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pizarro nt named in the chelsea squad for the match….benhaim playing LB…arjen robben is out due to knee injury…..joecole did nt start…surely second half he will start

48 min. Terry just got the opener. Gooooooaaaaaaallllllllllllll

Another goal- No Offside. what a goal that would have been- magical movement- between kalou, sheva and Drogs. If this is the stuff ahead of us this year, then Chelsea would be on a whole different level

whts the time in the game?

HEY HOW MUCH TIME OVER

Becks about to make a grand entrance

so 1-0 k. hey dude whats ur msn id?

77 min. Becks just stepping in now to thunderous ovation

I use yahoo

1-0. Final score

Terry is awarded Man of the match

yeah mikel’s just been brilliant in the match….
sheva was good too…….

Terrific match, we accomplished what we wanted for sure I think. I thought out of everyone, Terry and Cech impressed me the most. I’m not saying no attackers played well, our team was alright, but our defense won us the game. Ferreira, Johnson, and Ben Haim were solid, but not too tested. Drogba was ok, not as good as last game, Malouda was good, Joe Cole was lively, SWP was somewhat invisible, Mikel was terrific, Makalele was also invisible(which is good for a CDM), Essien was… ESSIEN! Lampard was average, and Sheva was much better than Kalou, who I thought had a lousy game. In the first half Kalou squandered a huge chance where Drogba was alone in the middle of the box and the LA keeper off to the right near Kalou. He shot wide instead of passing for the sure goal. AGGRAVATING! Cech had a tremendous save the first half, and Cudicini took over the second half and barely touched the ball as Chelsea thoroughly dominated possession.
As some people feared, no Robben means a highly likely move to Real. It’s going to be sad to see him go, but I’m sure we’re still a very deep team at the wings.

My team looked very pleasant today! I dont know if ya’ll noticed but the we were passing the ball a lot more. We were slick in possession and totally controlled the ball and the game. Reminded me of 2 seasons ago…..Hmm.. Maybe a sign of things to come this season. Only problem though was that we were hesitating too much when it came on to our shooting, Sheva was guilty of that! I didnt see much of this long ball tactic that plagued us last season! im hoping we get rid of it!! Malouda was, Sheva were lively. Essien, Mikel, Carvalho, Terry, Joe, were fantastic. Joe was especially lively with his skill. Lamps was somewhat ineffective??????? Drogba was somewhat invisible????????? Swp was nothing more than ok. Kalou has decent pace, but he dribbles and leaves the ball behind him most of the time. He seems tangled up too often whenever he has possession!

Adonis – Terry blasted with his right foot in our 4-1 demolition of West Ham, after being 0-1 down and Maniche sent off after 15 mins (05-06 season). Remember? I loved that (the original) Ronaldo style goal from Terry.

I thot the team had a good game. It was the high intensity game I was looking forward to but it had good pace. Other than Lamps, I think every other player was way above average. Ball was on the ground a whole lot and the movement was quite good especially leading up to the disallowed good. Would have been a lot more than 1 if not for waste full ness (Kalou/Drogba).

I think Jose is qiute pragmatic but I dont believe that we go out to seek narrow wins. If we had a higher conversion rate of opportunities, we definitely have higher scores because truth be told, we do create chances in abundance.

anyways, I have seen all three matches and the improvement is really apparent. IMO, we will get it right this time. and lastly, i think the modified 4-4-2 looks good…so does the 4-3-3 (second half). I say let Mikel run that midfield, he was absolute class today and its clear that his quick thinking and passing game allows us greater movement.

As a yank watching it in the states, I thought that the coverage was GARBAGE, i’d rather watch it on the euro stations over the net. No one wants to see Beckham sitting on the bench or posh with *insert random skanky celebrity gal* in the box for 40 minutes of the game. The “beckham cam” was obnoxious.

That being said, the Blues looked great, esp. Shev and Drogba, I thought both played rather brilliantly. I know that in this friendly format, they tried to get some play time for everyone, but I thought they kinda shut down toward the end. None the less, the only good thing to come out of this might be some more frequent state-side coverage of our blues, which would make me a happy fan!

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The second half was not 4-3-3 but more like 3-5-3 with Essien and carvalho running down the right and left channels threateningly. What do you gus think about that formation?

1-0 is not a good result , Galaxy is not a world class team, they are not even Pro. I watched Swung – Tiger . Chelsea played against Swung and beat them 2-1 . I can not believe that team scored against chelsea. They are a real amature team. I believe that results are not important in friendly games but If you ask me about results , I will tell you ‘all disappointing’ . However, I think chelsea has not ready yet, and the pitch was kind of small for them because most of chelsea crosses passed Drogba.
I was impressed by Ben performance. he is good. Cech showed he is ready for EPL.
Malouda and Sheva played horrible. if this malouda was ready malouda , Mourinho should use malouda somewhere else but wings. he could not dribile amature Galaxy players he plays mostly phisically.
I have no idea what chelsea formation was in the first half , but i guess malouda was free role
————————-Cech————————-
Ferreira—–Terry————-Carvaliho——Ben
———————Essien————————–
————–Lamaprd———Malouda(FR)—–
—-SWP————————————–Kalou
————————-Drogba———————

in the second half , I was shocked by Mourinho , he showed he does not want to see the quality of hisplayers , he just wants to win, which is good .
He started second half like this:
——————Cudicini——————–
Essien(go forward)——Terry———-Carvaliho–Malouda(go forward)
—————————————————
———-Lampard——Mikel——————
Cole———————————–Kalou—-
——————Drogba—Sheva————–

Galaxy did not attack that much.
and then chelsea scored very fast ,then Jose changed the team. He knew Galaxy is not the team to score against chelsea.
——————Cudicini——————–
——–Essien——Terry———-Carvaliho–
———————Makelele—————–
———-Lampard——Mikel——————
—Cole————————————Malouda
——————Drogba—Sheva————–

then. ….

——————Cudicini——————–
——–Johnsen——Terry———-Carvaliho–
———————Makelele—————–
———-Sidwell—–Essien—–Mikel—-
———————–Cole——————–
——————Drogba—Sheva————–

and finally
——————Cudicini——————–
Johnsen——Terry—–Carvaliho–Hutchinson
———————Makelele—————–
———-Sidwell—–Essien—–Mikel—-
———————–Cole——————–
——————Drogba—Sheva————–
Jose changed the formation many time.
but anyway, we won , this is important.

to sum up , everyone played but Robben.

Didn’t think it was a gr8 game but a win is a win.. interesting tactics played in both halfs especially with players out of possition..

Thought Sheva aain looked very sharp and impressive poor decission to disalow Drogs goal gr8 play from Shev..

My MOTM had to be Carvalho solid and got forward well..

Oh yea Sidwell’s tackle was Quality 2!

God Bless America

Who’s American on this site ? What’s your opinion of American ” Soccer” ?
Do you think CFC’s going to the US gets us lots of fans ?
And where’s BlueBlood58 ? Haven’t read any of his insightful stuff for a real long time . Really want to again.

Americans know nothing about soccer , not all of them ofcourse , 99.9 % o f them.

I live in the US (I’m not American) and here people depress me, they know so much. Even that .1 percent, Maysam, they’re pathetically ignorant about the history particularly, and about everything football in general. Maybe Beckham’s going to help that out, but I highly doubt it. I doubt the US’s going to get into football until they win a world cup or something. And that’s not happening anytime soon. Anyways, about the mistakes, I can believe it.
Roman, the MLS, the Major League Soccer which is the league in the US is pathetic. They have eastern and western conferences of teams and playoffs and all this junk. It’s nothing like Europe. And the level is bellow average. There were no world class players or managers before Beckham, and there won’t be too many after him, I don’t think, so the level of the league is going to still be miserable.

They really have no apretiation of the sport, it’s not in their hearts or minds like it is with all of us, with the outside world. It’s not in their blood
I live on the east coast Maysam. I completely agree that they don’t go to the games for the football but it’s a social event for them. They still don’t care about the beautiful game. I don’t see how they ever will, they have too many sports to follow. And the attention span of the American can’t follow it. They can’t sit still for 45 minutes. I’m not kidding, that’s the reason their favorite sports all are very slow with many stops in them. Isn’t it rediculous how slow american football and baseball are?? I mean, they’re NOT playing longer than they’re playing during a match. That’s what Americans like and I hate. That’s also why I don’t have too many friends that know anything about football, so I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!
Thanks again, BC

how did Becks ?
I didn’t see the game.