Valuable win over Juve

Guus Hiddink saw his side earn the victory on his first home game in charge thanks to Drogba's brilliant 13th-minute winner.

The Ivorian collected Kalou's pass behind the Juve defense and fired a powerful finish past Buffon.

The Italians could have equalised after 21 minutes but del Piero's shot was well-saved by the diving Cech.

Big Pete kept the clean sheet against his friend Pavel Nedved and one of the best stoppers in the world Gianluigi Buffon.

"It was great, my 200th game, a clean sheet and a 1-0 victory, I can be happy with that," said the Czech goalie for chelseafc.com.

"I was expecting everything from del Piero because he is such a talented and great player, so I was ready as soon as the ball went to him," retunred Petr to the Juventus best chance of the game.

The second 1-0 win in turn gave Chelsea a good advantage over Juventus for the second leg in Turin to be played on March 10.

"One-nil is a good result although we had some good moments in the first half and could have scored a second goal, but overall we got a good result for the second leg," added Chelsea number one.