Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal

So I'm tired of hearing/reading about how Chelsea were so much stronger than Arsenal, blah blah. Let's remember that Arsenal played without Henry, Gallas, Rosický and Toure. For God's sake. You can't tell me that Chelsea would be half as good without Drogba, Terry, Lampard and whoever else. And despite Arsenal missing all these players, and Chelsea missing no one, we still held Chelsea scoreless, at home, for most of the game. I mean, if Chelsea are as good as people say they are -- and yes, I'll admit they looked good yesterday, often if not most of the time better than us -- then they would have blasted Arsenal. Right? So enough already.

Since I'm a pretty new Arsenal fan, and am usually watching Henry, I hadn't noticed how really good some of the others are. I always knew about van Persie, of course -- and his waving off the ref when he slipped in the penalty box was all class. But Gilberto was amazing yesterday. Fabregas was pretty good as well -- nice save in the second half when Lehmann was off somewhere else. And WHY WHY isn't Flamini on the France squad???

Speaking of Lehmann -- nice dust up with Drogba there. I thought they would both get red cards. Nice to see that they made up a few minutes later but man did he give us all a heart attack. I also loved how Arsenal fans boo'd Ashley Cole. I always feel sorry for Ronaldo when they do it, but I just laughed this time.

Dave, add what you will. I'm sure your commentary will be a lot more educated than mine.