
It was an easy game for Arsenal, on paper but in football no game is easy. As it turned out, Arsenal had it pretty easy from the start against Derby County. From the first whistle, Arsenal were in full control of the match. Derby County looked like a novices against Arsenal's in form team. Arsenal beat Sevilla three nil in the midweek champion's league match and secured all three points in their first Champion's League group stage match. In that match against Sevilla, Arsenal got two injuries. One was to Tomas Rosicky and the other one was to Alexander Hleb. Against Derby County, both of them didn't even made the bench, but even though they were absent, Arsenal didn't have a problem.
Well Abou Diaby was put on the left side of mid field. He is a right footed central mid field player. That didn't have any negative effect on Arsenal, well it might have been if they were playing the top teams.
Anyways, Arsenal had an easy match on their hands. Abou Diaby who was playing out of position made got the ball, got past a couple of defenders just outside the eighteen yard box and took the shot. His 20 yard stunner landed in the top right corner.
A great strike by Abou Diaby. Arsenal were 1-0 up at just ten minutes. In the 25h minute, Arsenal were 2-0 up courtesy Fabregas, Adebayor and Derby's poor defense. Fabregas's lobbed the ball to Adebayor who skipped past the keeper and scored the second goal for Arsenal. Arsenal had a lot of other chances before the end of the first half, but the keeper managed to make some great saves.
Five minutes into the second half, Eduardo Da Silva got the ball inside the box and was pulled back by the Derby defense. Straight away the referee, Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot. Emmanuel Adebayor took charge of the penalty taking duty. His penalty was almost stopped by the Derby keeper, who got his finger tips to the ball but the pace was a bit much and Arsenal were 3-0 up.
Twenty minutes left in the match, Eduardo Da Silva set up Fabregas who hit the ball from about twenty yards. The keeper, Stephen Bywater got his fingers to the ball but it wasn't enough to keep Cesc Fabregas's long ranged strike out of the goal. Fabregas has been in great form lately and has scored six goals till now. Fabregas was substitute just after his goal. He was replaced by Denilson. Ten minutes for the final whistle, Denilson lobbed the ball near the 18 yard box and Adebaryor controlled the shot very well showing strenght and great balance against the challenge from the Derby defense. Adebaryor took the shot opting for placing instead of power and it went in. Adebayor had a hat-trick. This is his first ever hat-trick playing for Arsenal.

Check out Arsenal 5-0 Derby match report on Arsenal.com and Arsenal 5-0 Derby match report on BBC. Arsenal are still on top of the English Premier League table with a game in hand against two of the top four teams.