FA Cup, Matches - Written by BlueChampion on Saturday, February 16, 2008 22:29 | 1,414 Views | 31 Comments | Add Comment
Chelsea 3-1 Huddersfield | Frank Lampard 101!
Frank Lampard scored his 100th Chelsea goal as Chelsea went past Huddersfield Town at Stamford Bridge. After some scare by half time, Chelsea put the game out of Huddersfield’s reach by two second half goals.
An okay match all in all. I’m not so excited to write this match reaction in fact. In the first half Chelsea started brightly showing lots of promise which made me believe that we would be up by two goals by half time. Come half time, we were level at 1-1. Huddersfield manages find the net once again at the Bridge. Why is it so easy for teams to score at Stamford Bridge. Isn’t it the unpenetrable fortress? But that’s lot better than losing at home to a league one opponent.
In the second half, the score still level after an hour, there was this dicey period where the team that scores would have had a massive advantage. Thankfully, it was Chelsea who scored again and at virtually at that point, the match was over. If Huddersfield were hiping for an upset they have to do it the first leg itself. I don’t think they have it in them to beat Chelsea over two legs even in their wildest of dreams (hell, even Barca could do it only one out of three times!).
Frank Lampard’s milestone of 100 Chelsea goals is something very very special. This should officially put him in the list of Chelsea legends. He has this striker-ish nose for the goals. Look at his first goal. See how and when he sensed the goal. It’s always a pleasure when he smashes into the net like that. Kalou was pretty good. His goal was very well taken. The pity is we won’t be able to see too much of Kalou in the next couple of months, unless someone upfront breaks a bone or two.
I was disappointed with Pizarro. I had a lot of patience for this guy and it seems to running out fast. This is the kind of match that’s meant for players like him to show what they can do. If he is not impressing you against Huddersfield at home, can he dream of playing in the Wembley or Old Trafford? If we don’t have anymore serious injury crisis this season, Pizarro might be relegated to the stands, not even to the bench. He was unlucky not to score though. In the second half, he managed to beat about 5 to 6 players only to have his shot saved by the keeper. That dribbling effort of his certainly deserved a goal but I was not over-awed. Joe Cole would have shred them to pieces. Honestly, anyone who can dribble decently could have done well against this opposition.
Sinclair got something he always longed for - 90 minutes of first team football at Chelsea. He did okay I thought. He did show some spells of bursting acceleration and pace, which is his speciality. Playing for 90 minutes at home, with quality players supporting supporting and feeding him, playing against Huddersfield, he should have done better. May be if we give more such chances, he can improve.
John Terry is back and that’s good news. But he made another defensive error that lead to the goal and that’s bad news. Okay, he’s just back from a two month injury. I can’t expect him to give a 8/10 performance. Hope he gets better for the matches to come.
And hell, Liverpool is beaten at Anfield by Barnsley! Something’s seriously wrong with them. To lose at Anfield to Barnsley their players or manager must be awfully bad. But they aren’t so bad as they are made out to be. Something’s brewing behind the screens. If Inter manages to beat Liverpool next week, Rafa can go back to good old Valencia.
Meanwhile, I had the pleasure of seeing Arsenal being raped and murdered. The Red Devils without Tevez and Ronaldo tortured Arsenal to such an extent that a 8-0 scoreline would not have been flattering, in relation to their performance on the pitch. Now that’s their second 4-goal margin defeat after the 5-1 rout to Spurs. Fergie exploited Arsenal’s aerial weakness perfectly. I hope this match has dented Arsenal’s confidence and be the turning point of the season.
Olympiacos? C’mon, let’s get some real challenge!
31 Comments
1. yeahh xD!!
2. blufan nr:1
then u havn’t seen allot
3. chelsea forever
positives
1-JT is back!
2-lampard coming in form
3-essien,kalou,mikel back in action
4-good performance
but the best is
LIVERPOOL KNOCKED OUT BY BARNSLEY!!!!!!!!
4. yeahh xD!!
……cluadio needs much time .and he has not been having a lot of chances !!(he did not do the preseaon which is imporntan for every single player !!!!!!!) just look at all the matches he had in munich (i did it ) ..!!
5. moyo
Pizarro is crap and nonsense. Thank God for lampard and kalou. Barnsley beat liverpool….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Rafa definitely will be sacked. I hope we face westbrom or barnsley in the next round.
6. moyo
Sinclair is a great talent and we must do all we can to keep him happy at chelsea. I see sinclair, Di Santo, Mikel, Ivanovic, Sahar, etc running things in the future
7. blufan nr:1
man utd are killing arsenal. ¨why didnt we play 4-4-2 against arsenal. they cant do crap cause there midfield is everything. grant needs to watch this game and learn
8. Akramno (Chelsea Fc Supporter)
Chelsea should sell pizarro for david villa unless valencia doent accept coz u know PIZARRO is CRAPPPPPPP!!!! anyway why would barcelona want drogba they got enough strikers already they are so stupid yh they already got messi,ronaldinho,henry,eto’o,giovani,gudjohnson and bojan and alot more young players like Ezquerro well he is old i’ll tell you more and more Pedrito and alot more so barcelona needs midfielders they only got Edmilson, Deco, Yaya Toure, Xavi, Andres Iniesta thats it. The defenders are Zambrotta, Sylvinho, Thuram, Abidal,Oleguer,Valiente,Milito,Marquez,Puyol these are all the defenders and youeven want to see goalkeepers well they don’t really need goalkeepers Valdes,Jorquera,Oier!!! so they don’t really need players they just need 2 midfielders but they are not allowed to play in center midfield then it will be a sick team and SHAME to liverpool and ars-enal lol. i bet chelsea vs man u in the final and chelsea are going to face west brom or barnsley and remember CHELSEA VS MAN U final oh my god 4-0 man u vs ars-enal omg!!!! im with man u in this match but im a chelsea fan but i want man u to win and they are really going to win.!!! COMON !!!!!!CHELSEA FC!!!!!!
9. Brian W
The best thing about today isn’t Liverpool winning - it is Chelsea winning. Get with the program people.
Sinclair was our best player today. The man played awesome and i believe he will be the real deal.
Everyone faults Paulo for the goal, but much of the blame has to be placed on Terry. He didn’t step up to set the offside trap on the pass when everyone else did, and that is a result of him not playing since the match at the Emirates: rustiness.
Congrats to Lampard, now officially enshrined in Chelsea lore.
10. KKI
Looks like Lampard is reading what fans think about him… It would be good if he does the same in a bigger game… 
As far as Liverpool is concerned, todays loss is not really a good thing, because now Rafa will be definitely separated from his duties (sacked), and they get a proper manager that will make them a real force. Don’t forget that JM is still available, as well as other couple of good managers. Putting it straight — I prefer Liverpool with Rafa than with JM… Anyone agrees?
11. AGfriend
I didnt see the game, since it would have been a foregone conclusion.
But heard it on LBC London that Huddersfiled had a….. GO at chelsea and
managed to go into the interval with a draw.
Well I would have expected a clean sheet with this game, but …. more and more
games I watch the mopre I am convinced that the fear instilled in the opposition is gone.
Well I feel sorry for rafa, unbeliveable, diabolical.
Well now with AG’s lucj maybe Chelsea will draw them in the next round in SB.
I wouldnt comment any chelsea player performance in this game after all it was huddersfiled
just very happy for Frank’s 100 goals, a really benchmark for a midfielder.
12. AGfriend
Is this correct???
It says frank bought a house in stiges,
Sitges is about 10 minutes from Camp Nou in Barcelona.
Just read this in “Mundo Deportivo” a sports newspaper from barcelona
“Frank Lampard compra casa en Sitges”
Frank Lampard compra casa en Sitges
Publiqué alguna cosa la semana pasada en Mundo Deportivo…
13. Johnarejr
WHO IS BARNSLEY?! AND WHY CAN’T THE ANFIELD HISTORICAL FOUNDATION BE ALIVE IN FOUR COMPETITIONS LIKE CHELSEA WITHOUT JOSE MOURINHO?! Hicks and Gillette couldn’t win the Super Bowl. Guess they can’t win in REAL FOOTBALL EITHER!
14. Nihongo Blue
next round : chelsea Vs Barnsley !!!
15. blue_victoryAUS
I found this part of your review funny “In the second half, the score still level after an hour, it was a dicey period where the team that scores would have a massive advantage.”
16. True Blue Fusion
Happy for lampard………….he was good throughout excluding goal scoring……….if he can perform like this against big team i have no problem if he stays……………sinclair is damn good……….he almost scored with those wonder dribblings….can’t fault anyone for the goal….it was well executed move……………what a weekend…………..tactical side beaten by league 1……………madrid losing…….barca winning…….and to top it arsenal getting f*cked 2 times within 3 weeks
17. BlueChampion
bluevictoryAUS - I’ve rephrased the line to reflect what I actually meant. Hopefully it sounds better now. May be, the line earlier sounded like the famous George Bush quote “if we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure” :-)
18. blue_victoryAUS
ahaha you didn’t need to change it, we all knew what you meant. Good read. I read a review on another site that said Sinclair had a terrific 90minutes, how come you were not overly impressed BC?
19. JoseHoliday
Scott Sinclair is the new Robben
looks sturdier too
20. Nick
I guess this means that we effectively have all of our squad members back:
Lampard, Terry, Shevchenko - returned from injury
Essien, Drogba, Kalou, Mikel - back from ACN
For the first time in ages we will have all of our players available. Hope we make mince meat out of Olympiakos.
21. Syed
Lamps answers his critics again and again…to be honest the only period when he has not played well for us and hasn’t scored goals in a consistent basis was when he was having treatment! 11 goals this season and he hasn’t played half of the matches; Incredible.
Team for CL away match against the Greeks:
CECH
BELLETTI-JT(c)-RICCY-ASHLEY
MAKA
LAMPS-ESSI
SWP-DROGS(vc)-JOEY
Subs in 2nd half: NICO (SWP), BALLACK (ESSI)…after 75 mins/end of match KALOU (DROGS)
22. Nihongo Blue
Hi BC !! Which mistake of terry led to the goal?? i am not sure of this infact he did cleared one from the goal line and had a good game overall winning header in front of goal etc..
23. blue_victoryAUS
Nihongo Blue - The defensive line all stepped forward to spring the offside trap, however Terry didn’t move up playing the goal scorer onside.
24. Nihongo Blue
ohh is it!! couldnt make it out watching though . Will see highlights … i had to see a match without commentary 
25. AGfriend
@ jack
carvalho is rated higher than alex because it happens he is the best CD in the europe if not in the world
That simple
26. moyo
We got barnsley in the fa cup… wow this is the easiest fa cup ever… Hope we get cardiff city next
27. Nihongo Blue
Man Utd Vs Pompey and Barnsley Vs Chelsea… HA HA. Pompeys dreams of FA final shattered.
Looking at the way we are getting draws in CL and FA and carling earlier we are gonna win many trophies… Why doesnt league has draws too 
28. JoseHoliday
Barnsley ? AG must be a shaman LOL !
29. Anonymous
lampard is a professional player,i choose him as the best midfielder in he world today.
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pizarrro the best player ive ever seen !!
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