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00:00The Builders were in when Stamford Bridge played host to an early season meeting between two of the London Giants.
00:08Even with a reduced capacity, a highly charged atmosphere awaited the sides as they took to the field.
00:14Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli was feeling the pressure amidst stories of unrest in the camp.
00:19His star-studded team had lost to Bradford and only drawn with Aston Villa in the two games before this one.
00:25Recent meetings between Chelsea and Arsenal had been feisty to say the least
00:29and Marcel Desailly and Martin Keown had been involved in some verbal exchanges during a recent international friendly.
00:36An injury to first-choice keeper Ed De Hooym and at Carlo Cuduccini had a chance to impress in goal.
00:41It was only the Italians' third start in the Premiership.
00:44Graeme Lesaut and Gianfranco Zola were back in the side.
00:47Lesaut's first game in ten months after injury problems, Dennis Wise had passed the late fitness test.
00:53Martin Keown was missing his regular central defensive partner.
00:57Tony Adams was injured and out for a month.
01:00Oleg Luzhnik started in his position.
01:03Nigerian striker Kanu had scored a dramatic hat-trick in the corresponding fixture the previous season.
01:09The Gunners were without their key midfield player Patrick Vieira.
01:12He was serving a five-match suspension after receiving two red cards.
01:17It was Jimmy Foyt Hasselbank's first season at the bridge
01:20following his £15m pre-season transfer from Atletico Madrid.
01:24Your match commentator is Ian Dart.
01:29So it's Chelsea who get us underway here.
01:36This is always a big, big fixture.
01:38Two clubs who've spent over £50m in the transfer market
01:43to try to bridge the gap with Manchester United,
01:46who of course won the title by 18 points last season.
01:50A rather embarrassing margin there.
01:55David Seaman, complete with ponytail.
01:59Seaman getting a great deal of length with his kick.
02:03Desailly.
02:04Here's Graham Lassaud back in the starting line-up at last after all his injury problems.
02:20Oh, that's a terrible mistake by Le Boeuf.
02:25But what a mistake that was by Frank Le Boeuf,
02:29whose future at Stamford Bridge
02:31certainly is in some doubt after his public criticism
02:36of Gianluca Vialli on a website.
02:41But he at least is back in the starting line-up.
02:45Just look at this.
02:47There's a present to Thierry Henry of West Ham.
02:50Just look at this.
02:52There's a present to Thierry Henry of all people.
02:56Neither side have really got their passing together so far.
03:01A sign of a bit of tension among the players.
03:03They know there's a lot on this game, even this early in the season.
03:12Strong work by Desailly.
03:15And Babayaro's done well.
03:16There's a wrong foot Lee Dixon.
03:19Keown
03:21mops up the damage.
03:23Zola's won it back well though.
03:26Now Babayaro.
03:29Up forward by Di Matteo, but the move just lost its impetus at the vital moment.
03:33Perez, clever if he meant it.
03:37Panucci picks it up for Chelsea.
03:39Frenetic stuff.
03:41And maybe something here for Chelsea and a great bit of goalkeeping that by Seaman
03:45who was off his line very, very quickly indeed to deny Roberto Di Matteo.
03:57Somebody strayed offside.
04:02It was well worked this by Chelsea.
04:04This is Christian Panucci.
04:08Feeding Di Matteo.
04:09Well he did get there first actually, but Seaman blocked it.
04:16Arsenal runners-up in the last two seasons, but they have no silverware
04:28since their double year of 1998.
04:30They're once on this time.
04:35Panucci
04:36seeing a lot of the ball in that
04:39Dan Petrescu kind of role. Petrescu of course has gone off to
04:43Bradford now.
04:48A lot of the Chelsea fans didn't like that.
04:50They liked the way Petrescu performed.
04:52Here's Di Matteo this time.
04:54Poiet, lovely little touch. Hasselbank, Poiet again.
04:57Very nice football by Chelsea.
05:00Beautifully worked.
05:03They're all slick stuff around the edge of the box here.
05:08Di Matteo.
05:10Poiet, look at that.
05:11And the two of them understood what they were up to there.
05:14Rapport was beautiful between Hasselbank and Poiet.
05:18This would have been some goal.
05:28Hasselbank
05:30being very carefully policed.
05:32Chelsea's record signing at fifteen million pounds.
05:37Here's Lauren, the Cameroon man.
05:40In towards Kanu.
05:43Perez trying to get on the end of it.
05:45Panucci robbed him. Kanu again
05:47with his usual box of tricks close in.
05:49Raipala
05:50took a deflection off Desai by the look of it.
05:53Ought to be a corner.
06:06Which of these two London giants
06:09can make the big breakthrough here?
06:12Keown's in another
06:13argument this time with
06:15Graeme Lesault.
06:19He's not the quietest guy out there on the pitch.
06:21Keown, you might have noticed that. Here's Perez.
06:24Flicked on and just wide of the post.
06:26Which was being guarded.
06:28It was Grimaldi who got something on it
06:30on that near post.
06:34Perez with the corner
06:35and Grimaldi gets up pretty well.
06:38But they did have it covered.
06:48Zola's picked it up now
06:49for Chelsea.
06:50Good penetrative run from the little Italian.
06:54Keown had to do some quick work there with
06:56Hasselbank
06:57waiting in predatory fashion behind him.
07:04Wise.
07:05Interesting angle.
07:06Hasselbank and great save
07:08by David Seaman.
07:11Almost had to dive backwards
07:13to keep this out.
07:15Well, Hasselbank
07:17got away from his markers there.
07:19The header, nothing wrong with it.
07:20Good reactions
07:21from Seaman.
07:29Wise. Leboeuf got something on that
07:31and there was nobody waiting
07:33on the far side of the six yard box
07:35to take advantage.
07:45Chelsea
07:46looking the more convincing
07:48of the two sides early.
07:59Here's Zola.
08:01Battling away for a regular place in the
08:03starting line-up.
08:05Zola.
08:06Well, we see some of his magic tonight.
08:09It's a good ball releasing
08:10Panucci on the right-hand side.
08:12And that will be a free kick
08:14for Salvigno's challenge.
08:19Here comes the first yellow card.
08:22Despite Panucci's attempts to
08:24make light of it.
08:26Credit to him for that.
08:27But Salvigno goes into it
08:29the book anyway.
08:34And Chelsea have a free kick
08:36in dangerous territory here.
08:40Desai is forward. Leboeuf is forward.
08:42And oh my goodness me.
08:47Free header.
08:49And it drifts wide of the post.
08:53The goalkeeper rooted to his spot.
08:55And that really should have been in.
08:59That's a big lead off for Arsenal.
09:08Wise.
09:10Arsenal Bank taking a little kick there
09:12at Keown.
09:13Off the ball.
09:16Referee
09:17didn't appear to see it.
09:19Or did he?
09:21Watch for that
09:22little confrontation as the game goes on.
09:25Here is Hasselbank.
09:26He's got a great shot on him.
09:27There it is.
09:28And it's in the back of the net.
09:30Jimmy Floyd.
09:31Hasselbank with a big goal
09:33for Chelsea.
09:35In the 31st minute here.
09:41Mix-up in the Arsenal defence.
09:43And Hasselbank makes the save.
09:46And it's in the back of the net.
09:48Mix-up in the Arsenal defence.
09:49And Hasselbank made room for the shot.
09:51And he really can hit them.
09:55Just look at the velocity.
09:56He gets on that and he hits them low too.
09:59They're low skidders.
10:02Very hard place
10:03for the goalkeeper
10:05to reach.
10:11Here's Parler.
10:15Kanu.
10:19Now then, here is
10:20Henry.
10:21He has looked a fabulous signing.
10:25Look at that.
10:26It's outrageous really, isn't it?
10:28Parler.
10:35Here's Ray Parler again.
10:36Good looking ball in.
10:37Great chance.
10:38And the header
10:39does not trouble
10:40Koudicini
10:41from Henry.
10:44Chelsea
10:45were unzipped there.
10:49Arsenal who scored
10:51in 34 of their 38 Premier League games last season.
11:00Here's Kanu.
11:03Henry with Lauren waiting in the middle.
11:05Other players arriving.
11:07Henry
11:08couldn't drag it back.
11:19Here's Lasso.
11:28Now Parler.
11:29Arsenal just beginning
11:30maybe to build up a little head of steam.
11:34That's
11:36unceremoniously
11:37into the crowd
11:38from Frank Leboff.
11:39That wasn't your
11:40normal cultured bit of defending, was it?
11:49I don't think Arsenal are going to sit back
11:51and just take it.
11:52They'll be going for it in the second half.
11:55That might leave one or two gaps,
11:56mind you, to be exploited behind.
11:59They can't be too gung-ho about it.
12:01There is the half-time whistle
12:02blown by
12:03referee Mike Riley.
12:05But
12:06Jimmy Floyd
12:07Hasselbank
12:09is the man whose striking ability
12:11separates the sides here.
12:13And a half-time score here
12:14of Chelsea 1, Arsenal 0.
12:19Arsenal
12:21get ready
12:22to get us underway
12:23at the start of the second half.
12:25Trailing by a goal
12:26to nil.
12:40On that occasion.
12:46Leboff
12:48Kudicini
12:49took control
12:50straight away.
12:52The Italian under-21 international
12:54Panucci harping it forward.
12:58Here's Perez
12:59still waiting to score
13:00his first goal for the Gunners.
13:05Kanu
13:09Perez again.
13:12Savino
13:13not quite the angle he was looking for
13:15with the cross
13:16but a decent one nonetheless.
13:18And Babayaru
13:19has to give away the corner.
13:44Perez
13:45to take the corner
13:46and there's a
13:47header on the
13:48near post from Grimond.
13:49He was pretty dangerous in the air.
13:52He's not the tallest
13:53individual.
13:55But he does get up well.
14:00From that close in
14:01that has to go down as a miss
14:02though he did well to get up there
14:04in the first place.
14:17Panucci looking
14:18a useful signing
14:19as you'd expect.
14:20A man with two
14:21European Cup winner's medals
14:23in his
14:24career.
14:27With Real Madrid and AC Milan.
14:31Laurent
14:32dangerous Kanu
14:33oh he's hit the angle
14:34of Poston Bar
14:35still not away
14:36Parler's shot is blocked.
14:38Dixon tried his luck
14:39and it's fallen on the far side
14:41to Henry
14:42and Chelsea
14:43breathe again.
14:44Well it seemed that Kanu
14:45must score there.
14:46It was on his right foot
14:47it was close in
14:49and really
14:51it was a miss
14:52to only
14:53hit the frame of the goal
14:54from there.
14:59All Arsenal
15:00at the start of this second half.
15:02Some good play from Laurent
15:04who looked pretty strong there
15:06pulled it back well
15:07lovely turn by Kanu
15:09he was under pressure
15:10but he sliced it
15:11didn't he really.
15:17FANS ROAR
15:38WHISTLE BLOWS
15:42Now Lesault
15:43yellow card
15:44for that challenge.
15:47FANS ROAR
15:48Welcome back to the Premier League.
15:57Here's what happened.
15:58Oh
15:59now that was nasty
16:00on Dixon.
16:01The studs were up
16:02and there was no attempt
16:03to play the ball
16:05and the
16:06professionals
16:08are very
16:10very
16:11loathsome of that kind of challenge.
16:14It was a bit lucky really
16:15that
16:16it was only yellow
16:17that's worse than some
16:19red cards I've seen
16:20that by Lesault.
16:29Now you're getting a few
16:30afters.
16:32And there's Ray Parler
16:33on Graham Lesault
16:34who committed that offence.
16:35The Arsenal players
16:36know it was him.
16:40It's all getting a bit tasty
16:41out there at the moment.
16:45FANS ROAR
16:50Free kick is quickly taken.
16:51No substitution
16:52at the moment
16:53by Arsenal
16:54but they are a bit short of options
16:55in covering
16:57Lee Dixon.
17:02I suppose they could put
17:03Lauren
17:05back there at right back
17:06and then put Jungberg
17:07into the midfield.
17:16Celestin Babayaro.
17:23Desai.
17:24Chelsea
17:25one up.
17:46Lee Dixon
17:47against all the odds
17:48returns to the fray.
17:51And fray I think
17:52is the right word
17:53just at the moment.
18:01But it hasn't been as bad
18:02as some of the
18:03previews of this game
18:04might have suggested.
18:06Now Zola
18:07kept it down
18:08brilliantly
18:09and Chelsea are two up.
18:11They seem to go through
18:12Davies.
18:13They seem to go through
18:14David Seaman a bit
18:15I must say.
18:17But Chelsea aren't going to
18:18worry about that.
18:20In virtually
18:21their first attack
18:22of the second half
18:25Chelsea are ahead.
18:26Pojic did well
18:27didn't he?
18:28And
18:29David Seaman
18:31just couldn't get down there.
18:35It's good skill by Zola
18:36to keep that down
18:37because it wasn't really sitting
18:39too comfortably
18:40for the volley.
18:41It was bouncing high
18:42he had to get over it
18:43he did that
18:44and I think Seaman
18:45might have even just got
18:46something on it.
18:47Let's have another look.
18:50Yeah he did
18:51just half a hand
18:52and
18:54well
18:55I suppose
18:56cruel judges
18:57might say
18:58Seaman should have
18:59kept that out.
19:12Come on!
19:29Silvinho
19:30that's quite clever.
19:32It's very clever.
19:33It's Henry
19:34and it's 2-1.
19:36Oh it's a great move
19:37by Arsenal.
19:40And now
19:41with 14 minutes
19:42to go
19:43this might get
19:44very interesting indeed.
19:49Well
19:50trademark finish
19:51from Henry
19:52including
19:53his trademark
19:54celebration as well.
19:55Look at that
19:56started by Silvinho
19:57nicely done
19:58by Bergkamp
20:00and a lovely finish
20:04by Thierry Henry
20:05who finished last season
20:06with 15 goals
20:08in 15 matches.
20:11And that's his fourth
20:12already this season.
20:17Well this
20:20might be quite a finish now.
20:24Flo
20:25has done well
20:27waiting for a bit of support
20:28not much around him
20:29at the moment.
20:32He's got pretty good skill
20:33on the ground
20:34for such a
20:35big man
20:36André Flo.
20:41Chelsea
20:57Chelsea leading by
20:58two goals
20:59to one remember here.
21:05Hasselbank and Zola
21:06with the goals
21:08for Chelsea.
21:09Henry for Arsenal
21:11by the way that goal
21:12for Hasselbank
21:13the fifth time
21:15in a row he scored
21:16against Arsenal.
21:18Here he is on the ball now
21:19the others were for leads
21:20he's going to try another shot
21:21and oh he's hit the post
21:22this time.
21:24Goodness me.
21:29The margin
21:30remains one.
21:31Melchior
21:32he's done very well.
21:34Away by Loren.
21:37Kanu with a rather
21:38untypical up and under.
21:42Play being brought back.
21:45And Hasselbank
21:47beseeching
21:48the referee.
21:51Keown and Hasselbank
21:55in something that looked like
21:56an excerpt from the World
21:57Wrestling Federation.
22:02No yellow card as far as
22:03I could see there.
22:05But
22:06it's a
22:07goal.
22:08No yellow card as far as
22:09I could see there.
22:14Wiltor's touch is too short.
22:16Arsenal surrender
22:17possession.
22:36Kanu
22:37Silvino
22:38oh he scored!
22:40It was deflected
22:41and Silvino
22:42has come up with an equaliser
22:45with four minutes remaining.
22:47Arsenal have done it again
22:49here at Stamford Bridge
22:51back from the dead
22:53of 2-0 down.
22:56And you wonder what next.
22:58Silvino
22:59it took a little
23:00deflection on the way through
23:01there was nothing
23:02Cunicini
23:03could do about it.
23:08Splendid strike.
23:11But what drama here.
23:17Well how have we thrown this away
23:18he's thinking.
23:29Awful lot of goals being scored
23:31in the Premiership this season.
23:33And there might be more to follow.
23:34It's Henri
23:38out to
23:39Silvino.
23:41Are Arsenal
23:42going to
23:43complete
23:45a remarkable comeback?
23:50A razzle-dazzle from
23:51Henri.
23:53Maybe that's an indication
23:54that Arsenal
23:55would not exactly be
23:56broken-hearted with a point
23:57as Silvino feeds it all the way
23:58back from the halfway line.
24:07Le Boeuf
24:08is beaten
24:09by Bergkamp.
24:10Wiltor was waiting
24:11in the middle.
24:12Oh and a chance
24:13over the bar
24:14from Thierry Henry.
24:17Well there was the opportunity
24:19for Arsenal
24:21to do something quite extraordinary
24:23and steal
24:24all three points.
24:37Both sides
24:38take a point
24:39from this fixture
24:40but it was a real
24:41rescue job
24:42from Arsenal.
24:43Look how frustrated
24:45Jimmy Floyd
24:46Hasselbank is.
24:48Chelsea know
24:49that they've thrown
24:50the win away here.
24:52So a pretty dramatic
24:53old night here
24:54and a final scoreline
24:55at Stamford Bridge.
24:57Chelsea 2
24:58Arsenal 2.
25:00Chelsea's frustrations
25:01very apparent
25:02at the end of a tense
25:03London derby.
25:04The early season
25:05pressure continued
25:06to build around
25:07Gianluca Vialli
25:08who was sacked
25:09a week after the match
25:10replaced by
25:11assistant
25:12Graham Ricks.
25:13The team finished
25:14a disappointing
25:15sixth behind
25:16relative minnows
25:17Ipswich.
25:18Arsenal on the other hand
25:19were runners-up
25:20to eventually
25:21win the game.