A tricky away tie at Sunderland and Carlo rotates the team dropping Le Sulk, Malouda and Jedi in favour of Deco, Ballack and Salomon Kalou. Ivanovic replaces Ricky but he big surprise is that Shevas on the bench - is this shades of the Tinkerman ?
Well its almost a carbon copy of Saturday as the Blues batter the Black Cats for the first 15mins yet go behind to a Daren Bent goal as he slots home after a Kenwyne Jones's shot breaks loose. The pattern continues despite the goal but Ballack, Drogba and Deco all miss good chances and again the diamond shape is making for some very congested play. On 45mins Ballack has a shot cleared off the line from a Deco corner and then Cattermole blocks a goal bound effort from Bozzy. The half ends with the Blues behind against he run of play.
No changes for the second half but its a different Chelsea as Cole and Bozzy sart bombing on from the start. Within 10mins we're level after going close with headers from Ivanovic and the Drog, Ivanovic flicks on a corner and Ballack slots home from 8yards out. Its all Chelsea now and 10mins later McCartney brings Droga down in the box and Lamps steps up to slot home the penanlty. Its 2-1 and a completely different game now. The Drog nearly makes it 3 but heads over from a superb cross from Ash but a 3rd goal comes moments later as Deco drills home a superb strike from the edge of the box. Its all Chelsea now and in quick succession Malouda, Sturridge and Sheva (yes that Sheva) join the fray replacing Kalou, Drogba and Deco respectively.
It ends 1 - 3 with the Blues absolutely dominant. Now, we've gotta stop giving teams a goal start because better teams will punish us - Come on you Blues
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