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8¹ A lovely cross from MIKEL was fired goalbound by VALENCIA only for the 'keeper to claw away. 9¹ A header from CROUCH was nodded off the line by CARLOS MARTÍNEZ. 10¹ RUBÉN snapped at an easy chance. 11¹ GOAL!! CARLOS MARTÍNEZ drove a powerful shot against the woodwork with XABIER PRIETO driving in the rebound. (1-0 Real Sociedad) 14¹ CROUCH was put clear by VALENCIA and he dummied the 'keeper but drilled his shot wide. 15¹ A shot from CROUCH held no problem for the 'keeper. 19¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in MORRISON knocking a low shot wide. 21¹ GOAL!! A tackle from AGIRRETXE gave Chelsea a free-kick thirty yards out which CARLOS EDUARDO fired past the 'keeper. (1-1) 23¹ GOAL!! An outswinging corner was hoofed clear only for AGIRRETXE to fire the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Real Sociedad) 28¹ A shot from AGIRRETXE was smothered by the Chelsea 'keeper. 31¹ A free-kick from RICHARDSON raced wide. 36¹ A wonderful save prevented AGIRRETXE from scoring an exceptional goal. 42¹ GOAL!! A shot from OSCAR dribbled through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted Real Sociedad 'keeper. (2-2) 43¹ The Chelsea 'keeper saved a glorious shot from AGIRRETXE. 2² A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing ITANDJE. 3² XABIER PRIETO clipped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left. 7² OSCAR shot over. 8² GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with CROUCH striking the ball into the back of the net. (3-2 Chelsea) 11² GOAL!! With his back to goal CROUCH wrong-footed the defence and flicked the ball past ITANDJE. (4-2 Chelsea) 18² CARLOS EDUARDO played the ball to OSCAR who touched it over the bar. 18² RICHARDSON headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 21² A corner fell to AGIRRETXE who forced the ball inches wide. 30² The 'keeper stopped a neatly crafted strike from MARTÍNEZ. 33² TOMKINS beat four Real Sociedad players and thundered a great chance over. 35² XABIER PRIETO beat TOMKINS and drilled the ball to ZURUTUZA who dragged his shot wide. 43² A pin-point pass was collected by TOMKINS and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.

Chelsea   League position: 21 Home league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLLLLLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Lukás HRÁDECKÝ 6  1 6  Charles-Hubert ITANDJE James TOMKINS 6½ 2 7  CARLOS MARTÍNEZ Díez Kieran RICHARDSON 7  3 7  Alberto DE LA BELLA John MIKEL 7  4 8  Asier ILLARRAMENDI (c)Gary CAHILL 5  5 6½ Íñigo MARTÍNEZ Ragnar KLAVAN 6  6 6  Gorka ELUSTONDO James MORRISON 6½ 7 7  XABIER PRIETO Argarate(c) OSCAR dos Santos 7½ 8 6  David ZURUTUZA (p)Peter CROUCH 7½ 9 6½ Imanol AGIRRETXE(p) (f)CARLOS EDUARDO Marques 6½ 10 6½ RUBÉN Pardo(f) Enner VALENCIA 7  11 6  Carlos VELA Manager Nikica JELAVIC    12    Liassine CADAMURO Ferdinando COPPOLA    13    Eñaut ZUBIKARAI Miroslav STOCH    14    MARKEL Bergara Edgar MANUCHARYAN    15    Jon ANSOTEGI Shola AMEOBI 8  16    JOSÉ ÁNGEL Valdés

Real Sociedad   League position: 19 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLWWLXLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Chelsea 4 Real Sociedad 2 (Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 23,054, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Gianni Beschin 6) Carlos Eduardo 21¹, Oscar 42¹, Crouch 8², Crouch 11² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Xabier Prieto 11¹, Agirretxe 23¹ CahillóAmeobi 25²           0 3 13 3 0 2 8 7 8 3 16 10 4 5 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Asier Illarramendi ¶