2. Mourinho is still the “Special One”
Mourinho had done it against Manchester City, he did it again against Arsenal. He outfoxed Arsene Wenger in terms of the tactics employed as he wrestled control of the game from Arsenal in midfield right from the start. Just as he had done against City, Mourinho used David Luiz and Nemanja Matic as a double pivot and that allowed them to deny the Arsenal midfielders space and time on the ball.
This resulted in Arsenal players frequently losing the ball and Chelsea capitalized on it with the early goals. Using Schurrle on the right against what was Arsenal’s weak link exploited it perfectly and resulted in the German getting on the score sheet early in the game. They also looked to exploit the lack of pace in the middle of the park with Arteta, and that wrestled the game away from Arsenal quite early in the encounter. Once Arsenal were down to ten, it was just controlling the game and seeing out the result.