Cole raises to Chelsea on Liverpool

LONDON (TICKER) -- The strike of first-half of Joe Cole gave to Chelsea a 1-0 valuable lead Wednesday that entered the leg of the semifinal second of the league of the champions of the next week Liverpool. The goal of Cole was compensates right by the domination of Chelsea in first half and the red ones not been able to put them under any serious pressure in the second period. Liverpool was guilty of a number of steps placed badly at the beginning of and took a fantastic reaction except from Reina de Jose to deny frank Lampard in the eighth minute after it beat Andriy Shevchenko to the cross of Didier Drogba.

Another poor step, this time of Juan Arne Riise, left Chelsea 2 on-1 after 14 minutes but of the passage of Drogba to Cole was poor and Reina could undertake towards outside and collecting. Lampard sent 20 yards free-strikes wide with the narrow foot before Chelsea found the goal that was been threatening after 29 minutes.

Ricardo Carvalho relaxed in front of defense and fed the ball Drogba, that outran Xabi Alonso and it crossed itself in center so that Cole finishes after he had in front of Alvaro Arbeloa. A pile of the mountain range of Zenden of the long knife of the ball during first half but he took 37 minutes you to at the top put his first decent cross in the box for Steven Gerrard on the bar.

Rafa Benitez sent in Peter is crouched for Craig Bellamy after 52 minutes and it above helped to the system for Gerrard the moments after going ahead, Petr Cech to only produce oustanding except of the captain of the red ones. Liverpool gradually began to take hold the control of the game but they could not put the hosts under any true pressure and they almost granted to one second goal 10 minutes as of the time in which Lampard forced a brilliant except of Queen.

Mourinho starts UTD of man above title

The owner of Chelsea that Jose Mourinho has taunted the director linked by Manchester Mr Alex Ferguson while claiming plain are “lucky” not to play blue the next week. The cut of Chelsea linked the wire with the top of Premiership at three points in weekend after having beaten Tottenham, while linked lost with Portsmouth. Mourinho indicated: “Plain they are very lucky should not play the next week here. Can you imagine them here the next weekend? “Which is the play to the top from where they will slip, counters us, thus they are very lucky. ” The face of champions of Premiership relegation-A threatened the Western ham on April 18, whereas the next plain play is at the house with plain the Sheffield fight. And the two principal ones disappear head with head with the bridge from Stamford in the penultimate play of the season in a match which can decide the destination of the title. Before the plays of this Ferguson weekend had dépleuré Tottenham just obtaining 36 hours of time of re-establishment of their quarterfinal of cup of Uefa in Seville.

But Mourinho known as: “I was not astonished Ferguson complained about our assembly because it is intelligent and perhaps it thinks that other people are stupid. “But the truth is plain are very, very lucky with the assemblies because, up to now, they always played before us. ” Additional Mourinho: “Ferguson is an intelligent man, a man successful with a great career. “But when you think that other people are stupid it is not a good quality. ”

Ferguson however, believes that Chelsea have more difficult grinding and are entrusting the blue ones will slip upwards in their six remaining assemblies. He said: “Chelsea have many hard plays being thus raised somebody will make them suffer. It is difficult to believe that they will miseront six plays without that occurring. “We are always three points ahead and if I were given this option at the beginning of the season I would have taken it. ”