It did not appear to me that there was a handshake between the two managers at the end, though let’s not read too much into that – it is too early for controversy. What a pre-season for Arsenal though – three trophies!
Peter Cech celebrates in front of his new fans, and then follows it up with plenty of embracing with his former and current team-mates.
“We suffered today, the pitch was not great,” Wenger says on TV. “This is a good basis going into the Championship.”
Arsenal were impressive especially because they showed a steeliness that has too often been absent from their performances while Chelsea were lacking in attack.
In case you missed the live match... I believe this commentary will give you an insight...(scroll down and start from the bottom)
Final whistle
At the fourteenth attempt, Arsene Wenger beats Jose Mourinho!
Chelsea clearly need another week of sharpening up before they begin their Premier League title defence.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's goal was the decisive contribution - and by a mile the most cohesive piece of attacking play in the match and Chelsea couldn't unlock the Arsenal door to find a reply.
90 min +3
Jose Mourinho is politely requested to take his seat by 40,000 Arsenal fans. Chelsea can't seem to find their kitchen sink for one last push, so the octagonal shield is almost certainly Arsenal's. Courtois must race off his line to smother a chance for the buccaneering Gibbs!
90 min +2
Cahill goes into the book for a tackle from behind and Arsenal are nearly over the line. Cazorla lines up a right-foot shot, which is deflected wide for a corner.
90 min +1
Bodies everywhere as Chelsea throw some of their last remaining dice, with just four additional minutes to come, but there's a foul in there and Arsenal survive again.
90 min
Hazard is unceremoniously bundled over again. It's almost as if Arsenal know that the resultant Fabregas free-kick will come to nought.
88 min
Matic is fouled, and Falcao and Arteta almost succeed in sparking a multi-man brawl. Anthony Taylor keeps his cards in his pocket. Fabregas tries again to put the ball into the mixer, but Ivanovic scoops a poor header over.
87 min
Courtois to the rescue! Cazorla's free, 12 yards out, but his first touch gives the Chelsea keeper time to advance off his line and shut down the danger. Ramsey follows up, but his shot is deflected just wide. A second Arsenal goal looking rather more likely here....
85 min
Ivanovic puts Courtois in a pickle with a bobbly backpass, and Arsenal are gifted a corner. Cazorla takes but the ball is eventually back to Courtois, who pelts the ball out for a counter-attack.
84 min
Moses is given a Community Shield welcome by fellow substitute Kieran Gibbs. Another Fabregas free-kick is repelled by the Arsenal defence, and Chelsea need some new ideas.
83 min
Terry goes off to be replaced by Moses, as Chelsea go to three at the back.
81 min
Cross fly in from either side for Chelsea, but Arsenal hold out - Oscar's attemped header skims off a shoulder and Falcao can't get on the end of it.
79 min
Eden Hazard goes down screaming after a challenge from Monreal out on the right. Fabregas takes the free-kick, but it's a poor one and is cleared. Chelsea's aerial division trudge back down the field.
77 min
Oxlade-Chamberlain has some space for a left-foot shot on the edge of the box....it's deflected, but that works kindly for Courtois. Oxlade-Chamberlain receives a deserved ovation as he makes way for Mikel Arteta.
74 min
Zouma's no less an awkward sight at left-back than Azpilicueta - no wonder Chelsea are looking for some reinforcements there. Terry nods a Fabregas cross back into the danger area, but Zouma's looping header is straight into the gloves of current Arsenal hero Cech.
70 min
Zouma replaces Azpilicueta and, as Chelsea gather their shape from a corner, Giroud skies from a cut-back. Decent chance.
68 min
Yellow card for Coquelin - a persistent offender - as he catches Hazard on the edge of the box. Promising position for Chelsea, 25 yards out. Oscar takes it...and Cech claws it way from the top corner!
67 min
Giroud enters the fray and, with his first touch, meets a deep cross at the back post....but can only scoop it over the bar. Giroud then meets an Ozil cross but his shot is straight into Cahill's midriff.
66 min
Yellow card for Azpilicueta, who has to drag Oxlade-Chamberlain down as the winger races into space on the right. The Spaniard accepts his fate.
64 min
Giroud trots down the steps to be introduced for Arsenal, presumably for Walcott.
63 min
Falcao makes a similar run to Hazard's, but he doesn't quite have the pace to get ahead of Monreal and concedes a clumsy free-kick instead.
62 min
Chance for Hazard! He finally escapes the Arsenal midfield, and Fabregas spots his run from the right-hand side, and he's clean through on goal....but he skies it. Should be 1-1.
59 min
Lots of possession for Chelsea but, with Hazard still shackled by Coquelin, not much to aim for. Fabregas goes long in search of a good run by Falcao, but Cech is on hand to gather.
56 min
Cech plucks a looping ball out of the sky - Falcao doesn't even contemplate a jumping competition - and that's the trickiest job he's had so far in the second half. Oscar finds some space, 30 yards out, but drags a shot well, well wide.
54 min
Ramires' Stanley Matthews tribute act comes to an end, and Oscar's on. Unclear if that's a re-jig for the Chelsea formation....
52 min
Coquelin cuts out a pass and instantly tries to set Walcott free of the Chelsea defence, but the pass is just overcooked. Oscar's coming on for Chelsea.
50 min
Positive start from Chelsea to the second half, but Ramires - patently not a winger of any repute - can't find the ammunition from the right.
47 min
Walcott is robbed by Ivanovic and Ramires pops up on the right. He feeds Willian, who tries to cut the ball back for Falcao, but Cech dives out to claim.
46 min
Radamel Falcao has indeed been introduced for the second half, in place of the permanently offside Loic Remy. Let's see what he's got left in the locker.
Half time
Mourinho's halfway down the tunnel buy the time the one additional minute is over. Wenger will be satisfied with his team's effort without the ball and their endeavour with it. Oxlade-Chamberlain's goal was a brutally straightforward piece of modern wingplay - swerving in from the flank to open up a chance for the shot - and he executed it perfectly. Chelsea started sluggishly and, by the time they'd got going, were 1-0 down. You'd expect better from them in the second half.
45 min
Fabregas swings in a free-kick from the right, and the ball ends up in Cech's via the inadvertent toes of Mertesacker. Apart from Ramires' header, Chelsea haven't carved open a presentable chance yet.
44 min
Remy's caught offside again, as Hazard tries to feed a ball into him on the edge of the box, and that's a cue for Falcao to go on a warm-up trot down the touchline.
42 min
Arsenal slice through Chelsea again, Oxlade-Chamberlain has the ball on the right and dinks a cross to the back post, where Branislav Ivanovic bravely deals with it and takes an arm from Monreal for his troubles.
41 min
Fabregas, who has been poor, sends a cross straight into the hands of Cech.
39 min
An Ozil cross from the right causes some mild chaos in the Chelsea box, but there's no Arsenal shirt on hand to capitalise. Ramsey drives into the box from the left but can only poke a shot into the side-netting.
36 min
Remy crosses from the left, and Ramires has the freedom of the six-yard line....but it's off target! Cech still yet to be troubled, and really ought to be picking the ball out the back of his net right now.
33 min
Willian advances on the left, and is picked out superbly by a Matic through-ball, but his cut-back can't find a blue shirt and Arsenal hoof it clear. Chelsea waking up a bit, though - Ramires curls a right-foot shot wide.
32 min
Drought ended.
30 min
Arsenal doing some duitful scurrying in midfield, reducing Chelsea to the crumbs of one-touch passes on the halfway line. From an Ivanovic long-throw, Arsenal break again and Walcott is momentarily one-on-one against John Terry, but he elects to pass and the move loses momentum.
27 min
Remy's offside, for at least the third time in under half an hour, as Chelsea try to respond immediately. Arsenal tails are up, as you'd expect, and Chelsea still scrapping around for a foothold in this match.GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea (Oxlade-Chamberlain, 24 min)Walcott finds Oxlade-Chamberlain on the right, who cuts inside Azpilicueta and arrows a left-foot shot into the far top corner. An absolute bullet, which Courtois didn't have an earthly chance of saving. Arsenal lead! Chelsea look sluggish.
23 min
Coquelin is closely guarding Eden Hazard, who's been deployed centrally today. Ivanovic gives Cazorla a rather painful-looking kick from behind, and Arsenal have a free-kick to swing in from the left. Walcott steals in for a near-post header, but Courtois gathers easily.
19 min
The first glimpse of neat Arsenal interplay on the edge of the Chelsea box is eventually strangled by a mass of blue shirts. Fabregas is floored again, after Coquelin again gets stuck in. Gary Cahill's nose is bleeding. It's carnage!
17 min
The football is enthralling thus far:
15 min
Another corner for Chelsea, which Arsenal clear comfortably, but the champions are settling into the Arsenal half, albeit at a pedestrian pace.
12 min
Willian goes on his first adventurous burst through the middle and feeds Remy, who wins a corner off Bellerin. In it comes from Fabregas, but the referee spots a push.
9 min
Fabregas goes face-first into the wall that is Per Mertesacker in the area, but no chance of a penalty. Arsenal fans delighted at the sight of their former favourite lying on the turf. Cech boots the ball out of play so Fabregas can gather himself.
7 min
The midfield scrapping continues to hot up, and Coqueling gets the first of many talkings-to this season. Chelsea have settled the slower, but only just.
5 min
Matic lopes down the left, but Coquelin follows him all the way and Arsenal have the ball back. Apart from that surprise attack in the opening seconds, little in the way of attacking threat in the opening five minutes.
4 min
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2 min
Remy races clear of Arsenal's (very) high line, but he's offside and Cech gathers anyway.
1 min
Petr Cech looks weird in an Arsenal shirt. Chelsea get the new season off and under way, but Arsenal tear into them straight away and Courtois has to punch clear from under his own crossbar!
Wenger don finally win EPL after d arrival of d special one
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