Chelsea V Birmingham - player ratings

[Tomo 21,733]

Petr Cech 7 - Again did nothing wrong, his consistency is frightening.

Paulo Ferreira 7 - Solid from Paulo, ironically his only poor touch he ended up recovering from and crossing in for the goal.

David Luiz 5 - sloppy night for the young brazillian, lost the ball in the 1st half which set up a Jerome chance and gave away an un-nessesery pen, got to stop taking too many risks.

John Terry 8 - Great work from JT tonight, only 1 England captian.

Ashely Cole 7 - Solid night until injury forced him off.

John Obi Mikel 7 - Used his strength to dodge tackles and passing was spot on all night.

Micheal Essien 6/7 - awesome 1st half, quiet 2nd period.

Frank Lampard 6 - did ok but in comparision to what he is capable off it was a below par night for super frank.

Florent Malouda 8 - where has he been these past months, that's the performance weve been waiting for fantastic from the wing man.

Soloman Kalou 7 - lost the ball a couple of times but scored a goal that would have won goal of the season if "world class" Rooney or Bale scored it.

Didier Drogba 9 - fantastic in a word was involved in everything good we did MOTM.

SUBS

Ryan Bertrand 7 - very impressive debut which he picked up an assist, was causing hovoc down that side when he came on, was a bit quiet later on but made no mistakes, very promising.

Fernando Torres 5 - price tag is killing him atm.

Nicolas Anelka 5 - not great, lost the ball which nearly cost a goal and passed the ball to Drog despite Torres being in a etter position.

All in all good result, routine win and back to 2nd

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Cech 9 (average)

Ferreira 7 (reliable)

Luiz 6 (solid as always, reckless for the penalty)

Terry 7 (captain reliable)

Cole 7 (made good runs down the wing. Solid)

Mikel 7 (didn't put a foot wrong)

Essien 7 (^^)

Lampard 7 (average)

Malouda 8 (scored 2 goals, didn't frustrate us!)

Kalou 7 (scored a great goal!)

Drogba 8 (very instrumental)

Bertrand 8 (fantastic sub for Cole! Didn't miss Ash once he went off)

Torres N/A

Anelka N/A

[DYC. 7,542]

Cech 6

Ferreira 6

David Luiz 5.5

Terry 6.5

Cole 6.5

Mikel 6.5

Essien 6.5

Lampard 6

Kalou 6.5

Malouda 7.5

Drogba 8

[crazy1 24]

Cech 8

Ferreira 7

David Luiz 5.5

Terry 7

Cole 7

Mikel 7

Essien 6.5

Lampard 6

Kalou 7

Malouda 8

Drogba 9

SUBs

Bertrand 7.5

Anelka 5

Torres 5

[GodZola 630]

Cech - 7

Ferreira - 7

Luiz - 5

JT - 7

Cole - 6

Essien - 7

Lampard - 5.5

Mikel - 7

Kalou - 7

Maloulda - 7.5

Drogba - 8

Bertrand - 7

Anelka - 4

Torres - 4

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Cech 9 (average)

Brilliant!

I'd say everyone was a solid seven on Wednesday... with Drogba earning an eight. Just a shame he didn't score...

[Madmax 9,219]

Cech- 6

Ferreira - 6.5

Luiz - 5

Terry - 6

Cole - 6

Mikel - 6.5

Essien - 6.5

Lampard - 6

Malouda - 7.5

Kalou - 6.5

Drogba - 8

Subs

Bertrand - 7.5 (being a bit generous, but for sentimental reasons ie debut et al )

Anelka - 5

Torres - 5.5

[Peace. 4,352]

Cech - 6

Ferreira - 6,5

Luiz - 5

Terry - 6

Cole - 6

Mikel - 6

Essien - 6

Lampard - 6

Malouda - 7

Kalou - 6,5

Drogba - 8

Bertrand - 7

Anelka - 3

Torres - 3