Blues 1, City 0

March 14, 2007 || posted by whitney

The Blues put the pressure back on Manchester United with their 1-0 victory. The gap is now 6 points.

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Chelsea 2, Porto 1

March 6, 2007 || posted by whitney

Chelsea defeated Porto 2-1 and 3-2 on aggregate to advance into the Champions League Quarterfinals.

A slow 1st half start nearly doomed the Blues, but a goalkeeping error by Helton swung the game to the Blues favor.

The underwhelming duo of Shevchenko and Ballack combined to score the winning goal. Finally, the two are starting to show their quality.

Goals

Robben 48
Ballack 79

The Team

4-3-3

Cech

Diarra, Essien, Carvalho, Cole

Lampard, Makelele, Ballack

Robben, Drogba, Sheva

First Half

Quaresma is certainly worthy of the EPL interest from Chelsea and Liverpool. He's quality and very reminiscent of the ROnaldo of two seasons past - talented, but needs a little more polishing.

The Blues were generally lackluster in defense, as there was limited chemistry between Carvalho and Essien

Second Half

The game was a story of two halves.

Porto had possession and a 1-0 lead, but Helton's terrible error on Robben stole all of their belief away and buoyed the Blues on to controlling the rest of the game.

Misc. Thoughts

Ballack and Sheva were able to add some value to the team.

Proper Match Reports

BBC

ESPN Soccernet

Sky Sports

Goals

Quaresma 0-1

Robben 1-1

Ballack 2-1

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Chelsea 2, Pompey 0

March 3, 2007 || posted by whitney

Chelsea defeated Pompey 2-0, pulling 9 points behind Manchester United. The Blues still have a game in hand.

Strong play in goal by Cech was the big in-game story.

Overall, the story of the day was United's ability to steal 3 points from a superior Liverpool team in the AM.

Crouch failed to convert a goal mouth chance. A 10-man United convereted an extra time set piece to take a hardly earned 3 points.

Goals

Drogba 33
Kalou 82

The Team

4-3-3

Cech

Diarra, Essien, Carvalho, Cole

Lampard, Makelele,Ballack

Robben, Drogba, Sheva

Proper Match Reports

BBC

ESPN Soccernet

Sky Sports

Goals

Drogba 1-0

Kalou 2-0

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