FA Cup live: Chelsea v Everton from Stamford Bridge

19 February 2011 15:27
Everton have beaten Chelsea 4-3 on penalties and there will not be a third successive FA Cup win at Stamford Bridge as they lose their seventh shoot-out in a row.[LNB]Great nudge on Ashley Cole by Johnny Heitinga as he strode up to take Chelsea's fifth penalty seemed to unsettle the England. Good to see Heitinga, sent off in the World Cup Final for Holland, has mellowed.[LNB]Everton trailed 1-0 with seconds of extra time remaining but levelled with a Leighton Baines wonder goal  to book a home tie with Championship side Reading. [LNB]It's finished 1-1 so now it's penalties. Everton lost in the League Cup on pens to Brentford this season...[LNB]Chelsea have won the toss for spot kicks so they'll go first.[LNB]ChelseaFrank Lampard 1-0 - high down the middle[LNB]Didier Drogba 2-0 - coolly rolled into the corner[LNB]Nicolas Anelka 2-1 - Howard saves a very casual effort[LNB]Michael Essien 3-2 - hammers it into the corner[LNB]Ashley Cole 3-3 - Cashley sends it high and wide [LNB]EvertonLeighton Baines 1-0 - sees Petr Cech save to his left[LNB]Phil Jagielka 2-1 - right into the corner[LNB]Mikel Arteta 2-2 - right into the corner[LNB]Johnny Heitinga 3-3 - perfect penalty[LNB]Phil Neville to win it for Everton - 4-3 and the holders are out [LNB] ET30mins+1: Howard spills Essien shot but gathers just as Anelka gets ready to score.[LNB]ET28mins: Last chance for Everton - free kick 25 yards out just to the right. Arteta and Baines hover over the ball ...[LNB]GOAL: Chelsea 1 Everton 1[LNB]Superb goal arrowed into top corner from Baines curled away from Cech - no more than Everton deserve. The good folk of Reading are now consulting their steam railway timetables to the frozen north and digging out their thermals.[LNB]ET22mins: Arteta booked for flooring Essien.[LNB] Ahead - for a while: Chelsea's Frank Lampard celebrates putting the Blues ahead[LNB]ET20mins: Zhirkov on for Kalou ending a injury nightmare that began in November.[LNB]The good folk of Reading are gathered around their crystal radios listening to this and are now planning for their big day out in London. For some it will be their first time away from Berkshire and I expect they'll be thrilled by the boutiques in the King's Road.[LNB]Half-time: Chelsea 1 Everton 0[LNB]Everton have certainly worked very hard here today and David Moyes will be delighted after last weekend's Bolton horrorshow.[LNB]However...[LNB]ET13mins: GOAL Chelsea 1 Everton 0[LNB]Great break, run and cross down the right from Anelka ends with Frank Lampard hammering his 24th FA Cup goal with his eighth attempt of the day. Can't see Everton recovering from this..[LNB]ET5mins: Ivanovic heads wide from eight yards prompting Heitinga to come for Osman for Everton. However, I cannot confirm the two occurrences are connected.[LNB]DOWN MEMORY LANE - WHEN CHELSEA LAST SCORED A GOAL...Live football was only on TV twice a year[LNB]Jim Davidson was considered funny[LNB]Liverpool had a decent team[LNB]Life expectancy in Britain was under 30[LNB]People used the word 'ye' and not 'the' [LNB]They might as well go straight to penalties and spare us all the next 30 minutes of stalemate. Chelsea certainly won't welcome this with a Champions League match next week.[LNB]Chelsea are bringing on Anelka on for Malouda. Chelsea have not scored a goal since signing Fernando Torres but you cannot blame the Scouse Spaniard today because he's off duty.[LNB]90+3mins: Corner Everton: Arteta takes - cleared and that's it. It's finished 0-0.[LNB]EXTRA TIME TO FOLLOW[LNB]Three extra minutes to be added on...[LNB]89mins: Everton get a chance to win this with a free kick out wide left...[LNB]Baines shoots it's blocked  intop Fellaini's path and he scores. Sheer delight. No extra time. Sadly the spiteful linesman (where's Sian Massey when you need her?) has a flag up for offside so 30 extra minutes are back on.The big Belgian was inches offside so it was a right call.[LNB]84mins: Essien's 20-yard shot finds only the rump of a home steward who turns the other cheek with a wince. He hit that hard (Essien that is, not the steward).[LNB]Battle in the air: Florent Malouda of Chelsea and Tim Cahill (right) cancel each other out[LNB]82mins: Malouda and Lampard combine and it ends with Lampard trying to chip the keeper and finding the crowd when he should have blasted it. [LNB]80mins: Beckford off for Anichibe. That's Anichibe with one goal in his last 40 games whom even Emile Heskey lords it over.[LNB]78mins: Jagielka gets an elbow (accidental) under the eye from Drogba and has to go off for treatment and emerges with strip stitches on his face to stop the bleeding.[LNB]77mins: Great Drogba cross gives Terry a clear shot on goal but he opts to cross it again for some reason and the chance is gone. As is the ball seconds later when Lampard shoots hopelessly wide.[LNB]What's that unwelcome spectre-like thing homing into view over the ground like something from Hogwarts? It must be extra time...[LNB]70mins: Bilyaletdinov on for Cahill for Everton.[LNB]Everton have not only weathered the storm but are now enjoying 64 per cent possession but Howard somehow gets a foot to block a point-blank Lampard shot and from the corner Ivanovic is denied by a goal-line block. [LNB]A goal in this match looks as likely as a happy storyline in Eastenders...[LNB]60mins: Distin puts Everton 3-2 up on bookings - they were 2-0 at the break - for bringing down Ivanovic.[LNB]58mins: Good Baines free kick met by Osman's head but he only finds Cech and seconds later Beckford skies from 12 yards after being set up by Arteta.[LNB] Not moaning: Chelsea skipper John Terry does not lead a protest as referee Phil Dowd books Ramires for diving[LNB]Chelsea are slowly taking a hold on this game and Lampard should have done much better with that ten-yard header in space than flump it wide.[LNB]52mins: That's 2-2 on yellow cards as Coleman finally finds the book for bringing down Ivanovic.[LNB]50mins: Baines booked for catching Ramires late - this time there was contact on the Chelsea man. From the free kick Lampard puts Drogba in and Chelsea win a corner - it comes to nothing.[LNB]We're off again, just another 75 minutes plus penalties to go...[LNB]HALF-TIME (thank the Lord)[LNB]Chelsea 0 Everton 0[LNB]44mins: Ramires breaks clean through and rounds Howard wide right - then throws himself on the floor looking for a penalty and gets a yellow card. Good to see the Chelsea players accepting this in such good heart especially skipper John Terry who at no stage leads a 'surround the ref' campaign in fury.[LNB]Booked: Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Ramires (left) got a yellow card for diving[LNB]Toblerone boots Terry then follows up his ire by spooning the ball into touch down the left.[LNB]Please let someone score...there could be hours of this non-event left. [LNB]43mins: Malouda livens things up by getting a yellow card for a foul on Coleman who probably deserved it.[LNB]Malouda has had to go off because he cannot get his wedding ring off. He finally comes back and is put through only to be denied by Howard yet again.[LNB]Why was Malouda allowed on the pitch with a ring on in the first place? He should be booked for that surely...? [LNB]Cahill and Coleman are not in the mood to take prisoners here today leaving trails of prostrate Blues in their wake- followed by 'what did I do?' looks at the ref.[LNB]25mins: Drogba shoots wide from the edge of the area after good save from Howard to keep out a close-range Malouda effort.[LNB]20mins: Jagielka heads the ball against his own post in a rare flurry of football-related activity. [LNB]Everton were so dismal losing to Bolton last weekend that they cannot get any worse so whatever they do today will be an improvement. I wonder if anybody will dare headbutt their manager David Moyes a la Gattuso? Probably not - not even Joe Jordan would dare do that.[LNB]Drogba is back on the pitch but limping - I wonder if the pain will evaporate if the ball breaks to him in the area...? [LNB]13mins: Worrying signs for Chelsea - both Lampard and Drogba go down after heavy tackles. Lamps gets up while Drogba hobbles off. Where's goal machine Torres when you need him? Drogba limping very heavily and Anelka is warming up.[LNB] Deadlock: Ramires of Chelsea is kept out Everton's Marouane Fellaini [LNB]This is hardly incident-laden stuff. Neither shot nor incident to report. Just one question...Why are Chelsea, famed and synonymous for 'Blue is the Colour' etc, sporting that irritating bit of red trim on their collars? You'll never see Spurs with red on their kit - except maybe a bit of claret.[LNB]Anyway, we're off...[LNB]1min: Everton have the sign over Chelsea and their record at Stamford Bridge means extra time and/or penalties already looks likely. The winners are at home to Reading in round five, the nearest thing to a bye football can offer.[LNB]Welcome to football 2011 where an FA Cup fourth round replay can surpass the fifth round because there just isn't enough time to fit matches in around TV schedules.[LNB]Chelsea's dreary 0-0 draw at Fulham on Monday night meant they could not partake of a replay against the Toffees (who have had the last week off) until today.[LNB]Didier Drogba [LNB]Why could they just not have 'done a Blackpool or Wolves' and put out a D team on Wednesday? I'm sure the FA would have come down as hard on them as they did on messrs Holloway and McCarthy so maybe that's why they didn't.[LNB]Back in years gone by, when men were men and football was played on mud as well as grass, replays took place within days of each other... [LNB]Maybe Chelsea get special treatment because they've won the FA Cup for the past two seasons.?[LNB]Rant over - here are the teams.[LNB]Nicolas Anelka is the man to miss out as Carlo Ancelotti recalled Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou. ?4000bn striker Fernando Torres is cup tied - his absence might mean a few goals for the Blues.[LNB]Michael Essien is also left out as John Obi Mikel returned, while Paulo Ferreira started in place of the ineligible David Luiz.[LNB]Phil Jagielka is back in the Everton XI for the first time since New Year's Day, Jermaine Beckford was handed a rare start, and Leon Osman was also recalled.[LNB]Chelsea: Cech, Ferreira, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba, Malouda. [LNB]Subs: Turnbull, Essien, Zhirkov, Bertrand, Anelka, McEachran, Sala.[LNB]Everton: Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Coleman, Arteta, Fellaini, Osman, Cahill, Beckford.[LNB]Subs: Mucha, Hibbert, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Anichebe, Duffy, Baxter.[LNB]Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)[LNB] The Matt Lawton interview - Carlo Ancelotti: Torres is not 100 per cent...My boys back me... and we'll rebuild Torres, vows Chelsea manager AncelottiWenger and Ancelotti slam UEFA over Wembley final ticket-price hikeTorres is not to blame! Chelsea boss Ancelotti says striker not at fault for slumpEVERTON FC

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