I'd agree with edmundos summary. Solid if unspectacular. Did waste a few opportunities to get balls in the box but always made himself available and did some good work defensively. Was amazed at the amount of times the Spartak central midfield gave the ball away with relatively simple passes out wide being intercepted by the Chelsea midfield/defence. This often meant they couldn't get any momentum going (in the 2nd half particularly) in their own attacks and gave Chelsea the initiative in starting their own, with Spartak on the back foot. The Chelsea onslaught would probably have happened anyway but Spartak didn't help themselves.
Interestingly, McGeady got a decent enough chorus of boo's from the home support on his exit from the game.
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