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Wednesday August 15, 2007 Finished Madejski Stadium

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Reading

  • Bikey 29’

Chelsea

  • Lampard 47’
  • Drogba 50’
  1. Chelsea hit back to see off Reading

    Chelsea hit back to see off Reading

    Two second half goals in the space of three minutes from Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba gave Chelsea a 2-1 win at Reading. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Reading
    • Chelsea
    • 90+3 It's all over. Chelsea win 2-1.
    • 90+3' Chaos now in the Chelsea area as first Doyle mishits a shot from 10 yards, then Hunt airkicks!!! Too late for the hosts now. It's all over.
    • 90+2' Cech again comes unconvincingly for a high cross pumped into the area, though gets away with the error of judgement this time!!
    • 85' Chelsea are looking good for the win. Their defence has looked far more steady. The inclusion of Mikel as a screen in front of the defence has allowed Lampard to get forward, and that has been the key to the game.
    • 80' Seol Ki-Hyeon is on for Oster as Steve Coppell looks to rescue Reading a point.
    • 76 Wright Phillips is booked for hacking down Gunnarsson. This is a reasonably bad tempered affair.
    • 72 Kalifa Cisse puts his studs into Pizarro, and sees his second yellow!!! He's off!
    • 68' Chelsea pour forward through Malouda, it's four on three, Malouda switches the play to Pizarro, he chests the ball down...and flashes a shot across goal.
    • 65' Drogba surges down the left channel for Chelsea and puts a low cross in for Kalou, but it's too close to Hahnemann.
    • 64' Doyle with a great chance to bring Reading level on the volley from 10 yards, but he fails to work Cech!
    • 60' Lampard latches onto a loose ball on the edge of the area after a Kalou run, but lashes it well over the bar.
    • 59' Drogba does well to win a corner off Inigmarsson when isolated in the area. Lampard with the cross, but Reading clear.
    • 53' Chelsea continue to apply pressure, and now Pizarro almost bustles his way through Murty, it comes off Hahnemann and back to Pizarro, but he shins his kick wide.
    • 52' Reading had the better of the first half, but in the space of just four second half minutes, Chelsea have fought their way back!
    • 50' Chelsea have the lead!!! No sooner has Frankie Lampard pulled them level than Kalou tees up Drogba on the edge of the area, and he sends a superb curling right foot shot around the dive of Hahnemann!
    • 47' Lampard pulls Chelsea level!!!
    • 46' The second half is underway.
    • 46' Chelsea have made a double switch at half-time. Mikel is on for Sidwell and Pizarro is on for Ferreira.
    • 45+2' Wright-Phillips threads a lovely ball through for Lampard, but somehow he doesn't react to it. he didn't think it would reach him. There's half-time.
    • 45' Doyle runs through three challenges before getting a shot away, which Cech deals with easily.
    • 43' Wright-Phillips skips down the right wing, and Bikey heads his cross out for a corner. Lampard swings it in, Johnson gets his head to it, but Hahnemann makes a comfortable save.
    • 40' Lampard spreads it wide to Kalou, he looks for Drogba in the box, but it's far too easy for Hahnemann, who claims comfortably.
    • 34' Great chance for Oster to make it 2-0 after a superb cross from Doyle, but he can only smash it onto the post, it comes out to Harper, and he smashes the volley over the bar!! Chelsea are in disarray!
    • 33' Cisse drifts a long ball to Hunt at the back post, he leaves it for Doyle, who draws a smart reaction stop from Cech! Reading are rampant!
    • 31' Ricardo Carvalho is off injured and replaced by Glen Johnson. A massive blow for Chelsea.
    • 30' Bikey had only just come on for Duberry! It was his first touch of the game!
    • 29' Andre Bikey opens the scoring after a misjudgement from Cech!!! Ingimarsson headed a cross across goal, Cech came for the ball but only suceeded in flattening Ben Haim and Sidwell, and Bikey was on hand to tap the loose ball into an empty net.
    • 28' Things are getting a little feisty here. Sidwell went flying in on Ingimarsson before, and has now just scythed down Hunt.
    • 25' Carvalho sends Long flying, and is duly booked.
    • 24' Ricardo Carvalho tries a shot from all of 45 yards, though sees it drift well wide.
    • 20' Kalou goes down in the Birmingham are appealing for a penalty under Duberry's challenge, but the referee's having none of it. Chelsea have come back into the game in the last five minutes.
    • 15' Drogba turns Ingimarsson and looks to fire in a long range effort, but somewhat scuffs his shot.
    • 13' Shane Long is booked for a nasty challenge on Paulo Ferreira.
    • 11' Things have quietened down a bit now. Reading remain ambitious.
    • 7' A great start from Reading, and a lively start to the game in general.
    • 5' Tal Ben Haim is forced to make a fine flying block as John Oster lined up a shot. Now Hunt whips in a dangerous corner, and Ingimarsson glances a header inches past the far post!
    • 4' Superb cross from Wright-Phillips for Drogba, he smashes the post with a fine volley, but the flag was up for offside.
    • 2' Reading with an early chance as Hunt finds Oster in the area...he knocks it to the right of Cech and tries to cross for Long, but the Chelsea defence manage to hack clear! Early alarm bells for the visitors!
    • 1' The first half at the Madejski Stadium is underway as Roman Abramovich looks on from the stands.
    • 19:50 Chelsea team: Cech, Ferreira, Ben Haim, Carvalho, Ashley Cole, Wright-Phillips, Sidwell, Lampard, Malouda, Drogba, Kalou; Substitutes: Cudicini, Johnson, Joe Cole, Obi, Pizarro;
    • 19:50 Reading team: Hahnemann, Murty, Ingimarsson, Duberry, Shorey, Oster, Harper, Cisse, Hunt, Doyle, Long; Substitutes: Federici, Gunnarsson, Ki-Hyeon, Bikey, De la Cruz;
    • 19:00 Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's live text commentary of Reading v Chelsea. Kick-off is at 20:00, so join us then.

  • Team Stats

    Reading Stats Chelsea
    38% Possession 61%
    17 Shots 17
    5 Shots on target 4
    0 Saves 0
    4 Corners 11
    17 Fouls 15
    3 Offsides 4
    3 Yellow cards 4
    1 Red cards 0
    34 Tackles 25
    160 Accurate passes 342
    76 Bad passes 50

  • 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
    • Reading
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Marcus Hahnemann 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 6 0
      16 Ivar Ingimarsson 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 10 5 5
      3 Nicky Shorey 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21 20 3
      2 Graeme Murty 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 19 0 3
      29 Michael Duberry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
      4 Khalifa Cissé 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 13 8 2
      15 James Harper 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 12 4 3
      11 John Oster 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 13 0 1
      10 Stephen Hunt 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 25 17 5
      9 Kevin Doyle 0 5 3 0 3 2 0 12 5 0
      24 Shane Long 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 11 9 1
      22 André Stéphane Bikey 1 1 1 2 5 0 0 7 0 7
      19 Ki-Hyeon Seol 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
      6 Brynjar Gunnarsson 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 1
      32 Adam Federici 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Ulises de la Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Chelsea
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Petr Cech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 4 0
      22 Tal Ben Haim 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 26 1 6
      3 Ashley Cole 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 39 12 6
      20 Paulo Ferreira 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 17 1 0
      6 Ricardo Carvalho 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 6 2 0
      9 Steve Sidwell 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 15 0 4
      8 Frank Lampard 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 63 11 2
      24 Shaun Wright-Phillips 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 24 1 0
      15 Florent Malouda 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 29 10 1
      11 Didier Drogba 1 4 2 5 4 2 1 19 2 0
      21 Salomon Kalou 0 2 0 3 1 1 1 19 1 2
      12 John Obi Mikel 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 31 1 1
      10 Joe Cole 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Glen Johnson 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 16 1 1
      23 Carlo Cudicini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Claudio Pizarro 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 23 3 2

  • Summary

    • 72 Kalifa Cisse puts his studs into Pizarro, and sees his second yellow!!! He's off!
    • 50' Chelsea have the lead!!! No sooner has Frankie Lampard pulled them level than Kalou tees up Drogba on the edge of the area, and he sends a superb curling right foot shot around the dive of Hahnemann!
    • 47' Lampard pulls Chelsea level!!!
    • 29' Andre Bikey opens the scoring after a misjudgement from Cech!!! Ingimarsson headed a cross across goal, Cech came for the ball but only suceeded in flattening Ben Haim and Sidwell, and Bikey was on hand to tap the loose ball into an empty net.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Reading

    Manager: Steve Coppell

    Captain: Graeme Murty

    On the Field

    • Hahnemann
    • Murty
    • Duberry
    • Ingimarsson
    • Shorey
    • Oster
    • Cisse
    • Harper
    • Hunt
    • Doyle
    • Long

    Subs

    • Gunnarsson
    • Ki-Hyeon
    • de la Cruz
    • Bikey
    • Federici

    Injured

    • Little
    • Sonko
    • Lita

    Suspended

    • Kitson

  • Chelsea

    Manager: Jose Mourinho

    Captain: Frank Lampard

    On the Field

    • Cech
    • Ferreira
    • Carvalho
    • Ben Haim
    • Cole
    • Wright-Phillips
    • Sidwell
    • Lampard
    • Malouda
    • Drogba
    • Kalou

    Subs

    • Pizarro
    • Cudicini
    • Cole
    • Johnson
    • Mikel

    Injured

    • Ballack
    • Bridge
    • Shevchenko
    • Essien
    • Robben

    Suspended

    None