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28 January 2007
Chelsea 3-0 Nottingham
Forest
Chelsea easily cruised to
victory over League One side Nottingham Forest to book their
place in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
The Blues opened the
scoring when Andriy Shevchenko's close-range volley
deflected off Forest's John Curtis.
Didier Drogba added a
second with a curling 25-yard free-kick, before Mikel Jon
Obi poked in just before half-time.
Forest's best chance came
courtesy of Junior Agogo who fired his shot across goal from
12 yards out.
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Some say the FA Cup is a
leveller but that was not the case at Stamford Bridge.
Forest, third in League One, never got going and failed to
put the Blues under much pressure. Before they could find
their feet, Forest found themselves a goal down when
Shevchenko followed up his midweek brace against Wycombe to
fire in from five yards, thanks to massive deflection off
John Curtis.
Chelsea, who rarely
stepped up into third gear, went two up when the influential
Drogba, curled in his 22nd goal of the season from a 25-yard
free-kick.
Unlike League Two outfit
Wycombe, Forest did not compensate for their individual
inferiority with much-needed collective bite. Consequently
Lassana Diarra was allowed to control matters in the middle
allowing Frank Lampard, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Obi to
roam. And roam they did. With Wright-Phillips seeing his
snatched shot inside the area go fractionally wide, while
Lampard had two efforts from the edge of the box blocked by
the Forest defence.
However, the third member
of the trio, Obi, did get some reward when he poked in the
second after Lampard's corner deflected off Forest defender
Julian Bennett and keeper Smith.
Whatever gameplan Forest
boss Colin Calderwood conjured up before the match had to be
changed at the break. The Scot introduced Sammy Clingan for
Grant Holt and the tweak seemed to have some positive effect
with the famous Nottingham side enjoying a good spell at the
start of the half.
Their best chance of the
game came when Junior Agogo eluded his marker at the edge of
the area to fire his shot across the face of the Chelsea
goal. But after that bright moment, Chelsea came out their
brief slumber.
Lampard had a shot saved
by Smith's leg, Shevchenko rifled two shots wide from inside
the area, while Michael Essien had his powerful header saved
on the line by Curtis. By this time the contest was over,
giving Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho the luxury of giving
16-year-old Michael Woods his first taste of FA Cup
football.
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