Chelsea has managed to win the double when they clinched the FA Cup on Saturday.
A week earlier Chelsea wrapped up the premiership with a convincing 8 nil win against Wigan athletic at Stamford Bridge. The 41 thousand crowd witnessed a goal fest with Didier Drogba scoring a hatrick with resulting in him winning the Golden Boot award for scoring the most goals in the 09/10 Premier League season. The team also set an impressive record by scoring the most ever goals scored in a Premier League season with scoring 103 goals. Chelsea didn’t have too much time so celebrate because a week later they had to front up at Wembley to take on Portsmouth in the FA Cup Final.
The FA Cup saw the top of the table Chelsea take on the bottom of the table Portsmouth. Everybody expected a repeat of Chelsea vs Wigan with the FA Cup being a goal fest and Chelsea running away with the victory.
This could have very well been the case with Chelsea hitting the wood work 5 times which included a terrible miss by Salomon Kalou in front of an open goal in the first half and Portsmouth’s goal keeper David James pulling off some great saves. Portsmouth defence held the forever attacking Chelsea and played a good pressing defence but at times played a bit deep and gave the likes of Drogba and Anelka too much room to take the ball into the box allowing them to turn their defender and have a shot on goal.
Portsmouth looked very dangerous on the counter attack especially when Dindane (Portsmouth’s man of the match) had the ball at his feet, time and time again he beat his defender but at times there wasn’t enough support players for him.
On the 56 minute mark Portsmouth won a penalty and looked certain to take the lead but Kevin-Prince Boateng pulled his shot to the left and Petr Cech managed to save the shot with his legs as he dove full stretch to his left. 3 minutes later Chelsea gained a freekick and Drogba stepped up and just as he has done time and time again for Chelsea he took it superbly hitting it slightly over the wall whilst dipping to the bottom right of the goal. Not even a full stretch James could pull this save off, as the ball hit the inside of the right post.
In the 87 minute Chelsea had the chance to put the game out of reach for Portsmouth as they won a penalty of their own. Frank Lampard stepped up and just has Boateng did he dragged it left but missed the goal completly.
The final whistle blew and Chelsea won 1 nil leaving a happy Fabio Capello and his side winning the double.
What is install for Portsmouth, who knows as they will be playing in the Championship next year and the club is £135million in debt, and the players who just played in the FA Cup will most certainly not be playing Portsmouth next season.
A week earlier Chelsea wrapped up the premiership with a convincing 8 nil win against Wigan athletic at Stamford Bridge. The 41 thousand crowd witnessed a goal fest with Didier Drogba scoring a hatrick with resulting in him winning the Golden Boot award for scoring the most goals in the 09/10 Premier League season. The team also set an impressive record by scoring the most ever goals scored in a Premier League season with scoring 103 goals. Chelsea didn’t have too much time so celebrate because a week later they had to front up at Wembley to take on Portsmouth in the FA Cup Final.The FA Cup saw the top of the table Chelsea take on the bottom of the table Portsmouth. Everybody expected a repeat of Chelsea vs Wigan with the FA Cup being a goal fest and Chelsea running away with the victory.
This could have very well been the case with Chelsea hitting the wood work 5 times which included a terrible miss by Salomon Kalou in front of an open goal in the first half and Portsmouth’s goal keeper David James pulling off some great saves. Portsmouth defence held the forever attacking Chelsea and played a good pressing defence but at times played a bit deep and gave the likes of Drogba and Anelka too much room to take the ball into the box allowing them to turn their defender and have a shot on goal.
Portsmouth looked very dangerous on the counter attack especially when Dindane (Portsmouth’s man of the match) had the ball at his feet, time and time again he beat his defender but at times there wasn’t enough support players for him.
On the 56 minute mark Portsmouth won a penalty and looked certain to take the lead but Kevin-Prince Boateng pulled his shot to the left and Petr Cech managed to save the shot with his legs as he dove full stretch to his left. 3 minutes later Chelsea gained a freekick and Drogba stepped up and just as he has done time and time again for Chelsea he took it superbly hitting it slightly over the wall whilst dipping to the bottom right of the goal. Not even a full stretch James could pull this save off, as the ball hit the inside of the right post.In the 87 minute Chelsea had the chance to put the game out of reach for Portsmouth as they won a penalty of their own. Frank Lampard stepped up and just has Boateng did he dragged it left but missed the goal completly.
The final whistle blew and Chelsea won 1 nil leaving a happy Fabio Capello and his side winning the double.
What is install for Portsmouth, who knows as they will be playing in the Championship next year and the club is £135million in debt, and the players who just played in the FA Cup will most certainly not be playing Portsmouth next season.
