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Jose Mourinho © AFP

footballslive.blogspot.com - Chelsea coach 'Jose Mourinho' expressed his hope to win at home against West Brom this weekend at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea are now in the top of the standings and won a record unbeaten so far. And now comes the test against West Brom.

Mourinho revealed in a press conference, he predicted the game against West Brom will be walking difficult. Therefore, the Portuguese coach is hoping his team can come back to win.

"I hope to win. But I also hope that this game runs very, very difficult," he said.

"They have a good team, they could give us a very tough game. They know that they can get a good result against us, because they never get it before," he said.

Mourinho Not Worried, Notes Four Yellow Card Diego Costa

Diego Costa © AFP

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists he will not rest Diego Costa though he has collected four yellow cards.

Name former Atletico Madrid this season is always in the spotlight in every game involving Chelsea. Is a hamstring injury that often makes him doubt will be sidelined for Chelsea.

And ahead of the game against West Brom, in a press conference Mourinho insists he did not have the intention to rest Costa. According to him, he was not concerned with a yellow card notes Costa.

"Christmas period is new to him. He has been working hard with the club physio, even when there are international break," said Mourinho.

"He has collected four yellow cards, which means he will miss when you get a yellow card again. But if I am going to protect him? No!" said Mourinho.

Diego Costa has so far scored 10 goals in 12 matches in all competitions for Chelsea.

footballslive.blogspot.com - Duel of two teams still chasing the Premier League title Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield occurred on Sunday (27 / 04 ). This action is presented in the Premier League matchday 36.

Chelsea won theDemba Ba and Willian. Interestingly, the two goals were created with the use of error two Liverpool players; Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge in injury time of each round.
match 2-0 thanks to goals from

Jose Mourinho is a bit much to prove his promise to rest several key players. But since the beginning of the second strategy the team had seen; Liverpool and Chelsea come directly attack to survive.

The result was predictable; game running in one direction. Liverpool continued to attack while Chelsea are happy to dampen any pressure to come to their defense.

Chelsea 's defense still proved too strong for the Liverpool forward line this season the most fertile in the Premier League with 96 goals. Factors scintillating looks great Mark Schwarzer also keep fighting against Chelsea remained a virgin throughout the first half.

In first half injury time, disastrous for Liverpool occur. Steven Gerrard commit fundamental error in controlling the ball which is then stolen by Demba Ba.

Gerrard tried to chase but he slipped and Ba was faced with Simon Mignolet. Without difficulty, Ba put the ball into the left corner of Liverpool. The first half ended with the score 0-1.

Entering the second half, Liverpool's increasingly frenzied attack. But every jab they always stopped in front of the penalty box or forced wide and perform crosses.

The minutes passed, the frustration seemed to descend the penggawa the Reds. They tried several times to remove the long-range shot. This strategy is also not effective because of the low accuracy of the shot.

Schwarzer forced to re-create the rescue when Luis Suarez directional kick. Fortunately for Chelsea, Schwarzer still be brushed off the ball to the top of the net.

Repeated disastrous for Liverpool in the second -half injury time. Sturridge Chelsea immediately lost the ball and counterattack quickly. Fernando Torres and William are faced with Mignolet managed to deepen the wound Liverpool. Torres gives feedback to the William who was standing very freely and casually dribbled into the goal.

The match then ended with a 2-0 win for the visitors. These results make a map of the race for the Premier League title more exciting. Chelsea are still two points behind Liverpool. But on the other hand, Manchester City likely to match the points of the Reds. Just for the record, the City currently has a superior goal difference from Liverpool.

Statistics Liverpool vs Chelsea
Possession: 73 % - 27 %
Shot ( on goal ): 26 ( 8 ) - 11 ( 4 )
Corner: 14-3
Violation of: 9-7
Offside: 1-0
Yellow cards: 0-4
Red cards: 0-0

The composition of players Liverpool: Mignolet; Johnson, Skrtel, Sakho, Flanagan ( Aspas, 81 ' ); Lucas ( Sturridge ( 58 ' ), Gerrard, Allen; Sterling, Suarez, Coutinho.

The composition of players Chelsea: Schwarzer; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Kalas, Cole; Mikel, Lampard, Matic; One ( Willian, 60 ' ), Ba ( Torres, 84 ' ), Schurrle ( Cahill, 77 ' ).

Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, claimed to be ready to transfer the Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney, in a manner consistent ethic of buying and selling players.

Speculation Rooney sales by club The Red Devils have not let up, even though the player has appeared to defend his team in the first game counter Swansea City. The Blues and the destination is known as the strongest candidate Wazza.

Meanwhile himself The Special One is known ably in terms of negotiations, and it is feared would make increasingly convinced Rooney to leave United. But Mourinho confirmed, if he will not be forgotten ethics buyer transactions.

"Currently all strikers have clubs, each owned one striker and I think it is unethical if the call belongs to another club player. If we had to bid, then we will do it the official way. We will not talk to the player, but at his club," said Mourinho .

According to the Portuguese manager, he did not want to emulate other clubs attempt to persuade the player without the knowledge of the club. And the associated possibility of the realization of the transfer, he admitted trying to set deadline day.

"We will try until the last day to add a new player to the squad, which is a striker. We will be working on it until the last day in the transfer market," he said

Chelsea won his first Europa League trophy after a dramatic 2-1 win over Benfica in the top of the party. Chelsea became the first team in history who could win the two major UEFA competition two seasons in a row.

After lifting the Champions League trophy in Munich in the 2011/12 season ago, Chelsea Europa League glory complete with 2012/13 in the Amsterdam ArenA on Thursday (16/5). Chelsea's Fernando Torres opened the scoring midway through the second, but could Benfica equalized through a penalty by Oscar Cardozo. Rafael Benitez's troops victory is determined by Branislav Ivanovic at the end of the game.

Without Eden Hazard and John Terry injured, Chelsea took control of the match in ten minutes early and got the best chance by kicking distance Oscar, but the direction is still straight Benfica goalkeeper.

After that, turn to Benfica, who are also eyeing inaugural trophy in this competition, which controls the game. Again and again, the short operands and a series of attacks by troops Jorge Jesus Eduardo Salvio and Nicolas Gaitan in the wings managed to trouble the Blues defense. However, up to half an hour walk game, 'thanks' finishing ahead Benfica players are not careful, the same score remained unchanged even stronger.

In the 37th minute, Benfica amid constant pressure to the line, commanded Ivanovic and Gary Cahill, Chelsea got a chance of a counter-attack that ended a hard kick Frank Lampard. Unfortunately, although goalkeeper Artur Moraes step was almost dead, his hand still brushed off the ball.

Scoreless in the first half, Benfica tried to take the initiative to attack after the break. Six minutes after the kick-off the second half sounded, the Benfica fans cheered when Cardozo's header crossing Gaitan continue nesting in goalkeeper Cech, but their joy was gone since first the linesman raised his flag for offside.

Benfica nine minutes after the disallowed goal, on 60 minutes, the deadlock was broken as well, but not by Benfica who were dominating the game, but Chelsea. Starting from the throw Cech, Juan Mata turned the ball into the path of Torres ran perfectly. The striker, who in the first half did not once take shots on target against Benfica, using his speed and power to get through before conquering Artur Luisao from a narrow angle and bring the Blues ahead 1-0.

Surprisingly conceded a goal, mental Benfica apparently did not falter. Two time European Cup champion was back on his feet and got up to fight. The result, on 68 minutes, not long since the entry of Lima and Ola John, they successfully equalized through a penalty after Cesar Azpilicueta Cardozo convicted handball referee Bjorn Kuipers in a restricted area.

Kedaan re-draw, and the game was running increasingly fierce with a faster tempo anyway. Two former Benfica player at Chelsea, Ramires and David Luiz, plays a major role helping the Blues, both in defense and attack.

One minute before the end of normal time, Chelsea came close to winning a super hard kick Lampard, but only hit the crossbar and bounced away to the outside area Benfica.

In the 3rd minute of injury time, resistance Benfica ended. Starting corner Mata, Ivanovic off a sharp header from the air, making Artur unable to move, the ball nestled in the net, and 2-1 to Chelsea in the dying seconds.

Benfica tried to reply in the remaining time available and Cardozo nearly brought the game into extra time, but no more goals were created, and Chelsea had carved a beautiful history.

Chelsea became the fourth team after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich who managed to win three prestigious UEFA trophies, the Cup Winners' Cup, Champions League and Europa League.

Benitez was no less special. Spanish men are now listed as a second manager Giovanni Trapattoni could win this tournament with more than one club. The first was Benitez with Valencia in 2003/04 season ago.

The composition of players Benfica: Artur; Almeida, Luisao (yellow 61 '), Garay (yellow 45'), Melgarejo (Ola John); Perez, Matic, Gaitan, Salvio; Rodrigo (Lima 66 '), Cardozo.
Reserves: Paulo Lopes, Jardel, Andre Gomes, Aimar, Urreta, Ola John.

The composition of players Chelsea: Cech; Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Cole; Ramires, Lampard, Luiz; Oscars (yellow 14 '), Mata; Torres.
Substitutes: Turnbull, Ferreira, Ake, Mikel, Marin, Benayoun, Moses.

Statistics Benfica - Chelsea (via WhoScored)
Shots: 15-12
Shots on goal: 3-5
Control of the ball: 58% - 42%
Violation: 17-18
Corner: 4-4
Offside: 1-8
Yellow cards: 2-1
Red cards: 0-0.

Benitez: It's Hard Work Results Throughout the Season

Rafael Benitez praised the performance of Chelsea after they dramatically won the Europa League after beating Benfica 2-1.

Fernando Torres opened the scoring the Blues. But Benfica hit back through Oscar Cardozo penalty. And finally Branislav Ivanovic took Chelsea to be a winner in the game after scoring in the final seconds of the game.

Benitez said he was happy with the way his players bounced back after playing less lost in the first 45 minutes.

"I think this is a remarkable performance that indicated the children in the second half. We had some problems in the first half against a very good team," said Benitez.

"We have fought and continue to put pressure on them, and in the end we deserved it because we have worked hard all season," he added proudly.

Manchester City are headed to the FA Cup final after they held off a late surge from Chelsea. The Citizens were the better side in the first half and went up 2-0 early in the second half, but attempted to sit on their lead after that. Chelsea hauled one goal back, but City was able to withstand a late barrage from Rafa Benitez's side to win 2-1 and move on to meet Wigan in May.

It took 20 minutes for Chelsea to come into the game at all, as City completely dominated the opening period. Petr Cech was forced into action very early and made a brilliant save in the 6th minute on a header by Sergio Aguero. The Argentinian forward had another solid chance in the 19th minute, but Branislav Ivanovic came up with an excellent block.

Eden Hazard had Chelsea's first chance of the game in the 23rd minute, following a free kick, when his volley was cleared off the line by Vincent Kompany. Chelsea played much better from that point until the end of the match, but went down 12 minutes later in somewhat unlucky fashion.

City's first goal was scored by Samir Nasri, though the chance would have been wasted if it wasn't for a very fortunate bounce. Yaya Toure started the move with a great run forward and a ball into the center of the pitch for Aguero, who touched it to Nasri. Instead of shooting on goal, Nasri tried to play the ball out wide. Fortunately for him, it deflected back into his path and he made a better decision with his second opportunity, finishing past Cech.

The final minutes of the half saw City create two more great chances, though they failed to capitalize on both of them. Cech slapped a bouncing ball away from Aguero in the 39th minute, though it only went as far as Milner. He had the goal at his mercy, but instead struck the ball into Aguero, who was standing in an offside position. Milner wasted an even better chance -- a four-on-one counter -- in first half stoppage time. With plenty of teammates to pick out, he instead crossed the ball right at Cech. The Chelsea keeper didn't make a great punch and the ball fell to Kompany, but his shot went wide.

Less than two minutes into the second half, City finally capitalized on another chance and doubled their lead. Gareth Barry set up the chance, lobbing a diagonal ball into the box from the right flank. Aguero made a great run to split Branislav Ivanovic and Cesar Azpilicueta, getting on the end of the ball and lobbing a header over a cement-shoed Cech.

Chelsea went to a more attacking lineup just after the hour mark, introducing Fernando Torres, and they pulled a goal back very shortly after he came on. Demba Ba was the scorer, finishing off a long ball from David Luiz with an absolutely sensational strike. After the ball bounced in the penalty area, he made a sensational turn and hit an unstoppable scissored half-volley to the far post, giving Chelsea a shot at a comeback.

Despite a number of excellent chances, Chelsea never found their equalizer. Juan Mata had a penalty shout in the 69th minute after the ball fell to him at the end of a counter, but Costel Pantilimon got all of the ball and none of the Spaniard when he went down to claim. Just one minute later, Pantilimon was called into action again after Hazard beat Gael Clichy at the endline and crossed for Ba, who directed his shot right at the City keeper.

In the 81st minute, Chris Foy failed to spot a bit of foul play by Aguero on Luiz. While the two were fighting for the ball, Aguero committed a rather harmless foul while trying to win the ball, then inexplicably jumped up and lunged into Luiz with both feet. Neither Foy or his assistants spotted Aguero's infraction, and it went unpunished.

Torres had a penalty shout in the final minute of regular time for what looked like a shirt tug by Kompany, but Foy waved play on. In the final minute of stoppage time, Hazard hit a screamer over the bar from distance, wasting Chelsea's last chance to snag an equalizer as City hung on for a berth in the FA Cup final.

Team Line-up:

Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel (Torres 66 '), Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Ba
Substitutes: Turnbull, Moses, Terry, Benayoun, Ake, Lampard

Manchester City: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Clichy, Kompany, Nastasic, Barry, Milner, Yaya Toure, Nasri (Lescott 87 '), Aguero, Tevez (García 73')
Reserves: Hart, Kolo Toure, Kolarov, Sinclair, Dzeko

Chelsea Football Club is an English football club based in Fulham, London. Chelsea was founded in 1905 and is now competing in the Premier League. Throughout the history of appearances in the world of football in the UK and Europe, the club has won four Premier League titles, seven FA Cups, four League Cups, one UEFA Champions League trophy, two UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. Their home stadium Stamford Bridge, with a capacity of 41 837 spectator seats, has been used as a home stadium since Chelsea was founded. Since 2003, Chelsea is owned by Roman Abramovich a Russian billionaire.

The first successes when Chelsea won the league title in 1955. Some titles from various competitions also were achieved in the decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s. In the last fifteen years period is the best period of success Chelsea; were closed for the first time won the Double winners, Premier League and FA Cup in 2010 and the UEFA Champions League title in 2012.

The main costumes are Chelsea jerseys and royal blue pants with white socks. This combination has been used since the 1960s. Club crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernize and transform imaging. The symbol is now used, which display a ceremonial lion holding a staff, is a modification of the symbol that was used in the 1950s. The average league attendance in 2011-12 season home games as much as 41,478 spectators, the sixth highest number in the Premier League.

History of Chelsea

In 1904 H.A. Mears acquires athletics stadium Stamford Bridge with the aim of transforming into a football stadium. He then planned the establishment of a new football club after the bid given to Fulham to use the stadium was rejected. Considering there has been a club named Fulham, Chelsea name which is a small town adjacent to the stadium selected as the name for the new club. Other names such as Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC could be considered for selection. Chelsea was founded by on March 10, 1905 at a pub The Rising Sun (now The Butcher's Hook restaurant) and was first played in the Football League competition.

John Robertson the Scottish national team player was 28 years old when it was selected concurrently first Chelsea player-manager. A number of players were recruited from a variety of clubs to strengthen the team, as goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke from Sheffield United, Jimmy Windridge and Bob McRoberts from Small Heath, and Frank Pearson from Manchester City. Their first match occurred on 2 September 1905, an away game to face Stockport County. Chelsea lost by a score of 0-1. While their first home game was a 4-0 victory in a friendly match against Liverpool. Robertson is also the scorer of the first competitive match as Chelsea in a 1-0 win over Blackpool.

Chelsea suffered a number of promotion-degragasi in Division One and Division Two League after won promotion to Division One in their second season. Their best achievement in the early years was successfully advanced to the 1915 FA Cup final but lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford and when ending the Division One final standings in the top three in 1920. Chelsea has a reputation for bringing the famous players and a large number of spectators, but success is still not up to them in times of World War I and II.
Former Arsenal and England striker Ted Drake became manager in 1952. Drake began to modernize the club both on and off the field. He changed the logo Chelsea pensioner, improve training and coaching a team of young people, and strengthen the depth of the team with the shrewdness to bring a number of players from the lower divisions and amateur leagues to successfully bring Chelsea won their first championship trophy, championship Division One League 1954-55. In the following season, holding UEFA champions league championships between clubs in European Champions Cup, but the disapproval authority the Football League and FA make Chelsea pulled out of the championship before it starts. Chelsea failed to build on the success and only a mid-table dwellers league in the 1950s. Drake was fired in 1961 and replaced by Tommy Docherty who concurrently player-manager.

Chelsea back into the Premier League champions 50 years later, in 2005, the term of office of manager Jose Mourinho (2004-2007), who was the full support of the national oil billionaire Russian owner, Roman Abramovich.
In the same year (2005), Chelsea also won the Carling Cup by beating Liverpool. Later in 2006, Chelsea won the Premier League. And in 2007, Chelsea also won the Carling Cup again after beating Arsenal 2-1 and won the FA Cup after beating Manchester United 1-0 through extra time.
But due to some poor performances early in the competition 2007/2008 coupled with incompatibility with the owner, Jose Mourinho has finally resigned as manager and was replaced by Avram Grant's former Israel national team manager.
Beginning of period coaching Grant, many people are looking at her eye. However, Chelsea's Avram Grant was able to bring to treble the runner-up in the Carling Cup before losing to Tottenham Hotspur 2-1. Followed by a runner-up Premier League under Manchester United and a runner-up in the Champions League after losing 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United. But these achievements are considered not good enough so that Grant had been fired at the end of the season.
In late January 2009, Avram Grant was replaced by Brazilian coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari. However, Scolari was also not able to give a satisfactory performance. So at the end of April 2009 suffered the same fate with Grant. Position vacant Chelsea manager was filled by the time the Russian coach, Guus Hiddink, until the end of the 2008-09 season. At the end of May, before leaving Chelsea, Guus Hiddink provide sweet memories by bringing the FA Cup fifth Chelsea.

Beginning of the 2009-10 season, Chelsea announced as the new manager Carlo Ancelotti, with the contract for 3 seasons. Directly Ancelotti guided Chelsea to win the title with the 2009 Community Shield after beating Manchester United on penalties. Victory in penalty shootout was a first for Chelsea since 1998, when Chelsea face Ipswich Town in the League Cup. At the end of the season, Chelsea won the Premier League and FA Cup, which is the first achievement in the history of Chelsea. Chelsea is also a club that managed to get a record seventh title Double marry the winner. Chelsea striker Didier Drogba managed to get the Golden Boot as the scorers with a notch 29 goals. In the final league match on May 9, 2010, Chelsea embarrass Wigan to score a landslide 8-0 with Drogba scoring 3 goals. Chelsea also scored an absolute 100% winning record against the big four EPL teams (Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal). In the second season, Ancelotti was sacked Chelsea in May 2011 after a 1-0 defeat of Everton in the last game of the 2010-11 season.The Chelsea players celebrated the UEFA Champions League title for the first time in club history

At the start of the 2011-12 season, Andre Villas-Boas was appointed as coach of Chelsea. After some poor results experienced Chelsea, Villas-Boas was fired in March 2012. His assistant, Roberto Di Matteo, a former Chelsea player was appointed as the main coach ad interim. Under the direction of Di Matteo Chelsea showed impressive results successfully won the FA Cup for the seventh time and the UEFA Champions League for the first time in club history-which also became the first London club to win the title.

Achievement

Domestic
league
  English Premier Division 1/Liga
Champion (4): 1954-55, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-10
Runners-up (4): 2003-04, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2010-11
Division 2 (now Football League Championship)
Champion (2): 1983-84, 1988-89
Runners-up (5): 1906-07, 1911-12, 1929-30, 1962-63, 1976-77
championship
 
FA Cup
Champion (7): 1969-70, 1996-97, 1999-00, 2006-07, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2011-12
Runners-up (4): 1914-15, 1966-67, 1993-94, 2001-02
 
English League Cup
Champion (4): 1964-65, 1997-98, 2004-05, 2006-07
Runners-up (2): 1971-72, 2007-08
 
FA Community Shield
Champion (4): 1955, 2000, 2005, 2009
Runners-up (6): 1970, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012
Full Members Cup
Champion (2): 1985-86, 1989-90

Europe
 
UEFA Champions League
Champion (1): 2011-2012
Runners-up (1): 2007-08
 
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Champion (2): 1970-71, 1997-98
UEFA Super Cup
Champion (1): 1998
Runners-up (1): 2012

Reference:
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C.