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Eintracht Frankfurt Friendly: LIVE Updates from 3pm
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By Since66
August 1 2010
An almost full squad flew out to Germany yesterday for the two-match tour against Frankfurt and Hamburg. Omissions from the travelling party include Danny Sturridge, Cech, Bosingwa, Alex, Deco and Super Frank although Super Frank is expected to travel once he has recovered from illness.
Didier Drogba, Yossi Benayoun have travelled and so have a number of youngsters including Sam Walker, Josh McEachran, Fabio Borini and fresh from his stunning U19s European Championship campaign, Gael Kakuta, who set up France's winner against Spain in the final on Friday.
Eintracht Frankfurt are the club that were beaten 7-3 in the 1960 European Cup final at Hampden Park by Real Madrid.
Madrid's Ferenc Puskas scored four and Alfredo Di Stefano scored a hat-trick.
The club were formed in 1899 and have been German champions twice in the 1950s, recently they have bounced up and down between the top divisions in the 90s, similar to Chelsea's bouncing in the 80s.
Last season, Frankfurt finished 10th in the Bundesliga and have finished 3rd on five other occasions.
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Discussion started by 50 Years Over 100 Years , 01/08/2010 08:36
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Chelsea Team
Hilario
Paulo Ferreira
John Terry
Jeffrey Bruma
Ashley Cole
John Obi Mikel
Yossi Benayoun
Yury Zhirkov
Nicolas Anelka
Salomon Kalou
Florent Malouda
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Hilario
Paulo Ferreira
John Terry
Jeffrey Bruma
Ashley Cole
John Obi Mikel
Yossi Benayoun
Yury Zhirkov
Nicolas Anelka
Salomon Kalou
Florent Malouda
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subs from a massive list
Ross Turnbull
Sam Walker
Branislav Ivanovic
Michael Mancienne
Ricardo Carvalho
Patrick van Aanholt
Nemanja Matic
Michael Essien
Frank Lampard
Josh McEachran
Scott Sinclair
Fabio Borini
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Ross Turnbull
Sam Walker
Branislav Ivanovic
Michael Mancienne
Ricardo Carvalho
Patrick van Aanholt
Nemanja Matic
Michael Essien
Frank Lampard
Josh McEachran
Scott Sinclair
Fabio Borini
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Frankfurt's team
Nikolov
Ochs
Franz
Kohler
Meier
Amanatidis
Gekas
Russ
Jung
Schwegler
Tzavellas
subs
Altintop, Korkmaz, Clark, Fenin, Bellaid, Rode, Heller, Kittel, Ciao, Fahrmann
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Nikolov
Ochs
Franz
Kohler
Meier
Amanatidis
Gekas
Russ
Jung
Schwegler
Tzavellas
subs
Altintop, Korkmaz, Clark, Fenin, Bellaid, Rode, Heller, Kittel, Ciao, Fahrmann
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Pitch looks extremely rough
2 American football matches played on it yesterday.... great preparation
0-0
2mins played
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2 American football matches played on it yesterday.... great preparation
0-0
2mins played
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5mins
0-0
Anelka put a low cross in which went for a corner. Corner came to nothing
Eintracht had a break but the cross came to nothing
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0-0
Anelka put a low cross in which went for a corner. Corner came to nothing
Eintracht had a break but the cross came to nothing
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Kalou hits one over the bar after nice build up involving Yossi
0-0
8mins
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0-0
8mins
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Ochs who is a Boris Becker lookalike scores on 25 mins
Frankfurt 1-0 Chelsea
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Frankfurt 1-0 Chelsea
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Turkeys already late July and August
Turnbull (2) against Ajax and now Hilario and Terry
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Turnbull (2) against Ajax and now Hilario and Terry
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Another good save from Hilario again from Gekas
Frankfurt gaining momentum
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Frankfurt gaining momentum
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Hilario poor goal kick in the first place and then Frankfurt hit the poast
still 1-0
35mins
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still 1-0
35mins
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Chelsea have lost composure since the comedy goal conceded starring JT and Hilario
still 1-0
38mins
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still 1-0
38mins
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Zhirkov goes wide with a cheeky effort from Frankfurt's loose possession
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Have to say when subs come on Chelsea TV are rubbish in giving out information
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Only Hilario, Malouda, Kalou survive the cull from the first-half
Essien pulls an effort from outside the area wide
still 1-0
54mins
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Essien pulls an effort from outside the area wide
still 1-0
54mins
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nice break by Chelsea. Matic through ball to Scottie who slipped on the s**t ptich and the ball ran away
still 1-0
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still 1-0
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Almost another Turkey in August. Mancienne back pass leaves
Hilario stranded he kicks against Carvalho which went for a corner.
From the corner Hilario punches well, Borini breaks and the keeper saves well with his legs
still 2-1
4mins to go
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Hilario stranded he kicks against Carvalho which went for a corner.
From the corner Hilario punches well, Borini breaks and the keeper saves well with his legs
still 2-1
4mins to go
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The worrying thing for me is the second string of keepers
Good comments from a Mr David Kyle pretty sums up what we need.
So what do we need?
Looking at the past two friendlies it is a bit alarming that our goalkeeping backup is not good enough. Two games and two basic errors of judgements in friendlies can be forgotten and forgiven, but if a lapse of judgement was too happen in the league with it now being so tight it could be very costly.
Midfield is looking slightly weaker with the loss of Cole, Ballack and Belletti. The return of Essien however is worth a £50m signing in itself and there is no doubt that Benayoun has bundles of talent and is a worthy addition to the lineup. The worry is that we are slightly lacking in creativity - it is unfortunate that the Aguero rumours haven't really turned into reality. Somebody along those lines would be a perfect fit and a great outlet to a strong attack. Neymar may well be the man/teen to take on this job and looking at the footage on YouTube he looks like hot property.
Defensively it appears that we may be losing Carvalho, something I touched upon in my last post, to be replaced by David Luiz of Benfica. Hopefully if this is the case he can fill those exceptional boots, Ricky has been an exceptional player and was worth every penny of his £20.5m transfer fee from Porto. It is also worth pointing out that Alex is still a Chelsea player and Jeffrey Bruma has just become a Dutch first team player, surely a sign that he is ready for some sort of role this season.
On the back of a very successful season for our youth team who have just added the Milk Cup to their trophy haul we do indeed have some interesting talent coming through. None for me more exciting than Gael Kakuta - who has just earned himself an U-19 Euro Championships Winners Medal. We caught a glimpse of him against Wolves in the league last season, and think he may be featured a bit more this season, perhaps only in cup competition but in some form.
Good to be back, excited for the Community Shield next week and hopefully this we will have some transfer news to comment on.
Keep the blue flag flying high.
We surely will and thanks David.
Carefree
Good comments from a Mr David Kyle pretty sums up what we need.
So what do we need?
Looking at the past two friendlies it is a bit alarming that our goalkeeping backup is not good enough. Two games and two basic errors of judgements in friendlies can be forgotten and forgiven, but if a lapse of judgement was too happen in the league with it now being so tight it could be very costly.
Midfield is looking slightly weaker with the loss of Cole, Ballack and Belletti. The return of Essien however is worth a £50m signing in itself and there is no doubt that Benayoun has bundles of talent and is a worthy addition to the lineup. The worry is that we are slightly lacking in creativity - it is unfortunate that the Aguero rumours haven't really turned into reality. Somebody along those lines would be a perfect fit and a great outlet to a strong attack. Neymar may well be the man/teen to take on this job and looking at the footage on YouTube he looks like hot property.
Defensively it appears that we may be losing Carvalho, something I touched upon in my last post, to be replaced by David Luiz of Benfica. Hopefully if this is the case he can fill those exceptional boots, Ricky has been an exceptional player and was worth every penny of his £20.5m transfer fee from Porto. It is also worth pointing out that Alex is still a Chelsea player and Jeffrey Bruma has just become a Dutch first team player, surely a sign that he is ready for some sort of role this season.
On the back of a very successful season for our youth team who have just added the Milk Cup to their trophy haul we do indeed have some interesting talent coming through. None for me more exciting than Gael Kakuta - who has just earned himself an U-19 Euro Championships Winners Medal. We caught a glimpse of him against Wolves in the league last season, and think he may be featured a bit more this season, perhaps only in cup competition but in some form.
Good to be back, excited for the Community Shield next week and hopefully this we will have some transfer news to comment on.
Keep the blue flag flying high.
We surely will and thanks David.
Carefree
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