FA Cup - Written by BlueChampion on Saturday, January 6, 2007 3:55 | 2,136 Views | 23 Comments | Add Comment
FA Cup: Chelsea vs Macclesfield: You dont get to play them every week! (Updated)
Hattrick and a midflieder?!
A match against Macclesfield cannot come at a better time. Just when we are tired after a busy period of one-point football, we realise how kind the draw has been to us. For those who dont know, Macclesfield is trying avoid relegation in League Two and they are looking forward to the 400,000 pounds they would earn from this FA Cup match. What an interesting match-up this is.
Macclesfield Town are currently 23rd in their league. If you put all the leagues one above another, not only they have two football leagues between them and Chelsea and also they are 88 places below Chelsea. I saw somewhere that one of the defenders in Macclesfield is earning 600 pounds a week!! Macclesfield players are actually over-awed that they would be playing the Champions in their den. It is just ‘playing’ this match and not winning that is in their minds. No wonder!
So, with this kind of introduction to an opponent team, it is normal to expect a thundering win. I think Jose will and should rest some key players who deserve rest such as Essien, Lampard and Drogba. I wish Carvalho too gets some very well deserved rest but I dont see that happening as we dont have central defenders unless Jose tries to put Drogba in the central defence for this match alone! Could be wacky!!
He should play with Ben Sahar and Scott Sinclair in the bench or vice versa. Diarra should find himself on the pitch at last. Even with this team, Chelsea are miles ahead of the opponent in terms of quality and performance. Obi Mikel should play all 90 minutes and I absolutely believe that he is a special talent and tomorrow could be his day.
Macclesfield’s manager Paul Ince, one of the very few black football managers in UK, has just won the manager of the month award for Dec 2006. He brought in some kind of spirit in them and he hopes to give us a fight.
You never know what might happen. It is going to be a great day out for the club and it will earn us a few quid. But we are playing well and it is important we go there and stamp our mark on the game, and not be overawed by the stars, the stadium and the crowd. We are going to go there to try to win the game.
It would be nice to keep it close and not get beaten by six or seven. We want to make a game of it and make it difficult for them and show them what a good side we can be.
Day before the match Jose Mourinho said.
The team can be a bit weak but it will not be a bit weak because I risk or gamble or because I want to leave people out and give chances to other people. We are going to play with the best team we have but the players we have are the only players with the condition to play.
I am happy it is the FA Cup and Macclesfield and not the Premier League because we are going to have to play with the players we have and the players we have are not a lot at the moment. Because of difficult games against teams from that level, I am not expecting an easy match. In the past I always had on the bench ammunition to change matches. Tomorrow I have kids.
The kids he was referring to were, Sinlcair, Sahar, Makalamby and Michael Woods.
Again this match woul not be telecast live here. I would surely watch the delayed broadcast as I’m very eager to see Ben Sahar and Scott Sinclair play. In a match like this, where we think anything less than 4-0 is a shame, we gotta watch out. You know what FA Cup is famous for!
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Game Update: 6-1
We brushed them aside, I should say. I feel sorry for Macclesfield Town. They did try their best and they were unlucky too. For me, in such cup matches, 1-0 is as good as 10-0. I would say that more than the scoreline, I was happy to see Lamps well-deserved hattrick (how many midfielders score hattricks?) and also to see Obi score. I’ve started liking this little brat.
I really really feel for Sheva. Against such an opposition, when we have scored 6 goals, where a midfielder scores a hattrick, he couldnt find the net. He was very unlucky. He will come good. I’m ready to wait to see the resilience of Shevchenko, so is Jose.
Mourinho said:
He tried very hard and that’s a step forward. It is frustrating for a striker to be in a team that wins 6-1 and is not on the goal-scoring sheet. In some other matches maybe he just accepts without a fight the moment he is living now. But today no. He chased the luck. He fought hard. He worked for the team. He got a yellow card because, without the ball, he was chasing people and putting pressure on and making it good for the team
Jose always believed that smaller teams should not be humiliated. He had said that if he gets a comfortable lead, we would not go on pounding them for goal after goal. After today’s match, he said this:
I thought we dominated the whole game but they fought well. I wouldn’t have been happy if we had scored more because a team like that deserve to leave with pride.
It’s a result that shows the difference between the teams but I’m not happy if a powerful team like ours smashes nine or 10 against a team like that.
I completely agree!
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[tags] Chelsea, Macclesfield, Jose Mourinho, Paul Ince, Mourinho, Ince, Chelsea vs Macclesfield, FA Cup, Lampard, Hattrick, Lampard hattrick [/tags]
23 Comments
1. Chels
2. RomanHoliday
BC
I read somewhere that the match is gonna be live on UBC 39
3. BlueBlood58
This would be a good time to rest Hilario and play Hedman. Yves MaKalamby was called back from his loan trip to Hibernian for this game. Up front I think Sahar will start alongside Shevchenko. As for the rest I really dont know considering there is only a 16 man squad and two of the 16 are goalkeepers.
Jose could also try a new defensive formation especially with the game against Wycombe on Wednesday, bearing in mind that Carvalho is suspended for that game as is Drogba too!!!
I would have liked to have seen Adrian Pettigrew given a start but unfortunately he is injured. According to sources, when he is fit he is off to Wycombe on loan.
Michael Woods and Scott Sinclair are definitely in the 16.
COME ON CHELSEA
4. Marko
Startin lineup:
40 Hilario
14 Geremi
20 Paulo Ferreira
6 Ricardo Carvalho
3 Ashley Cole
24 Shaun Wright-Phillips
12 John Obi Mikel
8 Frank Lampard (c)
18 Wayne Bridge
7 Andriy Shevchenko
21 Salomon Kalou
Subs: 41 Yves Ma Kalambay, 33 Nuno Morais, 48 Michael Woods, 49 Scott Sinclair, 47 Ben Sahar.
at the moment result is 2-0 (Lampard ‘15, Carvalho ‘22)
I don’t why Mourinho play with all that players.. Where’s Hedman and Diarra? And where’s Bridge?
5. Marko
sorry Carvalho’s was offside
6. Marko
1-1 ouch… what a mistake
ahaha… it’s 2-1 
Lampard TZAR!
I’m typing too slow:)
7. Marko
Lampard Hattrick! (Penalty)
8. Marko
4-1 SWP!
subs:
Lampard - Morais
Kalou - Ben Sahar !!
9. CRESPO
what’s the final result
10. Anonymous
WHATS THE FINAL SCORE
11. Marko
6-1 at the end. Woods got his chance. Sheva again out of performance.
12. Anonymous
dont say that.
shev was in good form. he played really hard. he won the penalty and he should have been taken it.
he is back………….to his recent form at milan.
in milan when he used to play he wAs the only striker in first eleven.
but here its different, and he is doing well tooo. he is not playing self.
he supports his fellow striker and he is really working for the team.
please dont blindly blame on anyone……………
13. blue champion
For those who wonder why Diarra did not play - Jose Mourinho said - “Diarra should be playing but he was 40 minutes late for the team meeting so I decided to play Frank, rather than Michael Woods. I thought it was too much for him to start the game with that responsibility”
14. prat
great result ….but cant help feeling sorry for macclesfield. They really tried hard. Wonderful to see that. Also the red card to Lee was very sad. Poor chap.
way to go chelsea……
15. RomanHoliday
Everyone what’s the news on Ballack ?
A friend of mine who’s german said he read in a german paper gossip about Ballack’s agent going around touting Ballack’s services to some other big teams .
What’s ur take on this ?
16. joeblue
I dont care frankly , for his reputation he has been crap all over the park and has destroyed about half a dozen good moves in every single game , i wld be happy if Ballack wants out then JM can go all out for either Ronnie or Deco!!!!!
17. blue champion
If we start believing in all gossips, it wont help our nerves. So, just cool it.
I badly want Sheva to stay. Ballack . . . ?! What if Lamps gets injured like Terry. You’ll see the best of Ballack then. But he is too big a player to be a benchwarmer.
By the way, I wonder which German club would pay more than 130k pounds for a cup-tied player. He certainly wants to play/win the champs league.
18. Anonymous
Did you see that Obi’s goal was a result of great technique!!!
19. abdullah
Sheva is coming he is gradually reaching his old level. What he now needs is regalar startin the premeirship ( maybe the not very good games ) so that he could make an impression and gain his confidence back. Once he is back and confident he and drogba shall be the unstoppable duo.
PS. I heard that mourinho is thinking about getting ricardo quaresma from porto….I hope that this is true as quaresma is truly one amazing winger.
20. Lee Perman
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For is the colour that runs through our bodies this is Blue.
Once again another great team result and shevie will come as the Drog did they all come through (part from Mutu)
I love this web site i would even say its better than the offical web site but its tight.
March on the Blue army!!!!!!!!!
21. N98nh
My name is TJ i stay in London I want to say i will miss Chelsea coach Jose because as i said earlier on that i support chelsea no matter what please i beg Jose M to stay for 3 years more Please because i will miss him so much, you dont know what willk happen to me if you leave Chelsea i will cry, dont mind what people will say just do it if you do it i will be happy and let me tell you my dreams that i will even play for Chelsea so if you go, my dreams will not come True….. i am very serious.
22. dario
I invite everyone fans Chelsea and Shevchenko on website http://www.sheva.pl !!!!:D:D
23. macc rules
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if ben sahar and scott sinclair are really good, we should not buy anymore strikers. in fact scott sinclair is a player who can play in either wings or as a striker. he should give a run for kalou’s money.
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