Aston Villa vs Chelsea
Who won: Chelsea 3-0
Chelsea beat Aston Villa 3-0 on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at Wembley Stadium. Goals for Chelsea: Didier Drogba (68'), Florent Malouda (89') and Frank Lampard (90'+5').
Play by play
- 90'
Villa are off to lick their wounds, while Chelsea march on. Thanks for following today's game on ESPN Soccernet. Join us again in 2 hours for El Gran Clasico - Real Madrid vs Barcelona.
- 90'
And the final whistle is blown. Chelsea are in the FA Cup final again, Villa are on the end of a big defeat to Chelsea again.
- 90'
The 3-0 scoreline flatters Chelsea in the end but it's game set and match.
- 90'
Lampard finishes the game in style. Malouda bursts forward and finds Anelka who lays it off to Lampard who cuts inside and shoots from 12 yards.
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GOAL! 3-0 Chelsea
- 90'
Anelka has a chance in a crowded Villa penalty box, but scuffs his shot. Villa hack it away.
- 90'
Should have been 3-0 to Chelsea. Freidel makes a good save from Kalou and Malouda snatches at the rebound when he had time to compose himself.
- 90'
Downing puts in a terrible cross after Milner set him up on a plate down the left.
- 89'
But that's surely it, and Chelsea are within touching distance of their second consecutive FA Cup final.
- 89'
The fourth official has indicated 4 added minutes.
- 88'
It's Malouda for Chelsea. Lampard plays it to Ballack on the right, Ballack puts a perfect cross in for Malouda who taps in at the back post. Very nice goal, and Malouda deserves that.
- 87'
GOAL! 2-0 CHELSEA
- 86'
Chelsea on the attack as Ballack spreads the play out to Anelka on the left, but Anelka slips at the crucial moment and Zhirkov can't keep the ball in play.
- 85'
Heskey has come on and is proving to be a handful. Villa are not giving up easy here.
- 84'
Agbonlahor nearly gets the better of Terry, but Terry does just enough to recover and clear. Terry has been excellent today.
- 83'
Mikel gets a yellow for a late challenge on Milner.
- 83'
Yellow card: Mikel (Chelsea)
- 83'
Lampard hooks the ball to Malouda who is off balance as he shoots. The ball goes wide.
- 82'
Aston Villa sub: Heskey on for Carew.
- 82'
Nice move by Chelsea, started by Ballack. The ball finally gets to Kalou, who cuts in from the left and shoots right-footed just wide of the far post.
- 81'
Drogba is fouled by Downing and then withdrawn. Ancelotti has now used all his subs, with 10 minutes of the 90 remaining.
- 80'
Chelsea sub: Anelka on for Drogba
- 79'
Young puts a cross in from the left, Cech gathers.
- 78'
It's end to end at Wembley. Now Chelsea force a corner, but Mikel is penalised for a foul.
- 77'
Villa win a corner and Downing whips it in from the left. He finds Ashley Young whose header is tame. If Carew was on the end of that it may have been different.
