Chelsea Wins Arsenal 2-0 to record their first home victory this season

Chelsea won 2-0 against Arsenal on Saturday after 2 of Arsenal’s player were sent off , one in each half of the game. The goals came from Zouma and Hazard.

Diego Costa had a lot to play for Chelsea as he caused the sending off of the Arsenal player Gabriel Paulista in the first half.

 

Chelsea are presently 3 points behind Arsenal and 8 points behind the leaders Man City as the lost to West Ham 1-2

 

All the post-match talk was of Gabriel's sending off, and Arsenal manager Wenger this to tell BBC Sport:

I would not like to be Mike Dean tonight. Costa twice should be sent off. He hits him in the face in purpose. In every game he has aggravation and he gets away with it because of the weakness of the referee. We knew before the game he is only looking at that. Gabriel should not have responded at all but the two sending offs for us and Costa staying on the pitch is a shame.

Mourinho, took a different approach, labelling Costa the man of the match, not the villain of the piece: 

"Good victory, we need to win matches. We won twice in three days, we kept two clean sheets. We controlled the matches. I don't have a view on the sending off. Man of the match for sure was Diego Costa. He brought everything to the game."

Mourinho also took a swipe at the Gunners after their complaints about the two sending offs and Costa's conduct, per Eurosport UK:

"I think I've played against Arsenal 15 or 16 times. Only once they didn't moan."