Chelsea vs. FC Copenhagen: Nicolas Anelka scores a brace to hand Chelsea the advantage ahead of the 2nd leg
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nicolas-Anelka-c27786 scored a brace for Chelsea, who go into the second leg at the Stamford Bridge with a luxury of two away goals.
Stale Solbakken named a strong line-up against the Blues. Dame N’Doye and Cesar Santin started upfront in a 4-4-2 formation for the hosts.
Carlo Ancelotti also made host of changes to his side that lost to Everton in the fifth round of FA cup at the weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044 was relegated to the bench.
The game started in a very lively fashion for the visitors, who enjoyed a long spell of possession in the opening minutes. They came close to scoring in the 12th minute, when Torres fed Anelka, who thumped a shot at goal but the host defender
made a vital interception to deny him.
Soon after, Chelsea found the opener, Anelka was given acres of space just outside the box, and the striker thrashed the ball past the diving http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Johan-Wiland-c18809 to make it 1-0. Chelsea continued to press high on the field as they totally dominated the game; the
English team had 70% of the possession in the first half hour. The Blues were easily the dominant team in the first half as they went into the break relatively untroubled by the home side.
The second half started, with the hosts trying to find an equlaizer, as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Petr-Cech-c29837 dived to his right to save it.
Just before the hour mark, Anelka doubled his and Chelsea’s tally for the evening. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097 played a lovely pass to Anelka in the box, and the Frenchman dashed onto it and hammered it past the keeper to make it 2-0.
Chelsea almost got their third immediately after the Anelka goal, but Wiland made a fine save to deny Torres. The hosts were totally anonymous and were nowhere to be seen. Chelsea on the other hand continued to threaten the hosts and cruised to a 2-0 win,
in a rather comfortable away game.
The second leg of the tie will be played at Stamford Bridge on the 16th of March 2011.
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