6.[D] Chelsea v/s Blackburn (PREM )

Chelsea Starting line up
(4-4-2): Cech; Belletti, Alex, Terry (c), A Cole (Ben-Haim 86); Wright-Phillips (Malouda 56), Sidwell (Mikel 56), Essien, J Cole; Kalou, Shevchenko.


Blackburn Starting line up
(4-4-2): Friedel; Emerton, Samba (Ooijer 90+1), Nelsen (c), Warnock; Bentley, Savage, Dunn (Mokoena 80), Pedersen; Santa Cruz, McCarthy (Roberts 67).


Referee: Howard Webb. Crowd :41,062.


After a very hectic International schedule ,I am back with the EPL :P .

Again Chelsea without Lampard but this time we dont even have Drogba the 30 goals a season machine .

This again looked to be a cracker.I must say I got lot of respect towards Mark Hughes , his young team can be very physical at times,yup u can expect that with Robbie Savage being the heart of their team . A tough nut to crack.

Finally Sheva gets the much anticipated start , he has been in good form for Ukraine scoring a very vital goal during the Euro Qualifiers ,hope he continues that form for the club.One of the most prolific scorers of Europe has not yet proved his worth with Chelsea .

And with Cole also getting the start on the left the Chelsea team looked strong . The start was very good for Chelsea with some very good chaces for Sheva coming from the right flank .


Well I wont mention about the match this time,coz i was really dissapointed to see Chelsea not score again ... Chelsea hasnt scored in the last 2 matches ... sad for a team with great potential.

Match ended with the scoreline reading 0-0 . Blackburn ,very happy to get a point . Chelsea again looked like the team who should have scored ,but somehow they dont . The number of chances Chelsea created was awesome .The Chelsea team in the past never used to create so many chances but they would score from the single chance they would get in the whole match .. If u remember Chelsea scoring a 1-0 victory was very common.

This season though Chelsea have been creating a lot of chances but the cutting edge is missing , maybe a players like Owen or Inzaghi or Nistelrooy or Ronaldo(AC Milan,Brazil) is required . a goal poaching player.

True that we have great quality strikers like Drogba,Sheva,Kalou and Pizarro but I always see them playing from the center of the midfield , we need a player who can stand with the last defender of the opposition defence and can beat the offside trap at will . I would like to see Kalou playing as deep as possible , with his potential he can be the next Zola .

Then we will see more goals from this very attacking and attractive Chelsea team.

Chelsea after 6 matches 11 points and position 5


Chelsea Goal scorers in the Premiership
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Pizarro-1
Malouda-1
Essien -1
Lampard-3
Drogba -1