Chelsea 1 Arsenal 3
Holders Arsenal kept their hopes of a repeating last year's domestic double alive with a well-deserved victory over Chelsea in their FA Cup quarter-final replay at Stamford Bridge tonight.
The league leaders, who were reduced to 10 men for the last 24 minutes, will play first division Sheffield United in the last four thanks to an own goal from Chelsea's John Terry, a Sylvain Wiltord strike 10 minutes later and a late Lauren score.
Terry redeemed himself with a 79th-minute goal, heading the ball past the Arsenal goalkeeper as he had in the 2-2 draw in the first game at Highbury.
Their win means Arsenal have now dumped the Blues out of the cup for a third successive year.
Chelsea had the better of the early play, but Arsenal broke quickly after 24 minutes and Wiltord charged through a gaping hole in the home side's midfield before releasing his fellow Frenchman Patrick Vieira down the right.
Vieira fired the ball low across the six-metre box and Terry, with Wiltord hovering behind him, turned it into his own net.
Ten minutes later, roles were reversed as Vieira surged forward before slipping a pass to Wiltord, who finished superbly from just inside the penalty area.
Terry reduced the arrears in the 79th minute only for the Chelsea defence to stand back as Lauren cut in from the right to fire a low left footed drive from the edge of the box past the diving Carlo Cudicini and just inside the post three minutes later.
Chelsea showed plenty of endeavour for the last hour but, Terry's effort aside, found it difficult to break through a well-organised Arsenal defence, even after the dismissal of Pascal Cygan for a second bookable offence in the 66th minutes.
Arsenal will play their semi-final against Sheffield at Old Trafford on April 13th.