A 19th minute strike by Nicolas Anelka gave Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa in a thrilling Premier League encounter at Villa Park. More
90'+3 That's it - all over... a great win for Chelsea. Thanks for joining us, and stay with the site for all the action from the rest of the day's matches.
90' Stunning run from Deco up the left ends in a cross for Ballack, whose thundering shot looks to have sealed it - but a massively impressive save from Friedel keeps it out.
90' Terry bodychecks Agbonlahor to earn a yellow - and from the free kick the fouled player gets the ball, but with his back to goal and he can't get a shot off!
85' Chelsea see both Ballack and Bosginwa booked for timewasting in the space of 60 seconds.
70' Gutsy change from O'Neill, who brings on Jon Carew for centre-back Davies. They desperately want this equaliser!
68' GARETH BARRY SHOOTS!!! Great shot, but Cech saves brilliantly and the follow-up brings another miss. That was a terrific left-foot effort from the Villa midfielder.
55' As Villa start to look more dangerous, Deco comes on for Kalou - Hiddink's first change of the match.
54' A flurry of chances for Villa starts with Agbonlahor making a great run from the left and forcing a brilliant save from Friedel. And from the Corner Milner has a free volley from the far edge of the box, but it's deflected over.
52' Cuellar booked for a ridiculous challenge.
49' Chelsea begin an attack and run up the pitch to force a couple of corners. John Terry hits a great header from the second of them - AND IT'S HEADED OFF THE LINE!!!! Petrov was the man who saved the Villa bacon.
46' We're back in action at Villa Park, and with both sides looing effective - albeit in very different ways - there's no half-time changes to report.
45'+1 Last move of the half comes as Bosingwa crosses in to force a corner as Knight clears from Ballack. But just as Lampard's about to hit the ball, the ref blows for half-time! It's been great entertainment so far... and the second half promises more of the same.
38' GREAT CHANCE FOR VILLA! Ashley Young puts in a great ball from the left, but neither Heskey nor Agbonlahor can quite get on the end of it. There's a suggestion of a foul by Agbonlahor on John Terry in any case, but Villa are showing that they've every chance of getting back in this.
33' Heskey backs in to Bosingwa and inexplicably earns a free kick right outside the box. It's a terrible decision from the ref... but Ashley Young makes a brilliant job of it, rattling the crossbar with a stunning, dipping shot that totally wrong-footed Cech.
32' Cross comes in from the right - and it's Terry with the header...!!! Ooh, great diving save from Friedel, it looked like JT had notched one up there.
28' Great run in from Drogba on the left, who beats one defender and makes it to the six-yard box - only to have a crack straight at Friedel frmo point-blank range. Yet Lampard was unmarked by the penalty spot!
19' GOOOALLLLL!!!! A stunning mid-run jink from Lampard sees him leave his Villa counterparts for dead and gives him time and space to release a perfect through-pass for Anelka. And the Frenchman makes no mistake, chipping over Friedel!! Great goal for Chelsea and what a start for their new Dutch coach!
1' We're in action here at Villa Park, and from the spring in the players' steps you can feel the excitement already.
- As they did in the FA Cup match against Watford last week, Chelsea will start with both Anelka and Drogba on the pitch. Villa, meanwhile, start with Heskey and Cuellar, both of whom we'd expected to miss out with injury.| Aston Villa | Stats | Chelsea |
|---|---|---|
| 39% | Possession | 60% |
| 14 | Shots | 19 |
| 4 | Shots on target | 7 |
| 6 | Saves | 2 |
| 6 | Corners | 12 |
| 12 | Fouls | 8 |
| 1 | Offsides | 2 |
| 1 | Yellow cards | 3 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
| 26 | Tackles | 11 |
| 207 | Accurate passes | 371 |
| 67 | Bad passes | 38 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brad Friedel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | Curtis Davies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Luke Young | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 4 |
| 24 | Carlos Cuéllar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | Zatyiah Knight | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Stilian Petrov | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 8 | 6 |
| 6 | Gareth Barry | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 2 |
| 8 | James Milner | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 4 |
| 7 | Ashley Young | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 2 |
| 11 | Gabriel Agbonlahor | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 1 |
| 18 | Emile Heskey | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 1 |
| 14 | Nathan Delfouneso | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Craig Gardner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | John Carew | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | Brad Guzan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Steve Sidwell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Nicky Shorey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Moustapha Salifou | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petr Cech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | Alex da Dias Costa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Paulo Ferreira | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | José Bosingwa | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3 |
| 26 | John Terry | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | John Obi Mikel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 5 | 1 |
| 13 | Michael Ballack | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 8 | 1 |
| 8 | Frank Lampard | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 5 | 1 |
| 39 | Nicolas Anelka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 1 |
| 11 | Didier Drogba | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Salomon Kalou | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | Anderson Deco | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 43 | Miroslav Stoch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Ricardo Quaresma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Michael Mancienne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Branislav Ivanovic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Henrique Hilário | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Juliano Belletti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
90' Stunning run from Deco up the left ends in a cross for Ballack, whose thundering shot looks to have sealed it - but a massively impressive save from Friedel keeps it out.
68' GARETH BARRY SHOOTS!!! Great shot, but Cech saves brilliantly and the follow-up brings another miss. That was a terrific left-foot effort from the Villa midfielder.
54' A flurry of chances for Villa starts with Agbonlahor making a great run from the left and forcing a brilliant save from Friedel. And from the Corner Milner has a free volley from the far edge of the box, but it's deflected over.
49' Chelsea begin an attack and run up the pitch to force a couple of corners. John Terry hits a great header from the second of them - AND IT'S HEADED OFF THE LINE!!!! Petrov was the man who saved the Villa bacon.
38' GREAT CHANCE FOR VILLA! Ashley Young puts in a great ball from the left, but neither Heskey nor Agbonlahor can quite get on the end of it. There's a suggestion of a foul by Agbonlahor on John Terry in any case, but Villa are showing that they've every chance of getting back in this.
33' Heskey backs in to Bosingwa and inexplicably earns a free kick right outside the box. It's a terrible decision from the ref... but Ashley Young makes a brilliant job of it, rattling the crossbar with a stunning, dipping shot that totally wrong-footed Cech.
32' Cross comes in from the right - and it's Terry with the header...!!! Ooh, great diving save from Friedel, it looked like JT had notched one up there.
28' Great run in from Drogba on the left, who beats one defender and makes it to the six-yard box - only to have a crack straight at Friedel frmo point-blank range. Yet Lampard was unmarked by the penalty spot!
19' GOOOALLLLL!!!! A stunning mid-run jink from Lampard sees him leave his Villa counterparts for dead and gives him time and space to release a perfect through-pass for Anelka. And the Frenchman makes no mistake, chipping over Friedel!! Great goal for Chelsea and what a start for their new Dutch coach!
- As they did in the FA Cup match against Watford last week, Chelsea will start with both Anelka and Drogba on the pitch. Villa, meanwhile, start with Heskey and Cuellar, both of whom we'd expected to miss out with injury.
Aston VillaManager: Martin O'Neill
Captain: Gareth Barry
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ChelseaManager: Guus Hiddink
Captain: John Terry
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90′ o flip chelsea could have done beta

Chelsea

CHELSEA WILL DEFINITELY WIN A CUP THIS YEAR. I HOPE THEY WI THE FA CUP AND CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CUP

come on chels

t fellows pleas look at the stats on this page to seee how better chelsea where and stop talking rubbish for once

master luke speaking

chelsea won !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Aston Villa 0:1 Chelsea

chelsea played the best.

he should be called muss sidink

@#$% villa

We'll still qualify for the champions league above Arsenal, and the best chelsea can hope for is 3rd place, no chance of catching Man Utd, worst thing chelsea did was to get rid of Jose, now they're just a 2nd rate team that will be playing catch up with Man Utd.

admit it chelsea play good football

admit it chelsea play good football

a deserved win after all
for chelsea
keep it up
hiddink is just the man chelsea need
well done anelka

GO CHELSEA-ESSIEN
GO CHELSEA-DROGBA
GO CHELSEA-A.COLE
GO CHELSEA-LAPMPARD THEY RULE ALL OF CHELSEA DOES 1-0
BUT SHOULD OF BEEN 100000000-0

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lucky @#$%'s chelsea , carew should of played from the start , ashley young hit the crossbar , i;m suprised u got anything at all

Love ya blue.... choke a red.
