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Pre-season friendly: Werder Bremen destroy Chelsea 3-0

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Didier Drogba played his first game for Chelsea since rejoining the Blues

John Terry concedes penalty as Blues lose first pre-season friendly of summer tour

Chelsea have suffered their first defeat of pre-season, losing 3-0 to Werder Bremen at the Wesser Stadium in Germany on Sunday.
The hosts opened the scoring 20 minutes in when John Terry gave away a penalty, which Eljero Elia converted
Ludovic Obraniak doubled their lead with a header shortly before the break . To add insult to injury, substitute Kroos then went on to make it 3-0 minutes before the final whistle after Nathan Ake’s perfectly good last-ditch tackle was deemed to be a penalty by the referee.

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