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

5.[L] Aston Villa v/s Chelsea (PREM )

Date : 2 September 2007
Time : 8:30 IST Aston Villa line up

(4-4-2): Carson; Mellberg, Knight, Laursen, Bouma; Agbonlahor, Barry (c), Reo-Coker, Young; Carew (Petrov 79), Moore.

Chelsea Line Up (4-3-3): Cech; Belletti, Alex, Terry (c), A Cole; Mikel (Pizarro 56), Makelele (Kalou 63), Essien; Wright-Phillips (J Cole 63), Drogba, Malouda. Referee :Mark Clattenburg Crowd :37,714


A tough away fixture with Villa strengthening their squad with some very good acquisitions during the summer . Considering the injury crisis surrounding Chelsea this encounter
looks even tougher . Lampard has been in a very good goal scoring form for both the club and for England . Losing him a day before the match was a big blow for Mourinho

Mourinho started with a very interesting lineup Mikel,Makelele and Essien all starting together ,
hmm is mourinho scared of the villa attacking lineup ?? Alex getting a start , very intellingent ,with his height and size he can easily tackle the airiel threat provided by Carew ,who has been in very good touch recently.

I would have prefered to start with Joe Cole instead of Makelele or Mikel . Chelsea enjoyed a very good share of the possession through out the match ,but still created very few chances .
It was only after the introduction of Joe after half time that Chelsea seamed to create chances.
There was a time during the match when Chelsea enjoyed 80% of the possesion . still Chelsea lost 0-2 . Sad very sad. Maybe the Footballing Gods were not with the more dominant , the more attacking ,the more classy team . Add to this the injury to Drogba .

This match really showed the value of Lampard in this very Lavishly assembled Chelsea lineup.

Chelsea Slipping from the top and only 2 points in front of MANU :( .

Chelsea after 5 matches 10 points and position 3

Goal scorers for the match
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Knight (46')(Aston Villa)
Agbonlahor(88')(Aston Villa)

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