🎥 OTD 2008: Drogba did it again for Chelsea vs Arsenal in comeback win 👑

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Peter Fitzpatrick·23 March 2025

🎥 OTD 2008: Drogba did it again for Chelsea vs Arsenal in comeback win 👑

Didier Drogba is one of the all-time Chelsea greats and a big game player like few others.

No side knew this more than Arsenal, who the Ivorian consistently haunted in his time in blue.

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Of the 164 goals Drogba scored for Chelsea, 13 came against Arsene Wenger's men in just 15 games.

Two came on this day in 2008, as he single handedly sealed a comeback win at Stamford Bridge that knocked Arsenal out of the title race and kept Chelsea in it.

👑 𝗗 𝗜 𝗗 𝗜 𝗘 𝗥 👑 1-0 down, 2-1 winners against Arsenal #OnThisDay in 2008!
– Tuesday, 23 March 2021

For all the money spent in the nine years since his second departure, no striker has quite filled the boots of the king.

📸 Shaun Botterill - 2008 Getty Images