With the weekend World Cup friendlies completed, even a hat-trick from Peter Crouch could not keep Chelsea from the top of the goal scoring charts
With Ballack (Germany), Lampard (England), Drogba 2(Ivory Coast) and Essien (Ghana) all scoring for their respective countries, Chelsea lead both the Premiership and Euro standing for goals scored in friendlies this weekend.
| Chelsea | 5 | Ballack, Lampard, Essien, Drogba(2) |
Liverpool | 3 | Crouch (3) |
Real Madrid | 2 | Raul, Ronaldo |
Inter | 2 | Adriano, Figo |
AC Milan | 1 | Kaka |
Man Utd | 1 | Van Nistelroy |
Barcelona | 1 | Larsson |
Arsenal | 1 | Reyes |
Juventus | 1 | Nedved |
Other Chelsea players who played this weekend were Terry, Cole and Bridge (England), Carvahlo (Portugal, Robben (Holland) and Petr Cech (Czech Republic) who also kept a clean sheet. With France and Argentina not in action Gallas, Makalele and Crespo were not in action and Ferreira(Portugal) and Huth (Germany) spent their time on the bench. Shevchenko (Ukriane) is in action tomorrow.
According the the Chelsea website www.chelseafc.com, John Terry has stated that he will be fit for England's opener against Paraguay on Saturday. He came off half way through the 6-0 thrashing of the Reggae Boyz as a precaution after twisting his knee.
Didier Drogba has fired warning shots to his Chelsea teammate Hernan Crespo and in his usual frankness:
Crespo is scared of me and scared of playing us at the World Cup. Hernan told me before we came out to Germany that he is afraid of playing me and my country. He said Argentinians don't like playing African sides, as they have had bad experiences. They lost to Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup and Nigeria in the Olympics in 1996. I'm not worried if we beat them and it causes bad blood. I want to score the goals that put Argentina out of the tournament. This is not a time for club team-mates to worry about each other - and I certainly won't be, whoever I play against. 
I can not wait for the World Cup to start and the Groups of Death - Group C and Group E - looking particulary tasty. Both Ivory Coast and Ghana are coming into the World Cup in good form in two very difficult groups there are going to be some cracking games and some unexpected results - its just impossible to predict these groups with any degree of certainty - and yet Argentina, Holland, Czech Republic and Italy, if they scrape out of their groups should go a long way - but they might not even get out of their groups with the two African nations, USA and the miserly Serbs to navigate past first.
Roll on June 9 - looking forward to a footballing feast from which we will all get withdrawal symptoms in a months time, and lets see if Chelsea can win the goalscoring table against the other giants of Europe.
