Although one can hardly say Arsenal dominated the game, we scored 3 goals and Chelsea scored none. All things considered, a decent result at the bridge.

As joyous as I was this morning, at the same time the performance told us nothing that we don’t already know about this current Arsenal team. Johan Djourou was a massive positive despite the own goal, his head never went down, and he won headers everywhere around our area. This man needs to start games - Djourou/Gallas at the moment is our best central defensive pairing.

We already know we can pull it out of the bag against the massive teams

We already know that our full backs are amongst the very best in world football

We already know that Robin Van Persie is the most gifted individual talent at the club and that he can unlock that potential if he works hard enough.

We already know that Manuel Almunia is just as capable of making cock ups that make Paul Robinson look like safe hands, as he is of pulling off some seriously stunning saves.

And we already know that this team cannot be considered serious contenders for anything until we start crushing the teams that The Arsenal should be crushing. No team has the divine right to win anything, which makes it all the more galling when the team bust a gut to win in the big games, and then turn up to coast through the “lesser” games.

And there lies the rub, no games in the premier league can be taken for granted, and every one of them needs to be attacked with power, pace, skill and organisation. If we could show the same effort in every game from here until the end of the season, I’d be very surprised if we didn’t win something.

RVP scored 2 fantastic goals, the first, although completely offside was stunning purely because of the way he finished. When coaches get asked by the youth team players how they should finish when one on one with the keeper, they should show them this goal. He lashed the bollocks out of it in to the top corner.

Robins second goal came about 3 minutes later, a beautifully weighted ball was chipped in to Adebayor who nodded it down to RVP, who then, with his back to goal, swivelled sharply and drilled a low shot in to the bottom right hand corner – this was actually his second attempt at the same technique – it was sumptious.

My MOTM is Robin Van Persie – lets hope we show the same effort, passion, and commitment going in to the next game versus Wigan.

COME ON YOU REDS!