Chelsea continued their fine early season form with a 0-6 win over Wigan Athletic, with Nicolas Anelka, fresh from an 18-match international ban, notched his first two of the campaign, with Salomon Kalou also adding a late brace.After last weekend’s utterly disastrous 4-0 home defeat at the hands of Premier League debutants Blackpool, Wigan fans would not be blamed to expect total domination from today’s opponents, and reigning BPL champions, Chelsea but the Lancashire side started out on top.
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| Breakthrough:Florent Malouda nets in first Chelsea goal |
Anelka struck twice after Florent Malouda's opener before Kalou also grabbed a brace. Yossi Benayoun struck in injury time to make it a deadly dozen goals in just 180 minutes of Premier League football this season.Wigan simply had no answer to Chelsea's powerful running and pacy attacking play.And they stand rock-bottom of the Premier League following last week's dismal capitulation to Blackpool.Mohamed Diame's left-footed drive forced Petr Cech into the first save after 11 minutes as Wigan started well.
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| Dancing:Didier Drogba joins in Nicolas Anelka's second goal celebrations |
John Obi Mikel skied an effort over five minutes later before Cech held a drive from Hugo Rodallega.But after barely creating anything of note for 30 minutes, Chelsea stepped up a gear on the half-hour mark and within minutes grabbed the opening goal.It was incisive stuff as Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole combined to tee up Frank Lampard for a close-range poke that was brilliantly tipped away by captain Chris Kirkland.But from the rebound Malouda's reactions were too quick for Maynor Figueroa and he tapped home his third goal of the season.
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| Jumping High:Salomon Kalou heads Chelsea to make it 5-0 |
John Obi Mikel's superb long pass set Anelka racing away three minutes after the restart and Kirkland got his angles wrong to allow the
Frenchman to squeeze home a shot inside the far post.Anelka was offside as he nodded from a close range in his second four minutes later. But Kalou made sure that any injustice did not boil over by finishing off a sweeping move on 78 minutes from Didier Drogba pass.Kalou netted his second in the final minutes with a tidy glancing header before
Benayoun hit the Latics for six with the final goal in injury time after another superb Blues moves from Chelsea right back,Paulo Ferraira.
Chelsea boss,Carlo Ancelotti said after the game,
'this is not real football, this is PlayStation'.
TEAMS:
Wigan Athletic
Chris Kirkland (gk), Antolin Alcaraz, Steve Gohouri, Maynor Figueroa (Boyce 84’), Ronnie Stam, Mohamed Diame (McArthur 80’), Hendry Thomas, James McCarthy (Watson 79’), Hugo Rodallega, Charles N’Zogbia, Mauro Boselli
Subs - Ali Al Habsi (gk), Emmerson Boyce (84’), James McArthur (80’), Victor Moses, Jordi Gomez, Ben Watson (79’), Jason Scotland
Chelsea
Petr Cech (gk), John Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole, Branislav Ivanovic (Ferraira 63’), John Obi Mikel, Frank Lampard, Michael Essien (Benayoun 79’), Florent Malouda (Kalou 70’), Didier Drogba, Nicolas
Anelka
Subs - Henrique Hilario (gk), Yossi Benayoun (79’), Paulo Ferraira (63’), Salomon Kalou (70’), Yuri Zhirkov, Patrick van Aanholt, Fabio Borini
MATCH INFORMATION:
Venue: DW Stadium
Crowd: 14,476
Referee: Mike Dean
Yellow cards:
WA - Mohamed Diame 59’
CH - Branislav Ivanovic 37’, John Terry 61’
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