Emmanuel Adebayor believes Arsenal's victory at Stamford Bridge shows they cannot be ruled out of the title race despite their turbulent start to the season.

Robin van Persie scored twice in five minutes to give Arsene Wenger's side a 2-1 victory over Chelsea and although Arsenal remain seven points behind Liverpool at the top of the Premier League, Adebayor says the squad is full of belief.

"It is a very big win because we went through a lot of difficult moments and people wrote us off in the Premiership," he said. "Now this is a message that we have sent out. We believe in ourselves, we can do something.

"Forget about what happened - we are always together. We always believed we can do something and these are the kind of results we can show again.

"It would have been very difficult had we lost, but we would have never said the title was finished."

"We want to keep on going until the end of the season. We know we have a great team, a great squad, everyone is ready for it. Now everyone can see we have kept our title dreams alive and the more important thing now is to keep going."

Luiz Felipe Scolari, the Chelsea manager, was furious about the decision not to rule out Van Persie's first goal for offside, but the Dutch forward maintains those decisions are part of the game.

"I scored a goal against Chelsea [in a 2-0 home defeat in December 2005]," he said. "I was onside, but the ref gave it offside and it didn't count. This time was maybe a little bit offside, but it counted and that's all that matters.

"In the last 20 minutes we showed a lot of character so the whole team deserve a big compliment," he added. "When you are playing against Chelsea on their ground and go 1-0 down, you know it is going to be really difficult."