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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 30 (setup 1, season 31)
Rochdale
v.
Chelsea
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Nestor 'Fernando' MUSLERA Fernando17Lukasz FABIANSKI
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
JOÃO Pedro da Silva PEREIRA27Stephan LICHTSTEINER
ADRIANO Correia Claro3Faouzi GHOULAM
Wesley SNEIJDER4ALLAN Marques Loureiro
Jan KIRCHHOFF557Domenico CRISCITO
Dennis AOGO67Raúl ALBIOL Tortajada
Gervais Yao Kouassi, GERVINHO777Antonio CANDREVA
Darko LAZOVIC87Riccardo MONTOLIVO
Samuel ETO'O Fils97Edin DZEKO
Rafael VAN DER VAART6107RAFFAEL Caetano de Araújo
Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, ALEXANDRE PATO117Diego PEROTTI
ManagerDean Williams
Vurnon ANITA12Andrea CONTI
Josh LILLIS13Thomas STRAKOSHA
Clément GRENIER14Marcel HALSTENBERG
Danny GUTHRIE15Sergej MILINKOVIC-SAVIC
Moritz LEITNER167Franck RIBÉRY

Rochdale 4 Chelsea 2
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 40,506, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Goran MARKOV 7½)
1 Eto'o, 13 Lazovic, 24 Eto'o, 90+3 Eto'oScorers9 Dzeko, 73 Raffael
72 Kirchhoff <=> GuthrieSubstitutions51 Allan <=> Milinkovic-Savic, 66 Montolivo <=> Ribéry
Sendings off
5 Eto'oBookings
10Corners4
6Fouls17
7Offsides19
5Shots on5
8Shots off7
13Total shots12
1Shots saved3
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Sergej MILINKOVIC-SAVIC
1GOAL!! A terrible backpass by ALBIOL enabled ETO'O to run in and drill the ball past the Chelsea 'keeper. (1-0 Rochdale)
4A cross from SNEIJDER left ALEXANDRE PATO in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
5The ref books ETO'O for a bad challenge.
9GOAL!! Chelsea's DZEKO beat two defenders before firing just inside MUSLERA's near post. (1-1)
13GOAL!! A AOGO run down the left resulted in a low cross for LAZOVIC to fire in. (2-1 Rochdale)
24GOAL!! An outswinging corner was nodded clear only for ETO'O to hit the ball into the back of the net. (3-1 Rochdale)
27A penalty box scramble resulted in ALEXANDRE PATO tapping the ball over.
28The motionless Rochdale 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from VAN DER VAART dropped just wide.
33CANDREVA floated the ball to RAFFAEL who nodded it wide.
34ADRIANO beat four Chelsea players and slammed an effort inches over.
35A neatly crafted cross from RAFFAEL, was knocked goalbound by PEROTTI only for the Rochdale 'keeper to claw away.
 
49A free-kick from RAFFAEL flew wide.
52RAFFAEL shot over.
53A mix up in the Chelsea defence enabled KIRCHHOFF to hit an effort over the bar.
57LAZOVIC made space on the right and knocked the ball to ADRIANO who clipped the ball wide.
60MILINKOVIC-SAVIC's shot was well held by MUSLERA.
64A delightful strike from RAFFAEL was dealt with by a useful block from MUSLERA.
70JOÃO PEREIRA booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
73GOAL!! CRISCITO made space for RAFFAEL who, after an interchange of passes twenty-five yards out, rammed the ball past the Rochdale 'keeper. (3-2 Rochdale)
80A pin-point pass was collected by GERVINHO and his left foot effort flew narrowly over.
81CANDREVA fluffed a simple chance.
84A shot from VAN DER VAART seemed a certain goal but FABIANSKI managed to fist the ball clear.
85RAFFAEL waltzed round AOGO and stabbed a weak shot wide.
87LAZOVIC ran onto a great ball from VAN DER VAART but fumbled his shot wide.
90+2RAFFAEL rifled a simple chance past the righthand post.
90+3GOAL!! A wonderful shot from SNEIJDER was pushed away by FABIANSKI only as far as ETO'O who shot the ball past the stranded FABIANSKI. (4-2 Rochdale)