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In two previous away games in the Premier League, Chelsea defeated Manchester City 0-1 and 0-0 draw with Aston Villa. By game versus Blackburn, coach Carlo Ancelotti has warned his troops to improve their achievement.
However, Ancelotti left instead forced to watch his team ahead by a goal from Benjani Mwaruwari Blackburn at minute 21. Exploiting cross El Hadji Diouf, Benjani gore ball into the bottom left corner of goalkeeper Petr Cech.
Nicolas Anelka bring back hope to win, after the minutes of the 39th succeeded in firing the bait Didier Drogba signed Blackburn goalkeeper and change the position to be 1-1.
Afterwards, Chelsea trying to control the situation by lowering the tempo game and mastery of the ball. However, Blackburn also not stay silent. With high levels of aggressiveness, they force Chelsea to continue the game open.
Chelsea could not avoid the exchange of threats. The game was tough because the execution took place that is not perfect and a number of important actions undertaken goalkeeper rescue the two camps.
That situation continued until the 84th minute, Ivanovic managed to gore Yuri Zhirkov bait from the middle into the penalty box top left corner of the Blackburn goal.
After that, the game had not changed much. The two sides remain consistent play opens in a high tempo. However, different from before, this time no new goal is created until the long whistle sounded.
90 minutes, Chelsea had the ball as much as 66 percent and accurate off three shots from 14 businesses. Meanwhile, Blackburn created four serious threat to the goalkeeper Cech from 14 experiments.
Thanks to these results, Chelsea sit atop the standings with 25 points, or five points ahead of Arsenal in second place. For Blackburn, this result makes them stuck in a position to 17th with nine points.
Line-ups:
Blackburn: 1-Paul Robinson; 5-Gael Givet (3-Martin Olsson 34), 6-Ryan Nelsen, Christopher Samba 4-, 27-Michel Salgado, 10-El-Hadji Diouf (8-David Dunn 80), 12 - Morten Gamst Pedersen, 28-Phil Jones, 7-Brett Emerton, 41-Mame Biram Diouf; 21-Benjani Mwaruwari (30-Jason Roberts 45)
Chelsea: 1-Petr Cech; 3-Ashley Cole, 26-John Terry, 33-Alex, 2-Branislav Ivanovic, 18-Yuri Zhirkov, 12-John Obi Mikel, 5-Michael Essien, 11-Didier Drogba, 15-Florent Malouda (23-Daniel Sturridge 72), 39-Nicolas Anelka (19-Paulo Ferreira 90)
