The Pre-Season Thread

[Melanicus 5,208]

Any stream?

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

No, as i said yesterday. It is a practice match. First team and all the youngsters are involved. Blues News at 6.30 may speak more about it.

[Melanicus 5,208]

Ah, OK, need to wait 'till Saturday, for match against Portsmouth.

[ruggedknot 105]

3-0 against Wycombe , doing the rounds on twitter .

@NikkilBull1 , Nikki Bull - a Wycombe player put a message out

tLost 3-0 great experience was relieved to see them take off Drogba & Malouda at h\t only to see Torres &Anelka come on!

[ruggedknot 105]

World-Cup winning striker Fernando Torres was on the scoresheet as Chelsea recorded a 3-0 victory over the Wanderers in a practice match at Cobham on Tuesday afternoon.

Yossi Benayoun danced through the visiting defence to open the scoring in the early stages and Nikki Bull produced a fine stop to deny Didier Drogba, while Scott Rendell missed Wycombe's best chance of the half from a tight angle.

Torres stroked home from 18 yards to make it 2-0 after the break before defender Slobodan Rajkovic finished well from close range. At the other end, Marvin McCoy drew a smart save from Ross Turnbull after out-pacing England left-back Ashley Cole.

Chelsea went close to extending their lead late in the second half but Salomon Kalou's low drive cannoned back of the post and Nicolas Anelka was denied by Steve Arnold from 15 yards.

Chelsea first-half XI: Hilario, Bosingwa, Van Aanholt, Terry, Kalas, Mikel, Kaby, Benayoun, Malouda, Kakuta, Drogba.

Chelsea second-half XI: Turnbull, Ferreira, Cole, Ivanovic, Rajkovic, B Clifford (Mellis), McEachran, Zhirkov, Anelka, Kalou, Torres.

Goals: Benayoun (4), Torres (52), Rajkovic (56)

http://www.wycombewa...2391412,00.html

[Gianfranco_Z 202]

@wwfcofficial on twitter

Full-time at Cobham: Chelsea 3-0 WWFC, goals from Benayoun, Torres & Rajkovic. Report, pics, interviews and highlights to follow!

Edit: Match Report

Edited July 12, 2011 by Gianfranco_Z

[ruggedknot 105]

Looks like just about every player in the squad got a run-out . Probably proves that AVB was gauging the personnel , just as much as the fitness and is showing an open mind with giving every player of the extended squad a chance . Either way , good start for the AVB tenure .

The highlight from the match report :

Salomon Kalou's low drive cannoned back of the post

[Sheva. 5,373]

Gary Waddock (Wycombe manager) - "Chelsea have looked after us brilliantly and their manager has been excellent. I hope they benefitted from it as much as we have."

Good win!

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

Torres scores....Today was a good day.

[Igi26 346]

Referee: Phil Dowd.

We are paying Phil now

[Term-X 7,891]

Torres & Drogba were not in the same team.. no surprises there.

[Kajo 176]

[termninja 5,290]

That was some goal from Yossi. I hope he doesn't get injured again.

So far:

Torres 2 goals, both came after Anelka's pass

Nice to see Rajkovic and Ivanovic playing together for my fav team

[bombayblue™ 55]

For those interested in pictures from yesterday's game

Getty Images

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Always rated Benayoun, even when at Scumpool, always thought he was there best player. That goal is just an example.