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8¹A penalty box meleé resulted in TRÄSCH cracking a low shot over.
8¹A poor strike from CABAYE trickled agonisingly wide.
10¹A right foot effort from INIESTA was blocked by the Stoke City 'keeper.
11¹Uncertainty in the Chelsea defence enabled TRÄSCH to volley an effort over.
13¹HUSEV knocked the ball to MAURI who turned it wide.
16¹INIESTA placed a left foot shot inches wide from thirty yards out.
21¹GOAL!! A terrible backpass by SHAWCROSS enabled SILVA to nip in and slip the ball past SCHWARZER. (1-0 Chelsea)
25¹COLE dribbled round ALBIOL and stabbed a poor shot wide.
27¹A great effort from COLE scraped the top of the crossbar.
28¹AGÜERO rifled an easy chance past the righthand post.
31¹A refined pass from DIABY was fired goalbound by MAURI only for the 'keeper to claw away.
38¹GOAL!! After SCHWEINSTEIGER was pulled to the ground the ref waved play-on and SILVA went on to easily score. (2-0 Chelsea)
42¹INIESTA made space on the left and knocked the ball to AGÜERO who clipped the ball wide.
44¹TERRY nutmegged ALBIOL but fired the ball into the arms of SCHWARZER.
1²A pin-point pass was collected by MAURI and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide.
2²The hapless Stoke City 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from TRÄSCH fell just wide.
7²HUSEV ran onto a delightful ball from DIABY but toe-poked his shot wide of the goal.
13²GOAL!! A short goal-kick was intercepted by AGÜERO who setup COLE with a simple chance. (3-0 Chelsea)
22²A useful ball from DANI ALVES on the right found IBRAHIMOVIC who mishit his effort over the bar.
23²The Stoke City 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from SILVA.
30²A corner fell to MAURI who touched an effort over.
35²INIESTA scuffed an easy chance.

 
Chelsea
 
League position: 2
Home league form: WWXW
Overall league form: XWWWXWXW
Formation: 3-5-2
Line-ups
Manuel NEUER7 17½Mark SCHWARZER
John TERRY6½26 Christian TRÄSCH
Ashley COLE8 37½Andrea DOSSENA
(c)Vincent KOMPANY6½47 Yohan CABAYE(c,f)
Thomas VERMAELEN7 57 Abou DIABY
Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER7 66½Ryan SHAWCROSS
Sergio AGÜERO6½76½Piotr TROCHOWSKI
David SILVA7 87 Oleh HUSEV
(p)Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC7½97 Robert LEWANDOWSKI(p)
DANI ALVES7 106½Raúl ALBIOL
(f)Andrés INIESTA7 116½Stefano MAURI
Heath BROWNManagerDavid LILLEY
Seydou DOUMBIA  127 Roy BEERENS
Hugo LLORIS  13  FÁBIO Deivson
Fábio COENTRÃO  14  Eric CHOUPO MOTING
Branislav IVANOVIC  15  Andy WILKINSON
Samir NASRI  166 Stephen IRELAND
 
Stoke City
 
League position: 10
Away league form: XLLW
Overall league form: WXXLWLLW
Formation: 4-1-3-2

Statistics
Chelsea 3 Stoke City 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 65,343, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Andy Hall 7½)

Silva 21¹, Silva 38¹, Cole 13²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
 TrochowskióBeerens 22¹, HusevóIreland 10²
  
  
38
719
107
61
87
148
31
56%44%
Man of the match: Ashley Cole