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10/27/2007 - London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Didier Drogba scored two times as Chelsea pounded Manchester City, 6-0 on Saturday at Stamford Bridge.
City entered the match in third place, just three points behind league-leaders Arsenal. However, they were completely outclassed as Chelsea scored two times in the first half, with goals from Michael Essien and Drogba, and four more times after the restart.
Drogba, Joe Cole, Salomon Kalou, and Andriy Shevchenko each scored after the break for Chelsea, which moves from seventh into the top five with the win.
Chelsea created a number of corner kicks in the opening 15 minutes, but was unable to find a goal. However, Essien got the Blues on the scoreboard in the 16th minute after a nice ball from Frank Lampard.
The Chelsea midfielder had possession of the ball on the right and slid a quick pass in behind the City defense. Essien ran onto the ball and drove a perfect shot inside the far post to put Chelsea ahead 1-0.
The visitors tried to answer the goal with one of their own, and Martin Petrov almost found the equalizer in the 22nd minute when his long-range drive forced keeper Petr Cech to make a diving stop to keep the ball out.
City attempted to keep the pressure on, but they soon went down two goals after another great pass from Lampard.
After gaining possession in midfield, the Chelsea captain knocked a perfect pass into the path of Drogba, who got in on the keeper and fired his shot between the netminder's legs to double the lead.
Once again City looked to answer, and Stephen Ireland got a good look at goal from the top of the box but he pulled his effort wide of the left post.
Chelsea came out in the second half and put the game away with two more goals in the first 15 minutes.
Lampard continued to be dangerous and he was able to get off a shot from the penalty spot. Keeper Joe Hart got down and stopped the ball with his legs, but the rebound fell to Drogba, who slammed it home past the helpless keeper.
Drogba also played provider in the match, and he set up Cole five minutes later to give Chelsea a commanding 4-0 lead. The Ivory Coast international flicked a header wide to Cole on the right, and he took a big first touch into space. Cole then got to the ball just outside the box and banged a low shot into the right corner of the net.
The onslaught continued for the Blues in the 75th minute when Kalou scored from a tight angle after a nice ball from Essien, and Shevchenko capped the scoring in the 90th minute.
In other Premiership play on Saturday, Manchester United won its eighth consecutive EPL contest in 4-1 fashion over Middlesbrough, Olivier Kapo scored two times to lead Birmingham to a 3-2 win over Wigan, Reading beat Newcastle 2-1 on Shane Long's goal in the 84th minute, Sunderland earned a 1-1 draw with Fulham after Kenwyne Jones scored in the 86th minute and West Ham keeper Robert Green preserved a point for his team when he stopped a penalty kick from Portsmouth's Benjani Mwaruwari in stoppage time as the game ended 0-0.
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NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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