Tottenham still had a very faint hope of finishing third ahead of their great rivals Arsenal, and they put out their strongest team out against already relegated Burnley at Turf Moor.
Gareth Bale put them ahead very early, and when Modric made it two on the half-hour with a great strike it looked all over bar the shouting.
Burnley were finally relegated today as Liverpool over-ran them at Turf Moor. Steven Gerrard scored the first two and then Maxi Rodriguez and Ryan Babel finished them off, to give Liverpool some confidence ahead of their return leg against Atletico Madrid in midweek, and the grudge match against League leaders Chelsea next weekend.
Both managers only had praise for the Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard. Brian Laws said: “The scoreline doesn’t reflect the performance,”
The Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti was “very happy” to see his team record their fourth win of the season to retain their 100% start, and saw them climb to the top of the Premier League on goal difference over Tottenham.
“We played very well in the first half,” he said. “I am very happy not just for the result but for the players.
It is time for Burnley to get their wake-up call, they have had an excellent honeymoon period, with wins over Man Utd and Everton, but today they will be brought down to earth by an efficient Chelsea side that have one thought on their minds, to win every game, and win it well.
Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti thinks that it is going to be a great game of attacking football against Burnley tomorrow lunchtime.
He has been watching replays of their wins against Man Utd and Everton and he is aware of the dangers they could cause at Stamford Bridge.
Burnley manager Owen Coyle is over the moon after taking another big Premiership scalp today. The 1-0 win over Everton follows quickly after the win over the Premiership Champions Man Utd with the same scoreline. But in both games their opponents missed a penalty which would have been the equalizer.
Now they are facing anoyther difficult tie next week at Stamford Bridge, but Coyle has promised that he will still carry on with Burnleys attacking play.
Didier Drogba believes that this will be Chelsea’s year. Having kept John Terry while all the other top clubs were losing a star or two has given him the confidence to believe Chelsea will win the Premiership back from Man Utd this season.
He said: “Every one of the top four sides has lost has lost at least one of their big stars this summer – apart from Chelsea.
The Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is finding it hard to believe that a team like Man Utd could lose to the newly-promoted Burnley, but he accepts that the Premiership is a lot more difficult than any other league in the world.
But he says that Chelsea just have to ignore what is going on with the other teams in the League and just concentrate on winning their own games.
Frank Lampard equalled Jimmy Greaves record of goals scored for Chelsea the other night, but is more concerned about winning trophies with the Blues than getting personal accolades. He is now up to joint fifth with Greaves in the Chelsea records, and i am sure he will carry on climbing in the next few seasons.
He said today: “I’m delighted with that, Jimmy is a goalscoring legend and I’m sure he did it in a lot less games than I did.
