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Saturday March 15, 2008 Finished Stadium of Light

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  1. Chelsea coast to Sunderland win

    Chelsea coast to Sunderland win

    Chelsea beat Sunderland 1-0 at the Stadium of Light in a result that leaves both the title race and the battle against relegation wide open. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Sunderland
    • Chelsea
    • 90+4 That was indeed the last kick of the match, and Sunderland now risk starting next week in the relegation zone! Thanks for joining us, remember this is just the start of our LIVE football action for this evening, so stick around!
    • 90+3 Dean whitehead has the chance to equalise right at the death... HE SHOOTS JUST WIDE OF CUDICINI'S GOAL!!
    • 90+1 Evans trips up Kalou and Chelsea have a free kick in a good position here. Drogba looks to be the one who'll take it... Drogba STRIKES... It dipped viciously over the wall but was wide of the post on the other side. That strike was similar to Ronaldo's against Portsmouth, though obviously not as good!
    • 90' Sunderland look to fashion one final chance, and the cross comes in for JONES... Wide! There will be three minutes of added time.
    • 88' Wright-Phillips is onto the forward ball like a whippet, but Gordon is there just in time to smother the ball.
    • 86' Grant Leadbitter is replaced by Ian Harte for the final few minutes. Expect Sunderland players to start going down with ease trying to earn free-kicks for the Irishman.
    • 84' The introduction of Essien looks to have come at the perfect time, as chelsea bid to contain the late surge that Sunderland are beginning to mount.
    • 82' Joe Cole will make way for Shaun Wright-Phillips for the last ten minutes.
    • 80' Sunderland have got chelsea pinned back in their half at the moment, but are unable to break them down. Terry clears the ball forward for Prica and it's a corner. It comes to PRICA... Again nodded wide!
    • 75' Leadbitter is on the ground after colliding with Ashely Cole. He walks off the field, and will walk back on again.
    • 73' It's actually Ballack who makes way for Essien, while Roy O'Donovan comes off for Dwight Yorke.
    • 72' Whitehead runs onto Prica's short ball and fires a dangerous cross into the goal that Mikel has to slide in and clear for a corner!
    • 70' Kalou wins a foul from Bardsley out on the left-hand side, and Lampard stands over it. There is a nervous air as the cross comes in, but it's cleared initially and the move ends when Mikel blasts over the bar. That may be his last contribution, as Michael Essien is waiting on the touchline.
    • 65' Joe Cole bursts through the centre and feeds the ball out wide for drogba to cross in for Lampard who just can't get his head on the ball for what would have been an easy finish!
    • 63' Credit to Roy Keane, he's going after this game. He replaces Carlos Edwards with the rather useful Rade Prica.
    • 61' Nosworthy intercepts a great Chelsea move and initiates a break forward. Sunderland have the numerical advantage but Whitehead plays up to Jones in an offside position and the chance is wasted.
    • 58' The crowd are statrting to get behind Sunderland again, and the home side are playing some good football. Edwards knocks a pass back to Nosworthy but it goes past him and Drogba could be in! Nosworthy sees the danger and gets to the ball first!
    • 54' The set piece goes to the far post and COLLINS... Headed wide of the post from close range! A great chance for Sunderland to draw level!
    • 53' Confusion as Cudicini comes off his line but Alex tries to haed a long ball backwards. The ball falls to LEADBITTER... Another good save by Cudicini! Corner to Sunderland!
    • 50' Lampard lifts over a diagonal ball into the box. Drogba chests it down and PULLS THE TRIGGER... Collins knocks it out of his path! And now Joe Cole on the follow-up... Way over the bar!
    • 48' Joe Cole knocks it past Collins and gets the cross in. It comes all the way to the far post for KALOU... BLAZED WELL WIDE! The Ivorian completely shanked the best chance of the match! In fairness the ball came to him at pace but he really should have done a lot better.
    • 46' No changes from either side, and Chelsea get the second half up and running!
    • 45+2 Mike Dean blows for half time! Chelsea are cruising this one at the moment.
    • 45+1 Joe Cole slips in a ball to Lampard at the byline, and he SHOOTS.. Gordon gets down low to save but spills it... Nosworthy hacks away before Drogba can strike!
    • 45' Leadbitter is forced to hack a cross behind for a corner. Gordon comes out but is nowhere near it! Bardsley heads away!
    • 42' Ashley Cole is canny enough to win a corner as Bardsley was shepherding the ball our for a goal kick. The set piece comes to nothing, but it's yet another black mark against Bardsley in this match.
    • 40' Cudicini slides out to collect as O'donovan chases down a loose ball. The Italian squares up to him after Alex was left on the ground. Referee Mike Dean calms things down, and gives O'Donovan a talking to, but nothing more.
    • 36' Leadbitter holds the ball up well on the left and plays it across to O'Donovan, who lets the ball run across him before unleashing a right-footed shot... Wide of the near post.
    • 35' There's a bit of a lull in the match at the moment, which is a polite way of saying that Sunderland have had more of the ball. Given time and space to put their collective foot on the match, Roy Keane's side are spirited but unimaginative.
    • 30' Sunderland surge forward through Jones. Edwards's non-descript ball forward rebounds off a Chelsea player and back into his path, but the momentum is gone.
    • 29' Leadbitter sends in a cross from deep that is aimed right onto the head of O'DONOVAN... He rose above Alex and Terry but couldn't get the power on it to beat Cudicini!
    • 28' Drogba has time to cross and Bardsley makes a hash of the clearance and almost presents it to Lampard! Nosworthy clears the danger.
    • 26' It takes a lot to shrug Jones of the ball, and Mikel fouls him trying right on the edge of the Chelsea box. Andy Reid will try his luck... Curled over the wall, bound for the top corner... SAVED BY CUDICINI!!
    • 25' Whitehead gets the better of Joe Cole, who ends up on the floor in midfield. Cole chases the Sunderland captain down to have go at him, but replays show he's getting angry for nothing.
    • 23' Jones and O'Donovan combine to find Reid on the left, but his hooked ball back across the box is not followed by any of his team mates.
    • 20' Cole and Kalou are taking it in turns to give Bardsley a hard time on the left wing, and they are both enjoying themselves on that side. It's going to be a long day for the ex-Manchester United full-back.
    • 18' Joe Cole battles his way past Bardsley to the byline and pulls the ball back across goal... No one there! Big scare for Sunderland!
    • 17' Here's a rarity, Frank Lampard comes back and puts in a neat tackle on Leadbitter to take the sting out of an interesting Sunderland break.
    • 14' A nice bit of head-tennis almost sees O'Donovan in but Alex heads away. Sunderland aren't rattled by the goal, and are patiently playing the ball around on the deck, which Chelsea seem to be very happy with at the moment.
    • 10' GOAL!! Lampard swings in the corner and John Terry rises highest to glance a header past Gordon into the top corner! It took just 10 minutes for them to break the deadlock, are we looking at another Derby?
    • 8' Mikel plays a ball through for Drogba to latch onto... Great tackle by Evans! Chelsea still have it and now JOE COLE.. Blocked for a corner!
    • 6' O'Donovan and Terry compete for Jones's flick-on, and as they go into the Chelsea box the Irishman goes down... No penalty! Terry was walking a line with what is acceptable in his attempts to stop O'Donovan, but the Sunderland forward seemed a little tyoo keen to go down.
    • 4' Ashley Cole bundles over Carlos Edwards by the touchline, but the referee gives nothing. Chelsea have had most of the ball so far.
    • 1' Right away Bardsley dithers when dealing with a long ball forward, and Kalou pounces to win the ball and get into the Sunderland box! The area is full of Red-and-Whites, and the danger is cleared. The home side then go up the other end and Reid wins a corner, but it's dealt with well by the Blues defence.
    • 1' Welcome to Eurosport's LIVE coverage of Sunderland v chelsea from the Stadium of Light! Chelsea will be aiming to make up ground on Arsenal to just two points, while Sunderland are desperate to increase their two-point gap above the relegation zone. This should be a good match. We'll see now as we're underway!

  • Team Stats

    Sunderland Stats Chelsea
    43% Possession 57%
    14 Shots 15
    4 Shots on target 3
    1 Saves 2
    7 Corners 7
    10 Fouls 8
    4 Offsides 5
    2 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    27 Tackles 14
    230 Accurate passes 335
    47 Bad passes 64

  • 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
    • Sunderland
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Craig Gordon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 0
      44 Jonny Evans 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 20 3 1
      15 Danny Collins 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 23 12 8
      26 Phillip Bardsley 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 21 0 5
      5 Nyron Nosworthy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 1 2
      18 Grant Leadbitter 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 16 1 2
      8 Dean Whitehead 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 40 7 4
      7 Carlos Edwards 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 11 0 1
      20 Andy Reid 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 19 10 2
      23 Roy O'Donovan 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 7 1 2
      17 Kenwyne Jones 0 3 1 0 1 2 0 12 4 0
      19 Dwight Yorke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 3 0
      6 Paul McShane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Ian Harte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
      45 Rade Prica 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 3 0
      32 Marton Fülöp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Chelsea
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      23 Carlo Cudicini 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 1 0
      33 Alex da Dias Costa 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0
      3 Ashley Cole 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 40 18 1
      20 Paulo Ferreira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 0 3
      26 John Terry 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 29 2 1
      10 Joe Cole 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 21 1 0
      13 Michael Ballack 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 26 9 3
      8 Frank Lampard 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 43 17 1
      12 John Obi Mikel 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 50 7 2
      11 Didier Drogba 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 14 3 0
      21 Salomon Kalou 0 2 0 1 4 2 0 25 6 3
      7 Andriy Shevchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Ricardo Carvalho 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Michael Essien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
      40 Henrique Hilário 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Shaun Wright-Phillips 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90+3 Dean whitehead has the chance to equalise right at the death... HE SHOOTS JUST WIDE OF CUDICINI'S GOAL!!
    • 90+1 Evans trips up Kalou and Chelsea have a free kick in a good position here. Drogba looks to be the one who'll take it... Drogba STRIKES... It dipped viciously over the wall but was wide of the post on the other side. That strike was similar to Ronaldo's against Portsmouth, though obviously not as good!
    • 90' Sunderland look to fashion one final chance, and the cross comes in for JONES... Wide! There will be three minutes of added time.
    • 80' Sunderland have got chelsea pinned back in their half at the moment, but are unable to break them down. Terry clears the ball forward for Prica and it's a corner. It comes to PRICA... Again nodded wide!
    • 72' Whitehead runs onto Prica's short ball and fires a dangerous cross into the goal that Mikel has to slide in and clear for a corner!
    • 65' Joe Cole bursts through the centre and feeds the ball out wide for drogba to cross in for Lampard who just can't get his head on the ball for what would have been an easy finish!
    • 54' The set piece goes to the far post and COLLINS... Headed wide of the post from close range! A great chance for Sunderland to draw level!
    • 53' Confusion as Cudicini comes off his line but Alex tries to haed a long ball backwards. The ball falls to LEADBITTER... Another good save by Cudicini! Corner to Sunderland!
    • 50' Lampard lifts over a diagonal ball into the box. Drogba chests it down and PULLS THE TRIGGER... Collins knocks it out of his path! And now Joe Cole on the follow-up... Way over the bar!
    • 48' Joe Cole knocks it past Collins and gets the cross in. It comes all the way to the far post for KALOU... BLAZED WELL WIDE! The Ivorian completely shanked the best chance of the match! In fairness the ball came to him at pace but he really should have done a lot better.
    • 45+1 Joe Cole slips in a ball to Lampard at the byline, and he SHOOTS.. Gordon gets down low to save but spills it... Nosworthy hacks away before Drogba can strike!
    • 29' Leadbitter sends in a cross from deep that is aimed right onto the head of O'DONOVAN... He rose above Alex and Terry but couldn't get the power on it to beat Cudicini!
    • 26' It takes a lot to shrug Jones of the ball, and Mikel fouls him trying right on the edge of the Chelsea box. Andy Reid will try his luck... Curled over the wall, bound for the top corner... SAVED BY CUDICINI!!
    • 18' Joe Cole battles his way past Bardsley to the byline and pulls the ball back across goal... No one there! Big scare for Sunderland!
    • 10' GOAL!! Lampard swings in the corner and John Terry rises highest to glance a header past Gordon into the top corner! It took just 10 minutes for them to break the deadlock, are we looking at another Derby?
    • 8' Mikel plays a ball through for Drogba to latch onto... Great tackle by Evans! Chelsea still have it and now JOE COLE.. Blocked for a corner!
    • 6' O'Donovan and Terry compete for Jones's flick-on, and as they go into the Chelsea box the Irishman goes down... No penalty! Terry was walking a line with what is acceptable in his attempts to stop O'Donovan, but the Sunderland forward seemed a little tyoo keen to go down.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Sunderland

    Manager: Roy Keane

    Captain: Dean Whitehead

    On the Field

    • Gordon
    • Bardsley
    • Nosworthy
    • Evans
    • Collins
    • Whitehead
    • Edwards Substitution Out (61′)
    • Leadbitter Yellow Card Substitution Out (85′)
    • O'Donovan Substitution Out (73′)
    • Reid
    • Jones

    Subs

    • Harte Substitution In (85′)
    • Yorke Substitution In (73′)
    • Prica Substitution In (61′)
    • McShane
    • Fulop

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Chelsea

    Manager: Avram Grant

    Captain: John Terry

    On the Field

    • Cudicini
    • Ferreira
    • Terry Goal
    • Alex
    • Cole
    • Mikel Yellow Card
    • Lampard
    • Ballack Substitution Out (73′)
    • Cole Substitution Out (82′)
    • Kalou
    • Drogba

    Subs

    • Wright-Phillips Substitution In (82′)
    • Shevchenko
    • Essien Substitution In (73′)
    • Carvalho
    • Sampaio

    Injured

    • Cech

    Suspended

    None