"For me, it's like winning the Champions League, " Shevchenko told Italy's ANSA news agency.
Mr Shevchenko insisted that the gas only killed people who were ill, tired, hungry or stressed.
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Los tantos del Milan fueron anotados por Andriy Shevchenko, de penal, y Alberto Gilardino, de "palomita".
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Last year they went 4-4-2 after Andriy Shevchenko's arrival and they did become one-dimensional.
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Essien tapped home the first from close range after a fine run and pull-back from Shevchenko.
And Shevchenko completed the scoring with a superb header from Salomon Kalou's pinpoint cross.
Chelsea won the game following second-half goals from Andriy Shevchenko and Shaun Wright-Phillips.
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Built in the image of a Ukrainian thatched-roof hut, it stands opposite another intellectual landmark, Taras Shevchenko University.
And it was only 12 months ago that many were salivating over the prospect of Andriy Shevchenko in English football.
Pertinently for women, many of whom, says Anna Shevchenko, a linguist and international negotiator and the author of Culture Smart!
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Shevchenko began his career at Dynamo Kiev, winning five league titles and two national cups with the team between 1994-99.
Despite his lack of success at Chelsea, Shevchenko has always been held in high regard by Milan's fans and staff.
Only four days later did the health minister, Yuri Shevchenko, say that the gas was an unspecified derivative of fentanyl.
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Kalou, who was preferred to Andriy Shevchenko, had two reasonable chances to score before Lampard gave Chesea a 12th-minute lead.
Most famously, Abramovich wanted to bring relatively old players like Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko, both aged 30, onto the team.
Alex headed wide, and both Kalou and Shevchenko were narrowly off target as Chelsea started to mount a threat as the interval approached.
Naysmith then brought Shevchenko crashing to the ground 14 yards out, although the striker appeared to have already lost control of the ball.
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Yet it almost did not end there as United came so close to snatching another equaliser but Cole and Shevchenko cleared efforts off the line.
Galliani had said earlier this week that talks over Shevchenko had stalled, with Milan wanting a loan deal but Chelsea only interested in a permanent transfer.
However, Ancelotti offered less encouragement to another Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, who made his name playing for him at AC Milan but has struggled at Chelsea.
Chelsea needed a goal desperately - as did misfiring striker Shevchenko - and the Ukrainian striker obliged with the equaliser seconds later, heading Malouda's cross beyond Lars Hirschfelfd.
Andriy Shevchenko headed Chelsea level eight minutes after the interval.
Shevchenko's first season at Stamford Bridge ended prematurely when he had hernia surgery, forcing the striker to miss the Champions League semi-final against Liverpool and the FA Cup final.
And he know former Chelsea team-mate Andriy Shevchenko will have a particular reason to shine given the dismal time he endured in England following his .30million transfer from AC Milan.
Shevchenko's American wife, Kristen Pazik--dubbed the "Yoko Ono of football" by Italian fans--was even reported to be friends with Abramovich's ex-wife, and instrumental in his transfer from AC Milan to Britain.
Winger Aaron Lennon made way for goalkeeper David James, whose first task was to face Shevchenko's penalty but the former Chelsea striker could only hit the post and the ball bounced to safety.
Ukraine continued to carve out chances at the other end, but the absence of leading striker Andriy Shevchenko, who was left on the bench until the 70th minute because of a knee injury, proved significant.
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And as United pressed at the very end of the game, it took goal-line clearances from Ashley Cole and Andriy Shevchenko to deny first Cristiano Ronaldo and then Darren Fletcher and ensure Chelsea claimed a vital three points.
Shevchenko, AC Milan's second-most prolific goalscorer of all-time, with 127 goals from 208 games, was unable to hold down a regular spot at Chelsea, scoring only nine goals in his 47 Premier League appearances, but maintains he enjoyed his time at the club.
Her parents, Lesia and Peter Matijcio, had steeped their daughter in the customs and language of their homeland, and as she recited (in Ukrainian) an ode to Ukraine's folkloric kalyna plant a slender-branched shrub with lustrous red berries by the poet Taras Shevchenko, the crowd roared, and the little girl took bow after bow.
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