14/09/2004  Paris Saint-Germain 0 Chelsea 3
 
The clinical efficiency with which Jose Mourinho has carried out his job at Chelsea so far this season was again in evidence as the Blues opened their Champions League campaign with an impressive and comprehensive victory in the French capital.

Captain John Terry led by example with the opening goal in the 29th minute, before Didier Drogba silenced the home fans who taunted him for his connections with arch-rivals Marseille by adding the second in first half injury time and then clinically killing off PSG with a sweet free-kick 15 minutes before the end.

These were Chelsea's first points on French soil in the Champions League having previously been beaten by a Robert Pires-inspired Marseille five seasons ago and then Monaco last season.

It was also the ideal start to Mourinho's bid to win the trophy he claimed for Porto last season, and his team were a class above a PSG side lying 14th in Ligue 1 after their worst start to a campaign for 20 years.

The Group H match in the Parc des Princes started on a worrying note for Chelsea as after seven minutes Eidur Gudjohnsen suffered a gashed head in an aerial challenge with PSG skipper Jose Pierre-Fanfan and had to be carried off on a stretcher.

The wound needed eight stitches and he was replaced three minutes later by Mateja Kezman.

Gudjohnsen had been one of three changes to the team which lost their 100% start to the season on Saturday with the goalless draw at Aston Villa.

England's Wayne Bridge and Frenchman William Gallas were restored to the defence in place of Ricardo Carvalho and Celestine Babayaro, while Gudjohnsen replaced Kezman in attack.

PSG were still looking for their first win of the season and coach Vahid Halilhodzic made four changes to the team who drew 1-1 with Istres at the weekend.

Into the back four came 33-year-old new signing Helder along with former Bolton defender Bernard Mendy, while Lorik Cana returned to the midfield and Pauleta was restored to the attack. Out went Jean-Michael Badiane, Mario Yepes, Edouard Cisse and Reinaldo.

An early scare came for Chelsea when Gudjohnsen was lying injured on the floor and the players expected referee Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez to halt play. Instead the Spaniard let the game run and Charles-Edouard Coridon broke forward and hooked an effort just wide of Petr Cech's left post.

The game settled down with Chelsea dominating possession and they looked confident enough without being handed a goal on a plate, but that was exactly what happened as they took the lead in the 29th minute.

Frank Lampard floated over a corner from the Chelsea left and goalkeeper Lionel Letizi came to claim the ball on the edge of his six yard box.

However, he amazingly missed the ball completely and Terry had the simplest of tasks in nodding the ball into an unguarded net with his head.

PSG almost responded two minutes later as Modeste M'Bami drilled in a rising angled drive from the right, but Cech pushed it round his near post with both hands.

Then, after 36 minutes, Bartholomew Ogbeche tried to steer home Jerome Rothen's low cross from the left but Terry's challenge took the sting out of the effort and Cech saved.

Having taken the sting out of their opponents' attacking play Chelsea then delivered a hammer blow with a second goal, just as the fourth official was holding up the board to indicate at least one minute of stoppage time.

Joe Cole played a brilliant ball into the path of Kezman, who should really have scored but saw the goalkeeper block his low shot with his legs on the edge of the box. Luckily for Chelsea the rebound fell to Drogba and he steered it into the empty goal from 18 yards.

The pattern of the second half resembled that of the first, with Chelsea in control, although the home fans were given what they wanted after 65 minutes when playmaker Danijel Ljuboja was introduced in place of Coridon.

Mourinho responded four minutes later with a defensive change as he sent on Geremi for Cole, but it was Chelsea who scored again to finally kill off the game after 75 minutes.

Kezman won a free-kick in a dangerous position as he was bundled over just outside the right edge of the box and the goalkeeper was rooted to his spot as Drogba stepped up and guided the ball over the wall and inside the near post.

Mourinho allowed Drogba the chance to gloat in front of the French fans when he substituted him with Damien Duff with 10 minutes remaining - the demolition job by the most expensive striker in English football well and truly complete.