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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 7 (setup 1, season 31)
Chelsea
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Federico MARCHETTI18Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
Andrea CONTI2JOÃO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA
Faouzi GHOULAM3Dennis AOGO
BRUNO Soriano Llido84Jérémy TOULALAN
Domenico CRISCITO75Clément GRENIER
Víctor RUÍZ Torre67ADRIANO Correia Claro
Antonio CANDREVA77Darko LAZOVIC
Riccardo MONTOLIVO78Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO
Edin DZEKO79Vurnon ANITA
Max KRUSE106Rafael VAN DER VAART
Diego PEROTTI116Danny GUTHRIE
Dean WilliamsManager
Sébastien CORCHIA12Moritz LEITNER
Gary Alexis MEDEL Soto13Josh LILLIS
SÉRGIO Escudero Palomo14Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, ALEXANDRE PATO
Sergej MILINKOVIC-SAVIC15Samuel ETO'O Fils
RAFFAEL Caetano de Araújo16Jan KIRCHHOFF

Chelsea 3 Rochdale 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 62,465, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Nigel MILLER 7)
29 Ghoulam, 47 Bruno, 82p DzekoScorers
76 Kruse <=> MedelSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings23 Guthrie, 71 Adriano
5Corners1
8Fouls12
10Offsides2
10Shots on6
7Shots off6
17Total shots12
7Shots saved4
56%Possession44%
Man of the match: Federico MARCHETTI
6The Rochdale 'keeper managed to palm clear a powerful shot.
12The Rochdale 'keeper dived to his left to block an accurate shot from Chelsea's PEROTTI.
15The Rochdale 'keeper was able to block a tame header from KRUSE.
16A poor strike from GUTHRIE trickled agonisingly wide.
17KRUSE headed just beyond the near post.
18A header from DZEKO was headed off the line by AOGO.
20ANITA rushed a simple chance.
23GUTHRIE receives a yellow card for a high foul.
29GOAL!! RUÍZ drove an amazing shot against the post with GHOULAM tapping in the rebound. (1-0 Chelsea)
37Uncertainty in the Rochdale defence enabled CANDREVA to thump the ball just beyond the far post.
 
47GOAL!! A long goal-kick from RUÍZ caught the Rochdale defence square and BRUNO nipped in to round the 'keeper and score. (2-0 Chelsea)
52A pin-point pass was collected by PEROTTI and his left foot shot flew narrowly wide.
59GERVINHO worked the ball to AOGO, JOÃO PEREIRA gathered his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of MARCHETTI.
63DZEKO knocked the ball to PEROTTI who nodded it just wide.
68CANDREVA made space on the right and touched the ball to PEROTTI who clipped the ball over.
70The 'keeper saved a glorious shot from LAZOVIC.
71A clever cross from LAZOVIC, was nudged goalbound by ANITA only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
71A clumsy tackle gets ADRIANO a yellow card.
79A perfect shot from GERVINHO was dealt with by a fine parry from the 'keeper.
82GOAL!! Chelsea were awarded a penalty after a foul on PEROTTI, and DZEKO put it past the 'keeper.
87MEDEL pulled away from ADRIANO but flicked the ball into the arms of MUSLERA.
88CANDREVA galloped through the Rochdale defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.