Wolves swept aside

Chelsea showed why they are favourites to win this season’s Premier League by sweeping Wolves aside at Stamford Bridge today despite being without a number of their star players. There was no Ballack, Lampard, Drogba, Deco or Bosingwa but it hardly mattered. Chelsea were 2-0 up in 12 minutes, 3-0 up in 25 minutes and what happened after that was always going to be academic. Wolves will probably be grateful that the blues only added one more goal.

Wolves were as expected without Zubar and rested Doyle. They started with;

Hennessey,

Halford, Craddock, Berra, Stearman

Jarvis, Edwards, Henry, Castillo, Surman

Ebanks Blake

Kightly replaced Castillo and Keogh replaced SEB during the second half.

Malouda put Chelsea ahead after 5 minutes after he picked up a sliced clearance from Craddock and drove home a cracker from 25 yards. The second goal came from a near post header by Essien direct from a corner. A Kalou deflected shot from the edge of the box brought the third. The fourth came in the second half from Joe Cole with a shot that went through Hennessey’s dive. It could easily have been more with Hennessey making one excellent save from the man of the match Essien.

It will be remembered as a very one sided game and yet a Jarvis break on the right in the first couple of minutes had lead to a cross that Edwards was inches away from connecting with and giving Wolves the lead. The best other attacking moment for Wolves saw Cech make a world class save from an Ebanks Blake header when it was 3-0. The performance of Jarvis maybe the one bright spot for the visitors.

Never easy watching your team beaten so comprehensively yet like the last fixture against Arsenal this was not a game where a point was expected. The ease of defeat does leave an uncomfortable feeling nevertheless. But the difficult run of fixtures that has seen Wolves draw 3 and lose 2 is now behind them. Two home games now come up against Birmingham and Bolton that look so important. We have to hope confidence and belief is intact. Fact of the matter is that with one of the most difficult periods of the season behind us we are one point below the survival mark and only 5 points off 11th. So things could change very quickly with a couple of results but you sense we need those results soon.

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