Chelsea 6-0 Arsenal: Key stats and player ratings

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Arsenal once again failed to turn up for the big occasion this afternoon, marking Arsene Wenger’s 1,000th game in charge with a 6-0 mauling at the hands of title rivals Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Already two goals down thanks to early strikes from Samuel Eto’o and Andre Schurrle, the Gunners were reduced to ten men on 15 minutes in a bizarre moment of mistaken identity that saw Kieran Gibbs sent off following an Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain handball on the line.

Eden Hazard netted the resulting penalty, before Chelsea added gloss to the scoreline with a brace from Oscar and a strike from substitute Mohamed Salah.

Here’s how the players rated by Squawka Performance Score:

Chelsea

Petr Cech (30): Criminally under-worked from an Arsenal perspective, the Czech goalkeeper made two saves including an important early stop from Olivier Giroud.

Branislav Ivanovic (23): Won three tackles from five attempts and put in four crosses.

Gary Cahill (27): Completed 53 passes with a success rate of 91%.

John Terry (12): Misplaced just one pass over the 90 minutes, finishing the game with a 98% pass accuracy.

John Terry stats

Cesar Azpilicueta (35): Azpilicueta made four interceptions, five clearances and two tackles.

Nemanja Matic (38): Attempted five tackles, but won just one of them.

David Luiz (29): Hit the target with three of his four shots on goal and completed 93% of his passes, although he did fail with seven of his eight attempts at a tackle.

David Luiz stats

Andre Schürrle (67): Marked his return to the side with one goal and six crosses.

Oscar (50): Returned to form with a brace, scoring twice from three attempts at goal.

Eden Hazard (48): Completed four take ons from five attempts.

Eden Hazard stats

Samuel Eto’o (31): Initiated the carnage with a sublime curled effort early on, before succumbing to injury on the ten minute mark.

Substitutes:

Fernando Torres (29): Took three shots at goal and set up three chances for his teammates.

Mohamed Salah (25): Completed eight passes and made one tackle.

John Obi Mikel (0): Committed two fouls and completed 93% of his passes.

Arsenal

Wojciech Szczesny (-56): A day to forget for Szczesny, who was culpable for Oscar’s goal and conceded six.

Bacary Sagna (-24): Failed with all three of his attempted tackles.

Bacary Sagna stats

Per Mertesacker (-14): Failed to make tackle or win a headed duel and made just one interception.

Laurent Koscielny (-18): Failed to make a tackle, interception or win a headed duel during his 45 minutes on the pitch.

Kieran Gibbs (-73): Wrongly dismissed, Gibbs was successful in ten of his 11 attempted passes.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (-5): Withdrawn at halftime, half an hour after he would have been had Andre Marriner sent off the wrong Arsenal man, ‘The Ox’ made four interceptions in the first half.

Mikel Arteta (11): Tidy on the ball with 61 successful passes at a success rate of 94%, but won just two of his six attempted tackles.

Tomas Rosicky (8): Won five tackles from six attempts and created four chances.

Tomas Rosicky stats

Santi Cazorla (19): Completed five take ons from eight attempts.

Lukas Podolski (-2): The man to make way in the aftermath of Gibbs’ red card, the German could be forgiven if he felt slightly relieved to have dodged the carnage that followed. Podolski completed nine of his ten attempted passes.

Olivier Giroud (8): As poor as many expected him to be, Giroud fluffed an early opportunity to give Arsenal the lead and failed to set up a chance, although he did win five of eight contested headed duels.

Substitutes:

Thomas Vermaelen (0): Made seven clearances and four interceptions.

Carl Jenkinson (-19): Finished the game with a pass accuracy of 76%.

Mathieu Flamini (21): Was fouled three times and completed 87% of his passes.