Chelsea: Europa League champions
Branislav Ivanovic’s late winner brought more European success to Chelsea Football Club as they beat Benfica 2-1 in the final of the Europa League. Goals from Fernando Torres and Oscar Cardozo left the game poised for extra time before the Serb’s looping header won it for The Blues. Chelsea struggled to establish themselves in the [...]
Just under a year ago, Chelsea won their first Champions League trophy with a heroic win over Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. A year on, and Chelsea find themselves in yet another European final. Unfortunately, this isn’t the final they would have liked to have found themselves in. However, we’re in it to win [...]
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30th April 2005. 19th May 2012 – dates that will live forever in the memory of Chelsea fans. Today, 11th May 2013, another date is etched into our memory – the day…that Frank Lampard became Chelsea Football Club’s All-time record goal scorer. Super Frankie Lampard scored twice to equal and then break Bobby Tambling’s record [...]
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Chelsea Football Club have a massive 180 minutes of football to play in the coming 5 days. Best case scenario is we beat Villa on Saturday and JT and super Frank jointly lift the Europa Cup on Wednesday. Worse case, well I don’t want to go there! I cannot wait for the smug, self opinionated, [...]
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After Sundays brilliant away win at Old Trafford, a win against Tottenham on Wednesday night would secure Champions League football for next season. Tottenham new they needed something from this match to keep their dreams of a top four finish alive, and began at a high tempo, getting into some dangerous positions inside the first [...]
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Juan Mata’s deflected goal in the 87th minute gave Chelsea a vital three points in the race for Champions League football next season. The 1-0 win at Old Trafford means Chelsea have now beaten Man United more than they have lost to them, and ended United’s run of scoring in 66 consecutive home matches. Chances [...]
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Michael Martin looks forward to a visit to Old Trafford from the recent Europa Cup finalist’s Chelsea. Rafa’s days are numbered but will he leave Chelsea in the top 4 and Champions League qualification.
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Chelsea cruised past Basel to set up yet another European final, this time against Portuguese side Benfica. Chelsea, if victorious, will become only the fourth club to win every format of European trophies. Who would have thought that Rafa Benitez could bring home a trophy in his short reign? Chelsea eased through to the final [...]
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FC Basel will be on the offensive when they take the Stamford Bridge pitch on Thursday evening. The Swiss team need to make up a 2-1 deficit (including two away goals) to advance to the Europa League final in Amsterdam later this month. But a promising team performance against Swansea last weekend and an even [...]
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Chelsea face Swansea for the fourth time this season on Sunday as we continue the chase for a top four finish. Thursday nights away win in Basle provided a boost after what can only be described as a ‘stitch up’ away at Liverpool last week. How vital those two dropped points will be come the [...]
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Chelsea came into the Europa League semi-final clash with FC Basel of the back of late, unjustified disappointment against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday. Whilst Luis Suarez has been handed a 10 match domestic ban for chomping on Branislav Ivanovic, the real injustice I believe most fans felt coming back from Liverpool was that of [...]
Continue reading …Rafa Benitez says Chelsea will need to be at their best if they are to progress into the final of the Europa League. The Blues face Basel tonight in the first leg of the semi-final and will be hoping to take an advantage back home to Stamford Bridge for the second leg. Like Chelsea, Basel [...]
Continue reading …It was hard to imagine pre-game that the obvious talking point of Rafa Benitez’ return to Anfield would not be dominating the headlines of Monday’s media outlets. However, it’s easy to visualise the hundreds of Benitez related headlines being deleted within seconds of replays showing Luis Suarez biting Branislav Ivanovic like a rabid dog. It’s [...]
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