Fernando Torres scored his first goal for Chelsea as the Premier League champions beat London rivals West Ham United 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. More
90+4' The final whistle goes. Chelsea are now six popints behind leaders Manchester United, West Ham remain bottom of the table, but the biggest story from this match is that Fernando Torres finally scored for Chelsea!
90+3' GOAL!! Malouda makes it three! The Frenchman finally gets on the scoresheet with a rocket of a strike from the edge of the box after he was teed up by Torres and it flies right into the top corner!
87' This from OptaJoe on Twitter: "903 - Fernando Torres ends a run of 903 minutes without a goal (all comps for Liverpool/Spain/Chelsea) by scoring v West Ham." Follow OptaJoe on Twitter!
84' GOAL!! FERNANDO TORRES SCORES HIS FIRST CHELSEA GOAL!! Anelka slips a pass through for the Spaniard and he's in. The ball gets stuck in the mud but he swivels and fires past Green on the turn!
82' West Ham substitution: Victor Obinna replaces Sears.
81' Ba loses as foot race against Luiz and goes on late on the Brazxilian defender. That's a booking for the West Ham striker.
80' Torres involved right away as he draws Green out of his goal before playing a great ball across to Anelka. The Frenchman's effort is headed clear by Gabbidon!
79' West Ham substitution: Frederic Piquionne replaces Carlton Cole.
76' Chelsea substitution: Fernando Torres replaces Drogba, who has been absolutely fantastic today.
75' Lampard's corner is met by Drogba's header and the ball is hacked clear off the line!
74' Spector slips a great ball through to Keane, who timed his run to perfection but the striker fires wide! Should have at least tested Cech there. Another scare for Chelsea.
71' Sears turns past Ashley Cole and squares the ball to Carlton Cole in the area. The West Ham striker tries to swivel and shoot on the turn but he takes far too long and is robbed of the ball! West Ham are not out of this game yet!
70' Chelsea substitution: Nicolas Anelka replaces Kalou.
69' David Luiz lets fly from distance and his shot canons back off the crossbar! Now West Ham break and Ba's strike is parried by Cech beofre Keane fires right at the keeper!
64' Lampard has a pop from range which Green palms away. Malouda is the quickest to pounce on to the loose ball and he fires into the side netting!
63' Another wonerful ball in behind the West Ham defence by Drogba and this time it is Lampard who can't get a vital touch on it!
60' Play will resume with a Chelsea free-kick from the right, which Drogba will deliver. The ball is hit low to Terry's feet on the edge of the six-yard box... The Chelsea skipper compeltely misses the ball! It ran right across him and out for a goal kick.
59' The stretcher comes out for Noble. Robbie Keane will come on in his place.
58' Now Noble has gone down injured. It looks as though he will have to be replaced too.
57' Chelsea substitution: Yossi Benayoun replaces Essien.
55' Essien appears to have hurt his knee again as he planted his foot awkwardly on the ground. The Ghanaian's evening is over. He limps down the tunnel with a Chelsea physio.
52' Terry miscues his clearnace and West Ham get a corner. Da Costa rises highest and gets his header on target... Blocked en route to goal by Mikel!
51' Malouda knocks a cross back into the path of Kalou who side-foots his effort wide!
46' The second half is underway!
45+2' The half-time whistle goes, and it's advantage Chelsea.
44' GOAL!! Chelsea finally break the deadlock in ruthless fashion! Drogba plays Cole in down the left with a wonderful through ball, and the left-back pulls his pass back right into the path of Frank Lamaprd who hammers a first-time strike past Green!
42' It looked like Luiz was out cold for a moment, but he is soon on his feet again.
31' The corner is hoisted high towards the far post and Sears is completely unmarked as he flicks a classy backheel towards goal! Cech is right behind it and catches the ball before berating his defender's for leaving Sears so free.
29' Ivanovic is booked for a late tackle on Ba, or perhaps for dissent afterwards.
26' West Ham break from the Chelsea corner. Sears has the beating of Cole and gets a decent ball across and Spector's diving header forces a good save from Cech! another corner for West Ham.
24' Ba stays on his feet this time, and he fires in a shot from range which stings the palms of Cech! West Ham have their first corner.
18' Malouda cuts in from the left, ghosts past Da Costa and drills a low strike wide of the near post! The Frenchman is cutting through the West Ham defenders whenever he feels like it.
8' It is absolutely hammering it down at Stamford Bridge. The ball skids off the surface and out of Drogba's reach.
7' Thomas Hitzelsperger is booked for a cynical and late trip on Salomon Kalou.
4' The offside flag goes up against Ashley Cole, who has several hand gestures directed at him from the visitiing fans as he goes to collect the ball. The Stepney-born left-back gets no love from his fellow East Londoners then.
3' Florent Malouda is played through by Didier Drogba's backheel... He's one-on-one with Robert Green... Hit right at the keeper and saved! A great chance for an early lead goes begging!
1' West Ham kick off and we are underway! Refereeing this one is Phil Dowd.
17:29 Bridge snubs Terry again! The Chelsea captain does not even bother to extend his hand either after being left hanging last time!
17:05 CHELSEA: Cech, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Terry, Cole, Essien, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba, Malouda. Subs: Turnbull, Torres, Benayoun, Zhirkov, Ferreira, Bertrand, Anelka /// WEST HAM: Green, Jacobsen, Gabbidon, da Costa, Bridge, Spector, Noble, Hitzlsperger, Sears, Cole, Ba. Subs: Boffin, Tomkins, Boa Morte, Kovac, Piquionne, Obinna, Keane.
90+3' GOAL!! Malouda makes it three! The Frenchman finally gets on the scoresheet with a rocket of a strike from the edge of the box after he was teed up by Torres and it flies right into the top corner!
84' GOAL!! FERNANDO TORRES SCORES HIS FIRST CHELSEA GOAL!! Anelka slips a pass through for the Spaniard and he's in. The ball gets stuck in the mud but he swivels and fires past Green on the turn!
80' Torres involved right away as he draws Green out of his goal before playing a great ball across to Anelka. The Frenchman's effort is headed clear by Gabbidon!
75' Lampard's corner is met by Drogba's header and the ball is hacked clear off the line!
74' Spector slips a great ball through to Keane, who timed his run to perfection but the striker fires wide! Should have at least tested Cech there. Another scare for Chelsea.
71' Sears turns past Ashley Cole and squares the ball to Carlton Cole in the area. The West Ham striker tries to swivel and shoot on the turn but he takes far too long and is robbed of the ball! West Ham are not out of this game yet!
69' David Luiz lets fly from distance and his shot canons back off the crossbar! Now West Ham break and Ba's strike is parried by Cech beofre Keane fires right at the keeper!
64' Lampard has a pop from range which Green palms away. Malouda is the quickest to pounce on to the loose ball and he fires into the side netting!
63' Another wonerful ball in behind the West Ham defence by Drogba and this time it is Lampard who can't get a vital touch on it!
60' Play will resume with a Chelsea free-kick from the right, which Drogba will deliver. The ball is hit low to Terry's feet on the edge of the six-yard box... The Chelsea skipper compeltely misses the ball! It ran right across him and out for a goal kick.
52' Terry miscues his clearnace and West Ham get a corner. Da Costa rises highest and gets his header on target... Blocked en route to goal by Mikel!
51' Malouda knocks a cross back into the path of Kalou who side-foots his effort wide!
44' GOAL!! Chelsea finally break the deadlock in ruthless fashion! Drogba plays Cole in down the left with a wonderful through ball, and the left-back pulls his pass back right into the path of Frank Lamaprd who hammers a first-time strike past Green!
31' The corner is hoisted high towards the far post and Sears is completely unmarked as he flicks a classy backheel towards goal! Cech is right behind it and catches the ball before berating his defender's for leaving Sears so free.
26' West Ham break from the Chelsea corner. Sears has the beating of Cole and gets a decent ball across and Spector's diving header forces a good save from Cech! another corner for West Ham.
24' Ba stays on his feet this time, and he fires in a shot from range which stings the palms of Cech! West Ham have their first corner.
18' Malouda cuts in from the left, ghosts past Da Costa and drills a low strike wide of the near post! The Frenchman is cutting through the West Ham defenders whenever he feels like it.
3' Florent Malouda is played through by Didier Drogba's backheel... He's one-on-one with Robert Green... Hit right at the keeper and saved! A great chance for an early lead goes begging!
17:29 Bridge snubs Terry again! The Chelsea captain does not even bother to extend his hand either after being left hanging last time!
17:05 CHELSEA: Cech, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Terry, Cole, Essien, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba, Malouda. Subs: Turnbull, Torres, Benayoun, Zhirkov, Ferreira, Bertrand, Anelka /// WEST HAM: Green, Jacobsen, Gabbidon, da Costa, Bridge, Spector, Noble, Hitzlsperger, Sears, Cole, Ba. Subs: Boffin, Tomkins, Boa Morte, Kovac, Piquionne, Obinna, Keane.
ChelseaManager: Carlo Ancelotti
West Ham UnitedManager: Avram Grant
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jason i think thet you are a gay

Chelsea are a sucker for other teams' leftovers.............Torres 91 goals in 249 appearances for Atletico, 81 goals in 142 appearances for Liverpool (Cost £26 million) and thus far 1 goal in 14 appearances for Chelsea (cost £50 million). Only difference now is that he is closing in on 30 and history shows that he cant stay fit for prolonged periods of time. I would be very surprised if he is more productive at Chelsea than he was at Liverpool simply because I cannot see him getting any better in the speed, fitness or youth department. Abramovich shops with the typical Knightsbridge and Bond Street mentality..................name and price tag are all that matter. For that kind of money this guy should be around a goal per game like Messi and Ronaldo. Despite the money, I dont think that Torres can ever again be in the same company as those guys. In fact Drogba is a far more successful player in the Primiership than Torres...................Roman obviously likes the smell of burning cash. LOL

i was going to come on here and talk about how even though torres FINALLY scored doesn't mean hes back to his best imo stick a striker on the pitch as many times as he was and its inevitable that he will eventually score but im not going to go into that because all of that @#$% has over shadowed something bigger and its going to be hard to say this as a man utd fan but what a come back from chelsea the past few months have been.. ill be honest i was close to putting money on Chelsea not being in the top 4 this season.. should of known better with city thinking they can buy the league and arsenal 'the bottlers' fc

looks like you've had it now Hammers . . . . down you go :-(

Difference between Chelsea and Nottingham Forest?.....................About £2 Billion and 2 EUROPEAN CUPS!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL............only the cream of Europe get to lift the cup and you will never be in the company of Madrid, Barca, Liverpool, Ajax, Munich and Milan. Your rich owner will try his best bust there are things that money cant buy...........namely CLASS and HISTORY......of which your club has very little.

all you chelsea fans that had a go at wayne b should be ashamed of them self how would you feel if one of your mates at work wos doing your wife you sad twats and no its not just banter it broke is family apart were you ther when is poor kids wos sayin why arnt you coming home daddy. dont you think the lad as suferd enough with out you sad pricks havein ago your no better than that prick you call your captain fantastic wayne should have kicked is head in but he didnt cos hes a real man

as a man.u fan im glad torres got is goal i do think if they paid me 130.000 a week even i would have got agoal at some point i glad realy i do think hes a real player and may be chelsea will have a better go at winning some silver next term.lol

TORRES! TORRES! TORRES! Good goal for the lad ends his very long goal drought but Chelsea fans always knew it was coming. Good win for Chelsea still in the title race!

Torres nearly got 2 assists He got a goal and an assist Bit of a glimpse of man of the match unfortunatly he didnt play long enough to be it. I think torres and anelka play well, and one more thing did anyone notice that when torres came on chelsea got 2 goals he set up malouda and he scored his first goal
Could he back to his form????

we should thank to Ramirez because of he didn't play and Chelsea back in form again!

Get Drogba, get Drogba, get Drogba !!! Well done for Torres to finally shake the monkey off his back - will he score more or will this be his only one ???

Torres was a CLASS act at Liverpool, we will remain a Class act at Chelsea.
Lets not get carried away with Suarez, good player no doubt about that, but Torres pure CLASS.
Cream always floats, we all know what sinks.

Noticed Sir Trevor Brooking at the game on Saturday:
Just wonder what he thought about the FILTHY LANGUAGE AND PERSONAL ABUSE pouring from every corner of the ground in the direction of Wayne Bridge. It was appalling, I have never heard such filth being directed at one player for many many years. The so called fans should be ashamed of themselves.
Just wonder what Sir Trevor thought about it, not a lot I dont suppose, as it was not directed at a camera, albeit the filth was echoing around each home that had the game on TV,

torres and sturrige the next strikers for chelsea

As a neutral fan of an average championship side wanting to give an unbiased opinion, i can honestly say the resurgence of Chelsea fc of late has been mainly due to the class and workrate of Didier Drogba ,his performances of late have been outstanding at a time when Chelsea are talking of getting rid of him. The attack of malaria had a devastating affect on him and Chelsea season ,and i thought he would not recover, but he is proving me wrong week on week. Roman dont make the mistake you made with Ray Wilkins and plunge Chelsea back into mediocrity or Harry Houdini at Spurs [ said with affectoin] will surely pounce.

Jodie is a spastic and needs ta tink about wats gonna happen... instead of tinkin about d history ... hu givs a @#$% ??? i dont anyway , chelsea for life man

And I mean some Liverpool supporters, many are perfectly decent (hard to believe sometimes, I know, reading these pages)

jodie, you have no idea about Chelsea fans. Your comment just shows how pathetic some Liverpool supporters can be. YAWN

TORRES FINALLY SCORED!!!!!!
