El Manchester United borró una diferencia de 0-3 para lograr hoy un dramático empate a tres goles, todo como visitante del Chelsea en partido de la jornada 24 de la liga inglesa de fútbol. El puntero Manchester City aventaja solo por dos puntos a los red devils.

Los futbolistas del cuarto lugar de la clasificación de la Premier League el millonario Chelsea, abrieron el marcador por autogol del norirlandés Jonny Evans, cuando el reloj marcaba el minuto 36.

The two teams have been confirmed for today.Bosingwa starts at left-back, Cahill makes his debut and Essien returns for first start of the season.
Chelsea:
Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Bosingwa, Essien, Meireles, Malouda, Sturridge, Torres and Mata.
Subs: Turnbull, Ferreira, Bertrand, Hutchinson, Romeu, Piazon, Lukaku.

It's a massive game on Sunday and two sides in contrasting situations. Chelsea are not playing as well as we would like to see them playing and are still struggling to create chances and feed Fernando Torres. We find ourselves 12 points behind United.
United, with plenty of injuries are still picking up vital wins and are now back on level par with City.

JOSH. Fortunately, he won't be playing against us. Nevertheless, this is going to be hella difficult.

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Team sheets
Swansea City
Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Allen, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Sinclair, Graham.

Saturday afternoon is without question a huge game as we take on QPR in the FA Cup at Loftus Road. We all know the story that has made headlines from the previous game and the same story will remain the focus on Saturday.
It will be a time for cool heads, for composure and for assurance on the pitch for those players wearing that Chelsea shirt.

I said in my preview that all we wanted primarily was three points today and we got exactly that today but it wasn't easy. We had the game won, then threw it away but picked ourselves up and scored again and then relied on Petr Cech to push a close range header over the bar to ensure we got a great and important three points.

By Alan Duffy

Chelsea 1-3 Aston Villa Premier League 31st December 2011

Coming only days after he was chastised by manager Alex McLeish for being photographed with a hookah pipe and drink in hand, Stephen Ireland rediscovered his best midfield form to inspire the Villans to a superb and surpirsing victory at Stamford Bridge.

Everybody I talked to said the same thing – we were up for it like no other game in recent memory. Not just a derby, this one has become more sour over the last few years. There's a bitter edge to it, compared with the intense but long-standing rivalry with the Arsen*l, heightened by the welcome but unusual sensation of being third and favourites.

This isn't going to be overly analytical of the game, THFC1882 is about to go on it's Christmas holidays! Before that though we take a brief look at Tottenham Hotspur versus Chelsea from The Lane.

On the balance of play both sides will have been satisfied with a point.

By Alan Duffy

Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea Premier League 22nd December 2011

A clash between third and fourth in the table, this heavyweight London derby lived up to its billing, with both sides getting something from a superb game of football.

I simply cannot believe the fact that we have let two important points slip away for two reasons. First of all the calamitous error from Petr Cech to simply gift Wigan their equaliser and secondly the use of our substitutions during the game.
We came into this one on a high after three real important wins against Newcastle, Valencia and City and being honest should have really taken the game to Wigan and got this won early doors.

Andre Villas-Boas hailed his side's patience in coming from behind to defeat previously unbeaten Premier League leaders Manchester City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge.

A terribly shaky defensive start from the Blues allowed City's controversial striker Mario Balotelli to round Petr Cech and open the scoring for the visitors right after the first minute of play.

We excavate this snippet and republish this from our Friday piece as today's action is about to get underway.

The saga continues...

• Chelski vs. Europa's Elite: Man City

Man City now have a but the Premiership trophy to focus on as they, too, departed the Champion's League brackets this week and headed to Europa's minor leagues.

Chelsea took another massive step forward in my eyes last night and received the added bonus with news that Genk had held Bayer to a draw - meaning we topped our group and avoided a nightmare draw in the next round!.
We had wondered if we could build on the Newcastle performance and result, wondered if we could step up on the biggest night of our season so far to ensure that we qualified for the next stages of the Champions League and wondered if by leaving Frank Lampard on the bench - AVB had made a big mistake.

Now that was the performance we wanted after a nervy week at Chelsea. We all knew that the next 9 days could define our season even at this early stage but we desperately needed a win. Newcastle away, especially this season is always a difficult game as I said in my match preview.
We got the win and I have to say, playing better than we have in recent weeks.

Shola Ameobi came on for Ben Arfa in the second half yesterday and almost scored with a terrific shot which thundered off the post with Petr Cech beaten. Shola Ameobi -- all hands to the pump In fact Newcastle hit the woodwork three times yesterday, and just like the game at the Etihad Stadium two [.

By Chris Wright

Chelsea will wade into their final group stage game against Valencia in a fortnight's time needing a win or a goalless draw (because the Spaniards thrashed Genk 7-0) at Stamford Bridge to avoid being farted from the Champions League at the first hurdle ('knocked out' in technical terms) after being pipped at the death by Bayer Leverkusen in Germany last night.

Last night I got stuck at work till 2200 so Sky+'d the game. Obviously kept up to date with the score while I was here and knew we had lost. I was reading twitter comments and some comments posted on here last night and had the impression that this was a shambles and Chelsea had a shocker! My view is far from that and we were hard done by.

Michael Ballack greeted his former side Chelsea to BayArena by leading Bayer Leverkusen to a shock 2-1 win that heaps tremendous pressure on Blues boss Andre Villas-Boas.

In a day of reunions, Ballack went the Zlatan Ibrahimovic way (the Swede scored in Milan's 3-2 loss to his former club Barca) by getting at the end of many good chances, only to be denied by Petr Cech throughout the night.

szólj hozzá: B2-1C

Manuel Friedrich's last minute headed wnner stunned Chelsea whio led 1-0 with just 12 minutes left on the clock. Watch Petr Cech's pathetic attempt to stop it.

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Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Bosingwa, Ramires, Meireles, Lampard, Mata, Sturridge, Drogba.
Only six subs named: Turnbull, Alex, Mikel, Malouda, McEachran, Torres. Presumably Ashley Cole was taken injured/ill late on.
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Team news forthcoming. And, if the Liverpool match wasn't a 'must win', then this surely has to be? For a ton of reasons.

Sidenote: Anelka has been told by the club that he can leave in January.

OK, we have had a couple of days now to get over Liverpool, and get refocused on the next task at hand at that is Leverkusen tomorrow night in the Champions League.
This is our penultimate game of the group stages with Valencia at home to follow and we have qualification by winning the group in our own hands as long we we put in two good performances and getting the right results.

Both of Liverpool's goals against Chelsea were fantastic, strikes which have an excellent chance of showing up on various best-of-season lists. The first showed the benefits of pressing from the front and quick pass and move football, the second direct football at its finest: a cross-field diagonal opening up acres of space for an attacking full-back bombing forward.

Chelsea vs Liverpool 16.00. 20/11/2011

Glen Johnson's struck a late winner at Stamford Bridge as Liverpool offered fresh hope to qualify for the Champions League.

Chelsea's dismal Premier League run under manager Andre-Villas-Boas continued- they have lost three of their last four games in the league.

Chelsea's team this afternoon against Liverpool has been confirmed and it is as follows:
Cech; Ivanovic, D Luiz, JT (c), Cole; Ramires, Mikel, Lampard; Mata, Drogba, Malouda - subs: Turnbull, Bosingwa, Romeu, Meireles, Sturridge, Anelka, Torres.
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So it's been nearly two weeks since our last game at Blackburn following the international break and the players are back at Cobham preparing for a massive game on Sunday against Liverpool.
For the most part of the season at home we have seen a familiar shape to our play, Ashley Cole and Jose Bosingwa are expected to get forward and support our attack, a holding midfielder with two midfielders either side with licence to get forward and a front three.

By Alan Duffy

While Ireland were thrashing Estonia in Talinn on Friday night, six other teams were battling it out for a place in Poland Ukraine next summer.

Slaven Bilic's Croatian side are the closest to booking their place in the finals, after securing an impressive 3-0 win away in Turkey, courtesy of goals from Ivica Olic, Mario Mandzukic and Tottenham's Vedran Corluka.

Headgear. Cech. Facemask. Cech. Chest guard. Not yet. Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech spent a fair chunk of Saturday's match at Blackburn on the ground receiving treatment for a nose injury. He eventually got up and played on with a rather fetching nose bandage in place for the remainder of the game. Now he's emerged with [.

By Chris Wright

After busting his nose against Blackburn at the weekend, Petr Cech has been ferried over to Milan to have a personalised carbon fibre facemask added to his padded helmet in order for him to play for the Czech Republic against Montenegro on Friday...

All well and good, except the good folks over on the Chelsea Facebook page have noticed a worrying pattern in the evolution of Cech's headgear over the last few years.

By Alan Duffy

Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Chelsea Premier League 5th November 2011

With his sixth goal of the season, surely Frank Lampard has finally silenced all those critics who were claiming the England man was a spent force this season.

AVB is under pressure apparently and the media focus this week has been our recent run of poor form. We all know we should have defended better against the Arsenal and beaten Genk this week but is it just a case of being unlucky at not being able to put the ball in the net and it has cost us as Petr Cech has stated?

Hello everyone I am back posting on my blog this morning after a quiet day or so due to work commitments and first up this morning I am concentrating on Petr Cech's recent interview after our recent poor run of results against QPR, Arsenal and Genk.
He was asked about our run of form and conceding sloppy goals.

OK, moving on after the nightmare of last week and the disaster in Genk, Chelsea take a trip to Ewood Park to take on Blackburn this Saturday and I am wondering who AVB will pick to start the game.
We have all seen and discussed the situation with our defending lately and AVB has take time again today to confirm that it is something we are working on in addition to creating and taking our chances to win games rather than miss them and it costs us.

What has happened to the sacred art of defending?

Yet another clash between two of the top six ended with a goal-glut as Arsenal beat Chelsea 5-3 at Stamford Bridge.

Add this result to the 8-2 hammering Arsenal received at Old Trafford and the 6-1 thumping dished out to United by rivals City and it all adds to up to a hell of an entertaining season.

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There is a tendency these days to over-hype every little thing as something special but what we saw yesterday ... well, that was extraordinary. At the end the Arsenal players celebrated as if they'd won a trophy. Normally I'd be cynical about that, it being only one game after all, but not yesterday.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is fully aware that pundits will rip apart Chelsea's deteriorating defense but the Frenchman believes that today's 5-3 win should be attributed to the offensive quality of his side.

The Gunners looked shaky themselves on the defensive front but their relentless attack on the Blues' goal was rewarded with a hat-trick was skipper Robin van Persie as well as a goal apiece for Andre Santos and Theo Walcott.

Earlier we covered Arsenal's 5-3 win at Stamford Bridge from an Arsenal perspective.

Here is the Chelsea viewpoint of the match from our Chelsea site:

I cannot remember a worse defensive performance by Chelsea than what we saw today. Almost from the opening whistle, it seemed like both teams said lets forget about defence and see who can score more goals than the other.

szólj hozzá: C2-3A [Fb.com/1Goals]

Theo Walcott scores a fantastic goal to give Arsenal a 3-2 lead at Chelsea with a piece of magic before hitting his shot past Petr Cech at over 100mph.

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