A super Sunday to savour in the EPL

What you need to know:

Chelsea were 2-0 up after just seven minutes through Samuel Eto’o and Andre Schurrle before the infamous sending off of Kieran Gibbs by Andre Marriner after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s handball.

The Gunners have impressed against the likes of Aston Villa and Galatasaray. Now they need to do it against one of the big guns Chelsea tomorrow.

Last season they came up short on those occasions. Arsene Wenger’s men won the fewest points against the Premier League’s top five. Arsenal were heavily beaten in all four away games against those rivals, scoring four goals and conceding 20. They were blown away at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea were 2-0 up after just seven minutes through Samuel Eto’o and Andre Schurrle before the infamous sending off of Kieran Gibbs by Andre Marriner after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s handball.

Eden Hazard, Oscar (twice) and Mohamed Salah increased the misery for the Gunners. 6-0 was Chelsea’s biggest ever League win over Arsenal. It was a miserable way to mark Wenger’s 1000th game in charge of Arsenal.

But tomorrow we will find out if lessons have been learnt. Will Wenger set his team up differently to make Arsenal harder to beat?

They will arrive on a high after Wednesday night’s performance against Galatasaray. Danny Welbeck was electric, grabbing his first professional hat-trick. Arsenal are also the most successful opposing team at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League, winning 27 points.

But the Gunners are up against a Chelsea side that was brilliant against their title rivals last season.
They look even stronger this time around. As Gary Neville has explained on Monday Night Football that this Chelsea team can adapt to any match situation. At the Etihad they were strong and resilient. Then last weekend they comprehensively outplayed Aston Villa. They can fight you if necessary or out-pass you.

Arsenal will have to weather a storm and then hope to get their dangermen Sanchez, Ozil and Welbeck in to the game. There are great match-ups on and off the field. Will Arsenal’s back four be able to handle Diego Costa?
Can Danny Welbeck’s pace and movement unsettle Gary Cahill and John Terry? Jose Mourinho against Arsene Wenger; who you will remember Mourinho described as a “specialist in failure” in February.

Plus Cesc Fabregas is set to make his first appearance against Arsenal since leaving to join Barcelona for £25.4m in August 2011. Arsene Wenger rejected the chance to re-sign him in the summer. Could that come back to haunt them?
Fabregas has hit the ground running big time at Chelsea.

He currently has the most assists (six – three for Diego Costa), joint most chances created (20 – with Stewart Downing), most successful passes (453) and most successful passes in the opposition half (297) in the Premier League so far this season. Impressive!

After conceding a disorganised goal and losing their captain to a red card, the Red Devils could easily have sulked their way to dropping points against the Hammers last weekend. But there were no signs of that in the second half as Van Gaal saw his team put in a tremendous effort to hold on for their second victory of the season. And the Dutch manager will demand for more against an improved Everton.

The Toffees will ride on Phil Jagielka, who scored possibly the goal of his career, to grab Everton a 1-1 draw with Liverpool last weekend. But overall, Everton’s start has been underwhelming, with only one win to this point in the league campaign.

TODAY-EPL FIXTURES
Hull City vs. C. Palace, 5PM
Leicester vs. Burnley, 5PM
Liverpool vs. West Brom, SS3 5PM
Sunderland vs. Stoke, 5PM
Swansea vs. Newcastle, 5PM
Aston Villa vs. Man City, SS3 7.30PM
TOMORROW
Man Utd vs. Everton, SS3 2PM
Chelsea vs. Arsenal, SS3 4.05PM
Spurs vs. So’ton, SS5 4.05PM
West Ham vs. QPR, SS3 6:15PM