The first away match of the season and carrying lots of hope i waited for the early morning kick-off(12:30 IST).A very tricky encouter against a very tough and well organised side at the
Madejski Stadium. Well for most of ur Chelsea supporters this place was almost like a graveyard when we saw our best Goal Keepers Chech and Cudicini getting injured , a very vital blow to our Championship aspirations :( . what would have happened if Chech was available for those 3 months ............. with the 2 cups we won last year -> maybe the PREMIERSHIP too ........
well without dwelling into the past anymore let me start of wiht the encounter .
Starting line up
Chelsea (4-4-2): Cech; Ferreira (Pizarro h-t), Ben-Haim, Carvalho (Johnson 30), A Cole; Wright-Phillips, Sidwell (Mikel h-t) Lampard (c); Malouda, Kalou, Drogba.
Reading(4-4-2): Hahnemann; Murty, Duberry (Bikey 28), Ingimarsson, Shorey; Oster (Seol 78), Harper, Cisse, Hunt; Long (Gunnarsson 73), Doyle.
Referee Mike Dean.
Crowd 24,031.
And yup time for revealing the ChelseaFC away jearsey :)... oh GOD! what is that is that yellow or is it Flouroscent Green or Flouroscent Yellow ,ghosh whats that ? if i got to watch the whole match I got to get my gogles :P .. well the some of them prefer to call it electricity yellow :) ..
He he but I rather liked the Black or the white away jearsey they used the previous years .
But one things for sure the really bright jearseys kept me awake from 12:30 am to 2:30 am
a big task afterall I prefer to sleep at 10:00 pm :P.
hmm with Essien injured Sidwell gets the opporunity to start against his old club . and i am glad to see Ferreira on the right , Johnson looked really shacky in the last 2 games .hope he does a better job . and again a 4-4-2 cool and Drogba in the starting line up ..cool ..but again Joe Cole is missing .
The start looked really very shacky . ghosh is this the same team that played agaisnt Birmingham 3 days ago ?? shocking though I was sure that it would be difficult to break Reading down but they were having all the pocession during the initial minutes and our defence looked really shacky .. but then the attack came from Chelsea from the Man of the match of the last match Phillips .a great run from him and a good cross but Drogba caught offside .
Still Reading looked the better team . they were the once who looked like scoring .13 minutes to the start Reading got 3 corner kicks in succession but no harm done ..hoh Lucky Chelsea.
Reading were playing tough on Chelsea and got quick yellow cards first for Land and the other Cisse for a tackle on Phillips .
Now for brief a period Chelsea looked good ,they are always looking for Wright phillips on the right and it is from there some of the best chances were coming from . Phillips and Ferreira combining well together and a good cross to Drogba but Hahnemann gets to the ball before Drogba :(.
Then in the 26th minute a very bad goal was conceded by Chelsea .A very well taken free kick by Reading and a really bad mistake by Chech (first time I have seen a mistake from this man) and the Reading substitute Bikey scores an easy goal .Reading 1-0 up.
within minutes Reading were on the attack again and this time Chelsea were safe coz a really good save from Chech ,but really bad defending by Ferreira ..somehow our Right backs are not able to cop up with the pace of these attacking players :(.
Now Chelsea substitues the injured Carvalhio for Johnson .ghosh the injury crisis for Chelsea never stops .
within minutes again very good play by reading and somehow Osters header hits the crossbar.somehow Chelsea are still trailing only by a goal .
Half time : After a very pathetic first half let us see what Mourinho does
with the start of the second half Chelsea has already made all the 3 substitutions oh brave move..Mikel for Sidwell and Pizarro for Ferreira ..I though Chelsea are going for a 3-4-3 but no!!! Wright phillips actings as right back ...ghosh .. what is Morinho doing ?
Well the changes made quick dividends a good header from Drogba to Lampard and a classic goal by the Chelsea Captain .. Chelsea are level :).
within 4 minutes Chelsea takes the lead with a beautiful goal from Drogba wow
CHelsea - 2-1 up wow.
The changes got us the dividends and I should say Phillips with his pace was looking better than Ferreira and Johnson at rightback ..but I should say Johnson did a great work as a Centre back.
The rest of the match didnt see many chances but Chelsea looked very good .what a transformation from the first half ..awesome Hallmark of the Champions :).
finally Chelsea won 2-1 .. 2 matches and 2 wins great :)... and with Manu again not winning at Portsmurth we already have opened a 4 point gap ..
Now let us hope that Chelsea wins against our Champions League rivals Liverpool :).. He he we have already erased some of their records :).. lets get ready for more :)
Chelsea Goal scorers for the match
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Lampard (46') and Drogba (50')
Chelsea Goal scorers in the Premirship
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Pizarro-1
Malouda-1
Essien -1
Lampard-1
Drogba -1
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