West Ham 1 x 3 Chelsea

Another weekend, another solid performance from Chelsea.

I was surprised when I saw the line up for the game with Lampard being left out due to injury and Malouda and Alex on the bench. The only upset about that was that I had both on my Fantasy Football team! I was really happy to Ramires in the starting line up though! I’ve been looking forward to seeing him play.

The game couldn't have started better when Essien jumped high after one minute and 20 seconds to head in a corner from Drogba. After that Chelsea were a bit flatter than usual, but still kept control of the game and defended well against West Ham chances that mainly came from Obina. The second goal came in the most of unusual and comic way. Drogba took a free kick which Green failed to grab it with confidence letting the bounce in front of him. Upson quickly cleared it, but not strongly enough as he sent the ball straight in to Kalou’s heel which sent the ball back lobbing Robert Green (you have to see this one to understand it).



West Ham looked more dangerous for the rest of the game with Obina having a few more changes. Chelsea seemed to be relaxing for the rest of the game and leaving the hard work to the defence. But as they failed to take advantage of their scoring opportunities, we didn’t. In the second half, with seven minutes to go, Ferreira sent and excellent cross to Essien to score his second header of the game. The game looked over now, but West Ham saw a bit of hope when Parker lobbed an incredible ball over Cech. And West Ham even made me nervous when a few minutes later Piquionne headed a sitter against the bar.

It was a good game, even though it wasn’t the most inspired performance I’ve seen from Chelsea. We did the job! I was very happy to see Essien smiling and scoring after spending most of last season in the sidelines with a knee injury. I thought Kalou had a superb game as well and proved that if we need him he can easily be in the first team. It was nice to see the team perform well without two of our most important players, Lampard and Malouda. Well done to Ramires who despite not having an amazing game, looked solid and make some important tackles.

I was very pleased with the result, even more pleased because I saw the way that Man United drew the game with Everton a few hours before. That was a beautiful game! Well done Everton, and it was nice to see Pienaar and Arteta having a good game, I really like those two players.

Now it’s on to the Champions League game against Zilina on Wednesday. Good luck blues.

Just to finish I wanted to wish good luck to Zamora on his leg operation today, let’s hope it’s a clean break and we can see him again in a few months. Now I’m off to see Liverpool and Birmingham. Have a good end of the weekend!

Mrs Footy