CSKA Moscow vs Chelsea
Who won: Chelsea 1-0
Chelsea beat CSKA Moscow 1-0 on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at Lokomotiv Stadium. Goals for Chelsea: Arjen Robben (24').
Play by play
- 90'
At that's your lot. A professional job by Chelsea but not without riding out some early pressure from the home side at the startof each half. Duff and Robben shone and look like they can play together against any opposition. The goal they worked between them was worth watching for alone. Chelsea are the first team through to the next round and on this evidence deserve it.
- 90'
Ball is finally worked out of the corner and, witht he last attack of the game, CSKA go close. A wonderful flighted diagonal ball picks out Gusev on the right and his first time cut back is heading for a CSKA man until Terry typically gets in the way.
- 89'
Free-kick won by the flag and, yes, it's a short one...
- 88'
Free-kick for Chelsea down by the left corner flag is only going one place with the score as it is. All crowded round the corner for a little while then eh?
- 87'
Chelsea fans already celebrating as the visotors are controlling the end of this half.
- 86'
A purposeful run from Duff and a clever through ball encourages Lampard to hit it first time across the keeper. It was going in but the keeper was well placed to deal with it.
- 84'
Not so happy to see a burning flare land next to him that requires the intervention of the local fire brigade.
- 83'
Jarosik goes close with an acrobatic scissor kick on the edge of the box after Terry could only head on a decent corner. Cech is pleased to see it sail just wide of his left hand post.
- 82'
Ferreira comes bombing forward but without retaining control of the ball and he is grateful for Tiago to halt the resulting CSKA break with a deliberate foul that escapes further punishment. I beleive that is what they term 'professional' play.
- 81'
Tiago is afforded an enormous amount of space in the CSKA half into which to stride before letting fly from 25 yards. He had plenty of time to line it up but instead blazed it high and wide. Very poor.
- 80'
Final substitution for CSKA is Kirichenko for Love.
- 79'
Kezman latched on to a quick throw to get behind the CSKA defence and send over an intelligent cut back that very nearly broke to Robben.
- 77'
Olic shows a bit of fustration in chasing down Makelele and fouling him all ends up. His is the latest name in the referee's notebook.
- 76'
The pace has gone out of this game and you suspect that has happened deliberately on Chelsea's part.
- 75'
Chelsea free-kick out wide on the right is one from the training ground but doesn't quite come off. Robben ran over it then Lampard cut it to him to shoot but the pass was a little hard and Robben just sliced it as he fell over. Nice idea lads, but practice a bit more next time.
- 74'
And again. Kezman chased down a soft back pass but Akinfeev just gets there to clear before the Serb slides straight through his legs when there was no need. A yellow card is shown and rightly so.
- 73'
All kezman is doing in trying to make an impact on this game is go around and foul people.
- 72'
Huge free-kick played into the CSKA box is all the way Akinfeev's until Kezman gave him a shove to concede a foul.
- 71'
Olic is welcomed to the game by a boke shaking but fair challenge from Terry on the edge of the box.
- 69'
A more adventerous move from the home bench sees the popular Semak (a hard working midfield man) replaced by Croatian Ivica Olic (a busy striker).
- 68'
Kezman's first contribution is to shoot and miss.
- 67'
Another like for like swap from Chelsea as Gudjohsen gets a rest and the now prolific (one in one) Mateja Kezman gets a run.
- 66'
A rare Chelsea second-half attack has Duff crossing from the left for Robben who is crowded out.
- 65'
Chelsea substitution is a curious one as Tiago replaces Parker. A like for like swap when it looks like Chelsea need to reorganise their formation to deal with an ever improving CSKA side.
- 64'
Johnson rides his luck a bit considering he is on a yellow card by cutting down Zhirkov again but the referee takes no further action.
