Goals from Cesar Azpilicueta and Juan Mata ensure we celebrate Jose Mourinho's 200th game as manager like so many, with an away win, in the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.

Our Spanish right-back struck his first goal Chelsea before the interval, capitalising on a short Carl Jenkinson back-pass to volley home from inside the box. That means we have had three new goalscorers in the space of 10 days, Azpilicueta joining Andre Schurrle and Samuel Eto'o in notching their first for the club.

The lead was doubled three-quarters of the way through the match via the right boot of Mata, whose sweetly-struck shot whistled past Lukasz Fabianski for his first goal of the season.

In the end, it was a fairly comfortable victory for the much-changed Blues, with our opponents offering little threat going forward. It was in this competition that Mourinho lifted his first trophy as Chelsea boss, and tonight's victory means we are still on course to emulate that feat nine years later.

After two games in a row as starter Torres was on the Emirates' bench. The Spaniard played the full 90 minutes against Schalke 04 and Man City last week, scoring the last-gap winner over Citizens only 50 hours before kick-off of this Capital One Cup fourth round fixture against Arsenal.


- Match stats:

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Schwarzer; Azpilicueta, Cahill, Luiz, Bertrand; Mikel, Essien (c); Mata (Kalas 90), Willian, De Bruyne (Ramires 68); Eto'o (Ba 80).
Unused subs Blackman, Ivanovic, Hazard, Torres.
Scorers Azpilicueta 24, Mata 65
Booked Mikel 28, Essien 73

Arsenal (4-3-3): Fabianski; Jenkinson, Koscielny, Vermaelen (c), Monreal; Rosicky, Wilshere, Ramsey (Park 80); Ryo (Ozil 62), Bendtner (Giroud 66), Cazorla.
Unused subs Viviano, Sagna, Hayden, Yennaris.

Referee Phil Dowd
Crowd 59,445


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