Europa Cup: Chelsea sweats against Sparta but Hazard ensures progress, 1-1 (agg 2-1)

Chelsea vs Sparta Prague by matchoftheday

Tomas Vaclik was outstanding in the Sparta Praha goal bringing off at least three great saves. Check out that fingertip save off Juan Mata. Arsenal keep an eye on him to challenge Wojciech Szczesny.

Spraha went ahead through a clever bit of invention as Vaclav Kadlec slides past Gary Cahiil avoiding his challenge, regains his feet, picks out David Lafata perfectly to hammer the ball home.

Oscar reminds one of Kaka in his heydays. Under the Chelsea structure he's been muted but he has great goalscoring abilities and can coast around defenders to pick out a perfect pass. He was their best player by about a mile but gave way to Eden Hazard whose heroic left footed blast saved their side from spending more than regulation time.

For those who want to know, the Fernando Torres horror show went on. Roman Abramovich's boondoggle continues amidst a mounting body count.