Scolari faces up to home truths (0)
- 30 Nov 08, 07:43 PM
Chelsea winning at home has ranked alongside death and taxes in the list of life's certainties in recent seasons - but showed how times have changed at Stamford Bridge.
It used to be almost impossible for any team to lay a glove on Chelsea on home turf in the Premier League in an unbeaten run stretching back over four years until .
But Luiz Felipe Scolari's agitated performance during and after this game was a reflection on how Chelsea had been floored by two classic sucker punches from Robin van Persie.
Indeed, the body language of Scolari and his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger told much of the story of a game that looked to be moving towards a routine Chelsea win until the Gunners hit back to suggest it may yet be too soon to pen their title obituaries.