Chelsea move Juan step closer to Wembley
Roberto Di Matteo started the post Villas-Boas era by overcoming a depleted Birmingham side 2-0 on Tuesday night, to set up a home tie versus Leicester City in the Quarter Finals.
Roberto Di Matteo started the post Villas-Boas era by overcoming a depleted Birmingham side 2-0 on Tuesday night, to set up a home tie versus Leicester City in the Quarter Finals.
Chelsea will need to be much more clinical if they are to beat Everton at Goodison this weekend, and they are a top priced 2.6 with Paddy Power to bag all three points.
Chelsea marched into the fifth round of the FAcup after beating local rivals QPR in a one sided encounter. QPR, who failed to sell all their tickets for the derby, lost 1-0 to the Blues who won the game courtesy of a penalty that looked harsh on the home side.
Chelsea squandered their chance to close the gap on the top three when they drew 0-0 at Carrow road.
This weekend was all about tremendous goals and big rivalries taking centre stage.
Sturridge and Malouda were passed fit enough to be on the bench so Ramires again took on the right-side-of-the-attack duties. The defence was unchanged for a third game. Michael Essien, out since the first week of pre-season, was back among the subs.
It was one of those games where the score doesn’t tell the entire story of the game.
The 20,000 goal was scored in the midweek Premier League matches with teams finalising their positions in the table for Christmas.
Daniel Sturridge looked to have won the three points for Chelsea but Jordi Gomez’s late equaliser put an end to that.
The situation in the league is not good for us, it is not impossible to turn it around but it is not the brightest of starts in the Premier League for Chelsea in the last 10 years.