Chelsea vs Sparta Prague
Final score
Chelsea and Sparta Prague drew 0-0 on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 at Stamford Bridge.
Play by play
- 90'
Chelsea will look at Mutu's late miss and wonder what might have been. But the point guarantees the Blues' progress, now they face Besiktas to top the group
- 90'
Neither keeper had a save to make in this game, which tells you all you need to know. From the start of the second period Sparta looked here for the 0-0 draw, putting men behind the ball, and they got what they came for.
- 90'
And there goes the final whistle
- 90'
Sparta make their final change to make sure there can be no, ahem, more football. Patrik Jezek comes on for Libor Sionko
- 90'
Geremi goes in with two feet on Flachbart, free-kick but nothing else
- 90'
Three minutes to be added
- 90'
...and Mutu fires wide - by a decent margin. That pretty much sums up the game tonight
- 89'
Gudjohnsen puts Mutu clean through, he's one-on-one with Blazek and he must win it for Chelsea...
- 88'
Mutu trips Labant, free-kick to Sparta
- 87'
Melchiot wins the corner for Chelsea, still (slim) hope of a deciding goal. Mutu takes from the right but again it's straight to a Sparta head
- 86'
A defensive change for Sparta, Jan Flachbart comes on for Lucas Zelenka
- 85'
It falls to Lampard on the edge of the box, who's fouled. Geremi strikes the set-piece inches over the bar
- 84'
Duff does brilliantly, gets past his man and squares it across the face of goal only to see Labant hack clear
- 83'
Chelsea are enjoying plenty of the ball, but can't find the breakthrough
- 82'
Sparta have been in the Chelsea box maybe twice in the whole of the second half, they'll take the point
- 81'
Guy Read: 'Next season's home derby between Leeds and Bradford, Division One, of course'. Topical
- 80'
Geremi delivers to the back stick, Terry wins the header and nods it back across the face of goal. Somehow no blue shirt gets on the end of it and Sparta clear their lines
- 79'
Bridge gets past Poborsky but is just caught, that's a free-kick on the left flank and another chance to create
- 78'
Again a poor ball from Duff - straight to Blazek. The hunt for quality continues
- 77'
Lampard does well to get into the box - the defenders are in quickly forcing Lampard to rush and the ball's Blazek's again
- 76'
Chelsea are pressing on now, but haven't tested Blazek once in the whole game
- 75'
We now have an email from James Bond. Crickey! "Want bad soccer? Watch anytime Canada play'. A tad harsh.
- 74'
Mutu latches onto Makelele's long ball, he's forced back and then wastes possession
- 73'
Apparently the Panathinaikos game is running this a close second for 'entertainment'
- 72'
Corner to Chelsea again, surely we have to have a decent ball this time. Duff delivers from the left but only finds the clearing head of Krmas
