van Persie nets treble as Arsenal win at the Bridge: Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal
Arsenal captain Robin van Persie scored a hat-trick as Arsenal beat Chelsea 5-3 in a stunning London Derby at Stamford Bridge.
André Villas-Boas’ side opened the scoring through a Lampard header before van Persie levelled for the visitors. Under-fire John Terry restored the home sides advantage just before the break to make it 2-1 to Chelsea at half time.
The Gunners came flying out the blocks in the second half and scored 2 goals in quick succession through Andre Santos and Theo Walcott, both burying their shots past ‘keeper Petr Cech.
Juan Mata then smashed home from 25 yards to draw Chelsea level but a late Van Persie double not only sealed his hat-trick but all three points for Arsenal as they ran out winners in a thrilling London Derby.
Arsenal XI: Szczesny (GK), Djourou (Jenkinson 75), Mertesacker, Koscielny, Santos, Song, Ramsey, Arteta, Walcott (Rosicky 85), van Persie (c), Gervinho (Vermaelen 88).
Subs not used: Fabianski, Arshavin, Frimpong, Park.
Leave your thoughts on the astonishing match in the comments section below.
Bloody brilliant!
The best feeling i ever had!!!go gunners….
Unbelievable win. I’d just like to take the time to wish all those that asked for Wenger to be sacked a few weeks ago to put that in your pipe and smoke it.
AR53NAL for life!!!
What a wonderful performance
Van Persie will stay and lead Arsenal to win trophies by the grace of God because he is a leader,just like Tony Adams and Viera when they were captain,he shall end his career with Asenal as a legend just like Bergkamp.
Now for those who keep sagging Walkout off, what an answer.He may be inconsistent, but no one would have lived with him today. But for Rvp’s hattrick,Theo was my Mom. And oh buying big does not guarantee anything or does it? two chav players were worth more than our entire team and one of them did not get a single kick,pmsl. Now goons get behind the team and forget all the negativity it doesn’t help us but our rivals.Now watch teams coming to defend against Arsenal after this result.
i have not felt this good in a while, it was just like a bit a shot of B12.
This is what we needed from our gunners.vanpersie-brilliant.IN ARSENE WE TRUST
cannot remember a more stunning arsenal victory, defending was poor but who cares, what a bloddy win!!!
Arsenal are the legend !!!!
i will have to say i never believed we could beat them at their home turf, but arsenal convinced me wrong, i am so glad about that. andre santos, kos, ramsey, walcott, gervinho and ofcours rvp made my day. so happy right now, hope this to turn out as a massive lift for the team!
I know van Persie got the hatrick but Walcott And Rambo were class!
Great result! come on Arsenal! :))
and we got Man. City at home in a Carling Cup
would be fantastic to beat them with our young team 🙂
damn it it was fatastic game. goooners are getting their winning momentum
A superb vict. Makes u wanna b a gunner.as wenger wil say its all about playin intelligently and nt the the banks
Credit where credit is due. What an amazing spectacle it was to experience a game like that, and to come out winners. Let us revel in the victory but be humble at the same time knowing that we have a long way to go, with plenty of room for improvement.UP THE GUNNERS!!!!!!!
I think we are some of the best fans in da world cuz our team got highs and low like a rollercaster but we are still here and days like these make us remenber why we love this team
Come on arsenal
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