Minute detail Chelsea 3 vs Olympiacos 0

Minute detail Chelsea 3 vs Olympiacos 0
05.03.08

Champions League 2nd leg against Olympiacos at Stamford Bridge.

Line-up:
Chelsea (4-3-3) Cudicini; Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry (c), Cole; Ballack, Makelele, Lampard (Essien 76); J Cole (Wright-Phillips 79), Drogba, Kalou (Malouda 70).
Manager Avram Grant

Olympiacos (4-5-1) Nikopolidis; Zewlakow, Antzas, Julio Cesar, Pantos; Torosidis (Sisic 76), Patsatzoglou, Ledesma (Belluschi 53), Stoltidis, Djordevic (Leonardo 57); Kovacevic.
Manager Panagiatos Lemonis

Minute detail.

5 CHELSEA GOAL Ballack gets his head onto the end of a Lampard cross and smashes the ball into the back of the net.

25 CHELSEA GOAL Lampard makes it two after Nikopolidis fails to gather a Ballack shot and the ball rebounds into the path of the number 8 who taps the ball beyond the line for our second.

48 CHELSEA GOAL Kalou makes it three from a corner as the ball flies beyond the reach of Ballack after Drogba heads it goal-ward from the near post, Kalou then slots the ball homes as it spins into his path.

Comment

The win against Olympiacos takes it to 60 games unbeaten in all competitions at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea played a convincing game, controlling possession throughout and comfortably securing our place in the nest round of the Champions League.

Didier Drogba made his 50th appearance in the European competition when he started against the Greek champions while Ricardo Carvalho made his 150th appearance for the Blues.

The 3-0 result means Chelsea have scored 7 goals in five days after their 4-0 thumping of West Ham on the weekend.

Source Chelsea FC Official website:
http://www.chelseafc.com/xxchelsea180706/index.html#/page/ArchiveNews/list_2210603_3

Match report

Chelsea will play in the quarter-finals for the fifth time in six Champions League campaigns after a straight-forward victory.

Safe passage to the last eight never looked in doubt from the moment Michael Ballack nodded a fourth minute opener. With Olympiacos falling well below the standard of their non-stop vociferous supporters, Frank Lampard and Salomon Kalou put the result beyond all doubt.

The only blemish on a comfortable night was three bookings suffered when the score was already 3-0. It will be hoped those don't come back to haunt us.

Given short to Lampard, his cross found Ballack at the near post to head home with his marker trailing in his wake. As at the weekend, the two world-renowned midfielders had combined to great effect.
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Lampard, with characteristic anticipation, was on hand to capitalise when the keeper spilled Ballack's shot after Makelele and Terry had headed the ball back towards goal. Think Frank's goal in the famous win here against Barcelona for a comparison. Like Ballack, his was his first in the Champions League this season. With 24 minutes gone, the tie was all but over.

A barnstorming run down the inside left channel by John Terry looked to have presented Ballack witb a golden chance for his second from the edge of the box but the German missed his kick, Joe Cole's follow-up travelling well over.
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Source Chelsea FC Official website:
http://www.chelseafc.com/xxchelsea180706/index.html#/page/ArchiveNews/list_2210603_1