Chelsea lost their unbeaten record in pre-season yesterday afternoon when they went down 2-0 to Rangers at Ibrox. Nacho Novo struck from 20 yards on 86 minutes, and Filip Sebo made sure of the win just a minute later when his shot from a similar range deflected off Ricardo Carvalho and looped over substitute goalkeeper [...]
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A few links that you might enjoy:
Feyenoord 1 - 1 Chelsea: Sky Sports News highlights - Chelsea remain unbeaten in pre-season after a feisty 1-1 draw in Rotterdam. Feyenoord scored first on the stroke of half time through Kevin Hofland - Glen Johnson and Petr Cech were at fault as the Dutchman was left unattended [...]
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I had originally been scheduled to work last week in Southern California so I could attend both games knowing the airfare and hotel was being paid for. Of course, that fell through so that I was obliged to watch both games on TV (the Stanford game was televised on a Spanish only channel I don’t [...]
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Chelsea’s pre-season in America resumes early tomorrow morning with a game against David Beckham’s new club LA Galaxy at the Home Depot Center in Carson City, California. Kick-off is 2am UK time.
Defeats of Mexican side Club América and South Korean champions Suwon Bluewings in the last seven days have left Jose Mourinho pleased at how [...]
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Chelsea kick-off their pre-season against Mexican side Club América at Stanford Stadium, San José early tomorrow morning, 2am UK time.
América is a Primera Divisià³n club based in Mexico City and one of the most popular, hated and traditional football clubs in Mexico, according to Wikipedia.
I’m a regular reader of the Chelsea Blog - I wait patiently after every game to get the blog team’s views. I live in Portland, Oregon, and though a long time fan, sadly confess to having seen the Blues in the flesh only once since 1975 or thereabouts (in Seattle when they played Celtic a [...]
Match reports
The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “Mourinho will have departed reflecting that, for all his fabled resources, it will be important to get Petr Cech and Joe Cole back from surgery and injury. He might conceivably make a mental note to seek conciliation with the disaffected William Gallas. In addition, Claude Makelele’s rest must be well [...]
The traditional curtain-raiser to the new Premiership campaign will be the eleventh meeting between Chelsea and Liverpool since the start of the 2004/05 season. Of the previous ten fixtures three have finished 0-0 (all in the Champions League), while Chelsea have won five (including all four Premiership games) and Liverpool two; combined scoreline: 12-6.
A telling [...]
Shaun Wright-Phillips scored his first goal for Chelsea in what was an entertaining draw at Stamford Bridge - but the friendly status of the fixture means it won’t count as his first official goal for the Blues.
Gary Caldwell put Celtic in the lead in the 10th minute when he escaped the attention of Wayne Bridge [...]
Chelsea’s third pre-season game in five days kicks off at Stamford Bridge later this evening. Scottish champions Celtic are tonight’s opponents in what has been dubbed the “Battle of Britain”.
Last night’s 1-0 win over Feyenoord in Rotterdam was a considerable improvement on the performance against the Major League Soccer All-Stars: the majority of players looked [...]
