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Guardian:
Charlton crack Chelsea's fortress
Simon Burnton at Stamford BridgeThursday October 27, 2005The Guardian
Charlton added a glorious chapter to their frequently embarrassing history in this competition last night when they beat the champions and league leaders on penalties to secure their progress to the fourth round; one more win would constitute their greatest ever run in the League Cup in all its guises.If victory tasted unfamiliar to Charlton, defeat was no less unexpected for their hosts. Not since Arsenal won 2-1 here in February 2004, towards the end of Claudio Ranieri's spell in charge, has any team wearing anything but blue celebrated on the Stamford Bridge turf. Mourinho might not believe that Charlton won, but there was no denying the feeling of their players and fans as the cup holders tumbled out at the earliest possible opportunity.
Robert Huth was twice the villain, setting up Charlton's equaliser for Darren Bent and then missing Chelsea's second penalty. Unlike their opponents Charlton had not practised their shoot-out techniques but it did not stop them from scoring from each of their five spot-kicks, Bryan Hughes scoring emphatically to decide the game.In the last 10 years, Charlton have lost on nine occasions in this competition to teams below them in the league at the time. While Chelsea are above their Addicks - and everyone else - in the Premiership, it is not by much. Charlton are second and this result continued a stunning start to the season. But even with Chelsea using the occasion to rotate several members of their bulging squad few people - including perhaps the visitors themselves - truly believed an upset was likely.
The match started at great tempo and with equally impressive quality, the sides taking it in turns to rampage forward. An even opening came to an end after 10 minutes when Chelsea fashioned the first clear chance, Paulo Ferreira stinging the palms of Stephan Andersen with a 15-yard drive after Eidur Gudjohnsen found him in space.
Slowly, inevitably, Chelsea started to create some momentum. From Wayne Bridge's excellent deep cross Hernán Crespo headed back across goal but just wide, then the Argentinian was played through by Michael Essien. Perhaps the best chance came in the 37th minute when Arjen Robben's left-wing corner found Huth unmarked, but the German headed well wide of goal. It was a warning, and it was not heeded. Four minutes later another inswinging corner from the Dutchman found Chelsea's other centre-back, and John Terry headed home.
At the other end Bent was finding himself increasingly isolated against the Chelsea defence. Helpfully Huth created the equaliser for them, his hopelessly short back-header in first-half stoppage time presenting Bent with a simple finish that he took expertly.
The second half started much like the first, with a period of intense and equal sparring ending with Chelsea starting to impose their superiority. Five minutes after the break Terry threatened to restore their lead in unlikely style, with a first-time left-foot shot from 20 yards drifting narrowly wide.
Few would have expected the centre-back to score in those circumstances, but the same could not be said of Gudjohnsen when Robben played him in after 57 minutes. The Iceland international ran into the penalty area but shot too close to Andersen and the ball bounced to safety.
At the other end Bent continued to scurry about, more in hope than expectation. But when Huth is on the pitch there is always hope, and the German almost played his team into further trouble in the 69th minute. Another weak back-pass, this time with his right boot, encouraged Bent to hare goalwards but this time Carlo Cudicini got to the ball first.
With 15 minutes of normal time remaining Alan Curbishley brought on Jay Bothroyd, and with Bent finally enjoying some support Charlton became considerably more threatening. Extra time passed in a frenetic if unrefined blur, the home side no longer quite so dominant even if Didier Drogba did manage to miss an outstanding chance in the 100th minute. From Frank Lampard's right-wing free-kick the substitute headed tamely at Andersen from eight yards out.
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Independent:
Chelsea 1 Charlton Athletic 1Charlton win 5-4 on penalties Charlton find magic formula as shoot-out stuns holders Chelsea By Sam Wallace Published: 27 October 2005 It has taken English football 36 matches, 120 minutes and 10 penalty kicks but around 10.30pm last night Charlton Athletic proved what the rest feared might never be possible: that Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea team can be beaten at Stamford Bridge. The margin was nothing more than Bryan Hughes's final penalty, the competition only the Carling Cup, but it was a shot that will echo around a nation beaten into submission by the Premiership champions.
The fall guy of the piece was Robert Huth who gave away the ball for Darren Bent's equaliser and struck his penalty close enough to Stefan Andersen for the Charlton goalkeeper to palm away. When the pile of red shirts that had descended upon Hughes after his match-winning penalty had cleared, when Mourinho had led his team down the tunnel all that Chelsea had lost was their right to defend the trophy they won in February. The rest, however, have gained a measure of hope.
Mourinho altered his team to fit the importance of this competition but it was still a Chelsea side that, by its manager's admission, was good enough to beat Charlton Athletic. Like so few teams who fall a goal behind at Stamford Bridge, however, Alan Curbishley's side refused to give in - and their equaliser to John Terry's 41st-minute header invited an increasingly desperate Chelsea response. They may not have started with all their most celebrated names on the pitch, but Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Joe Cole were there by the end.
As Huth had a double shot blocked among the Charlton penalty area traffic with 22 minutes of extra time played, as Lampard's overhead kick sailed over. Curbishley said that he surveyed his penalty-taking options and realised that most of his best had been substituted. "Bent said he wanted the first and Bryan was confident enough to take the last," he said, "it was filling in the three in between that was difficult."
They were Jay Bothroyd, Matt Holland and Hermann Hreidarsson and none of Charlton's five let their manager down. It was when Huth stepped up to take the second of his side's five penalties that the great blue beast that is devouring the record books quivered for the first time and the German, whom Drogba described in the match programme as the club's best penalty-taker, had his shot saved.
History will record a draw but for a man as addicted to competition as Mourinho this will represent the end of a remarkable run at Stamford Bridge. Beyond that, this was his last domestic defeat since the loss to Newcastle United in the FA Cup in February and the exit from the Carling Cup is the only blemish on this season apart from the Champions' League draw with Liverpool and Sunday's Premiership stalemate at Goodison with Everton.
The Chelsea manager said that he had "no complaints" about the performance of his players and maintained that he had not been plunged into one of those moods where "you want to go into your dressing-room and kill half a dozen".
Mourinho could just about bring himself to congratulate Charlton on a famous victory but as he contemplated the siege his team had laid to their goal in the closing stages added that he thought the conquerors of Stamford Bridge "were lucky". Mourinho said: "They defended everything and fought hard and took the game to penalties. Once you reach penalties it comes down to the goalkeeper, a mistake by Robert and anything could happen. But I have no complaints about my players. We faced the game seriously. I played that team because I felt some of my players deserved to play and other deserved a rest.
"We prepared properly for this match, we took it seriously and we practised penalties this week. Each player took eight penalties and Robert scored all eight against three different goalkeepers."
After an 11th-minute shot from Paulo Ferreira had been beaten away by Dean Kiely in Charlton's goal and Hernan Crespo had looped a header just shy of the post from Arjen Robben's cross - it fell to Terry to open the scoring with four minutes left in the first half.
The rearrangement of the Chelsea captain's nose by Everton's James Beattie on Sunday did not prevent him from out-jumping Hughes and directing a header in for his first goal of the season.
As the fourth official raised the board to indicate a minute's injury time, Mourinho had already disappeared into the tunnel when Luke Young sent a harmless header over the Chelsea back four. Huth stooped to direct it back to Carlo Cudicini and barely grazed his forehead on the ball. Chasing behind him, Bent needed only one touch to direct his ninth goal of the season past the stranded Cudicini.
By the end, Mourinho had unleashed the full might of his substitutes' bench upon Charlton but Curbishley's side refused to buckle. Danny Murphy was outstanding in midfield, behind him Hreidarsson and Talal El Karkouri kept the champions out - after that, holding their nerve in the penalty shoot-out seemed like the easy part.
Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Cudicini; Ferreira, Terry, Huth, Bridge (Lampard, 60); Essien; Wright-Phillips (Cole, 60), Geremi, Gudjohnsen, Robben; Crespo (Drogba, 83).
Substitutes not used: Cech (gk), Diarra.
Charlton (4-5-1): Andersen; Young, Hreidarsson, El Karkouri, Powell; Rommedahl (Thomas, 64), Holland, Murphy (Kishishev, 82), Ambrose (Bothroyd, 73), Hughes; Bent.
Substitutes not used: Kiely (gk), Spector.
Referee: A Wiley (Staffordshire).
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Sun:
Chelsea 1 Charlton 1 By SUN ONLINE REPORTER
(Charlton win 5-4 on penalties)
ROBERT HUTH'S double blunder sent Chelsea to their first defeat of the season.
The German defender gifted Charlton their equaliser, then made the only penalty shoot-out miss, as the hard-grafting visitors stole into the Carling Cup last 16.
John Terry headed home Arjen Robben's 41st minute corner as the Blues defied seven changes to their side by clicking quite smoothly.
But, when Huth cocked up a back-header to Italian keeper Carlo Cudicini just before the break, the dangerous Darren Bent nipped in for his ninth of the season.
Sunday's 1-1 draw at Everton had ended Chelsea's 100% Premiership start to the season.
And they appeared determined to make amends for the blip as Charlton goalkeeper Stephan Andersen was pressed into action as early as the 10th minute.
Right-back Paulo Ferreira, who has failed to start the last four games, let fly with a ferocious 20-yard shot that Andersen did well to punch away to safety.
England left-back Wayne Bridge, impressive in his first start since breaking an ankle against Newcastle in the FA Cup last February, appeared to show no ill-effects from his long lay-off.
The first quarter, predictably enough, was all Chelsea as Shaun Wright-Phillips and Michael Essien probed the Addicks' defence in search of an opening.
In the 22nd minute a sweeping move down the left-flank almost brought the home side an opening goal.
Robben, having a quiet game by his own standards, cleverly fed the overlapping Bridge.
And the full-back's perfect cross was headed narrowly wide by Hernan Crespo.
Essien, though, was booked for a foul on Bent as the England striker strode purposefully towards the edge of the area.
Three minutes later Charlton's Bryan Hughes found himself in Alan Wiley's notebook for pushing Eidur Gudjohnsen.
The visitors, nine points behind Chelsea at the top of the Barclays Premiership, finally tested Cudicini when Dennis Rommedahl hit a speculative effort into the Italian's hands from 25 yards.
But generally the Addicks, second in the Premiership, rarely troubled Terry and Huth in the home defence.
The unmarked Huth should have done better with a header from Robben's corner but the German directed the ball well wide of Andersen's left-hand upright.
Terry showed him how it should be done in the 41st minute when he nodded firmly in from eight yards to give Chelsea the lead in this third round tie.
But Huth made a dreadful error on the stroke of half-time to gift Charlton an equaliser.
The German tried to head the ball back to Cudicini but he did not apply enough power and Bent nipped in to fire past the stranded Italian.
Terry was only a foot away from scoring his second in the 50th minute when his left-foot volley just veered away from Andersen's right-hand post.
Two minutes later, as Chelsea's tempo increased once more, Wright-Phillips sent a low drive wide of the target as Charlton found it difficult to stem the blue tide.
Another delightful three-man move almost brought the success they craved in the 56th minute when Robben and Crespo shared passes before the Dutchman threaded the ball into the path of Gudjohnsen on the edge of the penalty area.
A goal appeared to be the only outcome but Andersen dived low to his left to save the Icelandic striker's shot and keep the scores level.
On the hour Frank Lampard and Joe Cole replaced Bridge and Wright-Phillips.
And it was the former who had the most impact with two typical long-range shots - one flying just over the crossbar in the 74th minute and the other into the arms of Andersen three minutes later.
Charlton introduced both Jay Bothroyd and Radostin Kishishev into the action as they sensed an opportunity to steal a memorable victory.
Indeed, five minutes from time Cudicini had to punch Bothroyd's stinging shot behind.
But the stalemate meant extra-time and then penalties.
Charlton scored all five through Bent, Bothroyd, Matt Holland, Hermann Hreidarsson and Hughes.
But Huth, second to go for the Blues, saw his spot-kick saved by Andersen to send Charlton through.
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Telegraph:
Charlton end Chelsea record By Henry Winter (Chelsea (1) 1 Charlton Athletic (1) 1 Aet: 90 min 1-1; Charlton win 5-4 on pens
Chelsea's grip on the Carling Cup was ended in dramatic fashion by a feisty Charlton Athletic side at Stamford Bridge. Put on the spot by Alan Curbishley's busy men, Chelsea failed to keep their nerve during the penalty shoot-out.
Despair: John Terry after losing in the shoot-out When Robert Huth missed, Bryan Hughes was the hero for Charlton with the decisive penalty.
The holders were held over two hours of interesting, if hardly compelling football, by a Charlton side brimming with pace, organisation and self-belief. Despite falling behind to a John Terry header, Charlton hit back through Darren Bent's ninth goal in 11 games.
Chelsea controlled large swathes of this third-round tie but the Premiership's second-best side refused to fade and matched the Premiership pace-setters all the way to the dead-ball denouement.
Before the familiar sights of a headed goal from Terry and Bent's slick finish, the Bridge had been treated to two rarities: Frank Lampard limbering up along the touchline, within touching distance of Wayne Bridge, who was making a welcome return to competitive action after eight months in the purgatory of physiotherapy.
Until Bent's dramatic interception just before the break, the force was mainly with Chelsea. The holders should really have been two goals clear by the interval, even without the playmaking talents of Lampard, who started on the bench alongside Joe Cole and Didier Drogba.
Arjen Robben was his usual mercurial self, creating chances out of nothing or disappearing down cul de sacs like a learner driver. Yet the Dutchman displayed his deftness in possession after 22 minutes, playing a neat reverse-pass down the inside-left channel for Bridge to chase. The full-back's cross was superb, perfectly weighted to clear Charlton's central defence and drop towards Hernan Crespo.
The Argentinian rose well and headed the ball back, from right to left, but fractionally wide of Andersen's post, the incident carrying echoes of Christian Vieri's hear-miss for Italy against England in Rome in 1997. Charlton's noisy following breathed a sigh of relief.
Alan Curbishley's side failed to learn from this escape. Chelsea had quickly spotted the visitors' vulnerability to balls flighted in from the flanks. Robert Huth eluded his marker at one corner to send a header skimming wide. Again Charlton ignored the warning. Five minutes from the turnaround, Chelsea broke through. Again Robben bent over a corner that caused chaos in the Charlton area.
Shoddy marking will have irritated such a perfectionist as Curbishley. The Charlton manager will have been frustrated that Terry in particular was not picked up. By the time Talal El Karkouri had seen the danger it was too late, the untroubled Terry powering in to head past Andersen from 10 yards.
Chelsea's jubiliations were short-lived. When Huth injected too little power in a back-header towards Carlo Cudicini, Bent was in like a flash, seizing on the ball as it rolled into the box and despatching a firm left-footer past the exposed Cudicini.
Stirred by Mourinho, Chelsea really went for Charlton, Terry sending a left-footed volley wide before Andersen spread himself athletically to save from Eidur Gudjohnsen. Lampard arrived on the hour, replacing Bridge.
As the minutes passed, so the temperature rose and the increasingly excellent Hermann Hreidarsson and Cudicini exchanged all manner of unpleasantries. Cudicini's fingers, rather than his mood, were stung four minutes from the end of normal time when Jay Bothroyd let fly.
Extra time brought the unedifying spectacle of Terry going in late on Andersen, bundling the keeper over the line after Drogba had threatened. Chelsea's captain was deservedly cautioned. His central-defensive accomplice, the hefty Huth, then twice smashed in shots which Charlton's defence did well to block as the game headed towards its climax.
Match details
Chelsea (4-1-2-2-1): Cudicini; Ferreira, Huth, Terry, Bridge (Lampard, 60); Essien; Geremi, Gudjohnsen; Wright-Phillips (J Cole, 60), Robben; Crespo (Drogba, 82). Subs: Cech (g), Diarra. Booked: Essien, Geremi, Terry. Charlton Athletic (4-2-3-1): Andersen; Young, El Karkouri, Hreidarsson, Powell; Holland, Hughes; Rommedahl (Thomas, 64), Murphy (Kishishev, 81), Ambrose (Bothroyd, 73); Bent. Subs: Kiely (g), Spector. Goal: Bent (44). Booked: Hughes. Referee: A Wiley (Staffordshire).
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Times:
Chelsea suffer shoot-out bluesBy Matt Hughes Chelsea 1 Charlton Athletic 1(aet; 1-1 after 90min; Charlton win 5-4 on pens) AFTER he claimed victory following a draw at Everton there was trepidation in the air as José Mourinho walked out of Stamford Bridge as a loser for the first time last night, but the Chelsea manager took the penalty shoot-out defeat to Charlton Athletic with good grace. It cannot have been easy for Mourinho to lose his 36-match unbeaten home record in a game that Chelsea controlled, but despite claiming they were unlucky to lose there were no sour grapes, not the merest hint of a whine. If he was searching for scapegoats he should look no farther than Robert Huth, who gifted an equaliser to Darren Bent and missed the crucial penalty kick after a desperately poor performance, but Mourinho shunned the blame game. Instead he praised Charlton’s resolve as Alan Curbishley’s side followed on from where Everton had led the way, showing that with organisation, mental strength and a little dose of luck the champions are mortal after all. For the last 10 minutes of extra time in particular, the visiting team’s spirit was summoned from the trenches as, with Talal El Karkouri hamstrung, they held on valiantly with ten men.
“I went to give congratulations to Charlton as they won, but I believe we were the best team,” Mourinho said. “We had chances to win in the 90 minutes and during extra time. They were lucky but defended well and fought all the time.
“Out of the four competitions this is the least important but that’s not why we lost. The first goal was a mistake and the penalty was a mistake, but human beings make mistakes. I’m sad but not disappointed.”
Huth’s penalty miss, which was saved by Stephan Andersen, the goalkeeper, before Charlton went on to score five out of five with Bryan Hughes converting the crucial one, was not his only mistake on a horrendous evening, but Mourinho leapt to his defence. There were anguished looks among Chelsea fans when the towering defender stepped up to take the home side’s second penalty, but such a meticulous manager as Mourinho does not improvise. The 21-year-old had drilled eight out of eight in training on Tuesday but lost his nerve at the crucial moment.
“It was a mistake by Robert but with penalties anything can happen,” Mourinho said. “I have no complaints from my players. It’s not one of those days when you go into the dressing-room and want to kill half a dozen.
“We practised penalties and in the last few days have practised penalties a dozen times. In eight penalties Robert scored eight out of eight against three different goalkeepers. I’m sad to be out of the competition but have no complaints against my players or against myself. Robert is a good player and I trust him.”
Curbishley also had problems recruiting penalty takers after Dennis Rommedahl and Danny Murphy had been substituted, but those pressed into service did their manager proud.
“It was a struggle to get five players to take penalties as some of our takers had come off,” Curbishley said. “Two of them were coerced but we managed to do it. We’ve shown that Chelsea were human but they knew that anyway.”
The rest of the Barclays Premiership will also take heart at Chelsea’s first home reverse since a 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in February 2001, although those expecting an imminent collapse in the league are likely to be disappointed. After John Terry had given Chelsea the lead with a 41st-minute header it looked like being service as usual but Charlton showed great courage to strike back immediately, Huth making a hash of a back-header to Carlo Cudicini to present Darren Bent with his ninth goal of the season.
Huth by name, hoof by nature.
Chelsea dominated much of the second half, with the introduction of Frank Lampard, a substitute, after an hour giving them extra impetus, but the visiting team hung on valiantly. Perhaps Charlton deserve to be second in the table after all.
CHELSEA (4-3-3): C Cudicini — P Ferreira, J Terry, R Huth, W Bridge (sub: F Lampard, 60min) — Gérémi, M Essien, E Gudjohnsen — S Wright-Phillips (sub: J Cole, 60), H Crespo (sub: D Drogba, 83), A Robben. Substitutes not used: P Cech, L Diarra. Booked: Essien, Gérémi, Terry, Drogba.
CHARLTON ATHLETIC (4-5-1): S Andersen — L Young, T El Karkouri, H Hreidarsson, C Powell — D Rommedahl (sub: J Thomas, 65), M Holland, D Murphy (sub: R Kishishev, 82), B Hughes, D Ambrose (sub: J Bothroyd, 72) — D Bent. Substitutes not used: D Kiely, J Spector. Booked: Hughes.
Referee: A Wiley.