Chelsea 2-2 APOEL: result and report

Champions League · Tuesday 8 December 2009

Result

Chelsea 2-2 APOEL

Champions League · Tuesday 8 December 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Chelsea 2-2 APOEL: match report

Chelsea drew with APOEL 2-2 in the Champions League on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.

Marcin Zewlakow opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Chelsea's goals came from Michael Essien (19') and Didier Drogba (26'). APOEL scored through Marcin Zewlakow (6') and Nikola Jankovic (87').

Discipline: Chelsea received 1 yellow card; APOEL received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Chelsea were 9th on 13 points from 5 and APOEL 7th on 14 points from 11. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Chelsea lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and APOEL in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Chelsea win, 0 draws and 0 for APOEL.

Going into the match Chelsea's last five read W-D-W-W-W and APOEL's D-L-L-L-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Marcin ZewlakowAPOEL · 0-1
  • 18'Yellow card · Yury ZhirkovChelsea
  • 19'Goal · Michael EssienChelsea · 1-1
  • 26'Goal · Didier DrogbaChelsea · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · S. PoursaitidisAPOEL
  • 87'Goal · Nikola JankovicAPOEL · 2-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Chelsea 1, draws 0, APOEL 0.

Team news

Chelsea line-up (4-2-3-1)

Ross Turnbull, Ricardo Carvalho, Yury Zhirkov, John Terry, Juliano Haus Belletti, Michael Essien, John Mikel Obi, Florent Malouda, Gaël Kakuta, Didier Drogba, Joe Cole

APOEL line-up (4-4-1-1)

Dionisis Chiotis, Paulo Jorge, Joost Broerse, Kamil Kosowski, Hélio Pinto, Nuno Morais, Altin Haxhi, Constantinos Charalambidis, Marcin Zewlakow, Savvas Poursaitidis, Chrysostomos Michael