It has taken some time but,finally, there is the sense that the extinct Chelsea are back: winning matches, and driving Arsène Wenger close to the point of spontaneous combustion and with Diego Costa showing all his various faces,safe and bad, appealing and appalling. Costa does not just leave a price on football matches when he behaves in this manner; he leaves a stain. It was another example of his hard-faced villainy and he will have delighted at seeing Arsenal fall into the trap and never climb back out.
Wenger expressed amazement afterwards approximately Costas ability to “collect away with it every week” and it was undoubtedly naive on Gabriel’s fraction to become so riled he eventually flicked out a boot to provoke the red card that turned the game against Arsenal at the end of the first half. Gabriel spent so long trying to pursue the argument, and eventually ushered away by a security guard in a fluorescent orange jacket,it could conceivably lead to a disciplinary charge for Arsenal. Yet the more serious repercussions came in the form of the goal from Kurt Zouma that gave Chelsea their lead and, from that point, and everything quickly unravelled for Wenger’s team.
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Source: theguardian.com