The game at Stamford Bridge was scoreless when Gabriel saw red for kicking out at Diego Costa in the closing stages of the first half and the hosts wasted little time in making their numerical advantage count, with Kurt Zouma heading them into the lead eight minutes after the interval.
Arsenal were reduced to nine men when Santi Cazorla was dismissed with 11 minutes to go and Eden Hazard sealed a first home win of the season for Chelsea - and arrested a run of three straight Premier League defeats in the process - when his injury-time effort was deflected home by Calum Chambers.
Ramsey says Arsene Wenger's men are now desperate to bounce back in Wednesday's north London derby, with the defeat at Chelsea having been preceded by a shock Champions League loss at Dinamo Zagreb.
"We felt quite comfortable out there [until the first red card]," the Wales international told Arsenal Player. "[Chelsea] haven’t had the best of runs of late and the more the game went on, the more the crowd would have started to turn and moan a bit.
"But it’s hard when you go down to 10 men. That set-piece has cost us but we tried our best out there and we paid the price from the sending off in the end.
"We’re just disappointed because we had a bad result in midweek in the Champions League.
"We wanted to get back to winning ways and have a positive game. We were doing that up until the sending-off.
"I’m sure he’ll learn from that and we have to move on and put things right on Wednesday.
"It’s not good enough for a club like Arsenal to lose two games in a row. Hopefully now we can put things right on Wednesday.
"It will be a feisty game with hopefully some goals in our favour."
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