Chelsea Feel At Home Again

Chelsea extended their unbeaten home run in the Premier League to fifty matches with a convincing 4-0 demolition of Watford at Stamford Bridge. The Blues took the lead on twenty seven minutes, as Ricardo Carvalho rode the Hornets tackles to supply a pass to Geremi, whose low right wing cross was missed by Andriy Shevchenko, but Didier Drogba picked up the loose ball, and from close range poked his shot past Ben Foster, in the Watford goal. Drogba struck again in the thirty sixth minute, as he slid the ball past Foster into the left hand corner of the net, after latching onto a through ball by Shevchenko. A brave block by Chelsea goalkeeper, Carlo Cudicini, kept Dan Shittu, at bay, as the Golden Boys created their first chance at goal, in the fortieth minute. In the fifty third minute, a long goal kick by Cudicini, found Drogba unmarked, and his carefully measured pass was chested down by Shevchenko, who rounded Watford goalkeeper Foster, and eased his shot into the back of the net. Drogba gained his first league hat trick of the new season, after Arjen Robben laid the ball off to Geremi, whose low right wing cross, was comfortably stroked home by the Ivory Coast international, as his shot nestled inside the right hand post, on sixty nine minutes. Two minutes later, Blues left back, Ashley Cole’s neat shot and turn, brought a full length save by Foster, as the Hornets goalkeeper tipped the ball away from his left hand post, as the Champions gave the new boys a tough lesson on life in top flight football.