For Terry, in particular, the chance to forget his infamous penalty slip will have been gratefully received with an assured performance that showed the captain back at his assertive best, while Nicolas Anelka, who also failed from the spot on that fateful night, secured this important win with Chelsea's second goal.  Terry left this stadium in tears two years ago; this time he departed bare-chested and proud, still wearing his captain's armband and with a thumbs up to the travelling fans, and a smile the width of Red Square.  Anelka, too, left with a happy heart, his goal - his fourth in three Champions League ties - coming in the first half after Yuri Zhirkov, in for the injured Ramires, returned to the city where he used to play for rivals CSKA Moscow, and scored his first goal for Chelsea.  Anelka said: “What happened two years ago doesn't matter any more. It's all in the past now. We can now get to play our game and to play our football, which we did.”  And Ancelotti added: “I don't think the players were thinking about the last defeat in this stadium. They were focused on this game. It was an important moment for Yuri, coming back to play for Chelsea in Russia. He scored a fantastic goal and will be very happy tonight.  “Now we have to stay focused about the next game. We want to arrive in first place. That's our aim. We will have the possibility to do this, but it doesn't mean we have to rest the other players. The Champions League is an important competition every time you play. For all the games.”  Chelsea, whose goals came at the opposite end of the Luzhniki Stadium from where the penalty competition took place, included seven of the players to feature in the final and a team dominant at domestic level are now every bit in charge of their European destiny.  Spartak were the first to threaten when Sergei Pashivlyuk was allowed to run at the visiting defence before he fed the ball invitingly for Dmitri Kombarov, but the man wearing the 99 shirt shot wastefully over. And soon afterwards, from Kombarov's right-sided cross, Brazilian forward Welliton was denied by the boot of Petr Cech.  Chelsea responded eventually, 15 minutes into the game, with a wild shot on the break from Florent Malouda, but there was nothing untamed about the shot that gave the visitors the lead, in the 24th minute.  Zhirkov, already lambasted by the partisan Spartak fans for his previous association with local rivals CSKA, picked up the ball after a poor clearance by Nicolas Pareja before the Russian unleashed a dipping half volley with his left foot from 20 yards.  Zhirkov made an effort not to celebrate elaborately in front of his countrymen but there was no disguising the pleasure he gleaned from his first goal in 36 appearances, not to mention the fact that he is the first Russian to score against a Russian team in the Champions League.  And after squandering more chances, Chelsea's dominance was translated into another goal just before the break when Essien's wonderful run and pass allowed the Frenchman to turn captain Parshivlyuk before finding the bottom right corner with a terrific finish, his 50th goal for Chelsea.  Spartak responded inside the opening minutes of the second half when former Celtic winger Aidan McGeady, anonymous in the first period, saw his shot tipped over by Petr Cech.  The Russians were more offensive in the second half but Cech saved well twice from Ibson as Spartak pressed but with Chelsea in control without over elaborating this was another well manufactured performance and victory. Where Chelsea suffered the ultimate pain came signs that their holy grail is clearly within their sights.
Read a full match report of the Champions League Group F match between Spartak    Moscow and Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium on Tuesday Oct 19 2010.