Chelsea F.C. — Best pictures!

Sunderland deliver shock defeat to Carlo Ancelotti (R) as his Chelsea suffered the first loss this season at Stamford Bridge — and the biggest home defeat for nearly nine years.

France international Nicolas Anelka (left) scored twice in Chelsea’s 7:2 clobbering of Sunderland in the EPL yesterday. He boosted his FTBL score to 209.46 points, his best so far in the FTBL system.

Manchester United’s Bulgarian international Dimitar Berbatov was one of the few to come out of the Red Devils’s near-flop at Old Trafford against Sunderland (2:2) yesterday with something positive: he scored United’s first goal and picked up 6.03 points

Chelsea’s Germany skipper Michael Ballack (pictured) captured the 4th spot in the FTBL ranking of midfielders in the English Premier League after scoring the opener as the Blues overcame a fiercely combative Sunderland 3:1 in league action.

Chelsea defender and England international Ashley Cole will face a daunting plank (for a defender) of 19 rating points to beat tonight as the Blues take on Sunderland in the second round of the new Premier League season.