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Article: Ballack fires confident Chelsea as Greeks offer little resistance
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2008
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CHELSEA 3 OLYMPIAKOS 0
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, unless it happens to be the
pitiful Olympiakos, who gave Chelsea a bona fide free ride into the
Champions League quarter-finals last night. Avram Grant's team are
now 60 games undefeated at home in all competitions over two years
and few came easier than this stroll at Stamford Bridge.
It is not Chelsea's fault that this victory was not the epoch-
making triumph achieved by Arsenal at San Siro on Tuesday night, for
that blame the Greeks. For a club who have won the title in their
domestic league for 10 out of the last 11 seasons Olympiakos were so
dreadful it was tempting to think that the Chelsea players faced
stiffer opposition on that ...