By Sandy Macaskill Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010
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The Italian job: Carlo Ancelotti, the former AC Milan manager, will lapse to San Siro when his Chelsea side fool around Inter Milan on Wednesday Photo: AP 
Goal machine: Didier Drogba struck twice as Chelsea spread out their lead at the tip of the list Photo: REUTERS What they contend and what they do mostly differs, however, and as John Terry and Ashley Cole appear to have with pictures so expertly in between them, it can infrequently be formidable to repudiate oneself a hiding rise at the banned fruits.
Judging by Chelseas opening opposite Wolverhampton Wanderers, a flicker at Jose Mourinho and Inter Milan in midweek appeared to have been as well most to resist.
Wolves 0 Chelsea 2 Premier League movement Premier League list Telegraph player rater Premier League fixtures Sport on radioManchester Uniteds hiccup opposite Everton had thrown the doorway far-reaching open for Carlo Ancelotti and co to open up a four-point opening at the tip of the table, and nonetheless they duly did with this 2-0 win, their opening was never some-more than economical, efficient, businesslike.
Didier Drogba had dual shots on target, and scored with both, but one could not assistance but feel it was small aim use for the main event: Milan, or some-more privately Mourinho, on Wednesday.
And because not it is a tantalizing last-16 tie in the Champions League. There is regularly a frisson in the air at your convenience the "Special One is involved, and with Ancelotti combined to the mix, with his own insinuate believe of Inters character of football garnered from his eight years at AC Milan, there is certain to be some-more intrigue, plots and sub-plots than a week in Westminster.
"Its sparkling to face Jose again," pronounced goalkeeper Petr Cech, shouting off the awaiting of the mental games with that Mourinho will be certain to acquire his former side when they arrive in Milan. "Talking is articulate but personification is playing," Cech said. "He regularly has a reason to contend these things, but the players main concentration is what will occur on the pitch. He knows how we can play. He knows the players here. We know him. And how he likes his group to play. We will see on the representation who will take the advantage."
Inter will pack a punch with Samuel Etoo, especially, but Chelsea have Drogba, who has right away scored twenty-five goals in all competitions.
His ultimate dual were not quite noted - his initial a tap-in at the far post, and the second a make a disproportion of pciking up Cechs prolonged flog and rounding Marcus Hahnemann - but he is in clinical form, and on a standard with Wayne Rooney, according to his manager. "I will keep Drogba and Ferguson can keep Rooney," Ancelotti pronounced with a smile.
Perhaps Hahnemann is in the most appropriate on all sides to consider the strikers threat, and nonetheless the American insisted Cech was the disproportion (he was positively on super form, with an well-developed save to keep out Adlène Guediouras bombardment from close range), Hahnemann was full of regard for the Chelsea forward.
"Drogba is one of the most appropriate strikers. He has the size, the speed, the ability and he is really strong. He only keeps removing better. Some people pronounced he was a dickey when he initial came here but right away he has only got everything. Chelsea can fool around well-spoken and they can severe it up. They have a lot of ways to fool around at their disposal."
In Chelseas foster on Wednesday will be the lapse of Frank Lampard and Ricardo Carvalho, but they would be suggested to name a rather some-more full-blooded proceed opposite Milan - the one opposite Wolves was not generally convincing.
Cole, meanwhile, is confronting probable disciplinary movement from Chelsea in light of some-more pale revelations surrounding his in isolation life. Chelseas players were warned to purify up their action last week by bar owners Roman Abramovich.
"Where anything is purported to have happened on Chelsea time, that is an inner make a disproportion and will be dealt with internally," pronounced a spokesman.
