review- chelsea vs copenhagen

anelka was in form on th night

a game of less competitiveness ended in chelsea taking away all the points and the massive advantage of 2 away goals as nicholas anelka, who was 5 in 5 before this match, scored both the goals to take his tally upto 7 in europe and give his side a much needed confidence boost!...it was also fernando torres' debut in europe for his new side and much was expected of the spaniard and although he didn score, he was playing much better than he did against fulham in the barclays premier league!
stale solbakken surprisingly changed his formation from what had served them so nicely during the group stage matches which included a draw with spanish giants barcelona!....he played a 4-4-2 with wiland in goal, antonsson, jorgensen, wendt and pospech in defence...domingues de souza, kvist, gronkjaer and bolanos across the midfield and damme and santini in attack...martin vingaard who had basically been there hero during the group stages was left out on the bench...
ancelloti decided to drop drogba for this 1 keeping him on the bench as he continued to try different options to try and make 50 mil pound signing fernando torres fit into the squad!...chel also started a 4-4-2 where cech started in goal with bosingwa, ivanovic, terry and cole making up the defence...ramires, lampard, essien and malouda were the midfield and anelka and torres started upfront!.....
chelsea attacked right from the off and torres had a good oppurtunity in the 6th min when the ball dropped to him quite kindly in the kobenhaven box but the spaniard wasn expecting it and his first touch was a bit too heavy and wiland did well to come and collect the ball from his feet!....then in the 16th min a misplaced back pass from gronkjaer gave the ball straight to anelka who rounded 1 player and made no mistake with the finish!....this was the frenchman's 6th in as many games and he really has been chelseas shining light this season in the champions league!.....
chelsea continued to dominate from their on in and the similar formations meant that most of the football was being played on individual battles and there was never really gonna be any doubt on who has the better squad!....torres had a few chances but still couldn find his chance and anelka continued to be a nuisance for the danish teams defence
SECOND HALF
martin vingaard was brought on finally for santini and basically created copenhagens first real chance of the match with a low driven shot that was saved by petr cech!...
then came the second goal for anelka....essien managed to maintain some good possession in midfield and layed it forward to lampard who produced a beautiful lofted through ball for anelka who finished very calmly!....a few moments later some good footwork from torres put him through on goal but he still couldn get his first goal for the club in what have been so far less but disappointing appearances for the spaniard in the chelsea blue!....chelsea were very comfortable after that and their goal was not under any real threat at all!
carlo ancelloti will be very pleased with his sides result which was required more for a confidence boost than anything!....theyl go to stamford bridge knowing they have a very comfortable 2 away goals advantage and are expected to progress!