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| Frank Lampard (right) celebrates scoring his penalty |
Two early goals from the European champions, Chelsea, earns them
a good start to the new season.
Chelsea's new summer signing, Eden Hazard was making his Premier League debut. Hazard had a great start to the match. Hazard delivered the ball to Branislav Ivanovic on the right hand side of the Wigan penalty area, as Ivanovic nailed the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.
It only took two minutes for Chelsea to score their opening goal of the Premier League season.
Five minutes after the opening goal of the match, it got worse for the Latics.
A good run in from Hazard caused Wigan's defence some problems. Hazard went into the far right hand side of the penalty area, as Ivan Ramis stuck his right foot out which put Hazard to the ground.
The referee pointed to the spot. Not a good start for Ramis in his Wigan debut.
Frank Lampard took the penalty and slotted the ball under Al Habsi and into the centre of the net.
So after just seven minutes into the match Chelsea were already two nil up. You just couldn't ask for a better start to the season.
12 minutes after Chelsea's second goal, Wigan started to respond. A cross from Emmerson Boyce was headed just over the bar by Franco Di Santo.
Chelsea's next transfer target, Victor Moses started for Wigan despite being linked with the European champions. Seven minutes until the interval, Moses had a shot from outside Chelsea's penalty area and had to be saved by Petr Cech.
Another goal threat from Wigan came in stoppage time before halftime. Di Santo was able to get through Chelsea's defence and go one on one against Cech, but Di Santo's kick didn't have enough power behind the ball, as David Luiz cleared the ball.
After the interval, Roberto Martinez decided to put some forward fresh legs on. Jordi Gomez came on for Shaun Maloney four minutes into the second half.
Chelsea nearly got a three goal lead. Fernando Torres put the ball past Al Habsi as the ball was slowly travelling towards the goal line but was cleared by Ramis. Ramis will be happy with at least one thing from today's match.
Gomez kept Cech busy throughout the second half. Gomez had a strike at goal with a free kick but was comfortably saved by Cech. And a bicycle kick from Gomez inside the penalty area went wide past the right post.
It was a Premier League debut for Chelsea midfielder, Oscar Dos Santos. And Oscar nearly scored his first goal for Chelsea. Oscar strucked the ball like a bullet outside the box which just missed the left post.
It was also a Premier League and club debut for the Latics' striker Arouna Kone after coming on for Di Santo. The only threat that Kone showed was his header past the right post from a corner.
It's a good start for the European champions and it is a better result, as last season Chelsea drew 1-1 to Wigan at the DW Stadium. After today's match the main question is still unanswered, will Victor Moses be joining Chelsea before the end of the summer transfer?
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