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Chelsea Reserves 0 Tottenham Reserves 0
Monday, Mar 21, 2005
There was no repeat of last week’s lively five-goal encounter
between Chelsea and Arsenal when Tottenham came visiting, the team from
north London battling away for a point despite going a man down in the
second-half.
It proved to be a colourless occasion with neither side finding the
final delivery to carve out much in the way of clear cut opportunities
although Chelsea keeper Lenny Pidgeley produced the save of the night to
earn his clear sheet and Chelsea struck woodwork with a set-piece.
The opening half was the more uneventful of the two, Chelsea taking
time to settle having been asked to play a new formation in the absence
of the injured Sebastian Kneissl.
It was the 4-2-3-1 shape used occasionally by Jose Mourinho for the
first team, this time with Danny Woodards handed the task of operating as
central striker; Filipe Morais, Filipe Oliveira and Joe Tillen the
supporting cast.
The recently in-form Oliveira tried his luck from 25 yards after ten
minutes but was off-target as Chelsea pressed first. Joe Tillen got the
better of right-back Ifil but his lay-back was softly struck by brother
Sam and Cerny saved.
It took an important interception by Nuno Morais to halt a dangerous
-looking Spurs attack but Pidgeley in the Chelsea goal was hardly being
overworked.
Just before the half-hour a clattering foul by Sean Davis on Sam
Tillen drew the first booking but it took until two minutes before the
break for the first truly incisive attack of the half. Spurs keeper Cerny
needed to be sharp off his line to gather before Joe Tillen could make
something out of Oliveira’s flick.
Spurs started the brighter after the break, Pidgeley called upon to
save at his near-post from Yeates after good work on the right by Ifil.
That save was regulation; his double save ten minutes later wasn’t.
Spurs centre-back O’Donoghue met a corner with a thumping header
that looked all the way a goal until the Chelsea keeper appeared to claw
it away from under the bar, dropping sharply to deal with the follow-up
shot too.
Oliveira was the first Chelsea booking, a harsh one for a phantom
handball and there was an escape when Hoddle-signing Bunjevcevic,
operating on the night in midfield, volleyed well over.
Then came the moment that could have swung the game Chelsea’s way.
With 62 minute gone, Rodrigo Defendi tugged at Joe Tillen as the left-
winger broke through, the Spurs man sharp enough to halt him before the
area but stupid enough to do it when clearly the last defender.
O’Donoghue was sent-off but his team went otherwise unpunished,
Filipe Morais coaxing his free-kick past the wall but onto the post.
Hollands was booked for a foul, with Tillen and Ifil following him
later for squaring-up, the referee not slow to flash his cards.
Chelsea set about making the most of the advantage and upped the
tempo. A moment of inspiration from Oliveira on the right ended with a
deep cross that Joe Tillen drove across goal and wide. Hollands, who
along with Grant had worked hard to break up Spurs rhythm, advanced but
dipped a shot over with 20 minutes to go.
Time began to run out, the best chance of the second-half going
spare when Watt met a corner with a firm header but picked out the
keeper’s grasp.
Come the final action of the game there was relief in the Chelsea
camp as Spurs narrowly failed to land a sucker punch, a free-kick to the
far-post just missed by two stretching legs. A healthy 1,539 crowd had to
settle for a goalless evening.
The result leaves Chelsea seven points behind fifth-placed Spurs
with three games to go.
Chelsea: (4231)
Lenny Pidgeley
Dean Smith, Steven Watt, Nuno Morais, Sam Tillen
Anthony Grant, Danny Hollands (capt)
Filipe Morais (Philip Younghusband 80), Filipe Oliveira, Joe Tillen
(James Simmonds 90)
Danny Woodards.
Tottenham:
Radek Cerny, Phil Ifil, Marcel McKie, Goran Bunjevcevic, Paul O'Donoghue,
Rodrigo Defendi, Spase Dilevski, Sean Davis (Kieran McKenna 65),
Mark Yeates, Michael Malcolm (Jamie O'Hara 65), David Limbersky.
by Paul Mason
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可惜了，11 vs 10 .....嘖嘖
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