Chelsea vs West Bromwich Albion

1. 90'

   Until then, goodbye!

2. 90'

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3. 90'

   Malouda was superb for Chelsea and Drogba will win the plaudits for his hat-trick, but in truth Chelsea reached nowhere near their best form today. But still came away six goals to the good.

4. 90'

   A day to forget for West Brom, who will desperately need to improve if they are to have a decent chance of staying up. They came to Stamford Bridge, but never played football. Graham Dorrans was the only plus for West Brom with a strong display, despite the loss.

5. 90'

   The win was never in doubt for Chelsea, who cruised to victory without moving out of second gear.

6. 90'

   <b>And that's it! Chelsea win 6-0!</b> A handsome win for the champions put them top of the Premier League table.

7. 90'

   <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/goal.gif"> <b>GOAL! 6-0 Chelsea!</b> Malouda makes it six after picking up Anelka's inch perfect through ball, rounding Scott Carson, and shooting in with his right foot from inside the box. The ball cannoned in off the right hand post.

8. 88'

   Fantastic cross by the substitute Barnes is put low into the corridor of uncertainty from the right and only just evades Miller, who was making a great run into the box.

9. 86'

   ... a corner which Chelsea clear.

10. 85'

    West Brom's best chance falls to Brunt. A pacy breakaway sees Brunt given the ball on the edge of the box, a neat shuffle on the edge of the box gets him away from Terry, but his left foot shot is blocked by Alex and goes out for a corner.

11. 83'

    <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif"> <b>Barnes for Thomas (West Brom)</b>

12. 82'

    <i>ESPN Stats & Info: Didier Drogba has become the 7th player to score a hat-trick on the opening weekend of a Premier League season.</i>

13. 80'

    <i>ESPN STts & Info: Frank Lampard has now scored 6 goals in opening weekend Premier League matches, only Shearer (8) & Sheringham (7) have more.</i>

14. 78'

    ... Malouda gets the ball up and over the wall but it doesn't have enough power to trouble Carson.

15. 77'

    Chelsea won another free kick 25 yards from goal. Malouda has put the ball down like he means business...

16. 75'

    Malouda fights and tussles his way down the left wing before putting in a low cross for Anelka, who can't quite get enough power on his toe poke to trouble Carson for a sixth time.

17. 73'

    His side won't face Chelsea every week but West Brom have been really, really poor today. Chelsea only started playing 10 minutes into the second half.

18. 71'

    Roberto Di Matteo, bless him, is sitting with his head bowed. He may even be crying. Not an ideal introduction to the uncompromising business of Premier League management.

19. 69'

    West Brom look bedraggled, it could be said.

20. 69'

    Drogba is replaced by Kalou soon after finding the net for the third time of the afternoon.

21. 67'

    <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif"> <b>Kalou for Drogba (Chelsea)</b>

22. 66'

    <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif"> <b>Cox for Bednar (West Brom)</b>

23. 65'

    <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/subs.gif"> <b>Miller for Dorrans (West Brom)</b>

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    <img src="http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/gp10/i/goal.gif"> <b>GOAL! 5-0 Chelsea!</b> And it's hat-trick for Drogba. Or is it an own goal? Drogba picks up Ashley Cole's pass on the left hand side, steps beyond the challenge of Jara and drives it beyond Carson. But it took a BIG deflection on it's way through.

25. 63'

    <i>ESPN Stats & Info: Didier Drogba has scored more than one goal in six of his last 13 Premier League starts.</i>

Leaders

CHEWBA

Total Shots

Florent Malouda

5

Chris Brunt

3

Accurate Passes

Michael Essien

77

Chris Brunt

53

Saves

Alex

1

Scott Carson

5