Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal
Didier Drogba scored a quick-fire brace to hand Chelsea the three points in a keenly-fought London derby.
The Ivorian poked home from close range after just seven minutes to give Chelsea the lead before capping off a fine counter-attack with a lethal finish inside the area.
When Fabio Capello took the England captaincy away from John Terry on a frost-bitten Friday afternoon in early February, a lot of people did not know how to react.
Some were happy, with allegations of the player’s private life being revealed through media tabloids written by self-righteous, sanctimonious hypocrites.
We catch up with Guy Keen aka OzGoonerGuy ahead of our clash with Arsenal tomorrow.
What are your expectations for the remainder of the season for both sides?
Expectations (or more high hopes): after our win on Sunday, Arsenal and Chelsea will be going neck and neck for the league title for the remainder of the season. Rooney will injure a knee in the next couple of weeks, so United will be stuffed. Arsenal will clinch it with a week to spare.
Hull City 1-1 Chelsea
Didier Drogba scored on his return to the Chelsea side, but could not prevent his side from drawing with Hull.
The Premier League leaders had the opportunity to increase their lead of Manchester United at the top of the table to four points, but instead their advantage is an advantage of just two points.
It’s quite apt what they say; points do indeed mean prizes.
In this sense, that particular prize is the Premier League trophy; something that has evaded Chelsea since the departure of José Mourinho in 2007. There have been a couple of near misses since; Mourinho’s last season saw Chelsea come second fiddle to Manchester United, and Avram Grant’s side were only two points behind United a season later.
Monday night saw the most misleading scoreline of the reserves season so far. We went into the game as underdogs after Aston Villa have dominated the league not just this season but last as well. They seem to take the league far more seriously than anyone else, they also had experience at the back with Wilfred Bouma and Curtis Davis in their defence. With all of that seemingly against us the blues reserves stepped up to the challenge and for the majority of the game were in control of the tempo.
The Chelsea Football FanCast #103
With Chidge still in California, Dr. Martin once again steps into the breach to bring you this edition. The Chelsea team’s great form continues with premiership wins over form team Birmingham and away at Burnley. Turf Moor has proved difficult for our two main rivals this season with both dropping points there.
Burnley 1-2 Chelsea
John Terry scored a late winner for Chelsea away at Burnley, to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League.
The Chelsea and England captain was the centre of much media attention following allegations of his private life being spread across the tabloids, but left his critics stunned when he headed home a superb winner from Frank Lampard’s corner.
This weekend sees Chelsea go up against 18th placed Burnley who are under new manager Brian Laws. In addition Carlo Ancelotti has been given more options with the return of Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou. With a range of players to choose from he is once again in a fix with players such as Joe Cole performing very well and challenging for a starting spot.
Chelsea fought their way into the quarter finals of the youth cup courtesy of quality performance from the young boys in blue (actually white in this case). Everything was set for a great game, Stamford bridge was the setting and for all of these young boys it was their first taste of game time at the bridge in front of a pretty decent crowd, also following a impressive win against Forest in the last round and an entertaining victory over West Ham at the weekend spirits where high and so were expectations.
