[EPL] Chelsea 7 - 1 Aston Villa ; Lampard shines with 4goals
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CHELSEA VS ASTON VILLA
- Live @ Starhub's Football Channel 27
- Saturday, 11pm.
Chelsea welcome Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge on Saturday and Carlo Ancelotti's men should be in confident mood after their thumping win at Portsmouth on Wednesday evening.
The Blues smashed Avram Grant's side 5-0, with Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba at the double.
Frank Lampard nodded home a late fifth to put the pressure on Manchester United at the top of the table.
They now trail the Red Devils by a single point and a win against the Villans would certainly turn the heat on their nearest rivals ahead of their highly anticipated clash next weekend at Old Trafford.
Chelsea seem to have put their Champions League loss to Internazionale out of their system and another three points at Stamford Bridge is a must.
Martin O'Neill and his men have Champions League qualification aspirations of their own but back-to-back draws against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sunderland has made their quest that bit more difficult.
They now trail fourth placed Tottenham Hotspur by four points and occupy seventh spot in the table.
Ancelotti will have to do without Branislav Ivanovic for a further month after picking up a knee ligament injury.
Ashley Cole has returned to light training after his fractured ankle and Michael Essien's knee problem will keep him out.
Goalkeeper Hilario (groin) could make the bench, but full-back Jose Bosingwa (knee) is unlikely to return before the end of the campaign.
O'Neill has an almost full-strength squad to choose from with Nigel Reo-Coker (ankle) his only absentee.
Chelsea will be striving to gain revenge on Villa after their surprising 2-1 loss at Villa Park on October 17. -
2-1 now
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4-1 to chelsea.
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if only chelsea play like this, they wouldnt have lost to inter milan.
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4-1
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
if only chelsea play like this, they wouldnt have lost to inter milan.
it's not that chelsea dont want to play like this against inter. but inter doesn't 'allow' blues to play their own team. in other words, inter is stronger than villa.
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FT Chelsea [7 - 1] Aston Villa 15' [1 - 0] F. Lampard 
28' S. Petrov 
29' [1 - 1] J. Carew 31' Y. Zhirkov 39' Deco 44' [2 - 1] F. Lampard (pen.) 48' P. Ferreira 57' [3 - 1] F. Malouda 61' R. Dunne 62' [4 - 1] F. Lampard (pen.) 68' [5 - 1] F. Malouda 83' [6 - 1] S. Kalou 90' [7 - 1] F. Lampard -
Chelsea 7 Aston Villa 1
Frank Lampard grabbed four as Chelsea demolished Aston Villa to soar back to the top of the Barclays Premier League table.
Lampard's quartet made him third-highest scorer in the club's history - eclipsing legends Roy Bentley and Peter Osgood with 151 goals.
Lampard was assisted by a double from Florent Malouda and another from substitute Salomon Kalou as Carlo Ancelotti's side smashed in 12 goals in four days.
Chelsea have now scored 82 goals so far this season and apart from John Carew's first-half equaliser, the Blues were in cruise control for long periods.
The victory put them back in front of Manchester United by two points although Sir Alex Ferguson's side play Bolton in the early evening kick-off.
Chelsea, who left 30-goal top scorer Didier Drogba on the bench, started brightly enough with Deco finding Nicolas Anelka inside the Villa penalty area in the third minute.
But the France international, given the task of leading the attack in place of Drogba, shot into the arms of Brad Friedel at his near post.
Drogba, who scored twice in the 5-0 midweek demolition of Portsmouth, was rested according to the club's assistant coach Ray Wilkins.
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rubbish.....villa players were so slow to react to everything.....after the opening 30 mins we did nothing at all......
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the way how zhirkov play.. is like robben =.=
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First time i saw Villa kena 7-1 thrashing
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Kelong lah..................
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a pity.. blues hitting form now, if only, and if only they are still in the UCL.. what a pity..
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
Kelong lah..................
halo,fair and square la, don't anyhow say, wanna kanna "Elbow"is it?