Chelsea 5 - 0 Blackburn

After the excitement of another European night at the Bridge where Atletico Madrid took a 4-0 drubbing (though in truth we could have been 2 down withing 9 mins) its back to the domestic game for the visit of Blackburn. The "rested" Carvalho is back with Ivanovich moving to right back for Bozzy and Joe Cole replaces Deco in behind The Drog and Le Sulk. The surprise is that Belletti starts at left back rather than Zirkov for the injured Ashley Cole

Inside 30secs a cross-field ball finds Lamps who jinks into the box and lifts a ball to Joe Cole who heads wide from 8yrds - the flag stayed down and it looked a sitter. On 10mins Ballack feeds Lamps and he strikes a glorious curling shot which files just wide. It's all Chelsea at the moment and the pressure pays off with a superb counter attack on 19mis as Cole deftly collects a clearance and finds Ballack who feeds Anelka out wide and his cross is turned into his own net by Givet with Drogba closing in. Its 1-0 and the Blues are coasting. Ballack whips in a cross on 30mins which finds Lamps but his header is just wide and just 2mins later a beautiful sweeping move involving Lamps, Cole and Belletti finally releases Anelka in the box but Robinson is out quickly to close him down. Here's the danger though, as Cech comes for a long throw and misses the ball completely. Luckily it comes to nothing and play sweeps to the Blackurn end as Drogba tries on from 35yrds that forces Robinson into a fine save. Its already 11 - 1 in goal attempts but still only one nil. In the 2 added minutes Robinson saves Blackburn twice - once from a sharp JT volley and then from the resulting corner he's down again to a Drogba header.

No changes at half time but the Blues are 2 up inside 2mins, as Essien feeds Drogba and his pull back is buried by Lamps, and then 3 up 5mis later as Essien drives a swerving thunderbolt past Robinson from a good 35yrds out. On 58mins, Drogba wriggles free in the box only to be brought down by Ryan Nelsen and Lamps makes it 4-0 from the spot. This is becoming a rout as Ferrera replaces Belletti and Drogba heads home a Ballack corner to make it 5-0. New young (just 17) Dutch centre back Jeffrey Bruma replaces Carvalho on 65mins as Chelsea continue to carve Blackburn open with virtually every attack. Joe Cole comes off to a huge ovation from the Stamford Bridge faithful as he's replaced by Sturridge for the final 12mins. Chelsea are just stroking the ball around as 3mins of added time goes up on the board but this time runs down without any more goals. It end 5-0 to the mighty Blues.