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Chelsea needed 8 minutes to tame the Black Cats, Michael Ballack’s first-time ball forward found Nicolas Anelka and the Frenchman rounded keeper Fulop to score. On 17 minutes the Pensioners went 2-up, Florent Malouda breezed past a couple of Sunderland players unchallenged before firing in low right-footed from just inside the visitors box. Then came the goal of the game scored by Ashley Cole, the left-back collected Terry’s long ball down the inside left channel before tricking his marker and dinking the ball past Fulop for number three. The Blues closed out their one-way traffic in the first half adding a killer fourth, Anelka and Cole combined down the left with Frank Lampard sweeping the ball home from six yards.
Chelsea will have caused Steve Bruce nightmares adding a fifth early in the second half, Joe Cole crossing exploiting Sunderland’s total lack of marking to tee up Michael Ballack for a simple header. Bolo Zenden scored his first goal for Sunderland to spoil Chelsea’s hope of keeping a clean sheet, but the renaissance was shortly over as Nicolas Anelka claimed Chelsea’s sixth. Frank Lampard headed Chelsea’s seventh to record the Blues highest goal tally ever scored in a Premier League match, Darren Bent scoring in injury time for Sunderland.
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