Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-0 to move to third spot – English Premier League update
Late goals helped Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-0 in an English Premier League encounter at the Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
The Blues now move to the third spot on the League table and become serious contenders for the title.
Chelsea manager, Carlo Ancelotti made several changes to his starting line-up from a stalemate draw against FC Copenhagen in their last game. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-Essien-c25294 returned to the starting line-up to boost up the Blues.
On the other hand, Roberto http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/James-Milner-c17706 respectively.
The game took off in a lively fashion as both teams looked to make early inroads. The visitors enjoyed the early dominance as Yaya Toure forced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Petr-Cech-c29837 into making a brilliant save in the fifth minute. The Ivorian made a good run in the box and his low
drive was nicely saved by the Chelsea keeper.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Joleon-Lescott-c18941 and it seemed to struck his hand but the referee waived play on.
Moments later, Torres played a lovely flick for Ramires but http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vincent-Kompany-c36184 made a fantastic sliding challenge to block his shot.
Minutes after the resumption of second half, Chelsea had a wonderful opportunity to take the lead. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Florent-Malouda-c13838 struck a powerful shot after a wonderful interplay between him, Kalou and Torres but his shot went straight into Joe Hart’s arms. Just after
the hour mark, a free kick from James Milner was headed just wide of the goal by Dzeko.
Chelsea made a double substitution in the 71st minute. Torres’ goal draught continued as he was replaced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nicolas-Anelka-c27786 replaced Malouda.
The Blues then managed to open the scoring in the 79th minute. A lovely free kick from Drogba was headed into the near corner by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Luiz-c10542 to make it 1-0 for the hosts.
City could not threaten the Chelsea goal on regular basis as they were outplayed in the midfield by Essien and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097. The Blues had a tight control over the game and they doubled their advantage just before the full time whistle.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ramires-c30523 made a splendid move and skipped past two defenders before firing the ball into the net to make it 2-0 and seal the game for the Blues.
Chelsea will play their next game against Stoke City on 2 April, 2011 while Manchester City will host Sunderland the next day.
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