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Commentary
11¹The referee books SMOLAREK.
13¹A cross from MORRISON left UPSON in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
22¹The bemused PSV 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from THATCHER dropped just over.
23¹OLSSON stormed through the PSV defence but shot straight at HEIJBLOK.
28¹A weak strike from ALIEV bounced agonisingly wide.
37¹A accurate pass fell to SMOLAREK and his looping effort floated narrowly wide.
43¹The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce shot from SMOLAREK.
45¹CROUCH booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
THATCHER fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
GOAL!! A cross from EL HAMDAOUI was flicked away by BATES only for JANSSEN to volley the ball back into the box for SMOLAREK to force over the line. (1-0 PSV)
CROUCH dummied TORRADO but drove the ball into the arms of HEIJBLOK.
10²RICKETTS beat three PSV players and fired an effort wide.
11²A header from CROUCH was nodded off the line by THATCHER.
22²MORRISON headed wide.
26²BATES brought the ball away from ESTEVES and poked a poor shot well wide.
28²A penalty box scramble resulted in MORRISON tapping a low shot wide.
31²The PSV 'keeper dived to his left to save a lovely shot from Chelsea's CARLOS EDUARDO.
34²SMOLAREK beat RICKETTS and blasted the ball to THATCHER who blasted his effort wide.
39²GOAL!! A tackle from UPSON gave PSV a free-kick twenty yards out which VLAAR drove past the Chelsea 'keeper. (2-0 PSV)
41²GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by the 'keeper, MANUCHARYAN was first to the loose ball and played the ball to CARLOS EDUARDO to slip home. (2-1 PSV)
44²A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Chelsea 'keeper.
45²A clumsy foul gets VLAAR a yellow card.

 
PSV
 
League position: 18
Home league form: LWWW
Overall league form: WLLWWXWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Erik HEIJBLOK1Ferdinando COPPOLA
Eric ADDO2Sam RICKETTS
Ben THATCHER3Kieran RICHARDSON
Demy DE ZEEUW4Alan SMITH
Ron VLAAR5Per MERTESACKER
(c)Gerardo TORRADO6Matthew UPSON(c)
Anthony OBODAI7James MORRISON
Oleksandr ALIEV8CARLOS EDUARDO Marques
(p)Ebi SMOLAREK9Peter CROUCH(p)
(f)Theo JANSSEN10Martin OLSSON(f)
Mounir EL HAMDAOUI11Edgar MANUCHARYAN
Manager
Anthony LURLING  12  Wilfred BOUMA
Dejan NEMEC  13  Nourdin BOUKHARI
Ernesto CHEVANTÓN  14  Miroslav STOCH
ESTEVES Helder15  Hérita ILUNGA
Joonas KOLKKA  16Matthew BATES
 
Chelsea
 
League position: 13
Away league form: XLWL
Overall league form: WXWLLLWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
PSV 2 Chelsea 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 26,913, Stadium: Philips-Stadion, Referee: Sotirios Vorjas 7½)

Smolarek 6², Vlaar 39²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Carlos Eduardo 41²
de ZeeuwóEsteves 21²OlssonóBates 1²
  
Smolarek 11¹, Vlaar 45² 
22
1410
13
87
68
1415
65
51%49%
Man of the match: Sam Ricketts