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Chelsea wins, City loses on contrasting day for favorites
Boiling over: Arsenalâs Gabriel (left) is restrained by teammate Francis Coquelin after a clash with Chelseaâs Diego Costa, himself ushered away by Arsenalâs Santi Cazorla, during an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London on Saturday
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Boiling over: Arsenalâs Gabriel (left) is restrained by teammate Francis Coquelin after a clash with Chelseaâs Diego Costa, himself ushered away by Arsenalâs Santi Cazorla, during an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London on Saturday. Chelsea won 2-0.(AP/Alastair Grant) (left) is restrained by teammate Francis Coquelin after a clash with Chelseaâs Diego Costa, himself ushered away by Arsenalâs Santi Cazorla, during an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London on Saturday. Chelsea won 2-0.(AP/Alastair Grant)
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span class="inline inline-center">Boiling over: Arsenal's Gabriel (left) is restrained by teammate Francis Coquelin after a clash with Chelsea's Diego Costa, himself ushered away by Arsenal's Santi Cazorla, during an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London on Saturday. Chelsea won 2-0.(AP/Alastair Grant)
Champion Chelsea ended its slump with a win over Arsenal while seemingly invincible Manchester City lost its 100 percent record to West Ham United on a day of contrasting fortunes for the Premier League title favorites on Saturday.
Chelsea, which had won one of its opening five league matches, beat Arsenal 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in a feisty London derby that saw Arsenal finish with nine men after Gabriel and Santi Cazorla were sent off.
West Ham won 2-1 at the Etihad to become the first team not only to beat City in the league but also to score against it this season and have now won at Arsenal, Liverpool and City in its first six matches.
West Ham Coach Slaven Bilic told the BBC: 'There will be ups and downs here at West Ham ' this result is a major surprise and nine points from the first three away games sounds like a dream, not a plan. But there's nothing wrong with a dream.'
Any dreams Arsenal may have had of winning at Chelsea for the first time for four years were ended when Kurt Zouma, 20, who replaced dropped 34-year-old skipper John Terry, headed Chelsea ahead after 53 minutes with his first goal for the club.
Eden Hazard then scored his first of the season to make it 2-0 in stoppage time.
City, playing in the day's late game, had a chance to maintain their 11-point lead over the champion, but West Ham had other ideas and ended City's run of five straight wins since the start of the season with their shock win.
It also ended a City club record run of 11 straight league wins that started with a victory over West Ham last April.
The Hammers, which have now won at Arsenal, Liverpool and City in its opening six matches, became the first team to score in the league against City this season when Victor Moses fired in a 20-meter drive after six minutes and they doubled its lead when Diafra Sakho scrambled home after 31 minutes.
City, which was beaten 2-1 at home by Juventus in the Champions League on Tuesday, hit back just before halftime when Kevin de Bruyne, who joined City for 55
million pounds (US$85.44 million) from Wolfsburg last month, scored his first goal for the club on his first start.
Although City laid siege to the West Ham goal for almost the entire second half and had over 27 goal attempts, West Ham survived for its first away win at City since April 2003.
City still tops the table with 15 points, with West Ham and Leicester City on 12 and Manchester United and Arsenal on 10. Chelsea is 13th with seven.
Bilic told Sky Sports: 'We deserved it for the way we played in the first half and the way we were fighting in the second half, but this was a different game to the ones at the Emirates or Anfield. This was much harder.'
City boss Manuel Pellegrini, whose team lost for the second time at home in five days, said, 'This is football. You need to score to win.
'We let in two easy goals and we must be more concentrated. We had so many attempts but did not score. We were too rushed in the second half but when you go two goals down you play like that.'
Chelsea halted its nosedive down the table when it beat Arsenal in an earlier match that centered on an incident in the first half when Chelseastriker Diego Costa raised his hands to Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny.
Referee Mike Dean allowed Costa to stay on the field, but Gabriel went for kicking out at Costa a minute later.
Cazorla then saw red for a late challenge on his Spain team mate Cesc Fabregas in the 79th minute.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was angry about how Dean handled matters.
'I think it's unacceptable what [Costa] does to Koscielny. He pushes him down. He hits him in the face. I do not understand Mike Dean's decision at all,' Wenger said.
'Why does Diego Costa stay on the pitch and Gabriel is sent off? He will do the same next week and it's always the same, he is always provoking.'
In the day's other games Leicester, which was second at the start of the day, slipped back to third after drawing 2-2 at Stoke City although it preserved its unbeaten record after trailing 2-0 at one stage. West Bromwich Albion beat Aston Villa 1-0, Bournemouth beat Sunderland 2-0, Watford beat Newcastle United 2-1 and Swansea drew 0-0 with Everton.
