{"id":411002,"date":"2011-04-30T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/30\/chelsea-2-1-tottenham-controversial-goals-from-kalou-lampard-punish-spurs-heavily-for-gomes-howler\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:25:00","slug":"chelsea-2-1-tottenham-controversial-goals-from-kalou-lampard-punish-spurs-heavily-for-gomes-howler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/chelsea-2-1-tottenham-controversial-goals-from-kalou-lampard-punish-spurs-heavily-for-gomes-howler\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham: Controversial goals from Kalou &#038; Lampard punish Spurs heavily for Gomes howler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Andrew Kennedy<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"97.0852713178\">\n<div readability=\"16.1117647059\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Luka Modric - David Luiz, Chelsea v Tottenham\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/410357b2130328_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL : Luka Modric &#8211; David Luiz, Chelsea v Tottenham<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitbag.com\/stores\/kitbag\/football.aspx?portal=OGQCV6S9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/96f76d66kitbagsmall.png.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>Shop for the latest footy kit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"84.2626182965\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> 2-1 in Saturday\u2019s tea-time kick off at Stamford Bridge, with a controversial refereeing decision aiding the home side before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/12696\/salomon-kalou\">Salomon Kalou\u2019s<\/a> late winner.<\/p>\n<p>Sandro\u2019s 30-yard screamer after twenty minutes gave Spurs the lead, before a goalkeeping howler from Heurelho Gomes allowed Lampard to equalise on the stroke of half-time, despite the ball appearing not to have fully crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Kalou then grabbed his 13th goal of the season two minutes from time to secure the three points and ensure the title race is still alive.<\/p>\n<p>The win leaves Ancelotti\u2019s men just three points behind league leaders Manchester United who they play next weekend, whilst Tottenham remain four points adrift of fourth place Manchester City who have a game in hand and all the momentum in the race for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea reverted to a 4-4-2 formation ahead of the game to accommodate both Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres in attack, whilst Spurs fielded a strong starting XI with Gareth Bale recovering from injury and Aaron Lennon recalled to first team action.<\/p>\n<p>The home side made the livelier start, with Drogba\u2019s 30-yard free kick crashing off the crossbar, before Florent Malouda easily cut inside Younes Kaboul on the left-hand side only to see his shot from the edge of the box saved by Gomes.<\/p>\n<p>Yet with Spurs first effort on target, <strong>Sandro<\/strong> lashed a shot from 30-yards into the top left hand corner of Petr Cech\u2019s goal after just 19 minutes, having latched on to a superb Van der Vaart reverse pass.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian\u2019s effort did not earn the reprieve of his manager though, with Harry Redknapp eager to remind the midfielder of his defensive duties during the goal celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea looked to gain a quick equaliser, with Michael Essien forcing Gomes to concede the corner from his header, whilst Torres failed to convert a Drogba flick-on from the resulting kick, with the Spaniard&#8217;s headed effort sailing over the bar of an open goalmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Ancelotti\u2019s men seemingly ran out of attacking steam towards the end of the half, with Ivanovic and Cole\u2019s forward runs both failing to find Drogba and Lampard respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <strong>Lampard<\/strong> took advantage of some suspect goalkeeping and refereeing to level just before half-time. The England midfielder&#8217;s dipping shot from 25-yards slipped through the legs of Gomes, only for TV replays to show the ball had not in fact crossed the line as the Brazilian keeper tried to claw the ball back.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s early second half penalty claims were waved away, before Drogba\u2019s 25-yard effort stung the gloves of Gomes, with the Ivorian also providing a number of well-placed deliveries into the box.<\/p>\n<p>Torres was replaced by Kalou with half an hour to play, with Drogba almost instantaneously justifying his manager\u2019s decision seconds later, only for his free-kick to be suspectly parried away by Gomes.<\/p>\n<p>Jermain Defoe livened up the Spurs forward line as he looked to take the game to Chelsea, taking the place of Roman Pavulychenko who had looked laboured throughout, before the home side&#8217;s penalty claims were again dismissed by the official after Kaboul appeared to have bundled Malouda over in the box.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues were unlucky not to grab a winner with 15 minutes to play, after Lampard fired an effort just over from 20-yards after a superb lay-off from Drogba, whilst substitute Nicolas Anelka failed to make the most of space in the box as he miscontrolled from Kalou\u2019s through ball.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s best chances seemed to have been scuppered by John Terry six minutes from time,\u00a0 after the captain failed to connect properly with Drogba\u2019s low cross from a free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>Yet with two minutes remaining <strong>Kalou<\/strong> latched onto a rebounded Drogba effort and fired in the winner from six yards, despite appearing to be offside.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><em>Follow the Premier League <strong>LIVE<\/strong> on Goal.com:<br \/>Commentaries, Stats, Player Ratings and much more,<br \/>Visit Goal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/live-scores\/fixtures?tab=all\">Live Scores<\/a>!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/410357b2130328_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/30\/2464861\/chelsea-2-1-tottenham-controversial-goals-from-kalou-lampard\" title=\"Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham: Controversial goals from Kalou &amp; Lampard punish Spurs heavily for Gomes howler\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham: Controversial goals from Kalou &amp; Lampard punish Spurs heavily for Gomes howler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Andrew Kennedy EPL : Luka Modric &#8211; David Luiz, Chelsea v Tottenham Related Links Teams Shop for the latest footy kit Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-1 in Saturday\u2019s tea-time kick off at Stamford Bridge, with a controversial refereeing decision aiding the home side before Salomon Kalou\u2019s late winner. Sandro\u2019s 30-yard screamer after twenty minutes gave Spurs the lead, before a goalkeeping howler from Heurelho Gomes allowed Lampard to equalise on the stroke of half-time, despite the ball appearing not to have fully crossed the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":410253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-411002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham: Controversial goals from Kalou &amp; Lampard punish Spurs heavily for Gomes howler - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/chelsea-2-1-tottenham-controversial-goals-from-kalou-lampard-punish-spurs-heavily-for-gomes-howler\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham: Controversial goals from Kalou &amp; Lampard punish Spurs heavily for Gomes howler - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Andrew Kennedy EPL : Luka Modric - David Luiz, Chelsea v Tottenham Related Links Teams Shop for the latest footy kit Chelsea defeated Tottenham 2-1 in Saturday\u2019s tea-time kick off at Stamford Bridge, with a controversial refereeing decision aiding the home side before Salomon Kalou\u2019s late winner. 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