Chelsea vs Bordeaux Highlights: Championls League Highlights

Posted on September 16, 2008
Filed Under UEFA Champions League

Luiz Felipe Scolari secured his first Champions League win in style as Headers from Frank Lampard and Joe Cole set Chelseato cruise past Bordeaux.

Failure in champions league has signalled the end for the previous three Chelsea bosses but there were no hiccups for Scolari at Stamford Bridge, whose debut in the competition was straightforward after the hosts established a lead.

Florent Malouda and Nicolas Anelka added late goals to give blues a comfortable victory.

With Drogba to return from suspension, Scolari will head into the Group stage matches against Cluj and Roma full of confidence - they were comfortable winners but did not have to be at their vintage best to beat the french outfit.

Blues were ahead in the 14th minute when Lampard finished off a crisp move for his third goal of the season.

Deco had moved the ball inside to Joe Cole, who in turn fed Bosingwa on the right flank.Bosingwa drove his cross in first time and Lampard buried his header in the far corner before wheeling off in celebration.

Anelka, looking to amend for his penalty miss in the final last season, forced a save from Ulrich Rame when he cut inside from the left and drove towards the near post, and the Bordeaux stopper also had to work when Cole backheaded on target.

Skipper John Terry then went close when he met Lampard’s free-kick with a header. Bordeaux had no answer to Chelsea’s attacks, with Fernando almost scoring an own goal trying to cut out a Bosingwa through-ball.

The second goal came on the half-hour mark through Cole, with the England midfielder overcame centre-backs Fernando and Franck Jurietti at the near post to nod home Lampard’s corner.

Chelsea are to blame for keeeping the scoreline down - Anelka raced beyond the Bordeaux defence and passed into open space when he could have shot, then Lampard screwed a volley wide from six yards.

Bordeaux’s attempts to fight back consisted of three Yoann Gourcuff free-kicks, each of which was increasingly speculative and Petr Cech was not at all tested by them. Marouane Chamakh started the second half by tripping over the advertising hoardings and into the crowd, and he required treatement for that. The visitors were showing ambition to get back into the game but it left them exposed to Chelsea counter-attacks. Scolari put Michael Ballack on in the final half-hour as he made his comeback from a foot injury, with the Germany captain replacing Deco in midfield.

Malouda added the third after a run from Mikel that took him around three defenders. He passed to Lampard, whose backheel pass invited Malouda to fire into the far corner.

Fourth goal came when Juliano Belletti hit the crossbar and Anelka tapped in the rebound.

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