2010/2011 season summary – Chelsea (Part 4)
After winning against Spartak Moscow in the UEFA Champions League, Chelsea assured their qualification in the knockout stages of the European competition.
Chelsea played their second “big four” match against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786’s downfall started from 11th November 2010 when their assistant manager Ray Wilkins was fired without Carlo Ancelotti being notified. Wilkins joined Chelsea for the second time in 2008 but Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC, did
not feel the need to keep him at the club. Wilkins was soon replaced by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-c25261 Emenalo.
Within three days, Wilkins’ firing caused havoc. Chelsea suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of a mid-table side Sunderland. The London side lost their second game in a span of one week. It was for the second time that Chelsea lost a home game 0-3 since
Manchester United winning with the same score line back in 2002.
On 20th November 2010, Chelsea failed to win against an easy opposition, Birmingham City. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ben-Foster-c7445 made some outstanding saves to help his side win
all three points from this difficult fixture.
On the other hand, Manchester United won their weekend clash against Wigan Athletic and they managed to shorten the gap on the points table to only one point.
On 23rd November 2010, Chelsea won the match against MSK Zilina despite not playing the full first team players. The match was won 2-1 with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Florent-Malouda-c13838 scoring for the London side. With this win Chelsea managed to top
their group in the UEFA Champions League.
Chelsea played their last fixture of the year 2010 against Bolton Wanderers. The match was played at the Stamford Bridge and with Chelsea winning the game 1-0 it meant that it was their first win in six English Premier League games.
Chelsea’s New Year took a thrilling start. Their first fixture was against Aston Villa scheduled to be played on 2nd January 2011. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ciaran-Clark-c9247
scored in injury time to equalize and take a point from the difficult fixture.
Chelsea’s next fixture was only three days later when they had to face the bottom of the table side – http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952. Wolves shockingly won the game 1-0, leaving Chelsea fifth in the Premier League points table. In the last seven weeks, Chelsea had managed to drop
from the first position to the fifth position in the English Premier League.
Four days later, Chelsea started their FA Cup campaign with a thrashing to Ipswich Town. The match was scheduled to take place at the Stamford Bridge and Chelsea won 7-0 in their home ground.
Chelsea finally picked up some form and after defeating Bolton Wanderers 0-4 at the Reebok Stadium, Chelsea saw their third consecutive league win.
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