh dear. Deco nicks the ball from Sagna and releases AN=nelka but he shanks a woeful shot miles wide of the target when passing to a cheating Ashley Cole would have been a much better option.

Kalou gives away a free kick and at the same time gets Sagna out of jail after he misjudged a cross. Then Nasri has a pop but it sails well over.

Now Fabregas charges forward and unleashes a shot but it is straight at Cech.

First real chance for Arsenal, Nasri collects an Adebayor cross, forces a save from Cech and William Gallas, of all people, can't sort his feet out in time to tap home.

Van Persie gets into the left channel but only has Adebayor in the middle. Ivanovic clears behind for another corner but Ballack clears near post.

Bad mistake from Djourou, he surges forward then lays off to Ballack, but his ball for Deco is wasted when the Portuguese miscontrols.

Anelka clears the corner, Kalou does superbly well to surge forward but should have released it to either Lampard or Mikel. Then Anelka's follow up goes behind for a corner.

Van Persie wins a corner. Respite for Arsenal.

Adebayor powers past Bosingwa, loses possession, then wins it back, then is penalised for a non-existent foul. Shame.

A double fist from Almunia as Bosingwa swung in a cross. Neither convincing really. Then when Cole crosses the big keeper is out to claim a lot more comfortably.

Fabregas slides in on Anelka after a cute ball from Kalou. He had to get that right and he just nicked it away from the former Arsenal striker.

Pinball in Arsenal's penalty area and more than a suspicion of handball as shots rained in. No vigorous shout for it though.

Plenty of challenges flying in early on, as you'd expect... Kalou flagged offside when Clichy seemed to have played him on.

Boos from the Arsenal end as Ashley Cole gets on the ball for the first time. You know what? I'd almost forgotten about that little twerp....

An early whiff of space for Van Persie before Terry snuffs it out, then Kalou tries to get beyond Sagna. Frenetic opening...

All set? Smashing, away we go...

So, Sagna and Adebayor return for Arsenal, and Gallas plays, while Deco is back in Blue for the, errr, Blues. It should be a belter this. I predict a big game for the new Arsenal skipper.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Djourou, Clichy, Denilson, Fabregas, Song Billong, Nasri, Adebayor and Van Persie. Subs from: Fabianski, Vela, Ramsey, Silvestre, Wilshere, Bendtner and Gibbs.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Ashley Cole, Mikel, Deco, Ballack, Lampard, Kalou and Anelka. Subs from: Hilario, Malouda, Bridge, Ferreira, Mineiro, Alex and Stoch.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to live coverage of a potential humdinger between Chelsea and Arsenal. It may only be November, but the stakes are high, both Arsene Wenger and Luiz Felipe Scolari intimating that the Gunners will be out of the title race if they lose.

Can Arsenal get their season back on track on Sunday when they visit Chelsea? Find out right here at 16.00 UK time on Sunday when we're covering the game live!

Fabregas looks for man of the moment RVP but Jt barges him out of the way this time...

What a huge 20 minutes in this season's Premier League title race. If Arsenal hang on they are right back in it...

Cole fires in a low cross and it is only a yard behind Kalou.

He struck it well but it was always a touch too high. Nice direction but poor execution. Malouda on for Mikel.

What a run from Clichy! He beats two men before Ivanovic hauls him down. How he hasn't been booked I do not know. Free kick, 25 yards out and central. RVP over it already.

Oh for a Drogba eh?

Poor touch from Adebayor as Clichy charged up in support of him. No sign of Arsenal sitting back - yet.

Fabregas breaks forward and feeds Adebayor, the striker knocks it back inside and Terry has to be on his toes to intercept a ball for van Persie. End to end stuff now.

My word. You should have seen Scolari's face when the second goal went in. Arsenal getting the rub of the green now...

What a turnaround! Arsenal have had two chances and they've scored twice in three minutes!

The free-kick is floated in, Adebayor nods down and van Psersie swivels and hits a half volley into the far corner! Amazing!

GOAL! Van Persie again!

More danger for Chelsea as van Persie looks to unleash a volley. Then Mikel gives away a foul on the right hand side.

JT gets a yellow for a two footed, studs-up tackle. Lucky maybe just to get a yellow in fact.

Oh dear, van Persie was a clear yard offside when Denilson touched the ball through. A big rick from the linesman.

Great touch from Denilson after Nasri fed him and Van Persie leathers it into the top corner with his right foot. Game on!

GOAL! Van Persie!

Bosingwa flagged offside.

Arsenal need more out of their front two now, the ball just isn't sticking.

More promise for Chelsea as Anelka gets into the area, his dink over Clichy is a tad too overhit for Deco to reach though.

As Chelsea break, Anelks gets the ball on the left but dinks a nothing cross into the area about 15 yards ahead of the onrushing Lampard.

Adebayor takes a nasty tumble after Ivanovic clipped him, then Van Persie wastes possession again.

Adebayor gets in over the top but poor control allows Terry to hack clear. He doesn't look fully fit to me the big Arsenal striker.

Real chance for Lampard! Kalou tries to slide a pass through to Anelka, Djourou gets a foot in but it falls to Lamps, 18 yards out and he flashes a left foot shot wide.

Gallas and Anelka clash chasing a ball and the defender gets a rather fortunate free-kick.

Deco's sublime pass finds Cole but his cross is cleared by Djourou.

Van Persie is penalised as his stray arm catches Lampard.

Oh dear, Nasri breaks beautifully and charges at Chelsea's outnumbered back line. He chooses to find Adebayor when van Persie was free as a bird on the left.

Lampard gets down the left and squeezes out a low cross but Nasri is in sharply to clear.

We begin again...

Van Persie wastes the free-kick and Chelsea break, Anelka flicking a header wide after a good ball from Kalou. Half time. Super stuff.

Last chance for Arsenal this half. Free kick 40 yards out.

The first lull of the half, as it draws to a close.

Cole's ball, Anelka chasing, Almunia claiming.

Ominously for Arsenal, Chelsea haven't conceded a second half goal in the league this season. Strong stat that.

Denilson fires wide from the edge of the box after nice work to fashion an opening.

Kalou is flagged offside, again! Anelka flicked on and he burst through but shot right at Almunia. Not that it mattered by that stage.

Goalflash! Porstmouth 3-2 Blackburn, Sean Davis with it.

Fab hits a shot but it is lacking in power and Cech swallows it easily.

By the way, Everton lead Spurs at White Hart Lane, while Blackburn have come back from 2-0 down at Fratton Park to level it up at 2-2 with Pompey.

Brilliant first time ball from Lampard into the path of Kalou but his touch is poor. When Almunia slid out to claim he clattered into Djourou. An uncomfortable few minutes for the young defender.

Ivanovic is off for treatment after tangling with van Persie.

Van Persie has two attempts at bringing down a cross, then gets a snapshot away that forces a good save from Cech. Then Cole gives the ball to Denilson and the midfielder goes down. No pen, quite rightly though.

Superb tackle by Sagna to sprevent his side going 2-0 down. Deco's cute ball was about to be struck by Kalou before he slid in.

That's seven goals Arsenal have conceded without reply in the Premier League recently...

Djourou may have turned it into his own net but Almunia must take his fair share of blame. It was his poor throw that let Chelsea back in.

Almunia claimed the corner, but a poor throw handed it back to Chelsea, Bosingwa crosses, Djourou slides in at the near post and diverts it past his 'keeper.

GOAL! Djourou own goal, Chelsea lead!

The wall does its job as Ballack tries to dink one into the near corner. Adebayor got the touch. Well played sir, justice done.

Huge chance this....

The referee is having a mare here. He awards Chelsea a free-kick right on the edge of the area despite Gallas getting a huge chunk of the ball as he challenged Kalou.

Lampard finds space in the area but his cross is a bit too loopy and Kalou's header is tame. Then Adebayor is penalised again when he got a shove from Ivanovic. Poor decision.

Great interception by Cole as Denilson dinked a ball in for Adebayor. Then Cech comes out to claim a cross but fumbles. He gets away with it though as no-one in a Red shirt can profit.

Great move from Chelsea, ball spreaded wide for Bosingwa and his cross is nodded powerfully goalwards by Lampard but Almunia clutches on.

Adebayor chops into Ashley Cole but is penalised. Nowt wrong with that I thought.

Sgna gets his bonce to a Ballack cross as Kalou lurked. He's done quite a bit of that so far.

Almunia comes charging out to clear as Anelka chased down Deco's through ball.

Cracking game this.

Kalou flagged offside again. Wrongly. Again.

Bosingwa diddles Nasri first, then Clichy but spoils his brilliant run at the last after firing a shot well over the bar when plenty of colleagues were amassed in the boc.

Oh dear. Deco nicks the ball from Sagna and releases AN=nelka but he shanks a woeful shot miles wide of the target when passing to a cheating Ashley Cole would have been a much better option.

Kalou gives away a free kick and at the same time gets Sagna out of jail after he misjudged a cross. Then Nasri has a pop but it sails well over.

Now Fabregas charges forward and unleashes a shot but it is straight at Cech.

First real chance for Arsenal, Nasri collects an Adebayor cross, forces a save from Cech and William Gallas, of all people, can't sort his feet out in time to tap home.

Van Persie gets into the left channel but only has Adebayor in the middle. Ivanovic clears behind for another corner but Ballack clears near post.

Bad mistake from Djourou, he surges forward then lays off to Ballack, but his ball for Deco is wasted when the Portuguese miscontrols.

Anelka clears the corner, Kalou does superbly well to surge forward but should have released it to either Lampard or Mikel. Then Anelka's follow up goes behind for a corner.

Van Persie wins a corner. Respite for Arsenal.

Adebayor powers past Bosingwa, loses possession, then wins it back, then is penalised for a non-existent foul. Shame.

A double fist from Almunia as Bosingwa swung in a cross. Neither convincing really. Then when Cole crosses the big keeper is out to claim a lot more comfortably.

Fabregas slides in on Anelka after a cute ball from Kalou. He had to get that right and he just nicked it away from the former Arsenal striker.

Pinball in Arsenal's penalty area and more than a suspicion of handball as shots rained in. No vigorous shout for it though.

Plenty of challenges flying in early on, as you'd expect... Kalou flagged offside when Clichy seemed to have played him on.

Boos from the Arsenal end as Ashley Cole gets on the ball for the first time. You know what? I'd almost forgotten about that little twerp....

An early whiff of space for Van Persie before Terry snuffs it out, then Kalou tries to get beyond Sagna. Frenetic opening...

All set? Smashing, away we go...

So, Sagna and Adebayor return for Arsenal, and Gallas plays, while Deco is back in Blue for the, errr, Blues. It should be a belter this. I predict a big game for the new Arsenal skipper.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Djourou, Clichy, Denilson, Fabregas, Song Billong, Nasri, Adebayor and Van Persie. Subs from: Fabianski, Vela, Ramsey, Silvestre, Wilshere, Bendtner and Gibbs.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Ashley Cole, Mikel, Deco, Ballack, Lampard, Kalou and Anelka. Subs from: Hilario, Malouda, Bridge, Ferreira, Mineiro, Alex and Stoch.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to live coverage of a potential humdinger between Chelsea and Arsenal. It may only be November, but the stakes are high, both Arsene Wenger and Luiz Felipe Scolari intimating that the Gunners will be out of the title race if they lose.

Can Arsenal get their season back on track on Sunday when they visit Chelsea? Find out right here at 16.00 UK time on Sunday when we're covering the game live!