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The Guardian :
Mourinho blames players as Chelsea stumble in Seville
Jon Brodkin at Manuel Ruiz de Lopera
Jose Mourinho denied his team were beaten by Charlton a week ago, because they went out of the Carling Cup only on penalties, but the Chelsea manager made no attempt to claim they did not lose last night. He described a poor display as unacceptable, the worst since he arrived at Stamford Bridge and criticised his players' attitude in a rare public castigation.He will trust it has the desired affect for Sunday's Premiership game at Old Trafford because Chelsea go there on the back of two defeats in less than a week, an almost unthinkable sequence. Knocked out of their rhythm by a physical, sometimes cynical Real Betis, they grew inceasingly frustrated and lost their calm and incisiveness. Whether Arsène Wenger was watching on the television or through a telescope he will have been encouraged.
Michael Essien was unlucky to see a shot hit both posts and end up in the goalkeeper's arms in the 71st minute but that was Chelsea's only chance of the second half as they often thoughtlessly tried to turn forward momentum into openings. Despite three good chances to equalise before the interval Mourinho accepted defeat was deserved.Mourinho admitted: "I've been here for 15 months and we have played perhaps 80 games at Chelsea and this was the worst performance. The first half was too bad to be true. I know everything was bad. I cannot find a positive out of the game."
Chelsea had known that a victory would take them into the last 16 but their recent results away in Europe had hardly suggested that would be easily achieved. Mourinho's previous five Champions League ties outside Stamford Bridge had produced four defeats and a goalless draw at Anfield. The manager had castigated his players on the eve of this match for too many defensive errors last month and must have been dismayed when a disappointing run of one clean sheet in six games extended to one in seven before half an hour had been played, leaving Chelsea trailing.
Chelsea had looked solid to begin with in the face of pressure from a Betis team who needed to win to stand a realistic chance of progressing. Betis had not made a chance of note before they went ahead and Chelsea may have felt that home morale would have dropped when the Spanish team lost two players to injury in five minutes, including their Brazilian forward Ricardo Oliveira, adding to a wretched run of recent casualties. Yet Oliveira's replacement, Dani, quickly scored. Betis worked the ball across the pitch and to their left and Jesus Capi's cross was not dealt with. Chelsea were flummoxed by an Edu dummy and William Gallas could not prevent the lively Dani from slamming a shot past Petr Cech from close range.
If that was disappointing for Chelsea, so had been their lack of threat going forward. They had not carved out a chance before going behind, with Joe Cole and Arjen Robben having little impact on the flanks and the team perhaps struggling to adjust to being without the aerial outlet of Drogba.
The Ivorian had been unexpectedly left on the bench, with the smaller Eidur Gudjohnsen given a rare opportunity to lead the line. Chelsea's early use of possession was looser than usual and though they began to find better range, with Frank Lampard showing good vision at times, their fluency in the first half was not at the level of which they are capable.
Dani's goal at least stung them into a response and with better finishing they could have found the net four times in the space of quarter of an hour before half-time. Cole, Robben and Gudjohnsen became more of an influence and, from a Cole cross, Essien put a free header over the bar.
Cole ought to have equalised when spotted on the right of the area by Gudjohnsen but seemed to think he was offside, delayed a fraction and had his shot saved by Pedro Contreras. The goalkeeper then saved from Robben before Gudjohnsen wasted Chelsea's best opening. Racing on to a long Terry pass, he had just Contreras to beat but shot woefully over.
There remained a threat from Betis, though. Mourinho had warned his player to take nothing for granted despite a 4-0 home win over this team and Cech was twice stretched before the interval. When he fisted out a swerving Edu shot, it was fortunate for Chelsea that Dani put the rebound wide.
The start of the second half showed how unhappy Mourinho had been with his team's performance. Shaun Wright-Phillips and Drogba came on and there was a greater intensity about the team's play. Yet Betis were making life hard, closing down fast and Chelsea could find little rhythm or make chances.
They were doing almost all the attacking but Betis posed danger on the break and it was hard to believe they had lost their past four domestic and European games. In search of a breakthrough Mourinho sent on Damien Duff for Robben but to no avail and Chelsea may need victories over Anderlecht and Liverpool to go through.
Real Betis (4-2-3-1) Contreras; Varela ·, Juanito; Nano (Castellini, 20), Melli ·; Rivera, Arzu; Joaquin, Capi · (Fernando, 84), Edu; Oliveira (Dani, 25 ·).
Subs not used Doblas, Xisco, Juanlu, Bascon.
Chelsea (4-3-3) Cech; Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Essien, Makelele, Lampard; J Cole (Wright-Phillips, h-t ·). Gudjohnsen (Drogba, h-t ·) Robben (Duff, 65 ·).
Subs not used Cudicini, Geremi, Huth, Bridge,
Referee A Hamer (Luxembourg)
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Real Betis 1 Chelsea 0 Bad day for Mourinho as Chelsea flop and Wenger feud escalates By Sam Wallace at Ruiz de Lopera stadium
The verdict from Jose Mourinho was simple enough: "The worst performance since I arrived at Chelsea," and there would be few among his players who would dare to disagree. Didier Drogba dragged away from the referee at full-time, Arjen Robben storming down the tunnel in disgust at his substitution: the great Chelsea match-winning regime was not supposed to come to an end like this.
Beaten for the first time in 90 minutes this season, Mourinho's team are still the Premiership's invincibles and, at nine points clear in that league, are hardly at crisis point. But two defeats in six days is the kind of form that would have been considered unthinkable.
"The first-half performance was too bad to be true," Mourinho said. "Everything was bad, I can't find anything that was positive about that performance."
If the post-match analysis was not shattering enough, Mourinho also responded to Arsène Wenger on the Arsenal manager's comments yesterday that his opposite number had been "stupid" in the spat between the two that had ignited on Monday.
Then Mourinho had accused Wenger of being a "voyeur" who was obsessed with Chelsea; yesterday the Arsenal manager threatened legal action. By 10pm last night it was round three.
Mourinho said that he had a "file of 120 pages" of comments from Wenger about Chelsea and that his attitude was "enough is enough", or there would be fight - there are few signs now of either man backing down.
Back to the occasion of Chelsea's defeat to the team placed 17th in Spain's La Liga and Mourinho was disbelieving about his side's performance. "The drama is not the result, the drama is the way we played," he said. "It was too bad in every aspect of the game."
Although the Chelsea manager pointed out that his side could still top Champions' League Group G if they won their remaining games, they now trail Liverpool by three points and Betis are just one point behind. The match against the European champions at Stamford Bridge now has a significance that few expected after the two sides' impressive start to the Champions' League.
With only one draw to blemish their Premiership record, and a Carling Cup exit on penalties, the great Chelsea machine is not stalling yet. However, in the first half, in which Betis lost their striker Ricardo Oliveira and the centre-half Nano to injury but still dominated, it was hard not to sympathise with Mourinho's point of view that his team were malfunctioning. "Maybe the players thought this was the second leg match and we were already 4-0 up," he said, "because the attitude was too relaxed when we were playing for points."
He started with Eidur Gudjohnsen in attack and the striker clouted his only clear-cut chance of the first half over the bar when he was set free by John Terry's pass. Robben was even worse. He was lucky not to be substituted at half-time and when he was hauled off for Damien Duff on 64 minutes stalked down the tunnel with a member of the Chelsea staff in pursuit.
When the home team did finally break through on 27 minutes, however, it was a goal created and executed by their two substitutes. Paolo Castellini passed the ball through Chelsea to the replacement striker Dani, who lingered at the back post. William Gallas' ponderous efforts to make a tackle allowed Dani to prod the ball home.
Duff created the best Chelsea chance of the match on 74 minutes - a moment in which Mourinho's side could scarcely believe they had not scored. The cross from the left was just a toe's width from being turned in by Didier Drogba but, before it rolled out of play, was turned back into the area by Shaun Wright-Phillips. Michael Essien scooped his shot against the goalkeeper Pablo Contreras' right post and from there it rolled across the line, struck the opposite upright and came out.
The frustration at his team's progress took Mourinho to the edge of his technical area and, at one point, toe-to-toe with the match referee Alain Hamer, who sent him back to his bench when he queried a decision. The Chelsea coach was withering in his assessment of the official from Luxembourg, adding that an official from a country with "no record in international football" might not be fit to take control of the game.
The game only threatened to spiral out of control in the second half when Drogba challenged Contreras for a loose ball and stood chest-to-chest with the goalkeeper before shoves were exchanged. The dives and time-wasting of the Betis players were part "of the Latin culture", Mourinho said, although he had little sympathy for his players in falling for the familiar old tricks.
Drogba and Wright-Phillips were on as half-time substitutes and the England winger's booking means he misses the game against Anderlecht. Drogba was booked and there was the hint of racist chants from the crowd.
There is hope at last for Manchester United on Sunday - how Chelsea respond could define the season.
Real Betis (4-4-2): Contreras; Varela, Juanito, Nano (Castellini, 20), Melli; Joaquin, Arzu, Rivera, Edu; Capi (Fernando, 83), Oliveira (Dani, 24). Substitutes not used: Doblas (gk), Xisco, Juanlu, Bascon.
Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Cech; Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Makelele; Cole (Wright-Phillips, h-t), Lampard, Essien, Robben (Duff, 65); Gudjohnsen (Drogba, h-t). Substitutes not used: Cudicini (gk), Geremi, Bridge, Huth.
Referee: A Hamer (Luxembourg).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mirror :
GAMBLER JOSE A REAL LOSER Group G: Real Betis 1 Chelsea 0 from Seville Mour Euro trouble after Blues shock Darren Lewis
JOSE MOURINHO'S Champions League gamble last night blew up spectacularly in his face as Chelsea were humiliated by struggling Real Betis.
The Blues boss rested striker Didier Drogba and first-choice left-back Asier Del Horno with one eye on Sunday's crunch Premiership clash with Manchester United.
But he watched in fury as his Chelsea team were outplayed and outmanoeuvred before an error from stand-in left-back William Gallas gifted Betis striker Dani a shock 28th-minute winner.
The Spanish side had gone into last night's tie on the back of THREE straight defeats since being crushed 4-0 by the Premiership Champions a fortnight ago.
They were without FIVE first-team last night and they lost another TWO, including their top scorer Ricardo Oliveira, within half an hour.
Yet Chelsea failed to get a shot on target until seven minutes before half time and angry Mourinho read the riot act to his troops before declaring during the interval that the performance was the worst he had seen during his time in charge of the Blues.

Win the Group G face-off and Chelsea would march into the knockout stages and after nine minutes John Terry floated a 50-yard pass into the path of Dutch winger Arjen Robben.
With just one defender between himself and Eidur Gudjohnsen, Chelsea looked set to go ahead. But Robben allowed an outstretched boot from Betis defender Juanito to rob him. In reply, Spanish international winger Joaquin lashed a 12th-minute free-kick into the path of Edu, whose effort was intercepted by Michael Essien.
After that luckless Betis, without five first-team players going into the match, lost defender Nano to injury just 19 minutes in.
Barely five minutes had passed before they were robbed off leading scorer Oliveira too, the Brazilian striker failing to recover from a Ricardo Carvalho tackle.
It was a blow for the side fourth-from-bottom of La Liga and a boost for Chelsea. Until, that was, Dani entered the fray to strike the goal which once again laid bare the sudden fragility of the Chelsea defence.
After 28 minutes attacking midfielder Capi sent in a ball from the left which left the Blues defence uncharacteristically rooted to the spot.
Edu was allowed to dummy and Terry and Gallas ball-watched, giving Dani time and space to pick his spot.
Worse still they did not trouble Betis keeper Pedro Contreras until six minutes before half time. Gudjohnsen's pass found Joe Cole on the right and he homed in on goal with only Contreras to beat. But the Betis keeper stood up well before plunging to his right to stop the shot.
Chelsea were denied again as Robben played a one-two with Essien before unleashing a powerful left-foot drive into the body of Contreras.
But it was Gudjohnsen with the most glaring miss with barely two minute to go before the interval. He raced onto Terry's pass which left him one-on-one with Contreras, but lofted his ball high into the stands.
It could have been even worse for Chelsea on half-time, when Dani was presented with an open goal.
Blues keeper Petr Cech could only parry Edu's long-range drive and Dani sent his effort just wide. Despite the half-time hair-dryer treatment, Chelsea amazingly failed to find their usual second-half improvement.
As tensions boiled over, Mourinho clashed was involved in a shouting match with referee Alain Hamer and Didier Drogba was booked amid a hail of missiles from the home fans for an altercation with Contreras.
There was also racist chanting at Wright Phillips and Drogba which FIFA are certain to look into.
Chelsea's best chance came in the 72nd minute when Shaun Wright-Phillips sent a Damien Duff cross back into the six-yard box for Essien but the midfielder's effort hit one post, rolled across the goal-line and hit the other before rolling into the arms of Contreras.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun:
Real Betis 1 Chelsea 0 By SUN ONLINE REPORTER
MAYBE Arsene Wenger was right after all.
Perhaps Chelsea ARE starting to crack up.
Jose Mourinho's men yet again proved they are not immortal by failing to break down Real Betis.
They now have just one victory to show from their last four games.
And boy, did they not like losing their first match for six months.
Five players were booked, three of them second half substitutes as their frustrations grew in this Champions League clash.
Chelsea were undone by Martin Dani's 28th-minute strike.
Michael Essien saw a late effort hit both posts before rebounding into the goalkeeper's arms.
But the Londoners may now need to win their final two games to ensure qualification to the knockout stages from Group G.
Arsenal boss Wenger riled Mourinho last week when he suggested that the Blues were losing it after the draw with Everton and the Carling Cup penalty shootout defeat to Charlton.
The Premiership champions quickly dispelled that theory with a 4-2 demolition of Blackburn.
But the way they let Rovers back into the game suggested Chelsea were rocking - and this defeat confirms it.
Mourinho surprisingly opted for Eidur Gudjohnsen in attack instead of Didier Drogba.
But the Icelandic striker failed to spark and he was replaced by the Ivory Coast hitman at the break.
Chelsea needed shaking up at that stage as well after Dani had given the home side a deserved lead.
Dani was introduced after top scorer Ricardo Oliveira was taken off on a stretcher following a tackle by Ricardo Carvalho.
But he quickly made his mark as he latched on to Capi's centre after Edu's dummy brought him time in the box.
Dani left William Gallas flat-footed and he picked his spot beyond Petr Cech to send the home fans delirious.
Joe Cole thought he had equalised six minutes before the break when his scrambled shot brought a fine one-handed save from Pedro Contreras.
Arjen Robben and Gudjohnsen had also gone close but Mourinho rang the changes at half-time with Shaun Wright-Phillips joining the fray with Drogba.
But Betis were more than a match for their opponents and Damien Duff was next to appear for the Blues.
Duff, Drogba and Wright-Phillips were all booked as they failed to make the desired impact and Essien summed up their night with by hitting the woodwork twice before Contreras gratefully grabbed the rebound.
Mourinho pushed John Terry up front for the final 15 minutes but this time the Blues boss had no get out of jail card.
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Times:
Chelsea left feeling the pain in Spain after Dani buoys BetisFrom Matt Hughes in SevilleReal Betis 1 Chelsea 0 ARSÈNE WENGER usually channel-hops on Champions League nights, but the Arsenal manager will have watched this match in its entirety with a smile stretched across his face. After winning their first eight matches of the season and going 12 games unbeaten, Chelsea have suddenly lost twice in seven days. Not even José Mourinho, Wenger’s nemesis, could quibble with this defeat. Chelsea were soundly beaten in a bad-tempered game in which there were ten bookings. They were not helped by a weak performance from Alain Hamer, Luxembourg’s leading referee, but Mourinho was man enough to accept that his team deserved to lose. The champions were dreadful in attitude and application, particularly in the first half, with only John Terry showing the necessary character.
The Portuguese had warned his players of the potential danger posed by the Spaniards after recent mistakes, but their defensive lapses had paled into insignificance compared with those of Real Betis. After an indifferent start to the season, they have imploded since last month’s 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, conceding ten goals in three league games and slipping to seventeenth in La Liga.
In the first half last night it was Mourinho who was despairing in the dugout, though, as Chelsea produced their worst 45 minutes of the season. Usually so controlled in possession, the visiting team gave the ball away as if bestowing acts of charity, with Arjen Robben, who had been given a surprising recall, particularly culpable.
The Holland winger had an evening to forget, pulling out of challenges and appearing reluctant to receive the ball. No wonder Mourinho has privately questioned his mental strength.
With Alberto Rivera and Arzu controlling midfield, Betis pressed forward and were rewarded with a deserved goal in the 28th minute, a breakthrough even more impressive as they had just lost their centre back and centre forward, Nano and Ricardo Oliveira, to injury. Both substitutes were involved, with Paolo Castellini’s cross from the left being dummied by Edu, allowing Dani to get in front of William Gallas to score.
Chelsea’s misery was soon compounded when, after creating rare chances on the counter-attack, they wasted two clear opportunities. After being played through by Eidur Gudjohnsen, Joe Cole was the first culprit, shooting tamely at Pedro Contreras, the Betis goalkeeper, but the Iceland striker’s miss was even worse. He spooned the ball over the bar when through on goal after a long pass from Terry.
Unlike Mourinho’s mood at half-time, though, the scoreline could have been worse. On the stroke of the interval, Petr Cech, who has looked increasingly fallible of late, failed to hold a long-range effort from Edu, with Dani shooting narrowly wide on the rebound.
Gudjohnsen and Cole paid for their sins, being replaced by Didier Drogba and Shaun Wright-Phillips at half-time, and they will be expected to demonstrate more penitence in training this week. Robben was given a shot at redemption but failed to take it, lingering long enough only to pick up a booking for a petulant foul before being replaced by Damien Duff in the 65th minute. The 21-year-old’s exit was more memorable than his performance. He stormed down the tunnel before Mourinho sent his coaching staff to retrieve him.
As Betis continued to dominate, the pace of Duff on the counter-attack seemed to be Chelsea’s best hope of salvaging a point and, sure enough, the Irishman fashioned their only real opportunity. After rampaging down the left in the 72nd minute, Duff’s cross eluded Drogba but found Wright-Phillips on the far byline and he squared the ball to Michael Essien.
The Ghana midfield player beat Melli, the defender, to the ball, but his shot rebounded off the inside of the near post, ran along the goalline and hit the inside of the other post before bouncing into the arms of Contreras, summing up Chelsea’s evening. After a tortuous night in Seville, their players will await Mourinho’s Spanish Inquisition with trepidation.
REAL BETIS (4-2-3-1): P Contreras —F Varela, Juanito, Nano (sub: P Castellini, 19min), Melli — A Rivera, Arzu — Joaquín, Capi (sub: Fernando, 84), Edu — R Oliviera (sub: Dani, 25). Substitutes not used:A Doblas, Fernando, Xisco, Juanlu,I Bascón. Booked: Capi, Varela, Melli, Contreras, Dani.
CHELSEA (4-3-3): P Cech — P Ferreira, R Carvalho, J Terry, W Gallas — M Essien, C Makelele, F Lampard — J Cole (sub:S Wright-Phillips, 46), E Gudjohnsen (sub:D Drogba, 46), A Robben (sub: D Duff, 65). Substitutes not used: C Cudicini, R Huth, Gérémi, W Bridge. Booked: Cole, Robben, Drogba, Wright-Phillips, Duff.
Referee: A Hamer (Luxembourg).
BLUE MURDER FOR MOURINHO
JOSÉ MOURINHO is not normally a gracious loser, but he took last night’s defeat on the chin. “It was the worst performance since I arrived,” he said. “I’ve been here for 15 months, perhaps 80 matches at Chelsea, and this was the worst performance. The first half was too bad to be true.
“Maybe the players thought it was a knockout game and we were 4-0 up. The attitude was too relaxed for a game when we’re playing for points.”
Chelsea’s defeat leaves them three points behind Liverpool, but Mourinho is confident that his team can recover to win group G. “If we win our next two matches, we will be first in the group. We have our destiny in our hands,” he said. “The drama is not in the result, the drama is in the first-half performance.”
Mourinho also added more fuel to the fire of his dispute with Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager. “If my comments (about Wenger being a “voyeur” and “obsessed” with Chelsea) were very strong, I have to accept that the next comments will be very strong,” he said. “I accept that, but I have a file of quotes from Mr Wenger about Chelsea in the last 12 months. It’s a file of 120 pages. I accept the next answer being strong and it’s time to stop. If he doesn’t stop, we’re there for a fight.” MATT HUGHES -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Telegraph:
Complacent Chelsea beaten by BetisBy Christopher Davies in Seville (Real Betis (1) 1 Chelsea (0) 0
Dominant in the Premiership, Chelsea once again showed their frailty away from home in the Champions League as they slumped to a fifth defeat in six ties on their travels, with Real Betis giving the visitors a lesson in attacking football.
Chelsea finished with John Terry as a makeshift striker, alongside Didier Drogba, but Betis deservedly held on for a famous victory that means Chelsea must wait to secure their place in the knockout stages.
It is difficult to believe they will not join Liverpool in progressing from Group G but it is a year since they won an away match in the Champions League and it is a flaw Jose Mourinho must correct.
Rarely have Chelsea had to defend in depth and for such long periods, against a Real Betis team who came into this match in the wake of four consecutive defeats.
Perhaps Chelsea were guilty of complacency but they were second best in most aspects of a rousing tie in the Andalucian capital that will give Betis real hope they can split the English teams.
Chelsea even collected four cautions, which means an automatic Uefa fine, and while Mourinho had said it did not matter if they qualified for the next stage last night or in the last group game, the manager would no doubt have preferred to secure their progress sooner rather than later.
Perhaps, with this weekend's Premiership game against Manchester United in mind, Mourinho rested Drogba and gave Eidur Gudjohnsen his first Champions League start of the season in attack, the Iceland international supported by Joe Cole and Arjen Robben.
It was the Chelsea defence that was called into action for much of the first half as some powerful runs by Joaquin tested the most miserly back line in the Premiership.
In the opening 15 minutes Chelsea were rarely out of their own half as Real Betis, struggling in 17th place in La Liga, poured forward from both wings and through the middle.
With Claude Makelele the shield in front of the back four, Chelsea were just about managing to keep Betis at bay but the home team were undoubtedly making life difficult for the visitors.
Injuries forced Betis to make two first-half changes - in the 21st minute Nano was replaced by Paolo Castellini and then leading goalscorer Ricardo Oliveira was stretchered off after a challenge from Ricardo Carvalho, with Dani coming on.
Yet Betis continued to dominate and it was no surprise when they broke the deadlock in the 29th minute through Dani, who had been on the field only four minutes.
Capi's cross from the left eluded Terry, and when William Gallas was the wrong side of Dani, the Betis player was able to beat Petr Cech from six yards.
There could be no doubt Betis deserved to be in the lead, their football belying their poor domestic form.
Cole was needlessly cautioned for telling Alain Hamer too forcefully that the referee should have awarded a corner rather than a throw-in, a cheap yellow card to collect which could prove costly later in the tournament.
Chelsea belatedly tested Pedro Contreras, the goalkeeper saving superbly when Cole was clear, and then he held a well-struck 25-yard shot by Robben.
Two minutes before the interval Gudjohnsen seemed certain to score as he bore down on the Betis goal but his shot from eight yards went high into the crowd.
There was still time for Dani to come within inches of making it 2-0 and Mourinho clearly had his work cut out as the Chelsea manager conducted his half-time team talk.
Mourinho made two changes for the start of the second-half, bringing on Shaun Wright-Phillips and Drogba for Gudjohnsen and Cole, but it was Betis who continued to set the pace with some breathtaking attacking.
The Chelsea manager was warned by Hamer to stay in his technical area, Mourinho on his feet trying to rally his troops who were in the unfamiliar position of being on the back foot.
The noise inside the Manuel Ruiz de Lopera stadium was incredible as the home fans sensed a significant scalp.
Tempers, too, were rising and Melli became the third Betis player to be shown the yellow card for an over-zealous challenge.
Drogba had looked a caution waiting to happen and, sure enough, he was booked by Hamer for roughing up Contreras.
Duff, fit again three weeks after undergoing knee surgery, was introduced in the 65th minute and there was a suspicion that Betis had put in so much effort into assuming control that they could not sustain the pressure.
Michael Essien came close to equalising in the 72nd minute when his shot struck both posts before rebounding into the grateful arms of Contreras.
Match details
Real Betis (4-4-1-1): Contreras; Varela, Juanito, Nano (Castellini 21), Melli; Joaquin, Rivera, Arzu, Edu; Capi; Oliveira (Dani 25). Subs: Doblas (g), Dani, Fernando, Xisco, Juanlu, Israel. Booked: Capi, Varela, Melli. Chelsea (4-3-3): Cech; Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Essien, Makelele, Lampard; Cole (Wright-Phillips h-t), Gudjohnsen Drogba h-t), Robben (Duff 65). Subs: Cudicini (g), Geremi, Bridge, Huth. Booked: Cole, Robben, Drogba. Referee: A Hamer (Luxembourg).