Congrats. Chelsea did dominate the 2nd half. But what did Drogba at the end was …….

You can complete it as you like, it’s obvious though…

lampard would not have forgiven drogba if he hadn’t scored. simple pass could have made it easier and this are chances manutd thrive on.

anyway, after a tense 90minute, good to be in the semi final against liverpool with Avram Grant as coach!

Another victim served up at fortress Stamford Bridge! I think finally Essien is adjusted to playing at right-back. BTW, does anybody agree with me that Hilario was simply sensational in this match?

i’m very happy with the win .. it was not the best game ever but we controlled the game and we deserve to go through .. where are those Fener fans who think they will beat at us at the Bridge .. nobody can beat us there .. so it’s Looserpool again it’s time for “REVENGE” now ..C’mon u BLUES

Congratulations to everyone.

But we were lucky today.
I didn’t expect such a big mistake from Zico, he started without his left-winger Ugur Boral, what a fool. That costed him everything.

I’m not happy with our performance and I think we’ll be knocked out in the semis by Liverpool again.

oh well third time lucky perhaps! but the two performances tonight does not fill me with confidence.

also hilario saved well, but his kicks were awful, i could do better. I’m pretty sure that’s what it was like in his previous run though.

oh well third time lucky perhaps! but the two performances tonight does not fill me with confidence.

also hilario saved well, but his kicks were awful, i could do better. I’m pretty sure that’s what it was like in his previous run though.

yay chelsea vs liverpool again.
That said if liverpool play the way they played in second half we are screwed.
Drogba was shit and probably should have been subbed. Essien added a little pace and attack down the sides but didnt link up with cole very well. kalou did ok for the first part of the game but got lost near the end of second half, good decision by grant to take him out. The sub for kalou was actaully quite intelligent. We swapped cole over to the other side, essien came up forward and belletti took up the RB position. This lead to the second goal basically since essien linked up better with belletti then he did with cole. I was expecting maybe essien goes midfield while lampard goes to the left to make it more defense based but it turned out quite well. I would have liked to see ballack come off though because except for the goal he wasnt that good, maybe sub in anelka and move essien to CM. Change it to a 442 diamond with maka as CDM, lampard and essien as CM’s and cole as an AM. Or even a 4-1-3-1-1 with anelka taken off for j.cole and placed behind drogba.

@48-
Um, it was Zico’s taking off of Boral and putting on Kazim-Richards that turned around the first leg. Perchance Zico remembered that, whereas you did not? Methinks he knows a bit more about his own side than you do.

@52 Bango

No, you’re wrong. Colin Kazim always used to be good as a late substitute not as a starter. Ugur Boral just had an off day in Istanbul. Normally, Ugur Boral is the one player in Fener who makes all the difference. Even today Fener’s most dangerous chances came after Ugur Boral came in. Before that Fener’s left wing were not working. Zico has just screwed it up tonight and I’m sure that he knows that now. Another big mistake of Zico was not resting his regular players at the weekend against Kayserispor. If he had rested I’m sure Fener would have progressed to the semis tonight. Alex was so tired that he couldn’t even use free-kicks properly, a man who is known as a free-kick specialist. Luckily for us, Zico made two big mistakes.

Oh My God. Look at the Schedule

17 Everton Away
23 Liverpool Anfield
26 Man u
29 Liverpool
3 New castle

The crucial game is 23 Liverpool. We know how well they play at Anfield and if they get a two goal advantage like they did with Inter, our season is all over.. With Hilario at the goal ? Tired of losing to Liverpool :-(..

@52 Bango

Besides, I’m not saying that starting with Kazim-Richards was a mistake. The mistake was starting without his regular left-winger Ugur Boral. If I was in Zico’s shoes I would start with both of them and would leave Maldonado on the bench, who by the way made no difference at all.

Overall, Chelsea played badly but Zico’s mistakes made the difference.

Looking forward to the Liverpool games.

@ Midfield_Decider

Fair enough. I’m not going to pretend like I have half a clue about Fenerbahce’s side, save from what I learned in the first tie.

*http://bleacherreport.com/articles/list?user_id=9623

BC,Someone is copying ur articles……..in copy and paste manner…………sue him

As there two arun posting in this blog ,i have changed my name…..to ARun CFC

Last week after first league match a lot of fernerbache fan where roaming in this blog(Fener, goglitze,Proud of FB,Sith,KOSOVAN)Where r u now, last week itself we chelsea fan told, In ur home u cannot beat Us…,not even score a goal,
ystrday fenerbache didn’t even have a good shoot on target(except hilario save), we were playing with our third choice goal keeper.Every thing was going same like first league till 75min, then zico pushed
fenerbache players to score goal, we took them on counter attack, Essien was our player who changed the game, he was very good in Right back position even better than Ashey cole in LB, also sub belletti,After substitution his attack in right wing was also great…

Last week one of our friend wrote this comment about Essien

@ bluesluv

i still think essien should go… ok so hes a versatile player…BUT what can he bring to chelsea that makalele didnt bring and mikel wont bring?

After this game i think @bluesluv got the importance of Essien in our chelsea team.

@58…’i still think essien should go… ok so hes a versatile player…BUT what can he bring to chelsea that makalele didnt bring and mikel wont bring?’…

first,Essien is just 24 while Maka is 35….
second, there is a big difference between their role….Maka is an out and out defensive player,sitting just outside our penalty box and destroying opponents’ attacks…he would never surge ahead….Essien may also play a defensive role but he is most lethal when he makes box-to-box runs…he does all that dirty work of tackling in midfield…have u ever seen any of our other midefield tackling…comparing Maka and Mikel is more logical…Essien is untouchale for Chelea….

@AGFriend’s foe

Hi i was just using some comment posted by @bluesluv last week, i support ESSIEN, i just want to show the importance of ESSIEN to our Team

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Last week one of our friend wrote this comment about Essien

@ bluesluv

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i still think essien should go… ok so hes a versatile player…BUT what can he bring to chelsea that makalele didnt bring and mikel wont bring?
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by @bluesluv

After this game i think @bluesluv got the importance of Essien in our chelsea team. //

Essien ,kaluo,Alex,Mikel,joe Cole are important player’s for chelsea in coming YEAR’s …

Last meetings against liverpool in champion’s league semi final’s , we had good manager(jose who defeated liverpool in EPL many time’s) but our LUCK was very bad( remember Luis Garcia goal in 04-05 season and last year penalty)..
But this Season our MANAGER is not good (he is improving) like jose or Rafa ,but he has LUCK , So we will beat Livelpool to meet BARCA in FINAL, Chelsea will beat BARCA ….Sure…..will be NEXT Champion’s

Missed the match. Happy that luck was on our side. I understand controversy went against the Gooners. Thus once again, Chelsea must try to overcome the Anfield Historical Society in order to go to the Final. Wouldn’t it be hell for Mourinho and Rafathead that this much (and often deseredly so) criticized upstart of a manager makes it to the finals? LET THE GAMES BEGIN! GO CHELSEA!!!!!!!

shut up M_D. chelsea won, go and eat shit. they would win in any ways, wathever turk ziko would play. they all suck.

@62…oh,I got u wrong…sorry….

anyone who does not appreciate that essien is the best midfielder in our team is simply blind. anyone who says he must be transferred must essentially be an enemy of Chelsea. Essien is chelsea’s powerhouse. He together with terry epitomize the never say die winning spirit of chelsea. drogs used to belong to that category till he started dreaming of leaving.

good game it was ..
congrats to Chelsea..
as FENER fan i ‘d like to see you guys and BARCA doing the final..
but i think with this manager you wont be watching games in a relaxed mood.. with this squad he is still gutless..
good luck anyway

essien on right flank and Joey/kalou on left flank will give our team more thrust and potency on a forward going basis. Right back keeps essien too much in the defensive mode. slotting in where Joey operates allows himself to help the midfield and also do his forward surges that the team needs.

By the way where was the arsenal’s sexy football when it mattered most? I cannot but agree more with the guy who penned the following unforgettable words a few weeks back when arsenal lost to us. “Sexy football my arse”.

@KOSOVAN great to see u in this blog ,u r true football fan,because u r ready to except defeat of ur fenerbache team.

Fernerbache is now a good team under ZICO,in few year’s fenerbache will also be a European giant , best of luck for future

Thanks to Hilario rgar chelsea went thru

Great win for us.We reach the semi final for the 4th time in 5 years in the ROMAN ERA.(1*Ranieri,2*Jose,1*AG)
Liverpool will be tough to beat.The key is getting an important away goal in the first leg.Why is AG persisting with essien at RB???It might work once or twice, not every game.
I hope Cudicini is back by the everton game.Hilario might be ok against wigan, but no further.The next few weeks will decide if we win anything this season and i want our 1st or 2nd choice GK to be available for that.
I hope Arsenal can pick themselves up n take points off united this week.If United beat arsenal, they are in the drivers seat for the EPL.If they lose or draw, we are in the drivers seat.
United is almost certainly in the semis of UCL now and they will have to travel to Barca for the semis.We wont have to leave England.A lot of things are in our favour.I hope our team can take advantage.

heard th news?????????
“”hiddink”" in a new russian row……….

This week Manu will be beaten by Arsenal, after ystrday’s match gunner’s will be eager to do something in EPL, because they r only 6 point’s behind Manu.If arsenal and Chelsea beat Manu and then blackburn gets a drawn against MANU, then Arsenal have chance to finish second in EPL,Vidic and Rio less Manu will be defeated by Arsenal this week.

RONALADO MAGIC IS GOING TO BE OVER…….. this week Manu will be out EPL title Race.

@32
yeah, but think about the possibilities of the cash if we sold him.
ok he played really well. he proved me wrong. i hoped he would have

@33. bluesluv

Hi friend, thank u for accepting ur false comment’s about Essien.

I think chelsea fc do not want money from selling good player’s,we made such a mistake by selling Arjen robben(Injury prone but good player) last season.
we r not championship club,to sell good player’s from academy for money, Chelsea play’s for wining trophies and we have billionaire owner who is ready to spend money for GOOD FOOTBALL,next season we will go to 4-4-2 for sexy football, then we need player’s like ESSIEN, how can play in all position’s .

many things to talk about!!!!
i really really want revenge against liverpool!!!
drogba is still the most selfish player i have ever seen, he could of easily played lampard through sooooooo may times and still tries to score himself!!!!! it is soooooo frustrating!!!
if lampard didnt score he would have been so upset!

i have always thought anelka plays better as the lone striker because he is very good at assisting but needs to get better at scoring! he also links up very well with lampard!
i really wnt to see anelka playing because i would rather have an assister than a selfish person

anyway good luck to chelsea!!

@33….selling Essien…

where the hell u r from…big aspiring clubs don’t sell their best players for money…we are not Ajax,Lyon or Lisbon….we are Chelsea…u seem to be 12 year old kid…selling Essien?where did u get this idea from…I am really aghast we have such fans….

Quoting Krishna @ 34158

Oh My God. Look at the Schedule

17 Everton Away
23 Liverpool Anfield
26 Man u
29 Liverpool
3 New castle

The crucial game is 23 Liverpool. We know how well they play at Anfield and if they get a two goal advantage like they did with Inter, our season is all over.. With Hilario at the goal ? Tired of losing to Liverpool :-(..

These are our remaining games:

Monday, 14 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Wigan, 20:00

Thursday, 17 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Everton v Chelsea, 20:00

Wednesday, 23 April 2008
UEFA Champions League
Liverpool v Chelsea, SF, L1, 19:45

Saturday, 26 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Man Utd, 12:45

Wednesday, 30 April 2008
UEFA Champions League
Chelsea v Liverpool, SF, L2, 19:45

Saturday, 03 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Newcastle v Chelsea, 15:00

Sunday, 11 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Bolton, 15:00

+ 2 games against Liverpool and then a Final…………….

And Man Whos remaining games:

Wednesday, 09 April 2008
UEFA Champions League
Man Utd v Roma, (agg 2-0), Quarter Final, L2, 19:45

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Sunday, 13 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Man Utd v Arsenal, 16:00

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Saturday, 19 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn v Man Utd, 17:15

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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Barclays Premier League
Chelsea v Man Utd, 12:45

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Saturday, 03 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Man Utd v West Ham, 15:00

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Sunday, 11 May 2008
Barclays Premier League
Wigan v Man Utd, 15:00

So we are still in with a good chance of wining the Premiership

Soon, the true worth of our manager shall be revealed !

Another semi-final against L’pool.
First leg at Anfield.

Better than vice versa.

Up Blues!

Hey it says in the sky sports news that Kenyon wants all anti-AG fans to support AG , at least for a while. Well it seems that the criticism, the chants are getting to the top brass , on the other hand that kinda stuff gives the players strength.

also ,We used to be a club hated cos we were young , wealthy, sexy and and good-looking.

Sigh , now we’re reviled cos we’re oldish , boring , oafish and ugly,

@..yeah u r true but our ‘world class squad’ has ‘true spirit,true grit and HUGE BALLS’…

@41 was in response to @40…

@BC

Let’s accept that scousers were lucky[101%]………and le’arse went down in a more honourable manner than we have managed in 2 semi-finals vs liverpool.
first thing the tie would have been over at emigrants
1.had le’arse had got the penalty which was 100% deserving?
2.if bendtner hadnn’t provided the goal line clearance of probably a decade.

in second leg arse were much better team and 100% deserved to go through.

again scousers but i m pretty confident we will go through……
1.liverpool is crap…they won’t get lucky again
2.second leg is at SB

TBF I dont see any honour in the way arsenal went out at anfield. arsenal can lose their team morale so easily. they are awfully weak.

we went down in a honourable fashion - once to a nonexistent goal and second time in a penalty shootout after the extra time.

‘would have been over’ is a bad argument. then in that case see the first leg between chelsea and liverpool last season. we should have won the game by 3-0 or 4-0 but only finished 1-0. I’ll also say the game would have been over at SB then if . . . . in 04-05 and 06-07, we should have also got many penalties in crucial matches. but you don’t remember them, do you?

liverpool were not lucky, they were very strong. of liverpool and arsenal, only liverpool played like they wanted to be in the semi final.

BTW, great theme BC

@Smicer

let’s say for all the hype bout non-existent goal at anfield,it was penalty anyways[cech fouled baros if i m not wrong].
second,we did went down by penalties the other time around but if my memory serves me well we were outplayed from 1 min to 90 min with a weak off target drogba header we managed.

even stevie me accepted they were lucky like hell and add to that scousers in orkut openly admitting they were lucky with manure’s creating consolation thread for gunners.
and as for “it should have been over” discussion let’s say i was not bringing “misses” by arsene whinger’s side but penalty which should have been and a penalty which was never a penalty.
the way people defend mourinho is really outrageous……..

*liverpool were not lucky, they were very strong. of liverpool and arsenal, only liverpool played like they wanted to be in the semi final.

if liverpool were not lucky then none is ever lucky…….like f*ck were liverpool strong and wanted to win.
oh i forgot you support a manager who was a master at winning the games in which manner lucky scousers win.

Guys,whatever happened in past its a must win for us this time…if we loose it will be devastating…this time we have second leg at home so it will be of great help…I don’t think Liverpool is a quality team but this competition is their only face saver but then we also need it immensely…I hope this time we will turn it around….

Arsenal did not deserve to win. Period. tbf, there were unawarded penalties for chelsea too. what do you mean by outplayed? Chelsea dominated at stamford bridge and liverpool dominated at anfield. when arsenal reached the finals two years back, they were one of the most lucky and undeserving finalists. What about that?

TBF why is that every comment of you should end up in ridiculing jose and chelsea? no one’s talking about jose here anymore. i will defend and support jose only because of people like you. Talk about chelsea, our players, roman and our rivals. Leave jose alone because it’s very irritating. Just move forward.

@Smicer

Arsenal did not deserve to win that’s ur opinion and rather unique to be precise………I was taking the general and majority perception of the game.
What do i mean by outplayed?same as everyone…….unable to pass the ball….unable to push the ball forward…having no ideas as to what to do….hoofing the ball hoping drogba will do something.
why i brought up jose in topic?
i will tell you
1.you found the way we went down to pool honourable……which any neutral will find blindly supporting jose.
2.i am sick of people in here who constantly l*ck jose’s boot like anything

@Smicer

i was not referrin to you in particular when i mentioned point 2 as to why i brought up jose.

the fact is people are making too much of jose’s departure as if he is chelsea or if chelsea won’t exist without him and making him look like the little victim when the club has been all the time clear about why jose went

even on vitalfooty chelsea fans believe the same that pool were lucky
http://www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=505543

TBF,

If you are sick of folks here and at the Bridge loving Jose, too bad. Get the heck out. We love Jose cos he is a legend. we will continue to love him and any other coach after him that has pedigree and wins us things. Playing some fruitless sexy footie is not what majority of us want- we want a manager who will restore our awesome aura by winning things and scaring the life out of our opponents. if you cannot deal with that, tough!!!!

@49 ‘Playing some fruitless sexy footie is not what majority of us want’….no dear, team sitting at top is playing sexy football and winning also….

@49, with all their sexy footie, a psychologically defated team led by a clueless grant is on the brink of overtaking them. Some sexy footy indeed. By the way, when did that sexy footie last help them till our injury crisis last season handed them the premiership?

i meant deflated @51

My team for wigan:

—————————–Hilario————————————-Belletti——–Terry———–Carvalho——–Bridge——–
—————————Mikel———————————–
—————Ballack—–Essien—-Lampard————————
—————————J.Cole———————————–
————————–Anelka————————————

@52…’bri