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By Steve Hewlett<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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\"EPL,Daniel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

EPL,Daniel Gabbidon,Chelsea vs West Ham United<\/p>\n

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Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

And so it finally came. After 734 minutes, Fernando Torres<\/a> bagged his first goal for Chelsea since his \u00a350 million arrival from Liverpool in January, keeping Carlo Ancelotti’s side in the running with league leaders Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Both Chelsea and West Ham, managed by former Chelsea boss Avram Grant, fashioned plenty of chances in an open and flowing game but failed to hit the back of the net which leaves them deep in relegation strife.<\/p>\n

Both sides had big name players unavailable for the clash with Alex and Ramires out for Chelsea, West Ham were without the services of newly-crowned Football Writer\u2019s Player of the Year, Scott Parker. Chelsea however have the strength in depth to cope better with these injuries.<\/p>\n

With the deluge omnipresent throughout the first half, chances were raining down on both goals but neither side could find the accuracy required to open the scoring. Both Florent Malouda and Salomon Kalou both broke the West Ham defences open but in the case of Malouda, when one-on-one with Robert Green, he should have chipped the ball over the advancing \u2018keeper instead of trying to place it low.<\/p>\n

As was expected much of the action in the first period was played in the Hammers half and stout defending was the order of the day for the team from east London. They were always open to the chance of launching a counter attack and this ploy almost paid dividends when Demba Ba let fly a rasping drive from distance which required Petr Cech to act with urgency.<\/p>\n

Moments later and West Ham had their best chance to open the scoring when a powerful and swift run from Freddie Sears down the West Ham left opened an avenue which allowed him to cross deep to the far post where a diving Jonathan Spector couldn\u2019t direct his header beyond Cech. Carlo Ancelotti was looking disgruntled as he watched on from the sidelines, mind you Avram Grant, surprisingly didn\u2019t look pleased either.<\/p>\n

As the first half went on both teams continued to fashion chances but the breakthrough just wouldn\u2019t come, more often due to poor decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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