Posted by BlueChampion in It does pain and if you had not watched the match, it would pain even more. My prediction of the score was right but I just got the side wrong. Loads and loads of possession resulted in bucketful of chances, but lack of sharpness resulting in poor final product ensured that Villa park remains our bogey ground. I missed Lampard very badly. Screw internationals, take rest and come back soon.
Jose started with a very strong 4-3-3 with Mikel, Maka and Essien in the midfield. It is a defence-minded midfield if you think so. Essien is not a defence-minded midfielder, only the last season saw him change his profile whenever required. Most teams would die to take this midfield for theirs. Drogba, Malouda and SWP made the front three. SWP still gets a nod over Joe Cole and rightfully so. Belletti gets a start on the right back with Alex joining Terry in the central defence.
The first half was completely ours. At about 35 minutes, we had 64% possession in an away game at a ground that has been our pain, of late. We had too many chances not so score in the first half. Though Villa saw only little of the ball, they made good impact with whatever they got. SWP was really zipping past but more than once he wanted to grab the glory himself and wasted beautiful chances. I was not too happy with Mikel as he was taking too much time on the ball which helped them regroup and also it really slowed down our attacks. Belletti was quite lively on the flank but was too slow when it came to marking the wide men.
The second half started with a bad defensive set-piece mistake that resulted in a goal. When Villa scored, it was completely agains the run of play and we had only ourselves to blame. This match was all about set-pieces. We got more than a dozen corners and we hardly threatened them. Leave alone threatening them, we made a criminal waste of few of them. Chelsea of the title-winning seasons, was major threat with corners. We used to really make them count and that was one of the real weapons of our game. If Jose is going to rip the boys into pieces, it could be heavily on the set-pieces. And the mess with set-pieces was complete when Villa scored their goal from their only second corner. Ashley Cole could have done better with his goal line job, but primarily it was a poorly defended corner. Terry had a mixed performance but I won’t forget that he is playing after taking his pain-killers.
All through the match, we dominated the game end to end. Our attacks were launched and nurtured very well but when it came to the attacking third, there was some kind of indecisiveness or lack of ideas which saw a lot of chances wasted. Malouda was off colour and it showed in his set-pieces – lacked purpose and horribly poor. In the second half, we were playing too many passes even in the attacking third. There were quite a few situations where someone could have pulled the trigger intsead passing it further down.
Jose brought on Joe Cole, Pizarro and Kalou of which Joe Cole looked lively, Kalou wasted a chance that Drogba would have buried easily and Pizarro did not quite impress. I don’t care about the margin of defeat. 1-0 and 2-0 mean the same to me. The second goal was more out of the aggressive tactic opted by Jose in the second half. Most of the times, we have seen it work like a charm. This is one case of the tactic failing and ending up a goal conceded. I was surprised to see Jose saying the same thing I just did. Second goal means nothing to him and also he did give credit to Villa for their well-organised game and their ‘heart’:
I think it was a good game. Aston Villa played well, Chelsea played well in my opinion. Chelsea made a mistake you cannot make in something we are very well organised, which is defensive set pieces and the game that was under control with a solid first half changed with that goal in the first minute. I think a point each should reflect what happened on the pitch, but you pay for mistakes. We made our mistake and I cannot say that Villa didn’t deserve because they didn’t make that mistake in their defence. After that Villa were well organised, heart, and had the crowd behind them. Chelsea played with a complete domination of the game but were not scoring a goal. The second goal means nothing for me in the context of the game.
Here is Martin O’Neill showering praises on Chelsea while not hiding his joy:
They can score in an instant, but they didn’t, and I was pleased to hear the final whistle. In defeat Chelsea were brilliant. Obviously I’m delighted for our efforts, we had to play strongly, with a lot of determination and a lot of belief. I think we had that and naturally I’m delighted. They changed their system round because frank Lampard didn’t play, I thought when they had it, Malouda started to cause a few problems when he picked it up. They’ve been beaten today but Chelsea are exceptional.
So why did we lose this game? Certainly, the team selection was fine and there was no problem in playing Mikel, Maka and Essien together. When we had 20 shots and scored none, it can’t be about the midfield. Drogba was good but tried too many tricks most of which did not come through today. SWP was good but was selfish from difficult angles when he had better options than shooting off-target himself. Malouda had a game that he would like to forget. Our back four changing every match is also not very helpful. We were piss poor with set-pieces. At times, no one was ready to pull the trigger. A combination of some or all of these meant that Chelsea’s 18 match unbeaten streak would come to an end at Villa park, of all places.
It would be news tomorrow that Roman walked off with a couple of minutes left in the stoppage time. He should have been upset and that’s natural and even Jose would be upset. One thing is, Roman has jumped in joy when we won the title twice in two years and he would not have witnessed too many Chelsea defeats but surely this would be in news.
So, we’re now no.4 in the table with both Arsenal and Liverpool having difficult away fixtures against Spurs and Pompey respectively, while we play Blackburn at the Bridge. Oh well, club football takes a break for goddamn internationals and returns on 15-Sep. Until then, enough time for soul-searching and regrouping for the men in blue. Hope our Chelsea contingent of the England team comes back fit and fine. Bye then.
[tags]Chelsea, Aston Villa, Premier League, Agbonlahor, Belletti, Alex, Drogba, Malouda, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Lampard, Terry, Knight, Jose Mourinho, Martin O Neill, Roman Abramovich, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United[/tags]
going good so far solid play and not too messy, good to see alex in the team and impressed so far by his abilities! this is going to be a beautiful relationship!!!!
may i say we might be nickin your players but you’ve nicked our reputation!!
1.2.3.all together now….boring boring chelsea!!! boring boring chelsea!!
the question is how much more can roman take?
guys please give ur honest opinion about wrestler drogba…we here fight over lampard or sheva or ballack but it should be this shit player…for me he is most overrated player in english football…has this guy ever earned an aerial ball without committing foul…has this guy ever run cleanly with ball for more than 2-3 metres without tripping or wobbling…passing and dribbling,hh, better left unsaid….the moment he gets ball i just drop any hope of a nice move….a shit player.
Another fuckin boring 1 0 win on its way.fuck fuck fuck i hate this fuckin shite football
Excuse my french
To me its really a bad team selection, all 3 defensive kinda Essien, Makelele, Mikel Obi players IN, our only creativity player after robben, J Cole on the bench, Sheva not even on the bench… Going forward but no real end product around D or inside D. I could see frm Roman expressions he isnt so happy the way we playing rite now… This season I d watched all Liverpool, ManU, Arsenal matches as well, but to me Liverpool are deadly with their attacking line up even without their influential Steven Gerrard!
But Manish last year without him we would nt have made Top 4 in EPL, n winning Carling Cup n FA cup. So try to brush up some memories before commenting something, though no offense towards you. Hey he is the lonely striker today, so everyone putting high balls to him, shit, we should ban these kinda high balls from the entire Soccer
lol.
Another boring 1 0 win on its way.this is not football.this is not football at all.terrible stuff .it actually hurts to see this kind of stuff being played.wheres the skill in this.
Cheslea 0 – Aston Villa 1 (Goal frm corner)
don’t worry people.. we will score i am very sure
now chelsea will rise their tempo up
Fuck tempo.
we should have been awarded a penalty.. fuck the ref
anybody ?
wat are doing chelsea
losing 1-0 stil.. fuck the ref
i xan’t believe it.. we are losing 2-0
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mourinho has turned this attack into most impotent attack…
fuck the ref……poor play by chelsea throughout…….drogba too flashy….thinking he is the best player in the world…….hope jose gives him a dressing down…….malouda poor……essien nowhere to be seen……biggest disappointment though is drogba………..
Blue champion?wat ya got to say now bout jose?us jose haters have been warning you all bout this kind of crap.our luck is out now.no more fake penalties or lampards deflections to aid us.united are only 2 points behind with rooney,ronaldo and saha all back.
We have bunch of Numpties on this blog… I’m ashamed of the kind of content that gets through here, BC you’ve got to do something about the kind of morons you allow on…
This is meant to be a Chelsea fan blog but is infested with ignorant f***wits who don’t know the meaning of being a Chelsea fan.
woow we started the game very well ,Mourionho finally followed what I liked 4-3-3 but I think he made a big mistake, he chose all of his physical medifileders , no creativity , nothing. I expected to see Joe Cole.
Essien , Mikel , Maka , do u expect these guys play as play maker ?
Belletti showed his class , he was not perfect but don’t forget he has just arrived.
13 corner. Jose has to work on coner kicks becasue we have ALEX and TERRY , they are dangerous on corner kicks.
Joe Cole came back ready.
Alex is reliable.
Malouda won’t start next game.
Chelsea medical department should try to prepare Ballack .
today , I found out that I made mistake chelsea can not play 4-3-3 as long as jose uses slow Malouda.
Jose won’t be out manager next season , I don’t know maybe ROman sacked him before ending the season. after we did not qualify in CL. shit
Next game :
———————-CECH————————-
BELLETTI—–TERRY———ALEX/Recardo——–ASHLY
SWP———–LAMPARD——-ESSIEN——–COLE
————–SHEVA———–DROGBA——————-
dpn’t count on what i just said , I am very angry and just said something. i am very angry
Manish! Silly and cheap foul language from you means that you get a yellow card. Please stay within the limits.
i dunno wat to say about this game .. just BIG FUCK .. we dont’ even make a real chance except Malouda’s in the start of the game then we play with three defensive midfielders the worst players of the game was Drogba/Malouda for me .. i think JM should play with SHEVA/PIZZARRO in the attack D n JOEY/SWP in the wings n to drop DROGBA/MALOUDA for 3-4 games n we will see the result .. i dont know how a winger cannot drible any defender at least once .. Ashely Young n Agbonlahor was fantastic
my team will always be chelsea… one day liverpool and arsneal will be unlucky and so on.. arsenal and liverpool are the only ones with no lost.. don;t think chelsea won’t win the league.. we can also try our luck at the champions league guys, BUT we will do it for the english league.. nothing to worry about, i hope lamps will not play one of the two crucial games for england so he can fire us at the top next game.. it’s only a goal difference that we are losing in, WE WILL DO IT ! if we don’t, we will have ronaldinho next year.. i wish chelsea’s top rivals will drop!!!
BC , u can keep on with ur yellow card stuff but that wil not lessen the frustration , infact Roman walks out on our arrogant god!!!! How silly of us to doubt him , i mean we won the first match 3-2 , who cares that we conceded at home agnst relegation contenders B.City , after al they r stil part of the EPL , what if we spend 500 mn pounds to watch dumies play shit????
I mean we stil get to see god , and benefit frm his radiance , wat if we scrape thru to 3 points agnst Pompey , a team 10 man Arsenal ripped to pieces????
Jose’s boots r there to be licked stil , mmm , yummy , and wat if we loose to Villa , Jose showed us his new hair style , that itself is enugh , to get us 3 points!!!! Why worry , if Liverpuddle hit Derby for a six???? Even we wld be able to win agnst them , only difference wld be that it wld take a lucky last minute scrappy goal!!!!!
Jose ur boots r so yummy , we all at this site lick them up and down all day long , god hail u , how can we even contest any of ur decisions!!!!
maysam why will malouda not play next game ??
malouda was really bad in that game, he was pissing me off throughout :/
berletti showed alot of promise, shouldn’t of backed away from a bunch of wide chances though. Alex looked solid too despite the commentators comments imo.
I’m not totally sure what went wrong thoguh
Disgrace in it pure meaning.
You concede 2 goals from new-comers Birmingham at home,
You are outplayed by Reading for 45 minutes at Madejski
You are outplayed by Liverpool at Anfield and manage to draw with very lucky penalty.
You play very boring football against Portsmouth and win with a minimal score.
You lose to Aston Villa at Villa Park, unable even to score.
You see: today’S performance and the result was actully predictable if you look at previous games.
Mourinho promises attacking football. Where is it? Starting from the last season (when you could find excuses thanx to injuries) the team gets behind and only after some substitutions manage to draw or win. Are there any excuses now? I am asking all Mourinho-lovers?
“The goal which was not scored” (CL 2005 semi-final), “We had injuries”, this and that. All of them were excuses for not being able to play FOOTBALL. Jose and his lovers, do you have any excuses now? I watched today’s game and Iam asking you: did you see any tactics from Chelsea? I don’t know what was that but it was not football expected from a club which spends so much money for the last 3-4 years.
You cannot use one of the best strikers in the football history and kill him (Sheva), you buy Malouda (who is he?) in order to replace the man with the best dribbling talent in the team (Robben), you buy only hard working force. What do you expect from this man? The Champions League. Please, don’t make me laugh.
Jose Mourinho has charisma, leadership, talent to speak but he doesn’t have football brain.
Good-bye.
joeblue…from now on, no one can win every game.. i mean liverpool and arsneal will lose one day certainly.. just calm down about the lost.. we needed our key player LAMPARD and we will win against blakcburn.. so now we have a 2 week break in the premierleague
don’t worry chelsea fans
Drogba , u r a wonder , i mean we dont care that u loose posession every time ,or u think urself to be Henry , here is the reality check , u r not worth licking the dust off his boots so stop trying to act like him , u big dunce!!!!
Last season i said a 1000 times that his party tricks r not good enough , but why wld ppl listen , guess now everyone has their eyes pooped out to see him wat he is , a striker who thinks himself to be a world better than he is!!!
Uniteds problems are now solved.we needed to take full advantage of their situation but we didnt.rooney,ronaldo and saha are all back and the gap is only 2 points.cole said we would go unbeaten?what a joke!
Disgrace , disgrace , Jose for filth , a liar , a player destroyer , Roman is gonna whoop him , L’pol spend big once , and here they r ,for all those who thoght Rafa to be a fool , see who is laughing now?????
I acnt even show face among my friends , disgrace is upon us , Jose , u @#$%&(())))*%$#$@@!!$% , no amnt of foul language is good enough for wat u and ur football is!!!!!
Please leave us and go to another club , this shame , this completely aversion with football and yet this arrogance , oh why dosent the lightening strike u down , before u brew such shit in football!!!!
joeblue ?? you think liverpool will win portsmouth and manchester united will win everton and aston villa will win man city and Arsenal might draw with tottenham?? NO WAY.. very hard fixtures for rivals… these matches that i wrote are the next premierleague matches.. now liverpool and hopefully manchester can slip up
CARM DOWN PEOPLE!! it’s just the start of the season.. what the hell ???
here i am. you got it right. i take my avatar only to destroy evil forces like you. otherwise i just read the blog and comments and im fine with it.
M_D – hats off to you. you said what you wanted to but you were quite decent.
Joeblue – when are you going to better yourself? very childish and very indecent and intolerable by the day. this is for you – jose mourinho is the best manager in the world.
wait a minute – i thought you said a goodbye to all of us (and we were rejoicing!) and were crying an ocean about you being illtreated and banned and here you are.
hello? has the season ended or something? i wish roman leaves taking all his money rightaway. then all such plastics will leave and we will be happily supporting our club, no matter we win or lose. good old days!
Has any1 heard joses excuses?
yes,exactly senior
scoot_sinc , U came wen the season ended , U r a bandwagon guy , me being here is none of ur buisness , u r so obsesed with others and hide behind personal comments rather than cmng out and proving me wrong , but why am i wasting my time with an incompetent nincompoop???? whose only mission on this blog is to post stupid , irritating comments and initiate fights!!!!
Go find urself somethin other than bothering me to do loser!!!!
United wont slip up now.ronaldo and rooney and saha are back.u think that team they were putting out was their full squad?ha ha ha 3 of their top attackers were out.so please dont give us that shit.come on jose!give us your wonderfull and terribly clever excuses that you think we will take in!
who says we will win every game???
But to perorm like midtable teams match after match is infuriating , we cant beat Pompey , only thanx to Cole we can say we scraped past them!!!
Hav they become this strong???? wen???? which world class player hav they got?
B.City , a relegation contender slamming 2 past our dfence at the Bridge!!!!
SHAME!!!!! but we r shameless!!!!
Reading hammer us , yes hammer , as if it was not Chelsea vs Reading , but Colchester vs Reading , but we scrape to the points!!!!!
Now Villa beat us by 2 goals , as we put up another garbage performance , how long wil this go on???? wat exactly is happening?????
If i were Roman rigt nw i wld be contacting the Russian Mafia to get an arrogant, shameless , brainless and football hating only money making and owners money spending man killed!!!!
Cmon Mafia i hav full faith in ur goons!!!!
united slipped with ronaldo and rooney in their team. they only started their slip lol! do you watch football mr.jones?
we played brilliantly and were unlucky to lose. fantastic play with good coordination among players. cmon blues! we (true fans) are behind you!!! Yes, there are still a few true fans left!
it was pathetic performance and we deserved to be hammered. Maybe this will act as a wake up call though i highly doubt it this has been a very bad performing chelsea lately and i cant remeber the last game where we completely dominated start to finish with a scoreline indicating it. 2day arsenal 10 men played football that was nice to see and against porsmouth were were we lucky to win 1-0. Something needs to be done cuz we are heading in a downwards slope as far as i see it. Blue4lyfe
at least those goons wld be WORTH the money splashed on them!!!!
jose mourinho is the best manager in the world but chelsea fans are not the best fans.
joeblue – so you are back, is it?
guys, i’m leaving this blog forever, i would never return here anymore. good bye (sob . . sob . . sob . .)
in short, i mean, i’ll be back.
we cant pass , name me one chance on goal , one good scorable chance???? all tricks and no play , SWP ,ends up nowhere , no crosses no good thru balls ,just runs , beats 3 defenders and slams the ball out of play , Drogba thinks he is the new Henry , cant take a touch without trying to flip it or backslip it , he is pathetic !!!!
Mikel , goes nowhere just stands in the middle of the park , we hav 3 players standing on each others toes in the midfield , all almost the same , wat sort of a tactic that was????? Malouda wastes great set-pieces time and again , gives the ball away at great positons!!!!
A complete shameless , brainless , useless pathetic performance and it has been cmng ever since we started the season the way we did!!!!
to rid this blog of evil , to waste away pathetic worms , to eradicate the plague on this blog in short the pingos and bingos , here comes the pain…….again!!!!! no more of ur senseless babbling , the big boy is back!!!
Be very afraid , as i kno u r , cuz ur focus is not Chelsea’s loss, but me!!!
strange comments – when arsenal does this, it is beautiful football and when it is chelsea, we conveniently ignore that!
Guys- joe blue has left this blog for good and he wont return here anymore. (sob . . sob . . sob . .)
no joeblue.. our ball posession was 80.2%.. we had gr8 but couldn’t create chances, i am not foolish
no joeblue.. our ball posession was 80.2%.. we had gr8 passes but couldn’t create chances, i am not foolish
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1- Liverpool
2-Arsenal
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tha’ts good u know why because these two teams will play against each other , that still have one game to play, I wish for a draw.
Goodbye Joeblue! You have so much self-respect that you would never return once you claim to leave this blog forever. joeblue is a man(?) of extreme self-respect and he would keep his word.
lol bingo im loving it. it’s nice this fun when chelsea has lost at least there is something to laugh at. good bye joeblue.
bey BC! joeblue awarded himself a red card and you said any red card should see them out for 1 month. how come he’s here soon (i know he lacks self-respect, like bingo says).
joeblue – you can renew your red card and as always, you can give it to yourself.
to moderator….can u please quote those words from me which u found offensive or abusive…..
mourinho is angry with Abramovich’s pursuit of Ronaldinho…y, because he will disturb mourinho’s style of robotic football…
mourinho today threw in entire attacking power of team…but villa’s goalie did not had to make a single real save…so much for our attacking power….this is really worrisome….now please don’t dish out crap that manure are also facing problems scoring goals…did u compare last season when they were scoring for fun….
all those who were happy with robben’s departure, this is the situation players like him become invaluable….he would had pierced through this defense…but mourinho can’t stand such players…he wants those who can also defend….
gotta go on for some important work as my secratary-servant Bingo has just informed , unlike him i dont hav the luxury of siting on my ass all day long and pass personal comments to initiate fights or sit on a football blog niether knowing nor discussing football , so while i go do some REAL work , u guys njoy this wasted life form Bingo , i leave him here for ur amusement , as im sure all of r well aware of , as he is here doing the same thing day in and out!!!
So cheers and see ya all l8r!!!!!
P.S– Bingo my slave i wil be out a while so keep the guests entertained which i kno u wil!!!! BYE!!!
JoeBlue must be happy at last. Chelsea has lost. You are vbindicated. Our team undewr Mour is crap. You must be ecstatic. Don’t be. Last year, it was one way traffic at the Bridge against them but in the end it was a draw. Not long after we crushed the same team 4-1 in a cup match. That is the name of the game. Even Brazil has days like that when you do all you can but it does not bring expected results. So stop the gloating my brother.
Its a season long tourney and we will come good. Meanwhile say hi to M_D. Am sure he is also celebrating like you. Some Blue fans we have. We friends like these, who needs an enemy.
oh and my other low caste servant is here as well , he is doubly good at entertaining ppl , and far more retarded , so have fun!!!! LOL!!!
one thing can relieve the sadness of this result.
Arsenal DRAW Liverpool
low-caste? typically indian! lol!
joeblue runs away! get out our sight! see, this is how i drive joeblue away!!! lol!!
JoeBLue I read your idea about SWP , Drogba, Mikel ,…
you said we could not pass very well , did u watch the game ?
When did manutd slip up with rooney,and ronaldo and saha ?do u watch football?rooney got injured on the first day.or am i wrong at half time?saha?played 45 on saturday?
chelsea borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring , swp so selfish and no co -operation between drogpa , swp . drogpa is so bad , i don’t know why he should play in every game , he is so bad , our attack is not organized at all , this is not chelsea that i know , look at the previous 4 matches they are of low standard really not excellent matches , and malouda no single corner played it in wright way all are either in the keeper hand or outside , the problem in the way we attack not in the defence or in the middle , i think the best players were the mid -fielders all of them , we need the strikers to make a real danger at the goal not just shoot randamoly . i have been looking at our 2005 /2006 season there is hope we lost 2 matches and draw in 3 ones in that great season so there is hope .
Despite losing to Aston Villa Joe Cole Played pretty well. His effort in stopage time was so close but yet so far for pulling one back. I think he could replace Robben. And if Mr.Mourinho says that he can do his tricks he could probably be the next Ronaldhino.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
hmm, yes liverpool 1-1 arsenal is a good idea to be top, yes
peter jones – can you please read my comment again. did i say saha? read it again. did i say saha?
and yes, they screwed it with rooney and ronaldo. so what, ronaldo was the wonderboy wasn’t he?
On second thought i don’t think anybody in Chelsea can replce Robben.
On second thought i don’t think anybody in Chelsea can replace Robben.
Not at the moment!
Peter Jones, please go to bed?
Guys imo we had a very good first half in which I thought we should have gone ahead twice and tested the keeper a number of times. We played fine football (watch the replay first half again), wrighty was simply too good and mikel was an authority in midfield. Overall as jose said we had a good first half and could have scord, but I think it all fell apart after the goal, mourinho became impatient, he made some subs that I think should not have been, eg mikel 4 pizzaro 51mins, i prefer – malouda 4 pizzaro 60mins, maka 4 joe cole 78th min. My reason is that – mikel has a good range of passes and has innate playmaking skills coupled with his ability to hold the midfield., This allows essien to moveforward with his energy, cole and wrightphilips stretching the opponents defence.
Any ways its passed, next match hopefully we will have lamps back and probably sheva. Enjoy the break and dont stress too much becos chelsea will be back soon and y’all will be smiling
Yes but saha is an important playa.rooney has played half a game this season.ronaldo has missed 3 games.no?and to that twat who cant think of anything to say.u go to sleep.so fulla shit
peter jones – i know it’s hard to pretend to be a chelsea fan despite being a true man utd fan. no worries. go sleep.
@Blue Champion, you have the best blog on football on the net.
If you had read the survey I filled out, I rate this blog as one of the best blogs on the net.
i think you lot will miss robben badly this year, he was a class act,shouldn’t of let him go!! what was the special one thinkin!!!!!! no robben no diarra no gallas and you got cashley cole!!! ha ha !!
For those fans that thought malouda was better than robben boy were u right.what a physical player malouda is.tracks back wins the ball.doesnt go past players and puts in terrible corners.mourinho is brilliant.selling one of our last flair players.now we left with machines!oh yes!machines that cant do shit!no more lampard deflections!no more cheap penalties!whats left then?1 0 boring wins?nop!1 0 losses?nop!2 0 losses!yep thats what!bravo jose!
I am a chelsea fan.what.but what i enjoy is football.football that is expressive.football that flows.football that takes your breath away.remember zola?what happened to that type of player?with skill and expression.it pains me to say this but arsenal and united play that football.and we dont.long balls,scruffy goals,set pieces.that is not football.so before u say anything let me say this until chelsea start playing wonderfull attacking,free flowing,mind blowing,unbelievably brilliant football.i will continue to express my views.isnt that the point of blogs?
BC – i want you to ban joeblue forever for using these words ‘low class servent’. this is equivalent to a blatant racist abuse in the west.
joeblue – are you shameless, you like a stupid, said that you’re leaving this blog and you’re back now with your half brain comments. get lost, shameless prick.
first time poster here – i have to agree with joeblue…we are completely inept as an attcking force considering the money we’ve spent over the years. we somehow get through alot of games (not all) through sheer will, determination and belief but no flair, flamboyance or even just good passing and movement. mourinho is a master motivator and has a very good grasp of psychology and its influence on the game but as a footballing maanager, well, its hoof hoof – wimbledon football. and thats the truth ppl! if he had no money to spend on good players, he would be seriously exposed, and even though he has got money his acquisitions are questionable.
peter jones – you’re fine, believe me, you’re absolutely fine. remember, we are all upset about the loss. i’m in no way less upset than you. i thought we played superb football and still we lost (like arsenal) and if you think we played horribly, fine that’s your opinion. but say it the same way you’ve said now. dont follow the fools – joeblue and m_d. they are bad examples. everyone will respect you when you share your logic instead of your abusive vocabulary.
Cmon guys dont get upset..The EPL offers 114 points over 38 games..we need just about 90 to win..we have dropped 5 points so far..we can afford to drop 19 more points..n STILL WIN the EPL..
we played real bad aginst Liverpool n Portsmouth n came away with points..we played much better today aginst Villa n still got nothing..so these things happen over the course of the season..
just 5 games up..33 to go…lots of time
Liverpool n Arsenal are playing the best they can..Chelsea n United can get better..so long way to go..i know lots of guys are frustrated with the loss..i’m frustrated as well..but common sense should prevail..now theres a 2 week break..let the team regroup n come back strong as they always do
Our front line was horrible today..lots of chances n moves wasted..i still cant understand why sheva isnt playing..he might not work wonders..but hes worth a try..he should b paired up front with drogba in a 4-4-2
We missed lampard a lot today..He would have definitely tried a few shots from 20 to 30 yards out & his corner kicks would have been much better than malouda n shaun’s .
Defence still unsettled..has to improve..Alex was good..Better than Ben Haim in my opinion..Beletti was good too..can do a lill bit more defensively i guess.
Villa scored their first goal from a corner just minutes into the 2nd half..completely against the run of play..a momentary lapse in concentration cost us.the 2nd goal has absolutely no significance bcos at that stage we were pushing everyone except cech into their half to find a goal..it pays off at times n can backfire at times as it happened today.
Liverpool, Arsenal, united..all these teams wil encounter tough games n drop points..so will we..its a long season..let it unwind itself slowly..
Chelsea has been leaking too many goals of late..I dont understand why..our last 3 seasons under Mourinho when we won 6 trophies was charcterised by a very very strong defence.Mourinho has to get our defence working together n get the clean sheets going..That will give the team more confidence n drive..
Cmon Chelsea
a team whose main striker is a player like drogba can never play proper football….
maradona – i’m surprised we’re still discussing this point. jose with a team like porto, won the champions league title. you think, with just psychology, you can make porto win the champions league ahead of teams like real madrid, barca, chelsea, man utd, liverpool, arsenal, ac milan, juventus, inter milan etc???
let’s talk about today’s match
@Maysam thanks for answering my pop quiz.
Give me your thoughts on why Chelsea lost?
Ps. Take a guess where I’m from?
arjun – you forget a dubious set piece against man u got them through the QF i think – if that hadn’t happened then……
that porto team wasn’t particularly great to watch either and they played a rubbish depor in the semi and a worse monaco in the final. he was genuinely fortunate. you have to accept that he’s not as good as you think. he’s a great motivator with rich resources – thats all.
earlier we wanted our players to play with flair and style. when jose blasted joe cole for his showboating, we frowned at jose for curbing joe cole’s talent. when drogba does it, now we feel the same. such is life. any flair player – be it ronnie or messi or whoever, before they became ronnie and messi, they would have missed quite a few tricks and finally they excelled and succeeded. drogba is 28 or 29 but every season he’s changed a lot over these seasons at chelsea and he would improve more. i would leave drogba alone. let him do what he wants to do. he is a genius. had he joined chelsea at 20 years or something, he’d have been like henry now.
And why are we guys Fighting over players that left???…
Robben wasnt sold..he wanted to leave because he was offered much more money at Real madrid..
Diarra wanted to leave to arsenal due to lack of 1st team opprtunities..
Glen was SOLD..bcos he wasnt good enough..
they have moved on..thay are no longer chelsea players..so we shouldnt b fighting over them..we should move on as well..
we were all singing praises of malouda when he scored against United n Birmingham right..just 1 bad game n we write him off..that isnt fair is it???
Give the team some time guys..Lets just wait n watch..long season ahead..CHELSEA can ONLY get BETTER from here
maradona – how come we remember that port QF against Manu? was that the only time an error happened in the history of champions league? was he the only manager who got lucky on his way to the champions league title? please answer.
hey trublueind! i simply love you mate. you’re superb. you’re an oasis. want to see more participation from you to wind up and drive out these fake chelsea fans who waiting to jump ship.
ashton on drogba…’he’d have been like henry now’….
i can only infer you are a kid….
mandora or whatever – i can see that you’re weighing your options between arsenal or liverpool, to support this season as your man utd is seemingly crappier than ever.
btw, i’m 45 and i’ve seen more football than all that you’ll ever see in all your lives – past, present and future.
Drogba like henry?r u kidding me.please spare us.united play far better football than chelsea ever will with jose in charge
hey guys! joeblue is back. so i’m losing a bet to bingo. i told him joeblue is a boy of his words and would never return.. bingo said you’re a shameless guy and you’ll be here. and he is right and i lose the bet!
“And if Mr.Mourinho says that he can do his tricks he could probably be the next Ronaldhino.”. haa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some 1 said this about JOE COLE. what a load of S.
Ive been sayin 4 ages alot of the poeple on thos site dnt knw jack about football, and others r blinded by club loyalty.
FIANLLY people hve woken up 2 wht ive been saying.
IM RIGHT IM RIGHT CHELASEA ARE S. BORING or wht. but i have 2 say on chelski bhalf they played good football 2 day, but were shocking up front. 2 SHOTS ON TARGET all day.
JOE BLUE, FIANLLY A TRU FOOTBALL FAN, I CAN TLK 2, NT THESE GLORY HUNTERS, WHO DNT NO BOUT FOOTBALL.
and PETER JONES, u talked about a great player lyk ZOLA, trust me half the people on here wont know who he is, as they havent even seen him, as thy hav only been “supporting” chelsea 4 3-4 yrs,(whn thyve been winning)
ashton ashton ashton, you dissapoint me. ok you’ve watched alot of football – that doesn’t qualify you to be more knowledgeable. besides you may have been obtuse all your life so what does it matter! my point is this – he was fortunate to win that CL title and on the back of that got the chelsea job where he was handed a blank cheque book to buy the bunch of v.effective but highly robotic players (essien/swp barred). he relies on long balls, strong defence and mistakes from the opposition – i dont know how you can’t see that. alot of chelsea fans are blinded by love for the team and just can’t accept the truth. i remember when barca beat us 2-1 at the bridge, i pre-empted that mourinho would play for a 0-0 at the nou camp knowing there would be no way he would go gung-ho and try to score the required 2 goals just to avoid being embarassed. it was better to remain defensive and exit the CL with dignity than to really go for it. guys he’s not that good, open your eyes!
I dont know y r we guys fighting amongst ourselves you cant expect chelsea to win every game, even im disapponted with the result but that doesnt mean that you guys are going to abuse the players and the manager even they dont enjoy losing but atleast they all tried we are in 5th game, im disapponted with some people who call themselves cfc supporters and react like this.I have full faith in my team they everybody wat chelseafc is all about!!
ALL HAIL CHELSEAFC….!!!
@fooballguy, I’ve been supporting Chelsea since 1997.
And I know what I’m talking about.
You answered my question on Chris Eagles and Diarra.
Can you remember?
We looked like we have done in some of the away games of seasons past…Not up for the fight..If we are to win the premiership this season then, more so than previously, we have got to be up for every game, not just the big ones! There is a problem in the last third, with getting supply in there and converting it into shots (look at second half stats today especially). We have to take a chance and decide to play more adventurously as we cannot sustain the play in middle or our half for most of the game (although JT is a God!). We have started to get teams hitting us on the break, exactly waht we used to do, but seem unable to do now. So where have we become a team that struggles to be as good as we used to be at defending, and seems unable to open teams up on the attack…Roman is not a footballing brain maybe, but he is right..And he pays the wages, so perform to your full extent lads, unlike today, and also jose..take note…it is not a science so lets not not treat the game in such a way, it worked three seasons ago, but now clubs are wiser and we have to learn, perhaps under a different guise.. nerver mind the payers and their views..some of them (you know who!), thought that sven was a good guy while they could get to play under him!!! sorry fans, i am for roman on this one!!! £100k a week demands perfection..especially if you are paying the bill!!! Steve, a fan since the 1970’s!!!!
I felt so bad about the game and i thought we could have done better …Essien was lost and malouda was slow and SWP has to look up when he plays …Drogba was pratically useless and overrated .He must justify the hype he had last season .Dont get me wrong ,he is a fantastic player but he needs to be more dedicated and stop all the silly acts. Alex and belleti were exceptional and i think they must start the next game …………..
To the FOOL of this blog,
Aren’t you tired abusing me and joeblue?
I myself proved that you talk rubbish about me (and therefore everybody), you disappeared and then after some time you appeared again. Truly said that time heals. But don’t you have any honour to stop writing to me or about me after being proved to be wrong???? (I call it being to be FOOL)
Or are you a child????
Anyone would have seen today’s Real madrid ‘n’ Barca matches would be having idea about what attacking football n bit flair! Except against da school boy team Birmingham n 2nd half wid Reading, we are really struggling. With this sorta crap SWP i dun see we getting something out of him, thinking pennant is far better than him! Shit ‘n’ shame man, the worlds richest club do not have a single exciting player like Messi/C Ronaldo, etc… And Malouda is no robben, so i think its better Jose to revert bak to his boring though effective Diamond wid ballack, instead of this kinda ineffective wing play leaking hell of goals.
And Jose, can you please kill your Ego and give da place to Sheva man, oh god selecting pathetic pizzario, but Sheva not even on the bench. Shit man, it really pissses-offf. When he can play for his country, why cant he play for his club!
drogba was dissapointing ,essien ,mikel and malouda were all dissappointing .Belletti and Alex play execptional football and i think we need to get lampard back into the team ….a JM must play the diamond and that will be alot more attacking formation…
Zola isn’t great.
Hey The Fool,
If you have any logic, please share with us. Answer this questions:
Why we conceded 2 goals from newly promoted Birmigham if Mourinho is known to be a master of solid and defensive football?
Why were we ouplayed by Reading in the first half and Jose had to change players and tactics to win the game?
Why were we ouplayed by Liverpool and in the football sense LOST that game?
Why were we boring against Portsmouth at home and grinded out the result by single goal?
Why were we beaten by Aston Villa yesterday unable even to score?
You see in every game we were in trouble. Answer to all of those questions and instead abusing teach us football.
I am waiting.
Spot on Steve. We all know, everyone thrashed Real Madrid for sacking Capello. Even some of the fans (including me) pissed-off for his sack, but the present german coach Schuster is already started rocking wid da performances. Man, dats called futball. Not even 2nd touch, all are 1 touch passes. Even with da moderate strike force, RVN-Raul (i mean they bit aged) their penetration is awesome. Non-stop entertainment. Thats kinda futball Roman wants to see in Chelsea shirts, but dat will never happen under Jose (though am biggest jose s fan) since Jose s philosophy is different. He cant get da max out of stars, simply he ll never give da freedom, but he can make a team like blackburn/spurs into gud!
@MD are you referring to me?
Before the start of the season I said that I hoped that Roman would sack Mourinho at the end of the coming season. While saying that I also hoped that Jose’s non-existent footballing brain would become existent by some miracle (for example by brick accidently falling on his head), but as we see nothing changed so far. So my predictions are on the right direction. If everything goes this way I hope Roman will sack Jose at the end of this season. Expression of Roman’s face at Villa Park told everything.
Michael M
Mate, I don’t even know you.
Don’t worry, The Fool knows himself. So it’s not you.
Cheers
@Midfield_Decider
Read Peter Jones comments (see no. 80) on why Chelsea lost the game yesterday.
Chelsea can’t score proper goals at the moment, and are looking rather than creating goals.
It Just looks ugly.
At the begining of the first season when Moriniho was in charge Chelsea struggled to create chances to score goals.
Now things have gotten worse, the defence is conceeding goals.
how can we up our game ? Pizzaro keeps loosing possession and roben is one of the greatest lost chelsea has ever suffered…………….
@Midfield_Decider
Jose Mouriniho is one of the best coaches no only in the modern game in the the history of football.
Can you do a better job?
hi Guys
Just saw Real Whoop Villareal 5-0 with some great football. Sneider was brilliant. They look like serious champions league contenders. WTF are our scouts doin. Do they pick players from video game performances. Come on Chelsea…….BRING BACK JOE COLE
Michael M
Pleas, don’t make me laugh.
I am not going to discuss with you about Mourinho.
I know very well why Chelsea plays boring, ugly football and I know why we lost yesterday. I am asking questions to The Fool just to learn his opinion.
You have your opinion about Jose, I have mine.
Now you are free.
Jose won 2 League titles with the team which actually didn’t belong to him or to his style of play. Gudjonsen, Duff were Ranieri’s players, and Robben was a dribbling genius opposite to Jose’s hard-working Africans or Affro-originated players. Joe Cole also is not a man of Jose’s style, he’s the last of the “Mohicans” and he is dying from this boring style. All of us know that the main role in winning those 2 titles were these wingers and the forward. Now, after 2 years all of them are gone (except Joe who is rotting) and Chelsea has completely turned into Jose’s boring “machine”: no flair, no dribbling, no speed, only long balls, set-pieces, scruffy balls, physical power. Now Chelsea is transformed into Jose true footballing personality. So don’t expect any titles, especially the Champions League. We will be happy if we only can contend for the League title, which I doubt very much.
i think the following reasons contributed to the defeat at Villa.
1. new players not yet integrated – Alex, Beletti both in defence
2. players playing out of position. we know that players are used to playing all through Mourinho’s system but we lost some stability in our build up and this showed in our final balls in around the 18 yard box
3. no Lampard. enough said. the cut back in the 1st (?) half could have been thumped by an on rushing Lampard but no one was driving into the box. deliveries from corners were poor and we didn’t take advantage of our set pieces.
4. Malouda instead of Robben. i hate to say it but at this stage we know that Robben was a matchwinner who could cross the ball in from wide areas and Malouda is not that kind of player… yet.
i’m sure there were more. hopefully for the next match Joe Cole starts. i still have not been won over by SWP. his final shot/pass was poor almost every time. Cole delivers better balls and can dribble past players on the right wing better than SWP.
Hey guys loosen up ! No need to panic I say….. 33 games left ….
Gotta take some bitter medicine sometimes , I guess.
And also Villa played like men possessed too. You gotta give them some credit .
And not too much of this beautiful football concept … had a big lump in my throat last night ..cos of it..
Anways Keep the Blue Flag Flying High !
And in answer to M_D in 107
All those questions seem a bit silly cos they focus only on the negative .
I ain’t defending anyone but a few bad games don’t really decide the make-up , the spirit and drive to win everything .
When u stumble, u stumble but being one-sided abt it is bullying.
BTW nice to read you guys again and also JoeBlue too.
It crossed the line. Styles blew it. Five times. We Are Going To Win The League.
Enjoy your season ladies.
come on guys!do u tink villa is a school boy soccer team?
it pains me to see us loose in such a messed up way…..what is happening to my beloved chelsea….i think all this players need to get their acts right cos there is something terribly going wrong….whats up with you mouriho?
earlier Mourinho fans could at least boast of ’solid’ defence…now
even that is in distant memory…LOL….
guys anything which goes against nature will come unstuck sooner or later no matter how great success it achieved early on…thats what has happpened with Mourinho…he tried to have such a footballing philosophy which is just against the basic tenets of football
@Michael M : thank you .
I think we lost for two reasons , luck and mourinho mistake.
Luck , we could score at least one goal . we were unlucky.
Mourinho mistake : He did not use any creative player in his midfield line , when Lampard is injured i expect to see a player similar to him , not quality at least thoughts. Essien , Mikel , Maka are all defensive mind players . we could of used Joe Cole or Sidwell . but I don’t know maybe they were not ready becasue what i said is very simple everyone knows that, you don’t need to be genius to say that. and Mourinho si good enought to know that.
and i wanaa guess something , I watched the game two times, look at belletti , his style changed in second half . in first half , he did not tackle , he waited to see what rival players do then reacted, but in second half , ( I think someone told him to change his style) in second half he did not wait he tackled immediatly ( which is not good ) Vila scored second goal becasue of belletti mistake, he tackled and Vila player diribbled him easilly. i don’t know it is just a guess. but Belletti has a good game.
by the way ,Zola is my hero
, i have a shirt like this
G O D
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and comparing Henry and Drogba is completely wrong these two players are completely different.
i forgot to guess your nationality, well , I think you are Iranian.
Mr scouse
Live it up
while you can
6-0 against also-rans
Fur face’s team Liverfool is
a shit show ever
don’t say you’re better
till it’s all over
And to all Blues fans
It ain’t nice to be that mean to ur own team
nobody talks about a penalty which could have been given for us.
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did u watch Mourinho interview
he is aksed ” do you think if that clash was penalty? ”
he answered : i don’t know, we have to ask the ref , if he think it was not penalty, it was not , if he thinks it was penalty , he would probably call me for apologize tomorrow
I don’t like this Mourinho , he should sass at the ref. I like thsi mourinho , he answered asif he does not care.
Solid defence and such I read !
What about the commitment and steel that we have ? The league’s a marathon and ur like writing us off after one loss.
What a drag ! Yes we did not score , yes we did not win ,yes we were beaten, yes we are not on top at the moment,yes we did not play the best,yes there was no Sheva , yes it was a bit of a mad scramble.
But is it the end, the end of the world ? NO NO NO !
We gotta take it like men on the chin !and learn from the loss.
Better than squabbling like chickens( altho some of it is good reading)
I had a tear in my eye last night and said to myself better now than late in the season !
And Yes , I am the next Churchill !
balletti was good , alex was good always wanted to be on the score sheet, terry was ok.. drogba was bad… very bad.. first goal was by drogbas marking and y was ashley using his left foot when ball was on his right
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and young was having a match of his life… played brilliantly
we r missing ballack in our squad
[...] Chelsea unexpectedly losing to Aston Villa and Manchester United currently off the pace after their slow start it is great to see Arsenal right [...]
I like Abonglahor , inconsistant but talented .
Arsenal win the league this year ? MY FOOT !
Guys, take it easy. The prem is not over yet. Didnt watch the match so i cant comment about it although i was a little disappointed.Guys lay off drogba, he was the sole reason we lasted we were in the run last season. Every dog has his day and even if ronnie came to chelsea he wouldnt make such an impact given the free hand or not. Lets hope its the last loss nd we play better.KTBFFH
mourinho has built a team where a striker’s performance is assessed by his defensive contribution….great work done Mourinho….
As an Arsenal supporter, I’m happy to see Diarra sign for us based on his reputation. But I wondered what the opinions of the readers of this blog are of Diarra. Any comments would be helpful. Cheers.
Spanish fry, You’ve got yourselves a great youngplayer there, but Where is he going to play for you? You alread have two right backs, Eboue and Sagna, fourin defensive midfield, Gilberto, Fabregas, Flamini, Diaby?
The main problem with Diarra is he doesn’t have the decipline required of him. We brought him to replace Makelele eventually, but JM has decided Obi-Mikel is more suited to that.
Diarra has pace, is agile and strong. If you’ve watched him play you’d know he gets tight to opponents and sticks to them . The kind of players fans appreciate, works hard and is actually very good technique-wise.
WHY DID WE LET HIM GO TO YOU OF ALL TEAMS? WHY DID WE LET HIM GO AT ALL?????
i KNOW FOOTBALL FANS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SHORT MEMORIES BUT DAMN!
Drogba bashers have sprung up again! Can yo ubelieve it? This guy carries us throgh games all too often singlehandedly, YEAH, SOMETIMES HE DOES DO THE WRONG THINGS, AND HE ISN’T TH BEST AT DRIBBLING, BUT what he he is good at he does perfectly.
I wont even bother moutning a defence for SuperDrog, any one with half a brain, half an eye even, will know what a tremendous player he is for us.
BTW where is Adonis, even though I don’t agree with a lot of what he says, he is one the few who try to forward REASONED ARGUMENTS instead of PEURILE KNEE-JERK ABUSE.
Ok guys . I read 140 comments and I/am sick nobody point the problem.
We have no system. Mourino’s tactic in attack is to put the most impresive player (or expensive if he can) ,but no attack strategy ,no team effort, all our best strikers are selfish they play for themselves they dont serve the others , (they make money if they impress annd are in competition for a position in the field with the others so they want to shine) see Drogba the best player but never worked with sheva or Pizaro, Malaouda he impress the first Game almost dying against MU but selfish for himself to be consider the best player an be in the starting team but as you can see he is not doing good in team efford, Shaum WP , He was useful the first game playing w Pizarro as a team, (Birmingham) but after all the good press he though he was another drogba an start to play selfish to score himself and today we saw he want to do all it alone ,no good service to the others, As you see even Pizarro not being as brilliant with the ball asDrogba, can be a better solution if he makes those guys to play as a team , you see Liverpool they are a team, you can see benites Estrategy and the way all together go into attack, looking to the best stricker to try the goal. But our friend Mourino always is going to replace one good team an strategic player with anther clawn which do something to impress the manager and will be the next starter in the team, thats why Mourinnos needs a lot of money to have tne best players, because he dont have strategy, he will never dare not to put the best ones but the most suitable for a strategy. Probably Pizarro ,Sheva, SWP Deserve a manager to make them play together as a Team and the other genius Drogba and Malouda Down tge cloud to play as a team and help the other tem mates.
Mourino failed , no estrategy, most importat no team effort , everybody selfish , looking for a position in the team against the others?????
What do you think??
And those idots moaning about us nt playing good atractive football, Will you stick your head out of Alex Ferguson’s Arse just a moment, or stop massaging Ronaldo’s bollucks and watch us play.
We are playing attacking football, but it’ll take some time for the players to adapt to the new mentality. Arsenal and United have been trying to play that way for years. Its a new venture for us, a footballing Paradine Shift. So give it time…
SocalBlue you have a point. Too much competition is isn’t always a good thing, you end up with players like you said’being selfish’.
BUT Mourinho doesn’t judge th eplayers performance on what they do individually. If SWP scores one misses three when he could easily square the ball for tap ins, Mourinho will drop him th next game.
JOE COLE scored for us, he was selfish and was playing for himself, but what happened? He didn;t get in the team!!!
‘No team effort’, That’s the first thing Mourinho put into our team. Effort, dtermination. How you can say we lack effort is beyond me…
‘No Strategy’ Yes we looked desperate, frantic and panicked. Why? Because of too many players who DONT KNOW whatto do in this situation.
Yesterday, we had ALEX, BELETTI, MALOUDA, WRIGHT-PHILLIPS, MIKEL, that is FIVE players who have not been first team players for us. We might have got back into the game if we had a little more experience on the pitch and some calm heads who know what it’s like to go a goal down and come back to get a point or win.
If we had Fereira, Carvalho, Lampard, Ballack, Joe Cole (yes, for a little creativity) and even Sheva it could have been very different.
HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN a certain Mr Frank Lampard???
‘We will realize how important a player he is for us only when he is gone’ – that’s what i said before.
No Lampard yesterday what happened?
All thosd Lampard haters where are they now???
Some idots want Essien and Mikel to play in our midfield two and leave Frank Lmaprd out. Lamaprd i sthe heartbeat of our midfield, everything goes through him when he plays. How often do you see the players pass to Lampard when they need someone to pass to.
Where was the thrid man breaking into the box, where was the support arriving for Drogba to lay the ball off to (Portmouth match???) without Lampard?
He does the simple things , does the right things uses his brain, and gets into the box to score goals for us. THAT IS WHAT WE DID NOT HAVE YESTERDAY
guys I think that something had changed in our team from last season we haven’t made a really good game in the start of the season in the two first matches we had problems in our defence with Liverpool we didn’t play good but we got 1 point from the referre in the other game we won only 1-0 and now we lost. So I think that we have missed something but I don’t know what..!
Applauds for Jumbo for some great points. Well said, brother. (comment 199 for something worth reading)
Alby what’s changed is Mourinho is trying to play attractive attacking football and leaving our defense open to attacks. We’re not playing patient sideways football, instead its hundred mile and hour kick and rush with the occasional intricate passing movements. It will take some time to play good attacking football and be solid defensively.. so Alby, give it a little time… and then if it’s not working, then you can feel truly aggrieved…
Well,well, well….i aint even feel inspired to leave a proper comment!!!!!!
not because we had a pathetic display yesterday…but because of how childish some chelsea fans are!!!!!
My God you’d almost think we’re at the ned of the world!!!!!
Good to see joeblue and M_D back!!
Cheers mates!!!!
Dunno where the heack u guys were!!!!
But i knew you’d be back @ a time like this(lol)
“You alread have two right backs, Eboue and Sagna, fourin defensive midfield, Gilberto, Fabregas, Flamini, Diaby?”
At this stage Gilberto is the only ‘outright’ defensive midfielder out of that bunch. Fabregas and Diaby are being groomed as more attacking and Flamini is a tough tackling player but he is by no means defensive in the way that Gilberto is. If Diarra is as talented as most people say he is then I think he has a good chance of eventually becoming the next “Invisible Wall” for the club just in front of the defence. Any further thoughts?
Invisible wall!!!!
Sorry to dissappoint you – well not really – but he just isn’t that kind of player.
He likes to move around the pitch more than a Gulberto or a Makelele ie, lacks discipline. Of course that could be instilled in him by Wenger but he is naturally an all action kind of player. Even at right back for us he was flying up and down the flank. He is very quick, or at least appeared to be. That might have something to do with the lack of mobility in the Chelsea team generally last year. Quick players are what you lot specialize in Spanish Fry, so he’ll definitely won’t be left behind in your pacy attacking surges.
I’d liken him a little to Sissoko , except he is a little tidier on the ball and technically. Uses both pegs by the way, which always comes in handy.
Not only is the strategy wrong but also the commitent of some players has to be brought into account , Drogba was playing in half sleep , done he was brilliant last season but a real great star is not one who rests on past laurels but one who makes new records , thats why comparing him to the all-time strike lord Henry is a crime itself!!!!
Henry scored goals even wen he was half-fit , wsa top scorer so many times , Arsenal all time record holder , and most of all he cld score anytime out of the blue and save the team the blushes , Drogba has hardly played in his senses this season except for tat goal agnst Reading!!!!
Ppl on this site mention Lampard , but is he the only man in our team????
The rest can just get beat and make this excuse???? Thats shameful , we shld do better than we did last time out!!!! and not only agnst Aston Villa , we hav strted this season so badly , we hav conceded goals which most Jose lovers lov to put up as their main point, where is the defence???? Even the scousers hav lost Carragher and Gerrard , but wen was the last time Chelsea even at full strength hit any team for six , except for our specality the mickey mouse cup that is , a tournament in which even the lousiest sides score 5!!!!!
Enugh excuses , open ur eyes and see the truth , Jose has to turn around not only the results but the team as well , we hav to show we r title contenders , these points we r dropping , remember last season wen many jokers incld the marshall here BC , said we r only drawing SOME matches , and those were the points making us loose the title , idont want a repeat , Manu r visible on the horizon at OT , time to pull up our soks and be ready!!!!
Aston viller 2-0 C.F.C, we played badly and simply deserved to loose.
Hey Chashif & JoeBlue..good posts man..Both of u guys made valid points
I strongly believe all this demand for flair n stuff has upset the team structure and weakened our defence.Makalele was used very effectively in Mourinho’s 1st 2 seasons.He was the perfect Holding Midfielder.Mikel n Essien are great players, but not great holding midfielders.
If Jose wants Chelsea to play with more flair, its good.It would be really wonderful if chelsea could play like Arsenal or Barcelona.
But it shouldnt be done by sacrificing the team’s greatest strength which was our solid defence.We have the best defensive record in the EPL over the last 3 seasons.Least no. of goals conceded, Maximum Clean sheets,Least no. of games lost.Teams playing gainst Chelsea felt it was tough to score against us.The psychological fear was there.
Then last year with all our goalkeeper n defence injuries, we started losing that strength n aura of invincibility in defence.Teams started attacking us more feeling they could get a goal.The same thing has continued this season.No team is sitting back aginst us.All the teams are attacking us knowing we arent that solid in defense as before.
Our back line & GK have reamined the same over the last 4 years(xpect Gallas for Cole).The team’s startegy n structure are being changed by Jose.Of course the defence hasnt really touched top form as yet.They can do their bit to improve as well.
So let Jose n chelsea try to be more expansive n play more beautiful football.That would really be wonderful.But they shouldnt sacrifice on defence.
Its common sense that YOU CANT LOSE IF YOU DONT CONCEDE GOALS.We are more than capable of scoring atleast 1 goal a game to ensure that we WIN.
Villa was just one of those days.It has happened in the past.It can happen again.
Cmon Chelsea..33 more games to go..a minimum of 80 more points to get to have any chance of winning the EPL..We can Do it
oh yeah to all the ppl on this blog , abt 4-5 months bak i was plaeding Jose via this site to get Sneijder , but why wld he do it , Sneijder is a REAL talent , and look wat he is doing at Madrid!!!! Pathetic , atleast if we spend so much money , cant it be on somebody like him or Vaart?????
Typical disgraceful Jose , never learns!!!!
@joeblue well i agree with on some points but dont doubt the commitment of the players do you think they like losing, i mean didnt you see terry pushing forward then running back to defend this guy is on painkillers you have to give them credit for that. we lost after 18 matches and you people are acting as the premiership is over…..
@joeblue you are talking about wesley sneijder well he is a midfileder, where are you going to play him??? in team like chelsea where you have have lampard ballack maka essien etc you think sneijder can fit in our team one more thing i wanna point out is that he was bought for 20mil do you think we should pay that much of money for him to warm the bench????
I have read it from successful people that when a lot of people start speaking against you it means you are achieving success very very fast.
KTBFFH!!
cheers guys!! no gain without pain..
Cashif (comment 151) I didn’t say that I don’t give time to the team but I don’t like to see my team loosing. mourinho and all chelsea’s fun want our team to win the champions league, but we have to improve a lot to do that!!
@BLuE DeViL : Malouda does not play very well specially in last two games, and we have Joe Cole on bench we should try him too. Joe COle is a good player
boring boring joeblue. i thought you were banned but someone told me that you have a lot of self-respect and you’ll be back. dont you have any brains, joeblue. you kicked yourself out like you were going to start a blog of your own and here you are stinking like a pig?
get lost you loser. the only thing you do in this blog is crying about jose. no other contribution from this clown.
c’mon the villa u all got to admit that we were just the better team, get over it. hahaha :ppppppppppppp
saw some chavvvvy londoners at the match… and a couple of security guard wannabees 2 lmfao
@footballguy (refer to no. 97)
You dare laugh at me, we’ll I laugh at you.
Have you ever watched Joe Cole play when he played for West Ham.
No you probably have’nt.
He used to skill very good until he came to Chelsea when Jose said “cut the fancy stuff out.”
And have you ever heard of the word practicing. How do you think Ronaldiniho became the skill king, how do you think Ronaldo became known as the “diver”, and how do you think Petr Czech became a world-class goalkeeper.
All to do with “practice”.
So if Joe Cole practices skilling in his matches he would get better and better and better.
So you better take a walk and find of a way to apoligise to me because I don’t talk Sh… you talk Sh…
Sorry for my bad language.