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Drogba Makes Successful 60 mins Comeback

Flying High
By Since66
September 1 2008
The reserves of Woolwich and Chelsea put on a wonderful entertaining game of football this evening at Barnet's Underhill stadium in front of a crowd of nearly 2,000 and in front of Woolwich's manager Arsene Wenger. For me the game was a game of four quarters.

What I mean is that Woolwich had the first quarter, Chelsea had the next two quarters and Woolwich had the last quarter and in all those quarters - goals were scored!!

Woolwich took the lead as Randall skipped through the Chelsea defence before chipping over a sprawling Rhys Taylor.

Chelsea equalised when Tejera slotted in at the far post from a Drogba cross after Didier showed his strength on Chelsea's left and leaving Woolwich youngster Agogo trailing in his wake.

Tejera 1

In the third quarter, Chelsea took the lead as Paim (sub for Didier) showed his tricks before supplying a 40 yard cross-field pass to Stoch out on Chelsea's right, Stoch crossed low and Woods with virtually his first touch of the game drilled the ball home.

Woods 2

Chelsea went 3-1 up when van Aanholt stole possession from Woolwich and charged into the Reds area, the ball broke loose and Scott Sinclair was on hand to fire the ball high and right into Woolwich's net.

Sinclair 3

Chelsea had a chance to go 4-1 up, when Stoch fired a free-kick shot against the post.

This miss seem to re-galvanise Woolwich who controlled the last quarter of the game and their 2nd goal came from a Fonte free-kick after Magnay committed a foul right on the edge of Chelsea's area.

For his trouble, Magnay was booked.

Chelsea had to resist a final Woolwich surge and Welsh international 'keeper Rhys Taylor was very very busy in the last ten minutes as he helped to keep Whinger's babes at bay.

Didier lasted 60 minutes, Paim replaced him and it was a welcome boost to see the big man back and Paim looked like a good piece of business as he worked hard in attack made Chelsea's 2nd goal and worked hard in completing his defensive duties too.

Teams:

Woolwich: Wojciech Szczesny, Abu Ogogo, Gavin Hoyte, Kyle Bartley, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Francis Coquelin (James Dunne 59), Mark Randall (Rhys Murphy), Fran Merida, Jay Simpson, Rui Fonte.

Chelsea: Rhys Taylor, Nana Ofori-Twumasi, Jeffrey Bruma, Carl Magnay, Patrick van Aanholt, Sergio Tejera (Michael Woods 58), Liam Bridcutt, Jacob Mellis, Scott Sinclair, Didier Drogba (Fabio Paim 58), Miroslav Stoch (Ricardo Fernandes 86)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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