Kurt Zouma and Eden
Hazard gave Chelsea a controversial 2-0 win over nine-man Arsenal on Saturday
as the simmering feud between the bitter rivals boiled over with red cards for
Gabriel and Santi Cazorla.
Watford heaped more
misery on former England manager Steve McClaren with a 2-1 win at Newcastle
while Bournemouth managed their first ever Premier League home win in beating
Sunderland 2-0. The acrimonious
relationship between Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and Gunners boss Arsene
Wenger seeped through to both teams at Stamford Bridge in a tetchy London derby
featuring even more flashpoints than usual. Wenger was furious
Mike Dean opted not to send off Diego Costa following a clash with Laurent
Koscielny and the referee further infuriated the Frenchman when he dismissed
Gabriel for kicking Costa and then showed Cazorla a red card in the second
half. "I would not
like to be Mike Dean tonight. Costa twice should be sent off," Wenger
said. "In every game
Costa has aggravation and he gets away with it because of the weakness of the
referee." Mourinho's response
felt designed to provoke Wenger as he said: "I don't have a view on the
sending off. Man of the match for sure was Diego Costa. He brought everything
to the game." Odion Ighalo kept
Newcastle in the relegation zone as the Nigerian forward's double inspired
Watford's 2-1 win at St James' Park. Ighalo gave Watford
a 10th minute lead with a low strike and he increased their advantage with his
fourth goal in six matches in the 28th minute. Newcastle ended a
nearly 500-minute goal drought when Dutch defender Daryl Janmaat netted in the
62nd minute, but McClaren's team were unable to avoid their third consecutive
loss. "No-one said
this job was going to be easy, we didn't think it would be. We know now this is
a tough job," McClaren said. Ten-man Sunderland
slipped to the bottom of the table alongside north-east rivals Newcastle after
their fourth defeat of the season. Bournemouth, in the
top tier for the first time, raced into a two-goal lead inside the first nine
minutes, with Callum Wilson striking in the fourth minute before Matt Ritchie
smashed in a superb volley. Sunderland's
miserable day was completed when French defender Younes Kaboul was sent off for
a second booking in the 74th minute. Saido Berahino came
in from the cold to fire West Bromwich Albion to a 1-0 win at local rivals
Aston Villa. Berahino had
threatened to go on strike after Albion refused to sell him to Tottenham on
transfer deadline day and was dropped for several matches. draw at Stoke. Former Barcelona
forward Bojan Krkic put Stoke ahead in the 13th minute and Jon Walters doubled
their lead seven minutes later. But the
second-placed Foxes had come from two goals down to beat Aston Villa last week
and they reduced the deficit in the 51st minute through Riyad Mahrez's penalty
before Jamie Vardy equalised in the 59th minute. Everton's Kevin
Mirallas was sent off for a foul on Modou Barrow in the final moments of his
side's 0-0 draw at Swansea.
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