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He just let his football do the talking!

I just hate missing the Chelsea matches, even if they are against some Tiny FC, leave alone the big ones like this. Yes. I couldn’t see this game. Of all reasons, this match was not televised in my part of the globe. I was ‘reading’ the match live in the BBC and Sky Sports live update, which was quite a funny way of following a match.

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Anyway, we maintain the gap with same 3 points despite some difficult matches over the last week. Jose had stuck to his flagship team, I should say, without making any radical changes. He persisted with Ballack and it was certainly rewarded. Overall, it appears that we have won very comfortably despite what this thin margin says. Sam Allardyce, after the Arsenal match, started seriously believing that they can beat us. Sorry, we are not Arsenal, we shoot, we score.

Amidst all the rumours regarding Sheva’s return to Milan on loan, it was good to hear Sheva saying that he is 100% committed with Chelsea. With Galliani also denying such rumours, let’s please put this to bed for now.

Once again, Jose firmly behind his man, the best striker in Europe:

To be honest, I do not care about goals, I judge players on other items. He knows the way I think about football, I will support him the maximum I can. I am told Thierry Henry scored one goal in 12 matches when he moved to Arsenal from Juventus. It’s not easy to adapt, Italian football is different to English football even though we play the same system as Milan. Shevchenko is making a clear improvement, he is very alive on the field

See the Ballack header goal in the first half stoppage time:

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Now we get to December. Our matches this month are Arsenal (H), Newcastle (H), Everton (A), Wigan (A), Reading (H) and Fulham (H). Whereas compare the fixtures of Man Utd this month – Middlesbrough (A), Man City (H), West Ham (A), Aston Villa (A), Wigan (H) and Reading (H).

While I don’t see us dropping any points in December, if West Ham can do us a favour this season, we’ll be on par with Man Utd by Christmas. I want Tevez to devastate the United defence. Watch out for that match.

When Jose said that it won’t take too much time before Chelsea leads the table, these words must have started worrying the Red Devils’ camp. Over the last fortnight, Jose has started sounding more and more confident and indirectly putting a lot of pressure on Sir Alex and Man Utd.

I should give credit to Man Utd in the way they handle this pressure and churn superb performances week in week out. But as we all know, let’s see what plans Sir Alex has when the players become unavailable for various reasons.

What a boring weekend again, no club football!

[tags] Chelsea, Manchested United, Man Utd, Manu, Jose Mourinho, Mourinho, Alex Ferguson, Ballack, Shevchenko, Premiership [/tags]