But striker Nicolas Anelka, who made way for Henry with 20 minutes left, intercepted the pass after returning from an offside position and a promising opening was completely wasted.
Portsmouth had reason to complain that Adebayor was offside when the pass was played and they suffered a further blow as City doubled their lead in the first minute of injury time.
Anelka was wrongly ruled offside when a simple pass for Lampard to tap in awaited, before Drogba's backheel and Cole's lay-off gave Zhirkov a strike at goal which the Russian sent just wide.
Eduardo da Silva made a weaving run to the edge of the England box and the Arsenal player timed his pass to perfection as Olic beat the offside trap.
And with two minutes left on the clock, McSheffrey was again on hand to slide a pass through to Jerome who beat the offside trap and kept his cool to send Birmingham in front.
Miller thought he had put the visitors ahead after 30 minutes but he was adjudged offside after collecting McGeady's pass and firing home.
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Chelsea did get the ball in the net for a second time shortly before half-time, but Michael Ballack was so far offside from Florent Malouda's pass that he barely even bothered celebrating.
He was on hand to awkwardly steer home from close range with his weaker right foot after Eren Derdiyok -- who like Yakin is of Turkish origin -- beat the offside trap to collect a long pass from defender Philippe Senderos.
Still, with six minutes of normal time remaining, Barcelona broke the Italians' backline for virtually the first time as Pique, arguably offside, collected Xavi's pass, turned inside defender Ivan Cordoba's challenge and slid home for a goal of which Messi himself would have been proud.
"It's probably one of those moments that will go down with the changes to the offside rule and the back-pass rule, which most of us at the time were very skeptical about, but which we've now taken to our hearts because we appreciate it, " he said.
Henry looked offside as he picked up Robert Pires' pass after 31 minutes to beat Southampton keeper Antti Niemi.
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However, the home crowd's relief was shortlived as Ronaldo beat the offside trip to gather Mesut Ozil's fine pass down the right, and the world's most expensive player netted his 54th goal this season from an acute angle.
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Chances continued to come at regular intervals in an open and entertaining encounter, with Beckford firing just over on the turn from 10 yards and Crouch having a goal correctly ruled out for offside when he turned in Gareth Bale's pass.
Controlling a midfield pass from captain Tarek El Taib with his chest, Karra beat an offside trap set by the Egyptians before lobbing the ball past onrushing Egypt goalkeeper Nader El Sayed.
James Forrest opened the scoring from Murphy's pass, but Jefferies claims that video evidence showed that the Irishman was offside and it was this that led the Hearts boss to confront Collum.
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West Ham thought they were back in the game when Cole latched onto Scott Parker's neat through-pass and found the back of the net but the striker was flagged offside, despite appearing to be level.
Bolton went 2-0 up against the run of play when a pass from Taylor found its way through the Reading defence, who were expecting offside to be given.
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