Venue: Stadium Pod Dubnom (Slovakia)
Kickoff: 7:45
Slovakian Champions Zilina take on English double winners Chelsea in the group F opener. The biggest team news is that captain John Terry has recoverd from a rib injury that he picked up against West Ham on saturday to. Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole have both stayed in London to work on their fitness for Sundays home clash against the so far Premier League suprise package Blackpool. Also Ivorian striker Didier Drogba is banned for the Champions League opener making sure he has now missed the Blues opener in the Champions League for the last 3 seasons. Chelsea have never failed to progress to Champions League knockout stages in eight attempts and are only 5 goals away from 150 Champions League goals.
MSK Zilinas Momodou Ceesay was on trial at Chelsea earlier in his carear but Chelsea opted not to sign him on a perminant.
Chelsea captain John Terry is the only player who will start today who featured the last time these two met way back in 2003. The game was the first of the Abramovic era and Chelsea won the away leg 2-0 goals from Gudjohnsen and and own goal and the Home leg (i was there) 3-0 with goals from Glen Johnson, Robert Huth and Jimmy Floyd.
Carlo Ancelotti has named Chelsea's starting 11 the day before the game and the biggest news is there is a first Chelsea start for Israelian Yossi Benayoun.
CHELSEA STARTING 11:
Petr Cech
Branaslav Ivanovic
Yuri Zhirkov
John Terry
Alex
Jon Obi Mikel
Michael Essien
Yossi Benayoun
Daniel Sturridge
Nicolas Anelka
Florent Malouda
Subs:
Ross Turnbull
Ramires
Paulo Ferriera
Salomon Kalou
Patrick Van Anholt
Gael Kakuta
Josh McEachran
MSK Zilina Starting 11:
Martin Dubravka
Mario Pecalka
Lubomir Guldan
Patrik Mraz
Emil Rilke
Robert Jez
Tomas Oravec
Jozef Piacek
Momodou Ceesay
Babatounde Bello
Admir Vladavic
Subs:
Martin Krnac
Stanislav Angelovic
Vladimir Leitner
Tomas Majtan
Pavol Poliacek
Onderej Sourek
Sergio Vittor
Kickoff: 7:45
Slovakian Champions Zilina take on English double winners Chelsea in the group F opener. The biggest team news is that captain John Terry has recoverd from a rib injury that he picked up against West Ham on saturday to. Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole have both stayed in London to work on their fitness for Sundays home clash against the so far Premier League suprise package Blackpool. Also Ivorian striker Didier Drogba is banned for the Champions League opener making sure he has now missed the Blues opener in the Champions League for the last 3 seasons. Chelsea have never failed to progress to Champions League knockout stages in eight attempts and are only 5 goals away from 150 Champions League goals.
MSK Zilinas Momodou Ceesay was on trial at Chelsea earlier in his carear but Chelsea opted not to sign him on a perminant.
Chelsea captain John Terry is the only player who will start today who featured the last time these two met way back in 2003. The game was the first of the Abramovic era and Chelsea won the away leg 2-0 goals from Gudjohnsen and and own goal and the Home leg (i was there) 3-0 with goals from Glen Johnson, Robert Huth and Jimmy Floyd.
Carlo Ancelotti has named Chelsea's starting 11 the day before the game and the biggest news is there is a first Chelsea start for Israelian Yossi Benayoun.
CHELSEA STARTING 11:
Petr Cech
Branaslav Ivanovic
Yuri Zhirkov
John Terry
Alex
Jon Obi Mikel
Michael Essien
Yossi Benayoun
Daniel Sturridge
Nicolas Anelka
Florent Malouda
Subs:
Ross Turnbull
Ramires
Paulo Ferriera
Salomon Kalou
Patrick Van Anholt
Gael Kakuta
Josh McEachran
MSK Zilina Starting 11:
Martin Dubravka
Mario Pecalka
Lubomir Guldan
Patrik Mraz
Emil Rilke
Robert Jez
Tomas Oravec
Jozef Piacek
Momodou Ceesay
Babatounde Bello
Admir Vladavic
Subs:
Martin Krnac
Stanislav Angelovic
Vladimir Leitner
Tomas Majtan
Pavol Poliacek
Onderej Sourek
Sergio Vittor
MSK ZILINA 1-4 CHELSEA
Oravec 55 Essien 13
Anelka 24,28
Sturridge 48
Anelka 24,28
Sturridge 48
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an early goal is just what we needed to do well in this game and thats what we got