Chelsea . beat . Newcastle . 2-1 at Stamford Bridge. It came after a comfortable midweek victory over Greek giants Panathinaikos, with things going relatively smoothly so far for

There was audible frustration from a lot of the Stamford Bridge crowd during numerous moments on Sunday afternoon with Robert Sanchez's kicking not at the level required

“There are games, especially today, where if you do a basketball game, they [would] destroy us because Newcastle are strong. “They are good, they have some very good players in transition. “If you want to attack with two passes, they are long distance and they [Newcastle] can recover the ball and create and cause problems.