Valencia vs Chelsea
Match pulse
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Who won: Chelsea 2-1
Chelsea beat Valencia 2-1 on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at Mestalla. Goals for Valencia: David Villa (9'). Goals for Chelsea: Joe Cole (21') and Didier Drogba (71').
Play by play
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The final whistle has gone, a superb display from Chelsea to come back for a 2-1 victory. Maybe now Chelsea can get their season back on track?
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And that's it!
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Chelsea fall to sleep! Villa pulls out wide on the left and is free! But he falls over when shooting and an amazing chance to level it goes begging
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Time's up now, a free-kick to Valencia at the death
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Zigic goes down in the area. Was Terry tugging him back? No! Play on!
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Valencia and peppering the area with crosses. Desperate scenes for Chelsea
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...he fails to get proper contact on the shot and the ball loops onto the top of the net. A chance wasted
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Chelsea break up the other end, Drogba shows great strength to hold off his man and the loose ball falls to Kalou ten yards out...
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Villa cuts inside looking to get a shot away, there seems to be a pull of the shirt by Ferreira in the box put the ref gives nothing
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Into injury time - not long for Chelsea to hold on now
- 89'
Corner for Valencia. Arizmendi, on for Joaquin, wins the header - there's no direction but a foul is given in Chelsea's favour
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Mikel John Obi gets booked while being substituted - he went off very slowly. Alex is on
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Cech take his time over the goal-kick. All part of the fun.
- 88'
Zigic again wins the ball in the air but his knock back across the area is missed by Silva
- 87'
Valencia push on and the ball breaks for Marchena on the edge of the box - a thunderous shot goes inches wide
- 86'
Now Salomon Kalou comes on for Malouda as Chelsea look to eat up the seconds
- 85'
A change for Chelsea now as Essien, feeling that hamstring, is replaced by Steven Sidwell for his Champions League debut
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Carvalho has taken a knock now and on comes the physio - he got injured in winner the header from the corner
- 83'
Chelsea's corner comes in from Malouda, Carvalho wins the header without any real purchase and Drogba can't get an outstretched boot on the loose ball
- 82'
Essien has a shot and sees it deflected for a corner - and he pulls up with a hamstring injury. Will he recover like Drogba, though
- 81'
Valenica have yet to test Cech other than the goal. You'd espect more from the home side. Very disappointing
- 80'
Marchena gets booked for a late tackle on Carvalho
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Now Joaquin crosses from the right, Makelele heads away
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Again the cross comes in from the right, this time from Miguel, but it's poor and straight into the long arms of Cech
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Free-kick to Chelsea now - 30 yards from goal. Drogba and Malouda take a look at it. It's Drogba, the effort lacks pace and Hilderbrand makes a meal of it but eventually collects
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