Awakened Arsenal push creaking Chelsea to the brink of disaster - The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES Now That's What I Call A Race For Fourth Ad/> There are precisely two reasons to tune into Chelsea against Arsenal. Either you're lucky enough to support one or other of England's most successful football clubs, with 19 league titles and 22 FA Cups between them. Or, and this speaks for most of the nation, you're hoping that something daft will happen.

Premier League'He's matured so much' — Arteta on Saka's penalty redemption against Chelsea2 HOURS AGO And boy oh boy, did some daft things happen last night. The first half was a mortal insult to the very concept of defending: the strikers worked hard to make goals happen and the defenders worked even harder. Andreas Christensen sent Eddie Nketiah running free at his own goalkeeper.

Granit Xhaka began a sweeping Arsenal move with a nutmeg on the edge of his own box. Mikel Arteta did some extremely sarcastic nodding at the fourth official. There was Barclays all over the place, and it was good.

Then, in the second half, something even stranger happened. Dear old Arsenal, wobbly Arsenal, fragile Arsenal, banterous Arsenal, the big six side voted most likely to tie together their own shoelaces together… they came out and they won the thing? They came out and controlled the thing? Xhaka and Mohamed Elneny took charge of the midfield. Nketiah ran and harried and harassed Chelsea's itchy defenders.

Arsenal gave Chelsea the ball but denied them the space, then took them apart as required. It was, all things considered, an extremely impressive performance that answered a lot of the questions lingering around the Emirates. Although it did pose another one: «Where the hell was this in the last three games?» /> Young side, formative stages, trust the process: