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0¹ HUNT waltzed round CANI and rifled a weak shot wide. 6¹ RICARDO stopped a clever shot from SAMARAS. 11¹ The ref yellow cards CANI for a poor tackle. 16¹ A twenty yard shot from CANI caused the Chelsea 'keeper little difficulty. 27¹ GOAL!! After being forced wide SAMARAS was able to ram the ball in from the tightest of angles. (1-0 Zaragoza) 32¹ MARCELO MATTOS receives a yellow card for a high tackle. 33¹ A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper. 46¹ CANI's shot was well held by RICARDO. 2² SAMARAS was put clear by MARCELINHO and he turned the 'keeper but glanced his shot just beyond the near post. 4² A free-kick from PIZARRO flew wide. 6² PIZARRO scuffed a simple chance. 7² HUNT nodded the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 11² GOAL!! A strike from SAMARAS which the 'keeper was able to block seemed to have crossed the line and the referee gave the goal. (2-0 Zaragoza) 13² LEO FRANCO saved a glorious shot from PIZARRO. 16² CAVANI made space on the right and pulled the ball to BEN ARFA who rasped the ball wide. 21² The stunned Chelsea 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from N'ZOGBIA dropped just wide. 23² ALDONIN booked. 26² PIZARRO booked by the ref. 30² A weak shot from BEN ARFA rolled agonisingly wide. 31² A pin-point pass found PIZARRO and his right foot effort went narrowly over. 32² A good ball from N'ZOGBIA on the right was collected by PIZARRO who scuffed his shot inches wide. 41² SAMARAS rattled an easy chance past the righthand post. 42² RIISE headed just beyond the near post.

Chelsea   League position: 15 Home league form: WXWX Overall league form: XWLLXOWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups RICARDO Alexandre 6½ 1 6½ LEO FRANCO (c)Jamie CARRAGHER 7½ 2 7  Wes BROWN Aleksandar KOLAROV 6½ 3 8  John Arne RIISE Alberto AQUILANI 7½ 4 6½ Hatem BEN ARFA Nicky HUNT 6  5 6½ MARCELO Mendonca MATTOS TIAGO Cardoso 6½ 6 6  MANUEL PABLO García(c) Charles N'ZOGBIA 6½ 7 6  MARCELINHO Evgeni ALDONIN 7  8 7  Rubén CANI (p)Claudio PIZARRO 6½ 9 6½ Georgios SAMARAS(p) (f)LIÉDSON da Silva 6½ 10 5½ Mauro ZÁRATE(f) David DEGEN 6½ 11 8  Edison CAVANI Manager Scott SINCLAIR    12    ÁNGEL Martinez Yves Makabu MA-KALAMBAY    13    Sergei PESYAKOV LÉO    14    ADRIÁN Lopez Juan VERÓN    15    ÓSCAR González Anthony GRANT    16

Zaragoza   League position: 11 Away league form: LLXL Overall league form: WLLLLLXX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Chelsea 0 Zaragoza 2 (Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 38,117, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Morgan Norman 6)   Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Samaras 27¹, Samaras 11²         Aldonin 23², Pizarro 26² Cani 11¹, Marcelo Mattos 32¹ 5 4 6 27 1 2 2 5 6 6 8 11 2 3 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: John Arne Riise ¶