Galatasaray 2-0

Independent:

Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0
Sam Wallace

They loved Didier Drogba at Stamford Bridge before tonight and they will love him just as much after his first return in the shirt of an opponent – because as far as Chelsea were concerned this was precisely the kind of final farewell to an old favourite that they had in mind.
Even the greats of the game have to accept that their powers wane at some point and there could be no greater illustration of that than seeing Drogba, scorer of 157 goals in eight seasons at Chelsea reduced to the periphery he so rarely occupied as a player here. Before the match at Stamford Bridge, they acclaimed Drogba as one of the greats of their club and then watched in quiet satisfaction as he turned in one of his least influential performances on this ground.
Panic over for Jose Mourinho, and those at Chelsea who feared a haunting from Drogba. Chelsea are safely through to the last eight of the Champions League where they wait to see whether they will be joined by Manchester United tomorrow night or proceed as the only English representatives. It could hardly have been more straightforward in a home leg that Chelsea controlled from start to finish.
The game barely looked in doubt from the fourth minute when Samuel Eto’o opened the scoring. Gary Cahill claimed the second before half-time and the home fans felt sufficiently confident to start singing Drogba’s name again with five minutes of the match to play. On Friday, Mourinho’s team are in what will surely be one of the most competitive quarter-final draws in the history of the competition, but they would not wish to be anywhere else.
Certainly the next round will be a great deal more competitive than this stroll against a poor Galatasaray side where there was not a save of note for Petr Cech to make and the anticipated fight-back from the away side never truly got underway. Even the away fans, who rarely require a second invitation to make some noise were uncharacteristically subdued by the end.
As with the first leg in Istanbul, this was a very poor start from Galatasaray who seemed utterly unprepared for the dynamics of European knock-out football and gave themselves the proverbial mountain to climb within four minutes.
There was a glowering response from Mancini on the touchline when his players conceded the first goal to Eto’o, almost as if it had nothing to do with the manager himself. His team had been cut apart through the middle where the rampaging Felipe Melo, later to get himself booked, went missing and Hazard opened up his opponent with ease.
Chelsea were up and running and they should have had more than the two goals they finished the half with. Hazard ran Emmanuel Eboue up and down the left wing. Melo was booked for a foul on Willian which meant that Galatasaray’s Brazilian midfielder was obliged to apply the handbrake to all that he did.
Later a free-kick of Drogba’s went so extravagantly high and wide that it struck the orange “DROGBA LEGEND” banner on the second tier of the Matthew Harding stand. The home fans at Stamford Bridge loved that moment and the close-up shot on the television cameras caught a smile creeping across the face of the old lion of Africa.
John Terry executed a very nice volley on the run from Frank Lampard’s free-kick from the left on 33 minutes but having made the difficult connection just lifted it over the bar. A cut back from Eto’o to Willian on 38 minutes was the wrong choice with Oscar in more space. Then the second goal came two minutes before the break. Terry headed goalwards from Lampard’s corner, Muslera saved but pushed the ball back into the six-yard area where Cahill lashed it in.
As there was in Istanbul in the first leg, Mancini worked a change in his formation, switching to 3-5-2 after the break, albeit with very little effect. Drogba’s labours got even worse with the ball bouncing off him at times and then a booking for an attempt to trip Cesar Azpilicueta.
As for a response from Mancini’s side, there was perilously little of note. They never looked like they had the confidence or the pace to break down a very solid Chelsea team with Ramires and Lampard bossing the midfield and Cahill and Terry unbreakable in the centre of defence. Chelsea should really have scored a third two minutes from time when Fernando Torres, a substitute for Eto’o, had just Muslera to beat but could not shape his shot around the goalkeeper.
At the end, Drogba left the pitch, having first acknowledged the Galatasaray fans, to a rapturous applause from the whole stadium. He did not milk it – that would have been a little insensitive to his current employers – but he lingered long enough to enjoy the moment. Goodness knows, he deserves it even if this, probably his last game at the ground, will be one he does not choose to remember with any fondness.



Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Lampard, Ramires; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Eto’o
Subs: Schurrle/Oscar 83, Torres/Eto’o 85, Kalas/Willian 90
Galatasaray (4-2-3-1): Muslera; Eboue, Chedjou, Semih, Telles; Yekta, Melo; Inan, Sneijder, Burak Yilmaz; Drogba.
Subs: Bulut/Yilmaz 54, Balta/Yakta 67, Hajrovic/Eboue 77
Booked: Chelsea Oscar, IvanovicGalatasaray Melo, Drogba, Inan
Referee: F Brych (Germany).
Man of the match: Cahill
Rating: 6/10



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Guardian:
Chelsea blow away Galatasaray thanks to Samuel Eto'o and Gary Cahill
Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0
Daniel Taylor


Once again Chelsea are threatening to be the last English club standing in Europe. Arsenal and Manchester City have already gone, Manchester United are teetering perilously on the brink and Spurs are in dire straits in the Europa League, but there is something remarkably durable about the team from Stamford Bridge. They bend for no one and, though they might not have the same panache of some of theChampions League quarter-finalists, every other club in Friday's draw will regard them as formidable opponents.
They won here with something to spare, inflicting the damage with first-half goals from Samuel Eto'o and Gary Cahill, and they were barely threatened after the interval. Galatasaray may have some of the more boisterous supporters in the competition but it is clear why Roberto Mancini apparently wants to leave Istanbul to return to English football. Didier Drogba was given a rapturous homecoming but his presence in the Galatasaray team, at the age of 36, summed up their limitations on a night when Mancini's body language told its own story.
The former Manchester City manager spent much of the first half prowling his technical area, remonstrating with his players in a series of exasperated hand signals and furiously outlining his grievances to his assistant, the silver-haired Tugay. For the last half an hour Mancini sat back, with his feet propped up, simmering with discontent. He knew then that his team did not have the firepower or will to trouble a side José Mourinho credited with being "very solid, very compact, and no fears".
Chelsea had not looked back from the moment Eto'o gave them the early breakthrough and could probably have added more goals if they had not detailed the second half to playing with restraint. They control winning positions pretty well under Mourinho and it did not matter a great deal that they stopped troubling their opponents with such regularity. The onus was on Galatasaray but the Turkish champions could barely offer a flicker of self-belief. "We did nothing," Mancini said. "We didn't deserve anything." Their supporters were vibrant and relentless; the same could not be said of Mancini's team.
As for Drogba, the returning hero was showered with love and returned the compliment by doing absolutely nothing to trouble his old friends. At one point César Azpilicueta could be seen outmuscling him by the touchline.
Drogba's first chance came from a free-kick and he blazed it so high over the crossbar it connected with the "Drogba Legend" banner that hangs from the middle tier of the Matthew Harding stand. From Drogba, there was a wry smile, when once there would have been a look of self-revulsion, and Mourinho was surely just being kind when he blamed Drogba's team-mates for leaving him "a lonely man". It was quickly apparent Drogba is not the player Chelsea's crowd remember and, between them, Cahill and John Terry handled him fairly comfortably.
Wesley Sneijder was also on the edges, doing little to live up to Mourinho's billing as one of the three most accomplished No10s in the business, but Galatasaray's problems were mostly in defence. Frank Lampard's set-piece deliveries frequently created problems and Roy Hodgson will have been encouraged by Fernando Muslera's goalkeeping in the first half. Muslera plays for Uruguay and Hodgson was in the stands, in part to see one of England's opponents in the World Cup.
The problem for Galatasaray was the speed and movement of the home team's attacking quartet. Oscar, whose recent form has been a concern, looked more like his old self. Eden Hazard was a menace and Eto'o's goal was a reminder of the days when he regularly tormented defences at this level.
Galatasaray were in trouble as soon as Hazard had controlled a throw-in on his chest, then turned and started running at their defence. Oscar was on the right and Eto'o's old instincts kicked in, running beyond the back four, latching on to the Brazilian's pass, then firing in a shot with the power to expose Muslera.
Mancini, with his undistinguished Champions League record, will not have to be reminded that a side at this level cannot expect to get away with defending so generously. It was the same again when Terry flashed a volley just over the crossbar later in the half, and the marking was almost non-existent when the second goal arrived two minutes before the interval.
Terry was the player who attacked Lampard's corner with the most intent, with no one following his run. Muslera kept out the header but could only parry the ball into the six-yard area and Cahill followed in to volley high into the net.
After that it was just a question ofChelsea protecting their lead but they still had the better opportunities, Muslera keeping out second-half efforts from Willian, Lampard and Hazard.
Drogba was booked, a decision the crowd booed, and for the last half an hour both sides looked as if they had settled for the result.
It resulted in a meandering and slightly unsatisfactory finale but the home crowd could still look on contentedly, serenading Drogba and wondering whether Mourinho, who has never lost a Champions League quarter-final, could yet become the first manager to win this competition with three different clubs.



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Telegraph:


Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0; agg 3-1:
By Henry Winter, Football Correspondent at Stamford Bridge



At the final whistle, Didier Drogba tarried on the turf he once called home as if loathing the thought of leaving his field of dreams. The Galatasaray striker embraced John Terry, waved to the home fans singing his name, hugged other Chelsea players, and still lingered before finally accepting that time, and ground-staff with lawnmowers, wait for no man.
Before taking his last step off the pitch, Drogba stooped and touched the grass. Then he was gone, the history man. Chelsea fans continued to chant his name as the tunnel swallowed up the tall, strong figure, one of the club’s greatest ever servants, the player whose last touch for them won the Champions League, who led the line so powerfully for so long, who scored 157 goals, nine of them in cup finals. So many memories. So much gratitude.
This was never going to be an ordinary match. This was the long good-bye, a farewell to a favourite that started an hour before kick-off, that continued with chants throughout the game and climaxed with that emotional send-off as Drogba left the Bridge.
Thoroughly professional throughout, Chelsea’s players put friendships to one side for 90 minutes and nullified Drogba. Terry and Gary Cahill never allowed Drogba a glimpse of goal. Galatasaray, again disappointing on English soil, managed only one effort on target, and that deflected off Branislav Ivanovic.
Chelsea recorded 13 attempts on goal, including the early opener from Samuel Eto’o and then Cahill’s close-range finish just before the break as they progressed smoothly into Friday’s draw.
Jose Mourinho has never lost a Champions League quarter-final.
He is such a smart tactician but will need all his wiliness given the quality of opposition in the draw, so far comprising Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Paris St-Germain and Real Madrid. The other two places will be taken by either Manchester United or Olimpiakos and Borussia Dortmund or Zenit St Petersburg.
It was hard to assess Chelsea fully as Galatasaray were poor, particularly Wesley Sneijder who was largely anonymous. What Chelsea will take particular encouragement from was a reminder that Frank Lampard can still influence games, that there are few better central-defensive axis than Terry and Cahill and that César Azpilicueta again showed what a good left-back he is, attacking and defending. There was also the sustained excellence of Eto’o.
At times this season, Chelsea fans would have loved to have had Drogba still leading the line, even aged 36. At 33, and fond of a celebration mocking the ageing process, Eto’o started here as if determined to make the home supporters forget about the returning idol. He hugged Drogba warmly and lengthily before kick-off and then took hold of this game.
Eto’o needed only four minutes to score. Felipe Melo had already demonstrated his occasional vulnerability in the centre, fouling Oscar and then being turned effortlessly by Eden Hazard, who had collected a throw-in from Ivanovic. Hazard wriggled forward and slipped the ball right to Oscar.
This was Chelsea at their best under Mourinho, full of unhesitant movement. Oscar eluded Semih Kaya and weighted his pass perfectly to Eto’o, who had stayed onside, and ran in ahead of Aurelien Chedjou. Galatasaray’s defence was unravelling like Roberto Mancini’s scarf.
The shot from Eto’o took a slight deflection but it was still poor goalkeeping from Uruguay’s Fernando Muslera, whose right hand was not strong enough to prevent the ball carrying into the net.
In marking his 30th Champions League goal in his 76thappearance, Eto’o refrained from his old-man impression but went through the gamut of other celebrations, punching the air, blowing kisses and almost shaking Oscar’s head off.
Eto’o was as lively as Drogba was quiet. Maybe the emotion of the occasion got to the Ivorian. Maybe he was just so tightly marked. He did hook a shot way over and then sent a free-kick so high over the bar that it struck the “Drogba Legend” banner hanging from the Matthew Harding Upper.
Chelsea fans laughed, having made sure that Drogba knew of their enduring affection before kick-off. Chelsea’s chief executive Ron Gourlay presented Drogba with a silver boot as Drogba’s son shared in the salute.
Drogba was being smothered in love. After the tenor Stuart Pendred finished twirling his scarf and singing “Blue is the Colour”, he joined the swarm of photographers charting Drogba’s emergence from the tunnel. Drogba got a kiss from Mourinho and was saluted by the fans, who also displayed a picture of their former No 11 with the tribute “always in our hearts”.
Yet at one of his few excursions into Chelsea’s box in the first half, Drogba was greeted with cheers and a few ironic chants of “who are you?” Petr Cech had little to do on his 100th Champions League appearance. Melo shot wide after a lay-off from Drogba. Muslera was the busier keeper. From a Lampard free-kick, Terry lifted a left-foot volley just over Muslera’s cross-bar.
Their next combination brought Chelsea’s second goal three minutes from the interval. Lampard curled a corner in and Terry headed down. Muslera seemed to have saved well, pushing the ball out but he did not direct it away from goal, merely into traffic. Cahill responded quickest and thumped the loose ball into the net, a perfect way to celebrate his 100th appearance for the club. England will hope that Cahill repeats the feat when next encountering Muslera in Sao Paulo on June 19.
Cahill continued to remind the watching Roy Hodgson of his prowess. When a long ball fell towards Drogba just before the hour-mark, Cahill stood behind the Galatasaray striker, anticipating its arrival, leaping up and clearing before Drogba could properly react.
Drogba needed better service. Sneijder did manage one pass to Drogba, who controlled the ball but was instantly dispossessed by Azpilicueta. Drogba responded with the tiniest of fouls, earning a booking from Felix Brych. It was harsh, utterly out of synch with the love-in for Drogba.
Chelsea remained comfortably in control. Willian cut a ball back to Lampard, whose header was clutched by Muslera. The movement of Eto’o was another masterclass in stealth and intelligence. His work-rate was first-class, closing down Galatasaray’s defence. Eto’o even received the compliment of a foul from Drogba.
Mancini switched to wing-backs but it made no difference. Oscar curled in a free-kick that Muslera punched out. Lampard volleyed over.
André Schürrle replaced Oscar, the man in Drogba’s old shirt getting warm applause after one of his more assertive shifts of recent months.
Eto’o was replaced by Fernando Torres, who shot straight at Muslera after a perfect through-ball from Hazard. The game petered out but it took a while for the singing of Drogba’s name to subside.



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Times:


Eden Hazard proves that Chelsea have art and graft
Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0 (Chelsea win 3-1 on agg)



The sweat-stained shirts proved otherwise, but progression to the Champions League quarter-finals ended up looking very straightforward for Chelsea last night.
This was a victory that bore all the hallmarks of a José Mourinho team: forceful in the way they took control of the game, unyielding in the way they retained it thereafter.
It is no surprise to see Chelsea back in the Champions League quarter-finals again after last season’s hiccup. The question is whether, having got past Schalke, Basle, Steaua Bucharest and now Galatasaray, they will be able to rise to the standard that will be needed henceforth. While the quarter-final line-up has yet to be finalised, it is fair to suggest that much tougher tests lie ahead.
Few opponents will relish facing Mourinho’s team, though. Not only do they retain the winning mentality that has made them such a force in European competition for much of the past decade, they have, in Eden Hazard, a player with the skill, flair and ingenuity to unlock the best of defences.
The goals came from Samuel Eto’o in the fourth minute and Gary Cahill shortly before half-time, and there were strong contributions from Ramires and Frank Lampard in midfield, among others, but Hazard was by far the most captivating player on view. There was a period last season when the Belgium playmaker seemed to fade out of games, his tricks and flicks a sign of overindulgence rather than brilliance, but he has risen to every challenge that Mourinho has laid before him this season.
At the final whistle, it was all about Didier Drogba, one of the ultimate heroes of the modern-day Chelsea, savouring the applause of the home crowd as he left the pitch, but until that point it had been easy to forget that the Galatasaray forward was playing.
The visiting team needed to score to stand any chance of reaching the last eight after the 1-1 draw in Istanbul, but Petr Cech did not have a save to make until a free kick was diverted goalwards by Branislav Ivanovic in the final moments.
When Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Old Trafford as a Real Madrid player at this stage of the Champions League 12 months ago, Patrice Evra suggested that Manchester United supporters should shower him with even more adulation than came naturally in order to soften him up. “Cristiano will get a great reception and it’s difficult when you play with love,” Evra said.
Ronaldo scored the winning goal against United, but his performance was a little subdued and the strategy seemed to appeal to Mourinho, who was the Real coach that night. While a rapturous reception from the Chelsea supporters was to be expected for Drogba, even the Galatasaray forward, back at his former club, might have felt a little flattered to be presented with a silver boot on the pitch shortly before kick-off.
The return of Drogba finished up as a sideshow, albeit one that caused amusement in the 37th minute when he sent a free kick so far over the target that it hit the “Drogba legend” banner on the upper tier of the Matthew Harding Stand.
By that stage, Galatasaray were already 1-0 down on the night and about to fall farther behind when Cahill extended Chelsea’s lead late in the first half. That was that. Just as you would not expect a Mourinho team to surrender a 3-1 aggregate lead on home turf, Galatasaray, never a great force away from home in the Champions League, are not the type of team to claw back such a deficit at Stamford Bridge.
Galatasaray set out with a robust approach — as if a team containing Felipe Melo would ever be any different — but as Roberto Mancini admitted, their performance was poor. The service for Drogba was almost non-existent, with Wesley Sneijder proving totally ineffective, and they failed to get to grips with Hazard.
Chelsea took the lead within four minutes. There seemed to be no danger when Ivanovic took a throw-in near the halfway line, but with Hazard around, danger is ever-present.
Allowing the ball to run across him, Hazard produced a body swerve that took him away from a flailing challenge and into space, running at the defence. From there, he played a clever pass wide to Oscar, who threaded the ball through to Eto’o in the inside-right channel. Eto’o’s shot did not entirely convince, but Fernando Muslera could only help it on its way into the net.
Mourinho’s team are at their most comfortable when protecting a lead. The game was scrappy — 23 fouls before half-time and 17 in the second — but it was being played on Chelsea’s terms.
Ramires and Lampard were controlling the midfield, taking turns to break forward and join the attack, but never leaving Sneijder unattended.
Lampard worries about developing signs of rustiness when he is selected only intermittently, but he was excellent here. Midway through the first half his surging run from midfield enabled Hazard and Oscar to combine to set him up for a half-chance that he stabbed wide of goal. Early in the second half he intercepted Muslera’s kick before teeing up Willian, whose powerful shot was saved.
Lampard also delivered a menacing free kick from which John Terry fired a volley just over the crossbar, then took the corner that yielded Cahill’s goal shortly before half-time. Again Terry was the target, meeting the ball with a powerful header that Muslera saved acrobatically without clearing the danger. It dropped for Cahill, who lashed it into the net to put Chelsea 3-1 up on aggregate.
Through it all, though, the eye continued to be drawn towards Hazard. After one lovely run early in the second half left Semih Kaya on his backside, he and Eto’o linked again to set up Oscar, but the Brazil forward’s shot was blocked by Melo.
Hazard had an excellent curling shot pushed around a post by Muslera late on, from Lampard’s pass, before setting up an opportunity that Fernando Torres failed to take. All that was left was for Drogba to take his bow and for Chelsea to prepare for the bigger challenges ahead.



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Mail:


Chelsea 2-0 Galatasaray (agg 3-1): Eto'o early strike and Cahill blast send Mourinho's men marching into quarter finals
By Martin Samuel



And the moral of this story, children, is: win your group.
Having seen Manchester City and Arsenal take on mission impossible a week ago,  Chelsea coasted into the last eight of the Champions League courtesy of a mission that came with its own  guarantee — a second-leg  victory that was assured by half-time against a team who are pretty much all mouth and no trousers.
Galatasaray’s colourful fans make a lot of noise but their team, at this level at least, is ordinary.
It is a myth that it no longer matters whether a team finishes first or second in the Champions League group stage, that the pool of teams is now so strong that avoiding the eight  winners is unimportant.
Chelsea’s second-placed rivals walked straight into a battering courtesy of the best team in Europe, Bayern Munich, and another that has redefined the way the modern game is played, Barcelona.
Jose Mourinho and Chelsea, meanwhile, brushed aside Galatasaray with something approaching ease, and without doubt they got more of a game from Aston Villa last Saturday.
The logic is basic. With UEFA’s seeding process separating the elite clubs, whether they win their league or not, it is likely the group winners will include Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Then take out the groups that are won by Premier League teams — usually at least two — and any English team finishing second has a more than 50 per cent chance of playing one of that big three.
Alternatively, come first of four and if the fates allow the path to the late stages could be relatively gentle. As it was for Chelsea on Tuesday night.
Chelsea could play within their limits here, after Samuel Eto’o and Gary Cahill gave them a 2-0 half-time advantage.
Considering Galatasaray were chasing the game from the fourth minute when Chelsea took a 2-1 aggregate lead, this was a very poor performance from the visitors, who forced only three attempts at goal, none on target.
Those who assume the worthlessness of statistics will find their argument bolstered, however, by the fact that Galatasaray enjoyed greater possession. It did not seem that way. They were barely in the game.
Mourinho did not have to display his Champions League smarts to steer Chelsea through, despite the presence of Roberto Mancini on the opposite bench. Galatasaray were unambitious and while Chelsea’s previously vanquished rivals may look on enviously, the simple truth is Chelsea earned this.
They earned having a defence that was barely troubled, they earned giving their forwards an upmarket training ground run-out before  Saturday’s match with Arsenal.
Eden Hazard was the man of the match and one of his second-half runs had a Lionel Messi-like quality about it. He’ll need that, from here. Last night it was simply wasted.
It was one of those games when Oscar, Willian and in particular Hazard combined to show how a new Chelsea forward line has been forged, without the mighty presence of Didier Drogba.
The man whose penalty clinched the Champions League final for  the club in Munich returned to a hero’s welcome, even enjoying a pre-match presentation from  his grateful hosts. In these days of hate mobs and spiteful  rejection, it was good to see a crowd that bore no ill will to an  old player in  an unfamiliar shirt.
Meanwhile, Chelsea were demonstrating why, despite the sentimental emotions of the fans, the club had decided it could do without an ageing striker, and could regroup around a trio of less substantial but no less effective attacking midfielders.
Eto’o and Cahill scored the goals that gave Chelsea a cosy feeling before half-time, but it was the three in Mourinho’s favoured 4-2-3-1 formation who tormented Galatasaray from beginning to end.
Mourinho wishes Hazard to be placed in the same company as Cristiano Ronaldo and while he has a way to go considering the Real Madrid man scored his 41st goal of the season for Real Madrid against Schalke — and his 13th in the Champions League, where the record is 14 — he is a devastating talent with time to grow.
It was his sweet skill in the fourth minute that gave Chelsea the perfect start, half juggling with the ball in the heart of midfield before finding Oscar on a right-sided overlap. He slipped a pass back into the middle where Eto’o at first looked badly set up for it but fashioned a shot that Fernando Muslera in the Galatasaray goal might have prevented.
 Given that Galatasaray’s manager is late of Manchester City, it seems strange that the visitors should not have been prepared for the danger of John Terry in the penalty area. On two occasions, he came close, most spectacularly with a volley from a Frank Lampard free-kick after 33 minutes that travelled just over. Then, with three minutes to go before half-time, came the all-important second goal, and some distance.
It was a Lampard corner, again finding Terry unguarded. His header forced a save from Muslera, which came out to Cahill, who smashed it home from close range.
There were other chances. Late in the second half Oscar had a free-kick impressively saved and a final flourish from Hazard should have resulted in a goal for Fernando Torres, but Chelsea played within themselves for much of what remained.
So there is going to be at least one English club in the Champions League quarter-final, just as Mourinho has made Chelsea the team to beat in the Premier League, too. Drogba may be indulged on memory, but Mourinho’s power remains very much in the here and now, even if harder tests lie ahead.

Chelsea: Cech 6, Ivanovic 7, Cahill 7.5, Terry 7.5, Azpilicueta 7, Ramires 7, Lampard 7.5, Oscar 7.5 (Schurrle 81), Hazard 8, Willian 7.5 (Kalas 90), Eto'o 7.5 (Torres 85).
Subs Not Used: Schwarzer, Luiz, Mikel, Ba.
Booked: Oscar, Ivanovic.
Goals: Eto'o 4, Cahill 43.

Galatasaray: Muslera 5.5, Alex 5.5, Chedjou 5, Kaya 5, Eboue 5 (Hajrovic 77), Felipe Melo 5, Inan 6, Sneijder 5, Kurtulus 5 (Balta 67, 5), Drogba 5.5, Burak Yilmaz 5 (Bulut 53, 5).
Subs Not Used: Ceylan, Burdisso, Gulselam, Sarioglu.
Booked: Felipe Melo, Drogba, Inan.

Attendance: 43,000
Ref: Felix Brych (Germany), 6.5.
Ratings by SAMI MOKBEL at Stamford Bridge



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Mirror:

Chelsea 2-0 Galatasaray (3-1 agg): The Blues book their place in the Champions League quarter finals
By Martin Lipton




Not even Didier Drogba could stand in the way of Chelsea and the Champions League quarter finals - but the Blues could face a tougher test in the next round
The Drog might be part of the Stamford Bridge past.
But "The Daddy" still has a Chelsea future, for a few months at least.
While Samuel Eto'o may not be what he was, he remains the best striker Jose Mourinho has.
And, along with the brilliant Eden Hazard, he is the key to the Portuguese's hopes of making Champions League history this term.
Eto'o gave himself that "Daddy" title in an exchange with John Obi Mikel as he walked onto the training pitch at Cobham on Monday, retaining faith in his own talents.
Mourinho, too, has little option other than to rely on the Cameroonian but as Didier Drogba allowed the emotion of his SW6 return to emasculate him, Eto'o showed why.
The African's brilliant, critical, early strike - his 10th of the season - put Mourinho's Blues on course to canter into the last eight, where the real class acts of the competition lie in wait.
A second, just before the interval, from Gary Cahill, ensured Mourinho reached the quarter-finals for the eighth time in his 10 attempts - he has won them all previously - still in with the chance of becoming the first manager to win with three different clubs.
For the Blues to mix it with Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, all potential opponents after Friday's draw in Nyon, they will need to show more than required last night.
Mourinho accepted Drogba's pre-match embrace and kiss, but he did a number on his old friend.
The Ivorian is dangerous when he is wound up, angered, taunted to feel angry, not when he is smothered in kindness, lauded, made the guest of honour.
Without his biggest weapon, a cause, the Drog was an impotent puppy, brought to heel and brutally mastered by John Terry.
And once Robert Mancini's only real weapon was neutralised - Wesley Sneijder wore a cloak of invisibility - this one was pretty much done and dusted.
Of course, it helps when, as Chelsea did, you score with your first attack.
Mourinho may have mocked Eto'o's age before the first leg but the Cameroonian was quicker in thought and movement than any of the Galatasaray defenders when Willian, found after Hazard's sublime turn, rolled across.
The Turkish side looked for a flag that was never going to come - Eto'o had timed his move perfectly - and the striker took a touch before burying under Fernando Muslera's dive.
Galatasaray, despite their ear-splitting support, never recovered.
Admittedly, it did not help that Hazard versus Emmanuel Eboue was less a contest than an exhibition, that nobody in Roberto Mancini's side knew what to do with Willian or Oscar either.
That was not Chelsea's fault and with the effervescent Frank Lampard poking over, Terry just too high on a full-blooded volley, Cahill's second, three minutes from the break, was overdue.
Credit to Oscar, with a bee in his bonnet after being booked for a perfectly-timed tackle, who won a corner on the right out of absolutely nothing.
Lampard delivered in trademark fashion, Terry came steaming in with only one thing on his mind and while Muslera saved the downward header, Cahill thrashed high into the net from three yards.
Two up, in control, and, in truth, never in doubt, without Chelsea ever having to slip through the gears.
Oscar, much improved on recent weeks, and Willian might both have scored at the start of the second period, and Hazard remained an elusive, jinking, menacing presence.
The Belgian was denied by Muslera just before the end and then, with a superb sleight of foot,played in Torres, a late replacement for Eto'o.
Torres' failure to take that opportunity only reinforced why the internal equation has been tilted so far in Eto'o's favour. "The Daddy" IS the daddy.
More crucially, Chelsea's triumph means the Premier League standard will be carried into April, not fall limp this week.
Chelsea do not, it must be said, look like potential European champions. But they didn't in 2012, either, until the final kick.
And Mourinho is a proven course and distance winner, a horse whisperer with a magic touch. That helps. A lot.




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Chelsea 2 - Galatasaray 0 (3-1 agg): Samuel Eto'o steals Didier Drogba's limelight


THE OLD warrior was back at the scene of so many of his triumphs, his battles. But it was not to be his night.

Samuel Eto o grabbed an early goal for Chelsea to send them on their waySamuel Eto'o grabbed an early goal for Chelsea to send them on their way [AP]
The irony was that the architect of Didier Drogba’s Champions League downfall last night was Samuel Eto’o – who is hardly one of the new breed at Chelsea at only three years younger than the great Ivory Coast legend.
It was Eto’o’s early goal which sent Drogba and Galatasaray back into the Champions League wilderness for another year.
Gary Cahill’s strike just before half-time at Stamford Bridge last night only sealed what was, despite all the noise and hype, a comfortable passage into the quarter-finals for Jose Mourinho’s side.
Drogba ran out to huge cheers from all areas of the ground before kick-off and he was made a presentation of a silver boot.
Eight years, three league titles and the final kick of his career at Stamford Bridge that won the club the Champions League on that memorable night in Munich two years ago earned the Ivorian that honour.
But Mourinho had insisted before this game that would be where any goodwill firmly ended.
Frank Lampard came back into a Chelsea side that was back at as full strength as it could be. The Londoners were attempting to recover from Saturday’s bruising defeat at Aston Villa and, having drawn 1-1 in Istanbul three weeks ago in the first instalment of this last-16 tie, were firm favourites to progress.
Galatasary had never won on English soil. But then this time they had Drogba. And even at 36, Mourinho conceded, the old warrior was still a major threat.
But it was one of Drogba’s replacements that actually got Chelsea off to a perfect start on the night. Eden Hazard controlled a pass on his chest and flicked a pass out to Oscar in only the fourth minute.
The Brazilian put Eto’o through with a perfectly angled ball and the Cameroon striker fired in his crisp shot.
Galatasaray goalkeeper Fernando Muslera got a hand to the ball and should have stopped it, but it squirmed away from him into the net and Chelsea had the early goal they wanted. It was Eto’o’s 30th goal in the Champions League. Chelsea skipper John Terry won the first couple of shuddering collisions with his old friend, but Drogba’s touch and ability to hold the ball up was still clearly there.
Lampard clipped his shot just over after another fine interchange and Hazard tested Muslera as Chelsea kept breaking to good effect. Then Lampard swung in a free-kick and Terry’s volley screamed over the bar.
Two minutes from half-time Chelsea all but sealed the tie and again Muslera was at fault. Lampard’s corner was met by a ferocious header from Terry. The Uruguayan keeper could only parry the ball and Cahill lashed it into the roof of the net.
Lampard was in superb form in the centre of Chelsea’s midfield and one surging run set up Willian for a drive that was well held by the erratic Muslera.
didier drogbaDidier Drogba was given a hero's ovation after the final whistle [STUART ROBINSON]
Despite the fact that they had plenty of possession, it looked like all the fight had been knocked out of Roberto Mancini’s side.
Chelsea simply had too much pace and guile for Mancini’s team.
Oscar headed over as Chelsea threatened a third goal and the same player saw his vicious shot well stopped by Muslera, but in truth the work was done for Chelsea. All too aware of the hazards of wandering on to the pitch after his tangle with referee Chris Foy and his dismissal at Villa on Saturday, Mourinho barely stirred from his seat all night.
His counterpart Mancini, who definitely would not have felt like going out for dinner with his rival after this showing from his side, spent the game shaking his head and moaning furiously at his bench.
If Chelsea are to be English football’s sole surviving flag-bearers in the last eight of the Champions League – and we will find out tonight whether that will be the case when Manchester United try to salvage their so far wretched season by beating Olympiakos – then they will know that far tougher tasks lie ahead in this competition.
Life moves on, heroes fade, even those who have scored the winner in a Champions League final. Time shows little mercy in sport.



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Chelsea 2 - Galatasaray 0 (Agg: 3-1): Eto'o and Cahill net as Blues cruise into quarters


CHELSEA will carry the blue flag into the Champions League quarter-finals - as they saved the Premier League from more Euro embarrassment last night.
By David Woods

Last year not one team from the top flight made it into the last eight.
The season before it was just the west Londoners who progressed - going on to win the competition.
Now the pressure is on Manchester United tonight to overhaul their two-goal deficit against Greek side Olympiakos and keep the Blues company.
In truth, this was a bit of a Fulham Road stroll. Even with the returning Didier Drogba, the Istanbul outfit, managed by former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini, too often were like Turkish delight - pretty soft.
Blues keeper Petr Cech had one of his easier nights as Chelsea’s resolute defence recorded their 22nd clean sheet of the season.
The big surprise was that Chelsea, with Willian, Oscar and Eden Hazard combining so well behind Samuel Eto’o, managed just two goals.
Before kick-off home fans hailed one 30-something African striker, but soon after the game began it was another.
Eto’o was the only player in blue last night who has won a Champions League with Jose Mourinho, at Inter Milan in 2010. He was also been successful with Barcelona in 2006 and 2009.
He is three years younger than Drogba, 36 - or just one, if Mourinho’s aside to a French TV crew is to be believed.
And Eto’o kept Chelsea on course for a second Euro crown, and for a fourth for himself, with a goal in the fourth minute.
A Branislav Ivanovic throw picked out Hazard and, after a typically clever turn, the Belgium star was storming forward.
A flicked pass with the outside of his right boot played in Oscar, who ball found Eto’o timing his run perfectly to get in behind the Gala defence.
His shot was from quite a tight angle, but he kept it low and keeper Fernando Muslera’s right hand was not strong enough to stop it from crossing the line.
It was Eto’o’s 10th goal of the season for Chelsea but only his second since he scored a hat-trick in the 3-1 league defeat of Manchester United two months ago.
John Terry volleyed over a Frank Lampard free-kick shortly before playing a key role in Chelsea’s second in the 42nd minute.
The skipper met a Lampard corner with a thumping header. Muslera’s reactions to savewere good, but his pushing of the ball straight back into the danger area was not, allowing Gary Cahill to smash home the rebound.
At 2-0 up we saw a restrained and calm Mourinho, nothing like the angry 51-year-old at Aston Villa on Saturday, where Willian and Ramires - who both started last night - were sent off and he was dismissed to the stands.
Today he will, no doubt, be turning his thoughts to the crunch visit of Arsenal on Saturday - and how he can spoil the party again for Arsene Wenger, who is celebrating 1,000 games in charge of the Gunners, but he never won in 10 games against his arch-rival.
Mourinho kept reminding his men of their defensive duties, though, but they continued to press for a third against the Mancini’s men, who never looked like they believed they could claw their way back.
Muslera redeemed himself to a degree with good saves from Hazard and sub Fernando Torres. Drogba waved his goodbyes, again, and now Mourinho must be wondering who could be his Drogba-style hero in the final in Lisbon in May.

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