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HISLOP Shaka
CHARLES Gary
PEARCE Stuart
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Worthington Cup Second Round 1st leg
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(From Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Japan - Free)
(From Blackburn Rovers January 2001 £1.7m)
(From Arsenal July 2000 Free)
(From Liverpool November 2000 £2.5m)
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(From Reenes August 2000)
(From Blackburn Rovers September 2000)
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Pre - Season Friendlies
Braintree Town
21st July 2000
0-0 Cressing Road Stadium
Purfleet
21st July 2000
5-0 Purfleet
Festival of Football 2000
St Patricks Athletic
23rd July 2000
Richmond Park
Milk Cup 2000
Lyngby FC (Denmark)
Arriva Cup - Youth Tournament
Yeading
24th July 2000
3-1 The Warren
Celtic
25th July 2000
1-2 Parkhead
24th July - 5th August 2000
CHELSEA : Carling FA Premiership
Stamford Bridge
2-4 (Dicanio, Kitson)
19th August 2000
Att: 34,914
Hislop
Pearce S.
Winterburn
Lomas
Stimac
Margas
Suker
Lampard
Kamoute
Di Canio
Carrick (Cole J.)
Gianluca Vialli's pre-match plea to his side had been to start the season as they meant to go on and they duly obliged as Mario Stanic managed to outshine even fellow new signing Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. There were certainly some notes for caution for the Blues in the way that West Ham, especially early on, created holes in the Chelsea back four and caught them on the counter-attack. Indeed, the Premiership title is still a long way off just yet unless Chelsea, who were without unsettled Frank Leboeuf in defence, manage to regain the solid defensive displays of last season and find some consistency. However, their main weakness during the last campaign was in taking their chances and, in Hasselbaink and Stanic, they appear to have found not just one but two proven goalscorers.
Record £15million signing Hasselbaink continued his goal-a-game record from the Charity Shield with a 31st-minute penalty while the rejuvenated Gianfranco Zola also struck a majestic free-kick after an equaliser by Paolo di Canio. However, it was Stanic's first strike that will linger long in the memory as he juggled the ball with his right foot before letting fly with a volley that flew past keeper Shaka Hislop. And after Frederic Kanoute had pulled a goal back for the battling visitors, Stanic - a £5.6million summer signing - struck again in the final minute with a far post header. The Croatian had made a stunning impact on his Premiership debut yet Chelsea will be aware that they similarly started last season with a flourish - a 4-0 win against Sunderland - but then struggled to maintain the momentum. This time around, however, they had managed to beat a side against whom they have struggled all too often, claiming just three draws from their previous five meetings.
Loan signing Christian Panucci, taking Leboeuf's place in defence, was soon under pressure but it was Marcel Desailly who almost gifted the visitors the lead as early as the fourth minute. The Frenchman played an attempted pass out of defence straight into the path of Davor Suker but the striker was denied by keeper Ed de Goey, with Panucci clearing the loose ball. West Ham were certainly on top in the opening stages as they closed down the Chelsea midfield far more effectively than Manchester United ever managed in the Charity Shield last weekend. However, all of their hard work was undone in an instant just after the half-hour mark when Hasselbaink raced clear onto a through ball and collided with keeper Hislop right on the edge of the penalty area. Hislop vigorously protested his innocence, with West Ham debating whether contact was made at all and - if so - whether it was inside the penalty area. But while Hislop escaped with a yellow card, referee Graham Barber still pointed to the penalty spot and Hasselbaink picked himself off the ground to send the keeper the wrong way with his spot-kick.
Chelsea's only previous real threats up to that point to a West Ham defence deprived of Rio Ferdinand through injury had been a drive by Roberto di Matteo, which was tipped over, and a free-kick just wide by Hasselbaink. However, amid a succession of fouls, which included a booking for Panucci for dissent that resulted in the new '10-yard rule' being implemented, Chelsea seemed to have managed to exert a measure of control on the game. Much of that was down to the incredible workrate of Dennis Wise, but it was only two minutes after the break that the Hammers caught the Blues on the counter-attack. Although Kanoute initially looked to have taken too long to control the ball, right-back Mario Melchiot was so far out of position after threatening the West Ham goal that both di Canio and Suker were left unmarked. Kanoute duly managed to slip the ball sideways to di Canio, who had a considerable amount of time to pick his spot before slipping the ball low past the exposed figure of de Goey to put the Hammers level. West Ham looked to have regained control of the game but that was reckoning without the influence of Zola. After Gustavo Poyet had been fouled on the edge of the area by Igor Stimac, up stepped the Italian to curl his dead-ball with such control and precision that Hislop was left rooted to the spot as the ball sped past him. If that was a sublime effort though, it paled in comparison with the supreme strike by Stanic which sealed victory as he let fly from 35 yards with a volley after impudently juggling the ball with his right foot.
Michael Carrick forced de Goey to tip the ball around the post, while Kanoute pulled a goal back with a header from a corner. However, Chelsea responded with Stanic's second goal of the game - a far-post header from a corner - in the final minute and they were home and dry.
