Despite the likes of Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Ricardo Carvalho, Branislav Ivanovic, Jose Bosingwa, Michael Ballack and Deco not featuring Chelsea stormed past Wolves with a 4-0 victory at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea made easy work of the opposition as Florent Malouda, Michael Essien (2) and Joe Cole wrapped up the three points with ease as we kept our home form going and created a new record with our 12th straight win in all competitions, aswell as another clean sheet and John Terry moved above Dennis Wise into second in the record books for the amount of games he has captained the side. With all ...
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As Carlo Ancelotti put Chelsea's stars through their paces for the first time, the Blues boss quickly realised the way to win over his new charges. It would have been understandable if even a manager as experienced as Ancelotti felt a little nervous when he arrived at Chelsea's state of the art training complex in the leafy Surrey countryside in early July. Just weeks earlier the Italian had left the comfort zone of AC Milan, a club that had consumed his life for the last eight years, to coach outside Italy for the first time. As if that wasn't daunting enough, Ancelotti must also ...
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PREMIER LEAGUE NEWS Chelsea fearing loss of Drogba and Essien By Harry Harris, Football Correspondent November 6, 2009 Comment Email Print While Sir Alex begins the mind games by building up Chelsea in the expectation of knocking them down, there is a real fear among the Geriacticos of the Bridge that their championship charge will be hurt more by the African Nations Cup than by Manchester United on Sunday. GettyImages Carlo Ancelotti will miss Didier Drogba's impact. The Geriacticos, the Chelsea Pensioners with the oldest average age in the Premier League, will two of their irreplaceable stars to the tournament after the turn of ...
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