Chelsea on fast track..

Luiz Felipe Scolari ignited the fire in Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea took a comepelling victory over Portsmouth, with a clear message to the rest of the league that they wont spare anyone.

Cole opened the scoring in the 12th minute which shows the attacking mentality of Scolari to gain the control of the game.

Nicolas Anelka made his first goal at home for Chelsea, Frank Lampard took the third as a penalty and the fourth one was by the 'Scolari favorite' Deco with a long ranger.

The veteran English player peter crouch couldn't find a opening in the Chelsea defense to give Portsmouth a break. Veteran Defoe also couldnt do anything....

Match Chart

Chelsea 4	Cole, J 12, Anelka 26, Lampard (pen) 45, Deco 89
Portsmouth 0

Hull City 2 - 1 Fulham

The new boy, Hull City howled like a gale to smash away the giants, Fulham.

Substitute Caleb Folan led Hull City to a victory and a three points lead against Fulham in the brand new season of EPL. This was Hull's first ever match in the top division of EPL.

The hosts Hull City fell behind to Seol Ki-Hyeon's header after eight minutes. Geovanni equalised the score before the first half.

Then with nine minutes remaining, Craig Fagan pick-pocketed Paul Konchesky and set up Folan to secure the points.

Fulham who won their last three away matches of last season to stay up, couldnt do finishing touches to the opportunities they got in the game.

Arsenal 1- 0 WBA

Arsenal surpassed the new comers West Bromwich Albion in the first match in the new season of English Premier League 2008-09.

Samir Nasri scored in his debut in fourth minute as Gunners beat promoted West Bromwich 1-0 to open the season in English soccer's Premier League.

Nasri's goal came after just four minutes at Emirates Stadium in north London. The 21-year-old French international joined the Gunners last month from Marseille for 12 million pounds ($22.3 million).

The second half was rather slow even though the Gunners played well but failed to score more on WBA...

Manchester United wins Community Shield

Manchester United beat Portsmouth 3-1 on penalties to win the FA Community Shield.

United retained the Shield after being taken to a penalty shoot-out for the second year. Portsmouth displayed very good performance in the 90 minutes but failed to keep up in the penalty shootout.

Lassana Diarra and Glen Johnson of Portsmouth missed their efforts over the bar while substitute Arnold Mvuemba's effort was blocked by Edwin van der Sar.

Carlos Tevez, Ryan Giggs and Michael Carrick all scored forManU.

United, who beat Chelsea in a shoot-out last year, were worthy winners despite fielding a side lacking Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and several other luminaries.