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Van Persie brace beats Chelsea
Sunday 30 November 2008
Although playing one of his less
impressive matches Robin van Persie was instrumental
for his team on Sunday as his two goals - within a time
span of three minutes - gave Arsenal a 1-2 win over
Chelsea.
Chelsea will moan about Van Persie
being offside almost a meter - he was - but the way
the Dutchman was magnificent as was his strike that
gave Arsenal a 1-2 lead only three minutes after the
equalizer.
The surprising victory revives
the chances of Arsene Wenger's team in the race for
the league title.
Chelsea fully dominated their opponents
in the first 60 minutes of the game but failed to increase
the 1-0 lead they got in the first half from an own
goal by defender Johan Djourou.
Van Persie's goal came from a clear
offside position, but the linesman on that side had
shown he wasn't paying attention all the time when in
the first half he put his flag up for Salomon Kalou
who was clearly onside.
Despite the fact the goal should
have been disallowed Van Persie's finish was flawless,
lashing the ball past Petr Cech into the top corner
with his weaker right foot.
It was Van Persie's hundredth game
for Arsenal and he crowned the feat with an also magnificent
second goal.
Receiving the ball with his back
to goal a bit to the left of the center he turned and
put a low drive into the far right corner with his left
foot.
Cech got a hand to it, but not
enough to keep it from going in.
Chelsea then were completely demoralized
by Arsenal's lead and were unable to find to the level
of before Van Persie's goals.
With his two goals Van Persie prevented
Arsenal from suffering a third consecutive defeat in
the league after having lost to Aston Villa and Manchester
City.
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