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  1. Chelsea held as Drogba sees red

    Chelsea held as Drogba sees red

    Chelsea were held at Stamford Bridge 0-0 by west London rivals Fulham as Blues striker Didier Drogba was sent off. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Chelsea
    • Fulham
    • 90+2' The final whistle. Oh dear, not a good start for Grant at the Bridge. Chelsea can't hit a cow's bum at the moment with any type of musical instrument.
    • 90+1' Sidwell shoots but it is off target. Chelsea seem doomed to a draw here.
    • 90' Fulham on the attack... Kamara wriggles clear on the right and shotos across goal... Dempsey is inches away!!! So close! He was in an offside position anyway.
    • 88' Kalou shoots from outside the area, but it is wide.
    • 86' Belletti crosses for Cole to hit a shot over the top. This game is destined to be a draw.
    • 84' Konchesky races through on the left and should score... Cech saves with his legs! Great chance for Fulham to take the win.
    • 82' Fulham change: Smertin replaced by Murphy.
    • 82' Belletti is caught late by Davis and the Fulham midfield man is booked for his trouble.
    • 81' Bouazza with space on the left, can he hit the target... no. It was an awful shot, nowhere near the goal. My gran could do better.
    • 77' Now Chelsea are making a change: Cole (A) is taken off, replaced by Malouda.
    • 76' Fulham sub, just before the red card: Ki-Hyeon replaced by Bouazza for Fulham.
    • 75' The Drog is incredulous but it was a booking and it serves him right for complaining in the first half. He kisses the badge as he leaves, as is the custom.
    • 73' DROGBA IS SENT OFF! He is shown a second yellow card for kicking Baird in the face! Ouch!
    • 70' Cole (A) on the left side, passes to Kalou who feeds a ball in to Cole (J)... HE MUST SCORE... JOSEPH! He put it wide of the far post! Chelsea still cannot find the net here.
    • 68' Fulham bring on Kamara for Healy in attack...
    • 65' Drogba's flying locks take him to the left by-line and he wins a corner as Fulham panic... it is cleared... surely a matter of time for them here.
    • 63' Hughes comes to the near post the head clear for the Lilywhites as Chelsea press... now Drogba has a free-kick... he scoops it over the wall and wide of the far post.
    • 60' Cole (A) on the left and finds Kalou in the middle with an excellent cross - his header is past the near post!!! Painful for the Chelsea fans to watch.
    • 58' The Drog on the ball, smacks a shot to the near post but Keller is across to tip it wide! Drogba stirs up the crowd, as he did in the first half...
    • 54' Shevchenko is put out of his misery as Pizarro replaces him.
    • 52' Kalou trying to get in behind, just cleared by Fulham. The Chelsea fans having a bit of a go whenever Shevchenko touches the ball.
    • 49' Drogba almost on the end of a ball forward and then makes a nuisance of himself again before Sidwell smacks a shot wide of the neat post top corner. Good effort.
    • 47' Cole (J) terrorising Konchesky on the right and feeds a cross to KALOU... KELLER BLOCKS AND THE BALL HITS THE POST AND GOES WIDE! Great save by the veteran American.
    • 46' The second half begin, Chelsea now kicking to our right. Can they find a goal?
    • - Chelsea change: centre-half Alex on for Terry, who has a knock.
    • 45+2' Half time and goalless in the west London derby. Drogba moans to the referee as they head to the tunnel. He should get to the dressing room and think about the game instead of concentrating on sketchy penalty shouts like that one.
    • 45+1' Belletti is keen to get down the right, even pulling aside a team-mate as he motors... his corner is headed away by Ki-Hyeon.
    • 45' The Drog not having any joy as he is given offside as he shoots from an angle. Into injury time.
    • 43' Terry attacks a looping ball at the far post and goes to ground, asking for a penalty for a push. The ball is up in the air still and Drogba heads into the side netting.
    • 41' Chelsea are on top now possession-wise and pressing for the opener. Fulham have dealt with everything thrown at them so far, but they have to keep their concentration.
    • 37' Belletti on the right-hand side tries to find a man in the box, but the former Barca right-back cannot find a target.
    • 35' The Ivorian talks himself into the book of referee Martin Atkinson. Bad news for people who have him in their fantasy team (that would be me!)
    • 35' Cole (J) on the right side of the box. He cracks a great low ball across the six-yard box and Drogba dives but cannot get there! He goes to the referee claiming a penalty for a push by Baird, but he should get on with it. That was not a spot kick.
    • 33' Kalou on the left, troubling Baird... he slips a low ball to the near post where Shevchenko arrives to sidefoot just wide! That was hard luck, a good run from the Ukraine international.
    • 31' Dempsey wants a free-kick for obstruction as Cole (A) does all he can to prevent him rescuing the ball from the by-line. Nothing doing though.
    • 29' Cole (A) overlaps on the left and Kalou feeds him. The cross is headed behind for a corner, cleared by Fulham. Sidwell then cannot find a cross from near the right corner spot.
    • 26' Cole (J) on the move from the right, where he has settled for Chelsea with Kalou on the left. Drogba peels to the right but Cole takes it on himself and shoots, barely troubling Keller again.
    • 22' Smertin arrives in the area to try and get a shot on goal, but Belletti battles him to clear... Fulham have threatened more than the home team. As if to confirm this, Shevchenko sends another low shot tamely into the arms of Keller.
    • 19' Dempsey springs the offside trap and is through for Fulham... no, the flag goes up late. He nonchalantly chips Cech to score anyway and is lucky not to be booked for it. Good finish though.
    • 17' Avram Grant's men cannot find the space they need in behind. Shevchenko and Drogba are not working well together. It is a surprise that left-sided creative force Malouda is on the bench.
    • 14' Shevchenko gets hold of the ball as Chelsea eye a free-kick 35 yards out. He lines it up - and it is lame, dealt with by the wall.
    • 13' Davis on the left for Fulham. He crosses to the middle of the penalty area and Dempsey is at the back stick to head... just wide! The Cottagers almost take the lead.
    • 11' Returning striker Drogba goes offside for Chelsea. Little to show creatively from them so far.
    • 9' A few niggly tackles going in from both sides, with Smertin involved in most of them as he works at the heart of the Fulham midfield.
    • 6' The Chelsea fans singing, looking to urge their faltering stars on. Kalou cuts inside from the left and lets fly, but the dig is wide of the mark.
    • 4' Dempsey and Terry jumping on the edge of the box and the England captain goes to ground. He was caught and receives treatment.
    • 2' Cole cuts in from the left and feeds Shevchenko, who blasts his shot well over the bar! He won't do his stock any good with that.
    • 1' The teams are out and the game gets underway. Chelsea are in blue, kicking from right to left as we look at it, with Fulham in white.
    • - Jimmy Bullard is back and on Fulham's bench after his months out with a horrific broken leg. This west London derby used to fiery - let's see what this afternoon's encounter has in store.
    • - Jon Obi Mikel is suspended for today's match following his red card at Old Trafford last weekend. Tal Ben Haim is again preferred in the Blues' defence ahead of Alex.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on Chelsea v Fulham from Stamford Bridge.

  • Team Stats

    Chelsea Stats Fulham
    69% Possession 30%
    19 Shots 8
    3 Shots on target 1
    0 Saves 0
    9 Corners 4
    18 Fouls 9
    4 Offsides 2
    0 Yellow cards 1
    1 Red cards 0
    25 Tackles 36
    320 Accurate passes 107
    57 Bad passes 35

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Chelsea
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Petr Cech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 4 0
      22 Tal Ben Haim 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 45 2 3
      3 Ashley Cole 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 32 9 4
      35 Juliano Belletti 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 27 0 4
      26 John Terry 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 27 2 1
      9 Steve Sidwell 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 31 8 5
      4 Claude Makelele 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 46 8 3
      10 Joe Cole 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 22 2 1
      11 Didier Drogba 0 4 1 1 2 2 0 10 2 0
      7 Andriy Shevchenko 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 18 5 1
      21 Salomon Kalou 0 5 0 1 3 2 0 18 7 1
      23 Carlo Cudicini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Florent Malouda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 0
      14 Claudio Pizarro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 3 0
      20 Paulo Ferreira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      33 Alex da Dias Costa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 2 2
    • Fulham
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Kasey Keller 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 0
      34 Chris Baird 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 7 0 6
      4 Paul Konchesky 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 10 2
      18 Aaron Hughes 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 4
      3 Carlos Bocanegra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 2
      8 Alexei Smertin 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 14 1 6
      10 Steven Davis 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 21 4 4
      25 Simon Davies 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 2 1
      7 Ki-Hyeon Seol 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 6 6
      23 Clint Dempsey 0 2 0 3 2 1 0 8 3 3
      9 David Healy 0 1 0 4 3 0 0 7 2 1
      24 Hameur Bouazza 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0
      14 Shefki Kuqi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Diomansy Kamara 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
      29 Antti Niemi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Danny Murphy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Fulham on the attack... Kamara wriggles clear on the right and shotos across goal... Dempsey is inches away!!! So close! He was in an offside position anyway.
    • 84' Konchesky races through on the left and should score... Cech saves with his legs! Great chance for Fulham to take the win.
    • 73' DROGBA IS SENT OFF! He is shown a second yellow card for kicking Baird in the face! Ouch!
    • 70' Cole (A) on the left side, passes to Kalou who feeds a ball in to Cole (J)... HE MUST SCORE... JOSEPH! He put it wide of the far post! Chelsea still cannot find the net here.
    • 60' Cole (A) on the left and finds Kalou in the middle with an excellent cross - his header is past the near post!!! Painful for the Chelsea fans to watch.
    • 58' The Drog on the ball, smacks a shot to the near post but Keller is across to tip it wide! Drogba stirs up the crowd, as he did in the first half...
    • 47' Cole (J) terrorising Konchesky on the right and feeds a cross to KALOU... KELLER BLOCKS AND THE BALL HITS THE POST AND GOES WIDE! Great save by the veteran American.
    • 35' Cole (J) on the right side of the box. He cracks a great low ball across the six-yard box and Drogba dives but cannot get there! He goes to the referee claiming a penalty for a push by Baird, but he should get on with it. That was not a spot kick.
    • 33' Kalou on the left, troubling Baird... he slips a low ball to the near post where Shevchenko arrives to sidefoot just wide! That was hard luck, a good run from the Ukraine international.
    • 13' Davis on the left for Fulham. He crosses to the middle of the penalty area and Dempsey is at the back stick to head... just wide! The Cottagers almost take the lead.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on Chelsea v Fulham from Stamford Bridge.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: M Atkinson

  • Chelsea

    Manager: Avram Grant

    Captain: John Terry

    On the Field

    • Cech
    • Belletti
    • Ben Haim
    • Terry
    • Cole
    • Makelele
    • Sidwell
    • Kalou
    • Shevchenko
    • Drogba
    • Cole

    Subs

    • Malouda
    • Pizarro
    • Cudicini
    • Alex
    • Ferreira

    Injured

    • Ballack
    • Lampard
    • Carvalho

    Suspended

    • Mikel

  • Fulham

    Manager: Lawrie Sanchez

    Captain: Chris Baird

    On the Field

    • Keller
    • Hughes
    • Baird
    • Bocanegra
    • Konchesky
    • Davies
    • Davis
    • Smertin
    • Ki-Hyeon
    • Dempsey
    • Healy

    Subs

    • Murphy
    • Niemi
    • Kuqi
    • Kamara
    • Bouazza

    Injured

    • Bullard
    • McBride
    • Elliott

    Suspended

    None