Chelsea crashed out of the Carling Cup thanks to their second home defeat to Liverpool in 10 days. The result will have Fleet Street piling the pressure on Andre Villas-Boas, and the Blues boss was a frustrated figure as his side fell to a combination of more bad defending and some atrocious refereeing. It started [...]
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Chelsea got back to winning ways on Saturday afternoon with a comfortable 3-0 win against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.
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Bayer Leverkusen fought back from a goal down to earn a win against Chelsea in their Champions League Group E match. Didier Drogba opened the scoring early in the second-half, but substitute Eren Derdiyok capitalised on another defensive error by Chelsea’s shaky defence to equalise, before Manuel Friedrich headed a dramatic winner in injury-time. Following [...]
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With six minutes of normal time to play on Sunday, the scores level, Andre Villas-Boas brought two former Liverpool players onto the pitch in the hope of snatching a 2-1 victory. Within a few minutes, one former player had scored – unfortunately for us, it was ex-Chelsea right-back Glen Johnson. The result brings the Reds [...]
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I don’t know what the more surprising headline was over the weekend, news that Justin Bieber may have fathered a child or Chelsea keeping a clean sheet. Being a bit of a Twitterer and Facebooker I read a lot of thoughts and views on Chelsea and I have to say that the Branner, JT, Alex [...]
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Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw by a spirited, dynamic Genk side in an unconvincing draw at the Cristal Arena. The blues lined up in their usual 4-3-3 formation with a mixture of regulars and first team fringe players, giving the line-up a slightly carling cup feeling. Captain for the evening Petr Cech was [...]
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A poor second-half cost Chelsea dear against Arsenal in an enthralling London derby which saw eight goals during a mad ninety minutes. Goals from Frank Lampard, John Terry and Juan Mata were not enough, as the away side profited from strikes by Robin van Persie – who netted a hat-trick – Andre Santos and Theo [...]
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Chelsea played the majority of the game with nine men, but still competed with their London rivals and came close to getting a point. The initial setup from Andre Villas-Boas was the customary 4-3-3 system, with Drogba and Terry restored to the starting line up, as well as Sturridge, Mata and Mikel. Queens Park Rangers [...]
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If you’re like me you’ll have only just removed your head from your hands, such was the frustration of Chelsea’s second defeat of the season. On the one hand there is the utter fury at the lack of discipline shown in some quarters, not to mention a referee who couldn’t have had a lesser hold [...]
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Chelsea picked up their fourth consecutive home victory this campaign with an impressive 3-1 win against Everton at Stamford Bridge yesterday. It had been nearly six years since the Blues had beaten Everton in SW6 and the relief was palpable following Ramires’s game-sealing third goal in the 61st minute. With Manchester United dropping points at [...]
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Chelsea showed their superiority at the Reebok Stadium with a Frank Lampard-inspired 5-1 win against a struggling Bolton Wanderers side on Sunday afternoon. Lampard netted a hat-trick while former Bolton loanee Daniel Sturridge added the other two, with Owen Coyle’s men replying through a Dedryck Boyata header early in the second-half. Bolton stay bottom of [...]
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Chelsea were denied successive Champions League victories by a late penalty needlessly given away by Salomon Kalou. Frank Lampard had done his part to silence his critics with his 172nd goal for the club early in the second half, before Soldado leveled from the spot three minutes from time. Juan Mata made his return to [...]
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A mate of mine used to have a saying ‘if it was easy little girls would do be doing it’ and that kind of sums up this match and the last couple we have played in the League or Cup. Our theme tune now should be ‘we’ve only got ten men’. Chelsea got off to [...]
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