{"id":1831,"date":"2025-11-28T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:39:45","slug":"chelseas-years-of-struggles-against-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/chelseas-years-of-struggles-against-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s years of struggles against Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea face a major test this weekend as they host league leaders Arsenal, hoping to end a difficult run of recent results against their London rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have struggled both at home and away against the Gunners, managing to win just once in their last 12 meetings in all competitions. Their most recent encounter ended in a 1-0 defeat to Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side, underlining the growing gap between the sides, despite Chelsea celebrating more overall silverware and success in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hafRhYEuF3U?si=T03qMXycJQRfglVH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a heated London derby, the stakes are also high because Chelsea currently sit six points behind Arsenal at the top. Enzo Maresca\u2019s men will need to defy the recent trend to stay within striking distance.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Result<\/th>\n<th>Competition<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>16 Mar 2025<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arsenal 1\u20130 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10 Nov 2024<\/td>\n<td>Chelsea 1\u20131 Arsenal<\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23 Apr 2024<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arsenal 5\u20130 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21 Oct 2023<\/td>\n<td>Chelsea 2\u20132 Arsenal<\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 May 2023<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arsenal 3\u20131 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6 Nov 2022<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chelsea 0\u20131 Arsenal<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20 Apr 2022<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chelsea 2\u20134 Arsenal<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22 Aug 2021<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Arsenal 0\u20132 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12 May 2021<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chelsea 0\u20131 Arsenal<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>26 Dec 2020<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arsenal 3\u20131 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Aug 2020<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arsenal 2\u20131 Chelsea<\/span><\/td>\n<td>FA Cup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21 Jan 2020<\/td>\n<td>Chelsea 2\u20132 Arsenal<\/td>\n<td>Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea face a major test this weekend as they host league leaders Arsenal, hoping to end a difficult run of recent results against their London rivals. The Blues have struggled both at home and away against the Gunners, managing to win just once in their last 12 meetings in all competitions. Their most recent encounter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/chelseas-years-of-struggles-against-arsenal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chelsea&#8217;s years of struggles against Arsenal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[397,660,658,127],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}