A Brief History of Chelsea FC – FA Cup Final 2009

Chelsea play Ipswich in the FA Cup on Sunday and in order to build up to my favourite cup competition, therefore to add a more positive spin, every day until Sunday I will be posting a video of a memorable FA Cup memory.

This particular memory is the 2009 FA Cup victory over Everton which was the culmination of a fantastic few months under Guus Huddink who replaced Felipe Scolari after he was deemed incapable of taking Chelsea forward.

The game itself however started in the worst possible fashion with Everton taking the lead through Louis Saha straight from the kick off with the French striker taking Robert Di Matteo’s record of scoring the fastest goal in FA Cup history taking a mere 25 seconds to put the Toffees in front.

That was certainly the worse start to a match I can remember particularly given the importance of the situation. Yet the sun was shining and under Guus Hiddink the team had a confidence that was almost unshakeable. This meant that the  Chelsea faithful were full of confidence despite the early set back.

To show just how quick the Saha goal came see the footage below.

However it took just 21 minutes for Didier Drogba to equalise with a bullet header from a delightful Ashley Cole cross that meant that the sides went into half time level.

After 25 minutes of second half deadlock Frank Lampard scored a screaming 25 yard drive that found the left hand corner leaving Tim Howard helpless and Everton were unable to recover and the FA Cup returned to Stamford Bridge for the fifth time in the our history.

Due to youtube rules I could only find a whole cup run compilation due to the FA Cup video rights, but the Lampard strike is a bit grainy and shown at the 5:00 minute mark.