It’s official now. Scolari can’t beat top four teams, not even at home. To use a cliche, this was a match of two halves. The one in which Arsenal wasn’t even there on the pitch. And the one in which we were a bit complacent, conceded an offside goal and we couldn’t create chances to save our lives. So that’s 12 points lost at home out of a possible 24. Funny that Arsenal, of all teams, had to beat us at home. Well, every dog has its day.
Just like I mentioned in the pre-match post, the result of the match should be attributed to Scolari. He had a real responsibility to win this match today for various reasons. We’ve been losing points at home rather consistently. We’ve not beaten the other top four teams yet this season. We are struggling big time to score against decent teams. We are kind of making a mess of our champions league progress as well. We had a chance to put a title contender out of sight. There are five reasons already. There should be more. By the way, what did Arsenal win today? They celebrated like they won an unbeaten quadruple, by scoring a winning goal in the stoppage time of a champions league final. Yuck!
For all that Scolari has brought us, there is a bloody drought in chance creation. We are not simply creating enough chances. Forget those big wins that we notch against hapless opponents. In matches of substance, we don’t create enough chances. When you have an error-free defence and a world class attack, you can live with fewer chances with a higher conversion ratio. Unfortunately, despite having a world class goalkeeper and a superb back four, we have not been error-free. The things that have plagued us of late have been lapses in concentration, periods of complacency, occasional indifference to proceedings and lack of urgency.
A combination of one or more of these plus a compelling need to play in ‘a certain way’ is what has been limiting us this season. I’m all for playing football any which way you want. But if you think we’re playing well enough, we should be creating those chances. We should be having clear shots on goal. What we’ve been able to produce after those well-knit array of passes is not much. It is either our forwards are very fragile or our midfielders are unable to give them that lovely ball on a plate.
Scolari had about two months of transfer window for him to bring in anyone. Of course, it is very well documented that he wanted Robinho and we made a meal of that transfer. But then it was his choice to keep Anelka, Malouda, Kalou, Joe Cole and Drogba. He said his squad was perfect and just wanted one Robinho. I have been shouting my lungs out that our problem on the pitch is only with the forwards. We might get the odd goal and we should keep a clean sheet. We can’t afford to make defensive errors or cannot provide for bad refereeing decisions. If a team scores a goal or two, we are unable to overcome that deficit and win the match. This was something that was bread and butter earlier. If an opponent scores two goals in the first two minutes, I have my doubts if we can score three goals in the next 88 minutes.
Simply put, Scolari’s Chelsea does not rise up to the occasion. Let me say it again. We don’t rise up to the occasion. That’s the problem. If you have beat top teams home and away, you have to rise up to the occasion. And that’s the manager’s job to prepare the team and gear them up for these matches. Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea had a fantastic record against the top teams in England and in Europe. He was a master of big matches. A world champion himself, Scolari is not new to big matches and neither is this Chelsea team. That’s what exhausts all excuses.
First half, we absolutely deserved to take the lead. We were denied a penalty and also, at a crucial time Kalou was called offsie when he was not. In the second half, goners get lucky and linesman fails notice a 2 yard offside by van Persie and allows the goal. And then in true Arsenal style, we lose concentration quickly to concede another goal. That was a great strike by van Persie for the second goal. All this was over by the 62nd minute. We then played out more than 30 minutes. In that half hour, did we do anything worthwhile to deserve a goal? Nope. Was it because Arsenal were defending well? Nope. Their midfield and defence were absent for most parts of the match today. I’m not even sure if Fabregas or Nasri played today. When you have 30 minutes to score to prevent a defeat, what would you expect to see? Devastate the opponent with attack after attack. Okay, how many shots on target after the 62nd minute? One?
When we were struggling to create chances, Scolari did very little to take the matters into his hand and force a change. He made no evident tactical changes at all. We were in the same loop all match. He makes two substitutions. He takes off Mikel who was really a thorn for the Arsenal midfield. That was a very bad move. I’d have kept Mikel and might even have given him the license to step foot in the final third. At some point, we could have gone 3-4-3. We didn’t. 2-1 and 3-1 mean the same. On the pitch, in the last half hour, we didn’t try to do anything differently. As I said, we were in the same loop all the time. That annoying over-elaboration when we had to be very concise and precise.
On-field tactic-wise, Scolari has not impressed me yet. I have not seen him influence a match midway with his substitutions and/or tactical changes in chance creation or formation. I have seen him make no subs or bad subs or ill-timed subs, pretty much like good ol’ AG. The way the team plays, you won’t realise if we are leading or trailing, if we are pressing for a goal or holding on to a lead. We seem to play in a very flat mentality. We don’t seem to react to the situations. Remember the game against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge in the last two seasons. How did we react when we went a goal down? Didn’t we plunder them? We have kind of become quite numb in the way we play our football.
What’s more annoying is, this was always coming. It’s not that we got a rude shock or something. We have been deteriorating for the last few weeks. There were so many signals and symptoms but we seem to have done nothing much to really improve. Of course, we are inflicted by injuries but surely it’s not really that bad. For starters we have Petr Cech plus a top class back four with no one being played out of position. Also we’ve had either Essien or Mikel in every single match. Add to that an in-form on-fire Frank Lampard in almost all of the matches. Then there is the goal machine that is Anelka, premier league top scorer. With these names so far and their form, you should be able to do a fairly good job in the big games too.
Scolari might have to ask himself some questions and give us some answers. It’s fair to say he is under pressure. Under Jose Mourinho, Chelsea was synonymous for the term consistency. I want that back. I want that professionalism and pragmatism back. Our current form is L-W-W-L-W-L-W-D-D-L. That’s 4 wins, 4 defeats and 2 draws in the last 10 games. Remember, if we don’t beat Cluj at home next week, there is a chance of us not progressing to the knock out stages! Makes me a bit nervous!
I’m not trying to sound as if there’s a crisis. Not certainly when we are on top of the table and just a win away from progression in champions league. Most teams would bite our hands off if we offered this. What I’m trying to say is that the problems I see are unfortunately here to stay unless Scolari also sees them and does something about them. The next big one is on 11-Jan at Old Trafford. Until then, we play Bolton (A), Cluj (H), West Ham (H), Everton (A), West Brom (H) and Fulham (A). The important information is in brackets. This fixtures list shows that we can still be No.1 or No.2 in the table by the end of the year. Hope there won’t be any further drama.
I really really hope we get back our ruthlessness sooner than later. I hope to see a reaction at Old Trafford. I’m not going to consider the results against Bolton etc as the reaction for this defeat. I’ve taken the other results for granted as we have a strong enough team and to lose points against them means something else. We need to beat Man Utd at Old Trafford in January. Until then, Scolari must ensure that we put in a winning run with least importance to whether we play it on the round or in the air.
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Fook.. Arse 2 Chels 1…
Man I’m betting I’m gonna have to eat some Gooner Troll sh!t for this. heh.
this is frustrating…losing 3-1 to roma because of a bad performance, i take..1-1 with brdo’ due to a crappy performance i take..but THIS…i mean…60 minutes..we’re dominating…a bad refree-ing decision ruins it for us..THAT I CAN NOT TAKE I MEAN WTF ?? we cudve easily won 2-0 or something..bt the linesman had to do something (or rather nothing)….he falsely gave kalou offside but van persie…HELL NO…this i can NOT take..unbearable…want to see yr reaction to this BC
Quoting Vinton Lindo
Vinton Lindo – team lost to a weak team at home again .. Home record is 3 draw and 2 losses … good sign for a epl champion..
Guys – nothing to worry about . even avram grant lost two games last season .. like avram grant team, even i had injuries … but atleast I am working on my plan B .. See today miroslav stoch played.. More than winning , playing beautifull is important. our team had so many 5-0 wins that even mourinho and grant combined did not have .. let stoke and west brom visit us , we will win 5-0 .. playing A,B,C team is difficult, be it at home or away.. atleast we managed to get one goal.. remember man u scored in the end, but we scored first today.. that is a positive i see..
Gunner don’t talk about epl champions, Arsenal are the most inconsistent team and can’t even handle other physical teams. Now you Arsenal fans will come out of your hiding after being embarrassed recently.. feel free to celebrate your undeserved victory but don’t forget to thank the linesman. You won’t come close to winning the epl.. but at least your coveted 4th place finish is still within sight.
@35, thank you .. how about chelsea consistency.. loss to championship side, draw against newcastle, draw against bordeaux and loss to a weak team – arsenal. atleast we managed to cross the post three time today and so the score line looks good..
Dear BC,
let me honest with you. your article regarding our pre match was indeed very good. but though i read it with interest, i still think that we wont make it…i dont know why BC, but i think Scolari lacks something…he dont know how to react when we were behind…
guys, it is very sad day..do you still remember jose 1st season, we when were behind, we just play 2 centre back…do you remember at that time, we do not have a.cole but we use bridge and del horno. do you remember we do not have ballack..we use 4-3-3..in the middle will be maka, lamps and tiago, sometimes jarosik..up front, drogba, j cole, robben..sometimes dufy..and jose never afraid to change the game. when he think our system needs to change he will do it. remember del horno was substituted at early 1st half, the game against fulham…del horno was being red card before that game….JM subs him bcos chelsea needs to change the game.guys, under JM we were really danger in set piece…JT can score..remember the game against CSKA Moscow..?guys, do u remember, under AG..though he lacks managerial skills, we still had determination…..guys………im sad…really sad..
what when wrong with u chelsea??where all of the determination to win the game
i do not what is really going on in chelsea….maybe we should call back JM…Stevie clarke…duff….robben…
Bring back Jose Mourinho. I clearly see chelsea losing atleast 3 more times – away to Man u , liverpool and arsenal and most likely to villa away also .. This will turn out to be a shamefull season if management doesn’t act fast…
Gutted,Frustated and Just Feeling f*cked.
Let’s start with scolari
in his defense
1.he has no direct player for plan b,drogba n essien
2.he even bring on stoch
3.it’s not his fault that JT is playing sh*t
4.malouda n kalou are cricketers.
Against him
1.why deco?
Ratings
cech-7/10 could have done nothin more for the goals
bosingwa-6/10 mixed game
ivanovic-8/10..
Terry-5/10
ash-7 consistent
mikel-7
deco-4
ballack-6
lampard-6
anelka-6
kalou-5
we’re screwed, wished we dint have to play games at home, we need to pick up a run of wins together to keep up at the top, pretty sure liverpool isnt gna lose tomorrow and give us another chance to stay at the top, also we need someone to get the ball at the back of the net or at least on target for starters -we had 2 in the span of 90 mins…wat a pathetic way to give up a game being 1 -0 up. Unfreaking believable…
WHY IN THE HELL WAS MIKEL REMOVED?! That was the only player in the midfield that stopped Arsenal from going forward. Immediately he got removed, our whole team crashed and they started attacking us.
Ivanovic was our man of the match then mikel was second.
Hard luck chels!!!! Beaten by the classier team. We have turned a corner but you have gone into reverse gear!
Cole and ballack had better shut up now!! You got what u deserved and I think that chelsea lack a strong spine needed to mount a serious challenge. Arsenal (my team) probably will not win the leaghe (we will have to be happy with the champions league honours instead!), bur I believe that this is liverpool’s year.
I think that if you dont stop being so arrogant, you may risk crashing out of the champions league before xmas!!
I will throw a party on that day as you are our biggest rivals.
bringing back Jose is impossible. atleast bring back avram grant and hen ten cate..
Quoting a gunner
LOL! Stoke City is classier than Arsenal. Goners have no class at all. Did Cesc Fartingas shut up after Spurs scored two in wo minutes after all his big mouth talks? Don’t walk on the clouds yet, you were beaten by Stoke, Hull, Fulham and the rest. You got an escape today because of that OFFSIDE goal (by two yards!). Lucky you.
And what’s this thing about you turning a corner? After you beat Man Utd, you lost to Villa and Man City in successive matches? LOL, turning a corner?! Jokers!
Chelsitos! Hard luck today! We’ll bounce back. Meanwhile, drive the goner trolls away from this blog. Drive them awaaaay!
Hey Blues,
Cool guys. This is not the end of the world. According to the points table, we are still No.1(as of now). May be tomorrow we may get pushed to No.2. But we still will be ahead of those gooner trolls. Not defeating Arsenal is a bit disappointing, but then, we dint deserve a victory either. Van persie was excellent(lets not take away any credit from him), but we also defended very poorly. All 3 goals were from pink boot’s colleague boots. Referee was very bad, but then everybody is human, and bound to err.Unfortunately, we were on the receiving end today.
But then, every one is forgetting some thing very important, here. Arsenal are a team who can conjure a breath taking performance, one week and the get a reality check the very next match. They were gr8 against Manure, but then after that, they collapsed like dominoes. The same is going to happen again.
But Chelsea are a very different unit. They will bounce back for sure. We ve hit a trough right now. We shall have a crest very soon. A fit and fine Drogba is a plus that we are going to have.
We shall be back to the top next weekend again. Chin-up folks. One bad day at the office. Thats it.
KTBFFH!!!!!!!!
We have to beat Bolton away and Cluj at home to keep our season on track, no question. I would much rather we have a horrible spell in November than in March or April.
The main problem is Scolari’s complete lack of a Plan B, due to our injuries and suspensions. How much would a fit Essien, Carvalho and Belletti have helped today? The past two games have shown just how stupid Drogba’s suspensions were. One point out of six. If we don’t beat Bolton or Cluj, our season will have gone severely off the rails.
If Scolari didn’t see just how much we need a new striker and winger in the January transfer window, I’m sure he does now. Essien on the right wing isn’t a bad idea…
The two up front today worked well until they scored. Taking Mikel off instead of Deco ended up killing the game as far as we were concerned.
Yes leaving Deco and taking out Mikel was strange but i reckon it was to signal a more attacking thrust since we were down and needed men upfront rather than a defensive mid.
Tough luck but hey, this team has what it takes to bounce back and start a good run again. I still have lots of faith for the season but cannot wait to have Essien back.
Deco definitely is suffering from the adaptation malaise suffered by folks like Ballack and sheva. He needs to up the ante or risk losing his automatic starting place
The beginnin of second half looked really promisin b4 the goals, after that i think scolari paniced and that was when we started on our way down. Deco deserved to definitly come off, and i think at that point he should have been the ony one substituted. Once obi mikel was subbed we never really had any push forward as much or any assurance as we usually dd. Oh well lets see how the season pans out
with this kind of spirit we wont win anything this year. chelsea made something that arsenal fans laugh at us
Bluechampion,
the goal was a real goal, not offside. van Persie was played onside b4 the ball was passed to him. I know the last match at the bridge Drogba scored a classiic offside goal
SCOLARI CAN NOT LEAD US TO A GREAT GLORY THIS YEAR. THIS DEFEAT MEANS THAT THERE IS NO CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GLORY AND EPL THIS YEAR FOR US
Hi Guys..
Its only 30th November..we are yet to reach the halfway markof the season..the season ends in may 2009..
23 games to go..thats 69 points to play for..This team has a lot of class & quality..We will be in the race till May..whether we win the race or not depends on the drive & determination of the team
Scolari has to do something about the way we are playing though..its not about playing home or away..its about playing well consistently..giving 100% on the pitch..we have struggled against all teams who stood up to us..Roma, Bordeaux, Wigan,Cluj,Arsenal, Liverpool,Burnley…..
Man Utd,Spurs & Newcastle were games we dominated, but were unlucky not to win.
Scolari has no alternate plan up his sleve..the team is showing tht they can play only 1 way..if it doesnt work, we dont have a clue…
Scolari..back to the drawing board..come up with alternate plans, set pieces, something..come on..hes been coaching for GOD knows how many years..Hes won the world cup for Christ’s sake..he has the technical knowledge..put it to good use
Thers a 90% chance that we will beat Cluj & progress to the knockout stages of the UCL..what happens then???..We will be playing the TOP teams in the knockout stages..we will DEFINITELY be kicked out if we play like this
Out attack is our weak link..Our defence is pretty good and will keep most teams at bay..its our attack that is really lacking..we are not putting away our chances & half chances..that can be the difference between a win , a draw or a loss.
We definitely need reinforcements in january..not just with this season in mind, but with the long term future of the team in mind…2 names easily come to mind..Podolski & Bastin S’Tiger…Both of them want to move on from bayern..they are YOUNG…we are looking for such type of players..and they are GERMAN..they can score from the penalty spot:)
lack of funds??..sell either Ferreira or Beletti..we have 1 RB too many..
Sell Pizzaro…I heard Sheva’s move to Milan was on loan….if thats true..Sell him as well..tht ll raise a total of about 15 Million..plus the club can release around 10 or 15 million..thts 25 to 30 million..MORE than enough to fund the purchase of Podolski & Tiger
Cmon Chelsea
Some bitter Chelsea supporters on here, what a shame.
Arsenal are inconsistent but were worth their win today. That’s a fact.
Chelsea fans – this is the beginning of the end for your arrogant bunch of players. You are a source of venim for the entire league. And your financial downspiral has just begun. You will end up like Leeds United in second division. Ah… I love Arsenal.
Quoting Confident
Sorry, that van Persie goal was offside. Period. And I didn’t say that you won only because of an offside goal! Don’t get too defensive on that topic. we played poorly after dominating Arsenal out and out. I’m just gutted that we could not even beat a team like Arsenal. At least we could have lost to a better team!
Quoting HappyGunner
looks who’s talking about it? this season is the beginning of your end. that’s what your own fans saying. what makes you think that the financial crisis won’t hit you? what happened to the flats that were built on highbury? heard that none of it is sold out? loser. and dont even call anyone else arrogant, when you’re a goner fan. was it fabregas that said that arsenal ladies club will draw against spurs? and you call someone else arrogant???
BC, you’ll have a good many opportunities yet to loose against all kinds of teams. I suggest you continue that run against mighty Cluj!
Chelsea has not won a game against the others teams in the big four and lost two of them at the Bridge. But, they are playing beautiful football. Jose Mourinho had them playing ugly and unattractive. But, at that time, no club could come into Stamford Bridge and collect three points. Oh, it is fun to watch Chelsea whip some regulation dweller or mid table maurader 5-0. But, against the real competition in the Prem, Scolari is not delivering the goods.
I am not quite ready to call for the man’s head just yet. A couple of wins in December, Drogba’s return, and a good pick or two in Janurary, and the Blues may get some piece of silver by the end of the season, hopefully either the Prem or CL. If the team does not return to the top of the table and hold it by April or get’s knocked out of the CL before the semis, someone needs to call up Steve Clarke and get him to get his documents in order to qualify for the job he has earned!
Looks like laporta will finally have the say . getting 8 MM for deco was a good deal for barca and money spend waste for chelsea. atleast they could have got ronaldinho or eto for 20 MM ..
If we lose again cluj or draw and bordeaux wins by a goal, we go to UEFA cup and also risk to lose more than 10 million euros plus revenue.. With the global financial crisis, that means no benezema or villa or podoloski next season also ..
LFS is looking more and more clueless now a days… If this chelsea team can’t beat Arsenal, then I doubt we deserved to win EPL .. Both us and Man U have got one point from 9 against games with big 4 , only difference is we played all three at home and Man U played all three away..
Time to get back down to earth!! =/
I had a bad feeling about the game after the last few games.
Look at Inter Milan – They have opened a 6 point gap over their rivals – Milan & Juventus by November. This is what Jose did when he was in Chelsea first season. By next season, he will learn , clean up unwanted players , buy good ones and they will be even more stronger.
For LFS, looks like this stint will be black mark in his career. He talks about 97 points .. I still think if he gets 91 points that Jose got in the second season, it would some sort of achievement .
This weak probably will be the first time in three years, we don’t play while all our other rivals play ( Carling cup quarters ).
I think Chelsea players have become complacent.. Ballack says they would score 6 past arsenal, how-ever chelsea needed one own goal from arsenal.. probably a couple of shots on target to test the goalie. the passing in their box was pathetic..
Pray that the team is not on its way down..
I have a faith in Scolari. The pressure on him would certainly affect our performance. But it is time to forget about that beautiful game or whatever. Three points is what we need right now. I don’t care if we win ugly or handsome.
when Essien comes in for deco or ballack and drogba and carlvaho gets into the team , we will be able to win any of the big 4 until them we just hope to get less days like today
23. TrueBlueInd……….. I aggree about the Podolski and Bastian part.
guys some one said we a turning in the chelsea of Viali and Ranieri days. and it is true, if fcuking scolari does not turn us bavck into the consistent team Jm turn us into … it only makes sense that he go back to Brazil…. evern grant was a hell of a lot more consistent!!!
guys im completely gutted…. and it has been like this for the last 3 or so weeks…. every fcuking time we play im worried…… the front 3 play like shit…. or something!!!! I will say it first…. Anelka try his best but when we play like this he looks like shit….!!
when essien comes back ….. he starts over ballack and deco…..therefore the midfield must look like (Essien-Mikel-Lampard) ill say that lampard IS OUR ROCK!!!!
buy podolski and bastian…. and or front (Bastina-Anelka-Podolski)
guys personally scolari has not impressed me tactically. He got me so angry for the past 2 weeks against new castle and our champs league game last week. We have become predictable. Scolari loves the 4-1-4-1 formation. All the teams we played recently did their homework. We need to start playing 4-4-2 also with the introduction of scott sinclar.Malouda Malouda this guy for a winger, all he does is cuts inside he never goes on the outside an take on defenders we need an out and out winger or 2 if u ask me. Ballack is a liablity he is slow. Anelka needs someone to partner him upfront he aint a target man,therefore he is going to struggle to get goals on his own or create his own chances. our defence is alright. where is that fabio paim guy? isnt he suppose to be an explosive winger? my next starting 11 wud be (chech,Bosingwa,Ivanovich,Terry,Cole,Mikel,Lamps,Sinclair,Kalou,Anelka, Paim)
chech
Bosingwa-ivanovich-Terry-Cole
Paim-Mikel-Lamps-Sinclair
Kalou-Anelka
i think LFS is not a master tacticians!
It is official
If this is not a crisis………I dnt kno wat is
It was humiliating, depressing, and Im lost for words to describe the experience….
Stamford Bridge has fallen down
I cant even see us going through to the next round of the Champions league
Sad…..but a real possibility
@ 37. sang_buragas … NO … SCOLARI IS NOT!!! i would say tactician in general…
chelsea needs a MASTER TACTICIAN !!
I like this Stoch guy… as i said before, he will come good given a chance!!
@36. steve nail on the head!!
2 out-an -out wingers!!!… yeah what happen to Paim??
and support for Anelka…………. I suggested that Ricardo Olivera would compliment Anelka well(i heard we were after him)
AND PLAY 4-1-3-2!!
Cech
Bosingwa (RAMOS)——RICCY (Ivanovic) —— Terry (Alex)—– Cole (Bridge)
——————–Mikel ————–
Essien————–Lampard————Bastian
————Anelka(Di Santo)——-villa(Ricardo Olivera)————
I understand what it is like for Chelsea fans who are pretty close to the team and go there at the Bridge to support the team week in and week out. They didn’t even get used to see Chelsea beating by any teams at home for last 4 years. So it must a new experience for them.
I am worried about the pressure that will come up to the players and manager from now on until we get back to the winning ways. The press will be writing it like there is whole crisis going on at Chelsea and be questioning Scolari’s methods. I just hope Scolari can deal with it and make some instant changes before it gets worse and worse.
PIZARRO GETS HATRICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First we loan Sheva and then Pizza, and now we are in a striker crissis. Read this.
Claudio Pizarro is happy with the world and his place in it again after his three goals helped Werder Bremen to a 5-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.
Werder desperately needed to taste success after being dumped from the Champions League by Anorthosis Famagusta in mid-week, during which a series of squandered chances by their Peruvian striker contributed to their demise.
“Finally things are on the up and after a game like that, the joy for life returns,” he enthused after Sunday’s match. “I hope this marks the end of our crisis.
“The most pleasing aspect was that we combined with fluidity. We made some great moves and scored some great goals. That was enjoyable.”
Werder moved up to seventh as a result of the victory, though they are still seven points away from the Champions League places.
thats 10 goals in 12 app.
Mixed feelings from me. I’m less worried about where we are now in the table than were we may be later in the season when we have to visit the big 3 clubs on their side. Although I guess I shouldn’t be huh since our away form has been nothing short of excellent. But then, look who we’ve played. I said yesterday that this game was a must win for Scolari as he has now taken one point out of nine from pool/manure/arse. All from fixtures at home and that is just not good enough. Some serious questions have to be asked of big Phil but as I said, it’s what we do now. I’ll give pool the win tomorrow and so they will be up by 3 pts so all in all, to take lose to them and today, and draw with manure, and still be in second – well, I’ll take that. But going forward is really crucial now. Subs today I thought were odd. Mikel played great imo and Deco did not. He looked tired at 60 mins and gave the ball away far too much. We are obviously hurting for forwards – Kalou and Malouda are plain shite and do not compliment each other at all. Anelka can not beat anyone one on one. We need the strength and creativity of Drogba back and soon. Giving a debut run-out to teenager Koch when your a goal down at home to the Arse says it all. Keeping the faith but getting mighty worried.
it takes one season for scolari to learn england football completely.that means there is no points for us at the old traford/emirates and anfield. a champion team must play like champions .i didnt see it in chelsea.
our plays sucks against big teams . that means there is no champions league progress for us this year.
THE BLUE SPIRIT HAD COMPLETELY DIED IN ALL OF THE CHELSEA PLAYERS, EVEN JOHN TERRY.
AFTER 60 MINUTES ALL OF THE PLAYERS BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOSS.
WHAT A SHAME FOR BIG PHIL.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! i would rather play boring soccer and win than do this fancy Scolari stuff…WTF??
There is a saying, a over-wise dog eats shit. Thats what has happened. We are paying price for entertaining football. You know guys, if we continue this form, we might not even make to top 5? Imagine, every mid table and lower teams come to us to draw, and big teams we can´t beat, we´ll make only 30 points in upcoming fixtures.
Well, well, well. I guess the jury is definitely out on Felipao. Honestly, i have refused to criticize him since he joined us from Portugal. Even when the team was, under the circumstances, doing pretty well under Grant some fans on this forum called for his blood. In the corresponding fixture last season, Chelsea fell behind, yet Mr. Grant made a sub. He played both Anelka and Drogba and voila! we won. My point here is this, i have seen Chelsea against Loserpool, Cluj, Manure, Roma, Bordeaux (second leg) and now L’Arse and in all these games we’ve looked shambolic to say the least. Felipao should know that playing always with attacking full backs, has been nullified by Loserpool and Manure and Roma. Some players have been poor lately, but who should get them fired up and playing? Felipao i am not one to call for your head, far from it, but your team needs to show character. Whenever we fall behind (Citeh, an exception), your body language seems a tad too defeatist. Where is the Big Phil we knew. I sincerely hope Felipao realises that the honeymoon period is over. The real title chase starts from now. Fail and not only Mr. A would be on your back but the beloved Blue Army would be baying for blood. be warned.
Hi Blue Champion
Haven’t been able to chat to you for a long time.
My Internet connection is currently off-line so I’m chatting to you from the office.
1) I can’t believe Chelsea is rated as favourites to win the Champions league this season considering that we have such a poor squad of players.
2) We need quality forwards.
3) Don’t you think that it was a terrible idea hiring FS as our manager considering he can hardly speak English, how is he supposed to communicate with the players in the dressing room during a match. The chemistry between the manager and the players are quite low. Just look at the Press Conferences, a manager representing a elite’s club should be respected by: the players, media and fans. The fact that Arsne Wenger managed to beat Chelsea with a mere poultry of the cost of the blues team completes my point.
Sorry I couldn’t complete on point number three my lunch break is over.
I love you guys.
Cheers
people seem to forget that chelsea does kind of have a major injury crisis which we are just coming out of. Our home record this season has been crap because we cant seem to break down a team bent on defending. Maybe try a new formation, as for a striker transfer it will be hard finding any1 good since clubs hang on to their strikers during mid season transfer.
it is too early to judge scolari we can win more home matches .we must beat start with cluj and then westham next month is a must win situation we should win all matches agaist .stats for chelsea arsenal who were goal scores 4 last 3 seasons
2005-06 che 1 ars 0 drogba ars 0 che 2 joe cole and robben
2006-2007 che 1 ars 1 essien ars1 che 1 essien
2007 cc final drogba(2)
2007-08 che 2 ars 1 drogba (2)
drogba has never lost a match agaist arsenal and has scored 7 goals the day he got banned 4 this match i got worried remenber last season also he won single handedly.neither of goal scored have played so dont worry about last night decision went agaist us if che ars play again in this season any comp 90 % chances are of chelsea beating arsenal provided drogba essien fit
best chelsea team 4 big games and must win situation when fully fit
cech
bosin terry riccy acole
mikel
essien joe cole/deco/malouda
lampard
drogba anelka
super subs kalou and ballack
Rijkaard was the correct choice .Had managed a champions league winning side. worked with Ten cate .. His team played the best football in the planet.
We got a manager who has no club exp for last 6 – 7 years.. already dropped points in the 5 games at home…
i think we need something new we need a leader so when the team doesn’t play good to help us we are lack of tribling we have some young players we must give them the chance to show what they got…think about why pizzaro,sheva,philips doesn’t gave they best in Chelsea???i see that we have some good players but we don’t make steps forward….we have to chance because the second half of the season will be very..away Manchester,Livepool,Arsenal..and something last Di Sancto has talent i think he can play.!!!
C.RONALOD WOULD DEFINATLY SCORE BALLCKS FREEKICK
RONNEY WOULD DEFINATLY SCORED 2 GOLDEN CHANCES THAT LAMPARD MISSES.
THIS IS HOW THEY BECAME CHAMPIONS LAST YEARS . SCORED WITH MINIMUM CHANCES.
CHELSEA HAS NOT A CHAMPION CHARACTER . THIS YEAR EVERYTHING HAD CHANGED.
AND THE MOST BAD THING IS STAMFORD BRIDGE HAD FALLEN DOWN!!!!!!!!
i dont think we can blame scolari 100%
kalou and anelka wasted some golden opportunities with bad decision making, joe cole and drogba would have put several goals in last night
ivanovic was playing centreback, as such, he needs to stay on his feet, van persies secons goal came directly from ivanovic failing to mount a proper clearance on the ball
our best and clearest chances came from lampard, you can argue he should have put them away but in a team of stars, the burden shouldn’t solely been on him
i blame scolari for a few tactical reasons. we seemed to have played a 4-2-2-2 last night, my villains of the night were cole, bosingwa, ivanovic, kalou and deco
i would have liked to see ballack and mineiro playing the holding midfield role, lampard attacking down the middle behind anelka with deco and kalou on the wings
we ended up with deco playing a holding role somehow and kalou making countless mistakes ith anelka in the middle. The frirst half wasn’t too bad, by cutting out deco and driving the crosses in, we gave arsenal alot of trouble, but in the second half we sat back, with bosingwa becoming more and more atack minded, i would have thought scolari would switch to a 5-4-1 or 5-3-2, taking deco off for a defender like ferreira would mean cole and bosingwa could really push up the flanks and with lampard, ballack and mikel in the midfield, kalou and anelka would not have to worry about using the ball. Deco had a very bad night, he was timid, his passing was off, his touches were bad, to be honest, the only arsenal player who didn’t play like that last night was sagna, van persie himself was ridiculously quiet in the first half.
I was happy to see miroslav stoch last night, a shame he wasn’t serviced properly. As for out weaknesses, our problem is still counter attacking, anelka is confused whether he is drogba or anelka and our wingplay, when joe cole and bosingwa are together, they are beautiful, when ashley cole and malouda are together, they are frustrating, we should really promote a youth player or look for another man to play on the left wing, kalou is’t quite the man for the job and i dont think he will ever truly be a star at chelsea (although he is useful)
I know money is tight, but we should look to offload some of our defenders and bring in someone left footed, young, and attack mided, i like the idea of messi or podolski but im sure there are others out there
the main problem with the team is that although they pass the ball around well they do not cre8 enough chances.. n this is very disappointing 4 a chelsea fan.
for god’s sake! u can’t even congratulate a team when they beat u well. Chelsea had 1 shot on target all game.
yes, it was an offside goal but drogba’s equaliser vs arsenal last season was offside, this certainly wasn’t offside – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_aCNbh3vQ
so things even themselves out eventually.
Btw, people say the Emirates is quiet, the atmosphere at the Bridge yesterday was terrible and for some of your fans to boo at the final whistle was hilarious considering you’re still top of the league
finally see what ive been talking about?
Beautiful football is finally yielding dividends.
I wrote earlier that the mental strength was gone, the fight was gone. i wrote that the fall of stamford bridge was a catastrophe…that the softness was beginning to show. who’s willling to put their money on beating united, liverpool at home?
There was a time when Jose’s chelsea- my chelsea, was the the most hated team epl. when united tried desperately to keep up,when united went down 3-0 to the blue army at Ot, when we sang relentlessly that song at the shed…..jose mourinho,jose mourinho. Those times are gone.
Now im praying chelsea meets inter in the champs league. Forza Inter.
Long live jose.
I AM A CHELSEA FAN BUT I BACK LIVERPOOL FOR DOUBLE , BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GREAT SPIRIT.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IS BIG TEAMS GAMES , THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO FORGET CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GLORY.
IN LAST 4 YEARS EVERY TEAM COME FOR A DRAW AT THE BRIDGE , NOW THEY ARE COMING FOR WIN.
Chelsea deserved to win. We totally outplayed the north London scum, the goal was offside and that Dutch jerk shouldn’t have even been on the field. I’m not bitter, I’m just telling it as it is. The defence is where we got problems though. Ivanovic was our only decent defender and JT looks lost without Carvalho to tell him what to do.
@8 joseisgreat – “I clearly see chelsea losing at least 3 more times – away to Man u , liverpool and arsenal and most likely to villa away also”
@ 44 CFCIR – “THE BLUE SPIRIT HAD COMPLETELY DIED IN ALL OF THE CHELSEA PLAYERS, EVEN JOHN TERRY.” AFTER 60 MINUTES ALL OF THE PLAYERS BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOSS.
@ 48 Pesioner – 1) I can’t believe Chelsea is rated as favourites to win the Champions league this season considering that we have such a poor squad of players. 2) We need quality forwards.
@59 jose@inter – “There was a time when Jose’s chelsea- my chelsea” . . . “Now im praying chelsea meets inter in the champs league. Forza Inter. Long live jose.”
@55 CFCIR – “C.RONALOD WOULD DEFINATLY SCORE BALLCKS FREEKICK. RONNEY WOULD DEFINATLY SCORED 2 GOLDEN CHANCES THAT LAMPARD MISSES.”
@60 CFCIR – “I AM A CHELSEA FAN BUT I BACK LIVERPOOL FOR DOUBLE . . “
With “supporters” like these, who needs the arse around. Your loyalty is pathetic mates, absolutely pathetic!
What a crock. We’re as disappointing as Arsenal now.
@trueplatinum&Wisey,
Yep,our attack deserve the criticism they are getting this season but I dont know why some of you like throwing stones at some(even when they had a decent game) while leaving out the others.Take Wisey for example,after saying that Kalou was shit he went on sounding as if Joey was a more consistent performer.But the facts tell a different story.Check this out:
Joe Cole
08/09 season – starts(12) subs(0) goals (3)
07/08 season – starts(44) subs(10) goals (10)
06/07 season – starts(9) subs(15) goals (2)
Kalou
08/09 season – starts(10) subs(2) goals (3)
07/08 season – starts(33) subs(15) goals (11)
06/07 season – starts(25) subs(32) goals (9)
Yep,Kalou can be fustrating sometimes but I think he is one of our best youth players we have presently.
This is not a good sign at all for winning trophies. We simply cannot beat the Top 4 big sides in England and resilient defensive teams at home (in England) and away (in Europe). Anelka has not scored a goal for Chelsea against high-class opposition. He is nowhere to be seen in the big games. We need 2 things to turn it around: getting back the rugged and ugly ruthlessness that everyone hated us for and a couple of new strikers (getting Drogba back is paramount, as well as signing a 20+ “ugly” goalscorer – esp someone who plays well in big matches – in the Michael Owen [in England] or David Villa [in the continent] mould). In the big matches during Jose’s (and Avram’s) years it was Drogba most often than not who won us these games – Champions League SF v Liverpool, FA Cup Final v Man U, Carling Cup Final v Arsenal, last year’s home match v Arsenal when he scored 2 to get us 3 points after we went 1-0 down at home, are just a few examples. We need Drogs in attack, Essien in midfield & Riccy in defence back ASAP. I couldn’t give a monkeys about playing “beautiful” football and beating Boro 5 or 6-nil and losing against Liverpool & Arsenal at home. We need our Old Chelsea back…
Hi Blue Champions,
Ha Ha…
I am once again connected to the world wide web.
1) I would like to conclude a point I made earlier in the day, at comment number 48.
2) How can Phillipe Scolari coach the Chelsea team. I feel that Big Phil is’nt qualified enough to coach Chelsea. How can the players understand this raving lunatic on the training ground or during the team talks during matches.
3) My question to my fellow Blue Champions is how small is this world. Surely there are better managers out there in this world.f I’m not an ass-hole who wants to get people fired but surely shouldn’t the best man get the job regardless of politics.
4) I just thought of this. Why doesn’t Big Phil speak during the Press Conferences in Portugeese with a translator and we could really pick his brain and unsterstand his football philosophy.
5) I have alot of respect for what Jose Mourinho did in his first two seasons at Chelsea regardless of the fact that at his time at Chelsea he went on a spending spree.
We need a manager like this.
Please give me some feed-back on my comments.
Cheers
i think scolari could try this team out
————–cech————
ferreira—–ivanovic——jt——-a.cole
———-mikel———-
—bosingwa—ballack–lampard–
——-kalou——anelka—-
thats the current lineup
i took ferreira in becoz of bosingwa,still not convinced about his defending
with this i think he can drop back while defending n can go forward during the attack
coz he is the only person who has got some pace
deco has been in pathetic form after his injury
i would prefer a drog-anelka partnership after drogba has served his ban
this is i think currently would do,n neways ferreira aint doing anything in the squad ,he can experiment this
note:this is only for our current available squadn joe cole to be the super sub if he is available,he plays good when he comes on as a sub
@ BC Chelsea should have went after Simao after failing with their Robhino bid!!
@66. Pensioner solid points!!!
for me the only man that can lead chelsea, is JOSE but because of politics he was fired!
Roman should get him back
chelsea needs a real tactician!! thats the kinda of football we need back efficient hardworking football. We have basically turning into a joke to the other top 3 teams
@65. SYED well fcuking said, however analka plays like that when or midfield does that shIt u saw Sunday ( A STRIKER CAN SCORE IF HE HAS NO SERVICE… WE ARE MAKING HIM LOOK BAD). I really think we need a killer striker.. but most of all a tactician (jose…. Mancine are the name that come to mind) or and get rid of Wilkins!!! have u every notice the guy (assistant coach) that sits beside Scolari…. look like a real waste man (clueless… purposeless)
im starting to love the partnership of deco lampard and ballack. We played amazing throughout until the 70th minute. This is when we broke down because of arsenals luck and the gay linesman.
Overall, i believe we played well but luck was just on the gay arsenal side.
this is the most Funny Fu*c(**^%%king shit thing I have ever thought… Why not Avram Grant manage Portugal? I think Portugal even better with Avram… at least with Chelsea, still maintain 100% home unbeaten record. You see, Avram did something for us that nobody ever did…not even Jose can bring CHelsea to CHampions League Cup FInal. Do you believe Scolari can with this type of CHelsea we have now? Somebody please do some statistics here… funnyshit!!!
Quoting Wisey
Hey , you can’t run away from reality.. Remember two seasons ago, when Essien scored the equalizer against Arsenal, I remember all team mates, Makalele, Drogba, Lampard, celebrating for a second and then pulling everyone back to the line to start the game.. That was the Chelsea spirit.. They didn’t know to lose .. Now that spirit is gone .. Even Jose team had injuries in the third year, I remember them going to Barca with third choice goalie and coming back with a 2-2 draw. We played around 3 months probbaly that seaosn with third choice goalie.. But at that time, we had a master tactician , who has a Plan A, B and C and know how to execute them with the resources he has ..
that is the chelsea spirit , I am missing .
Quoting Ammar
Well Said.. They pass the ball around the middle, but in the opposition box, all of them try to score instead of the crisp passing that Barca is famous for.
some guys just said somewhere Mancini, yea why not get him? He is surely one of the best. Under his rule Inter became untouchables. He would surely do better than our new clown. Who can win games in Italy, he can win everywhere, coz they play a very very tactical game! So yea we aren´t getting any players in Jan, but we can surely get a descent manager who knows how to fuck when it comes to good teams and bad teams alike.
Here we go. Klas Jan Huntelaar is going to Real Madrid
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Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón promised his club a striker for Christmas, and according to the press this is what he has delivered in the form of Ajax’s Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.
The Spanish press report that Real Madrid have effectively signed Dutch striker Klaas Jan-Huntelaar and will unveil him in the transfer window.
As, Marca, Cadena SER, El Mundo and others have all confirmed that the signing is absolutely on the verge of taking place and that a deal is as good as done. De Telegraaf in the Netherlands has since confirmed talks between the two parties, too.
The 25-year-old has been admired by the top clubs around Europe for a while now and this move has been on the cards, with Pedja Mijatovic declaring just this morning that he was a priority signing for the Spanish side.
The Ajax striker has scored an impressive 75 goals in 90 games for the Dutch side and will be eligible to play in the Champions League for the defending La Liga champions.
The only negative point is that he is injured until January and has never played for a top European side in the past, despite his age.
Huntelaar was made club captain earlier this season by coach Marco Van Basten and appeared at the European Championships for Holland, finding the back of the net against Romania.
Overall for his country he has played eleven times and scored seven goals, ironically struggling to get in the team because of the presence of Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the man he could well now partner at Real Madrid.
UPDATE: It has since emerged that Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has given the ‘OK’ for his transfer to take place, having agreed both wages and a contract duration at the Bernabeu. All that is now needed is Ajax’s confirmation of a sale. Apparently the Amsterda outfit will decide for sure within the next 48 hours, but it does seem extremely likely that Huntelaar will be a Madrid player sooner rather than later.
@72. joseisgreat hell yes!!!! you fcuking said it, I couldnt have said it better mate!!
about that crisp passing shit… thats not chelsea.. we already pass well. remember when we won the first of 2 titles…. our conter attack was the BEST in the league….
hey if ain’t broke dont fix it!!!! we tried to fix the engin that was not broken… and thus caused it to get broken!!!
@ everyone
this is where the campaign gets DIFFICULT!! we have lost 2 against the top three and drawn 1. We fcuked that up, now we have to go away to MANURE, GOONERS and LIVERPOOL. guys prepare for hard times if this run of form continues.
what the fuck is frank Arssen doing up there???? sitting on his ass! if scolari is fucking up things at the end of January … we should get back Jose or Mancine or even Frank Rijkaard (in that order!)
“we had a master tactician , who has a Plan A, B and C and know how to execute them with the resources he has ..”
I bet when Huntallar starts kicking them in we (bloggers) are gonna say why didnt Chelsea buy him, reason…. Kenyon and Arssen are morons!! but a word to the wise !! CHELSEA MUST BUY DAVID VILLA and BASTIAN IN SUMMER AND PODOLSKI in Januray!! as well as a tactician to use these players well!
we should have bought VDV (Vander vaart) instead of Deco. whats the name of Byern’s es-manager??
I heard Byern would be will to loan Toni Kroos would we be interested?
liverpool did draw at home (0-0) to west ham.
so we are just one point behind. but like most ppl here what worries me is the way things are goin for the moment.
the only positive thing right now is beside that we are just one point behind the league leaders, is the fact that 2 of our best players are still to play yet. (DD & ME)
aite blue mates, lets keep our faith up.
/go chelsea
NO Deco was the better option for us
Quoting CFCIR
Take your pessimistic attitude and fuck off
Quoting kuhulai
kuhulai – you are right, but we should also be prepared because these players need time to hit top form.. drogba in his 45 mins or so , never looks like the drogba of old.. I am of the impression that players take some time to hit form after coming from an injury
@ 64 Chaka – “Take Wisey for example,after saying that Kalou was shit he went on sounding as if Joey was a more consistent performer.”
Hang on their mate – I said Kalou AND Mauluda were shite and didn’t compliment each other. I said nothing about Joe Cole. Didn’t even mention or allude to JC. But since you mentioned it, yes, Kalou is still shite and Joey is supremely more valuable to the the team, imo.
AND FINALLY,
TO: Big Fill, Lampy-Lord, TrueblueInd, Uzo, Steve, Bookcengham, True Platinum and others;
Thanks for posting constructive criticism and candid opinion for what we see as a frustrating spell for the Chels. It’s intelligent posts like these that brought me back to this blog.
BUT TO: Need Jose, joseisgreat, ag, CFCIR, Pesioner, cfc, jose@inter, denver and some others;
Blinder for you mates! JOSE MOURINHO in focking gone lads! He is not our coach anymore, for better or for worse. Another blinder – HE WILL NOT BE COMING BACK. So wishing he was here is a waste of energy and time, especially when you post pathetic whiney drivel about “the good old days” of, err, two years ago. Grow a supporters pair and back your team, thick or thin. Chelsea were here long before him and will be chasing trophies long after him. COME ON YOU BLUES!
Something to think about as it’s been 15 games now for Scolari (15!!!).
First fifteen Premier League games in charge:
P W D L F A Pts
Mourinho 15 11 3 1 27 6 36
Scolari 15 10 3 2 33 6 33
Avram 15 10 3 2 26 10 33
Something to think about as it’s been 15 games now for Scolari (15!!!).
First fifteen Premier League games in charge:
P W D L F A Pts
Mourinho 15 11 3 1 27 6 36
Scolari 15 10 3 2 33 6 33
Avram 15 10 3 2 26 10 33
@BC
Is “FallenAngel” Your ID On CFCBlog
@BC
Scolari needs to sort out few things
1.Drogba Yes or No……………………..This is the time we finally need to decide whether at 31,a moody,injury troubled and a one season wonder is someone we are building our team upon.
That scene was pathetic where he was listening to his ipod smiling and chatting while every blue fan was praying to god for an equalizer and i am 100% sure this guy definitely met inter officials………….the only reason he won’t move in winter is caus jose is not that stupid to bring a cup tied player and i wonder if we will get 5 mp for him next summer.
Possible alt-Benzema[Pure gold plus decent at being physical],Lavezzi[Excellent Option]
2.Malouda,Kalou,Joe………Attackers Yes Or No……………..this is the most pathetic attacking trio from wings……………….Cole is still decent as a back up player but i no longer regard him as a starter…………kalou,malouda…………..god bless us………..i really have no words.
3.Ageing Midfield-Ballack and Deco fade out by 2nd half………….Deco had a good first half against le’arse…………………….Lampard lasts 90 minutes but is getting old…………from youth or reserves…………tejera[inconsistent this season],kakuta[lacks physique,atleast 5 years from breaking in] are the only realistic option and neither fills the void……………………Dzagoev[18,CSKA Moscow,two footed,Hard working,incredibely mature,playmaker] and kroos[similar to ballack,18] looks to me the most obvious solutions as we do not need to break bank for them and by the time they adapt,like mikel they will find a void in 2 years time.
4.Excess of defenders-Ferreira,Belletti and too some extent alex are surplus………………after watching ivanovic,i m pretty sure that alex does not come ahead of him in any manner except for random direct free kicks taking ability.Plus i see Ivanovic as a younger Carvalho who can play easily the way Terry plays…………Mancienne is excellent at Championship level,we need to let him occupy 4 th choice CB,2ND Choice RB.
Belletti’s departure can be delayed till his contract expires caus Jack Cork can do one more on loan season[excellent at Championship and mature]……..Mancienne need to be bring back caus sooner or later someone is going to snap him up…………..Capello is a good coach and he is good at spotting talent when he sees one.
Chelsea glory hunters finally have to eat humble pie. I look foreward to the day you wind up in division two. I will be so happy. ‘Your’ club is almost 2 Billion in debt and Abromonvicth has only f Billion left in the bank after the credit crunch. Happy days. Chelsea will be religated back where they belong away from teams with class.
I see yo uahd two mascots out there. I don’t know how thats goinig to pay for Drogba’s replacement. Arsenal at least have a Juniour Gunner contest to decide who teh mascot is but what can you expect from a team with no history or class.
Theres only one team in london.
Quoting gonner1
We cry when we lose one game in five; you guys celebrate as if you have just won a league when you win one game in five. So no comparision between you and us. And you´re right, there is just only one club in London and thats CFC. the other one just a youth academy for entire Europe.
scolari is capable, but i think the season depends on the form of deco ballack and joe cole.
it takes a special kind of idiot to say liverpool will win a double this season, if you look at liverpool, even teams in 5th place have scored more and conceeded less than liverpool. Liverpool had freak wins against chelsea and man utd but I am certain next time they play, they will be slaughtered.
Chaka, point taken, Kalou is young so can still learn but needs some guidance and i think joe is much more of a joy to watch than kalou is, scolari should be able to perfect our formation, even with robinho, i don’t think he was the man to solve the problem, we need a man who can mirror ronaldo for speed, dribbling and aerial ability, i think some fresh blood would inject life into the rest of the team but where will the cash come from?
and another point to make on sunday, did i see malouda playing central midfield?
ENGLAND PRESS HAD VOTED SCOLARI THE WORST MANAGER IN ABRAMOVIC AREA.
Seems that Sheva may be available in the January transfer window. Should we take him back? During Drogs’s best season with us he had Sheva as a strike partner. Maybe he’s what we need to bring Drogs back to his best.
Quoting IwasMissingJose
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Doesn’t the fact that you cry when you’ve lost 1 game in 5 prove that you’re a sh!t fan rather than being superior to us in any way. It’s quite funny reading these comments with fans asking for Mancini for manager or Mourinho to come back. It seems you (IwasMissingJose… etc) can’t remember quite how shit you were before abramovich.
Also, the atmosphere at the Bridge was an embarrassment on Sunday and people say the emirates is quiets. All i could hear were the Arsenal fans all game long!
we need more pace, its quite simple. Whilst player slike Deco, Ballack, Lampard are good on the ball they arnt quick at all.
Quoting gonner1
oh yea, i would have considered your comment seriously if you could have spoken these words when you guys lost with man C and ashton villa. the way you´re argueing at this point shows what type of fan you are. And i really don´t care what was it like before Abramovic, or what it will be after him. Yea its true, i never knew about Chelsea before JM came to Chelsea. I became a chelsea fan after JM, and earlier i really didn´t care about football at all. But since his arrival i started to follow news after news, game after game, and started to understand football, started to know its more than entertainment, started to learn about its management, started to know that a manager can make a difference in the pitch in contrast to that old “good player good result principle.” I saw right before my eyes how he made good players to world´s best and a team to the world´s most dangerous one. He taught not to give up. He taught to fight for results. His football showed me a way to find a way to live. And i didn´t knew when i felt in love with Chelsea, it just happened. JM´s exit came as a shocker to me. It was like you lost a friend or a guardian. Chelsea was body and JM its soul. And look at me, JM carried on, and i´ve still followed Chelsea, and will do that until the last player that played under JM remains there. And until then i´ll keep on shouting until Chelsea finds a suitable replacement, who can heal the wounds caused by JM´s departure. Coz i can´t see Chelsea going downhill, its more than a football club for me now.
gooner what are you even doing on here, i dont know what class the frenh national b-team ould possibly have over chelsea, Chelsea is a much higher rated club than arsenal, both financially and the quality of our players, I commend wenger for his policy on youth, but I slate him for the same reason, the arsenal team is without a leader, without players who truly love the club and are unable to attract the names it desires. Truth is, the arsenal team is about to be revamped and with wengers policy, its going to be years before you establish yourselves as the pl number 3 again
Guys, scolari will come good and chelsea will rise up to the challenge. We lost at home to liverpool’s deflected goal and came unstuck against Arsenal’s dubious offside- till that offside goal, how many of us here were not brimming with confidence because of the way the team was playing.
we are upset- but pls, the answer is not the panic talk going on here. scolari will sooner have his full team then he will have all the options available including the option to adopt route one- hoof onto DD’s chest when going gets tough. till then, especially given the absence of key guys like essien, DD, Riccy and to some extent the versatile Belleti, its a a rough patch. But pls, we have quality in depth to arise and shine again.
Scolari should not even complain of being cheated whereas we failed miserably to score a single goal on our own pitch. Really i am still frustrated to see chelsea losing twelve points at Stanford bridge. I hope scolari will make better changes next time b-cos we are at critical stage.Mikel obi was far better than Deco.
Quoting TBF
No. Why do you think so? I don’t visit CFCBlog at all, leave alone commenting. In fact, I comment in only one blog – http://www.bluechampions.com
i´m sure gooner is in no mood to comment today. Its your type of fan that makes club pathetic. Face it bro, and learn few things from JM.
Burnley 2 – Arsenal 0
and i feel sorry for you guys, like you said you don´t guys even don´t repent when you lose!
New developments:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/makeweight-malouda-in-firing-line-1044201.html
it seems some senior players would like to see Wayne Bridge play on the left wing instead of Malouda!!
Remember JOSE used him as a striker and he scored in a Carling cup match.. he was also injured in that match too. It would be interesting to see Bridge out on the left!! I would like to see Stoch given a start in the FA cup match as well!!
Peter Kenyon has been talking a lot recently about the club’s self-sufficient, January transfer, the Drogbatic drama and our recent poor form.
Kenyon on Drogba: “Didier has got 18 months left on his contract with us and players will only leave Chelsea when we let them leave. Didier has a big season ahead of him. We know the contribution he can make to Chelsea. We want to get him back to past form because it is important for the second half of the season. That has been my message to Didier. The coach is supportive of him and the team is supportive of him and if you are at Chelsea, why do you want to be anywhere else?”
It is clear now Drogba won’t be leaving Chelsea in January.
Kenyon on Scolari: “You want some continuity and if you look at the most successful teams in England in the past, it has to have something to do with the continuity of their staff.The objectives for Felipe are exactly the same as when he joined us. He knows what we want to achieve and that is why he joined us. He felt in August that he had the squad to do that and I know he still feels he has the squad to do that.He clearly wants to take us to the next level and if you look at the record over the last five years, it has been pretty significant. You improve on that by not just getting to the final of the Champions League but by winning it and by regaining the Premier League title. If you do any of those two, you’ve moved the club on from last season. If not, Felipe has a three-year contract and we’ll try again next season.”
Sounds like the board has an enough confidence on Scolari. As we know, Chelsea has been pretty successful in PL and Europe for the past few years. Taking a team with that success to the next level is tough task and that is what Scolari has to do. There is no exception in that. But he said the club needs some continuity of their staff in order to be at the top level for years to come. So, we can imagine Scolari will be Chelsea manager next year whether he delivers success or not. It may sound strange.
Kenyon on the club’s recent poor form: “You get weeks like the one we have just had and we are not used to it, thank goodness. And it is not something we want to get used to. But you have to put it in the context of a long season. Felipe has made a huge impact on the way and style that we play, that has been pretty immediate, and we are in the most competitive league in the world and to be at the top at the moment, you can’t be disappointed about that.”
He’s seen it as just temporary recession. But it worries me if Scolari can’t get the team out of recession quickly.
Kenyon on Chelsea’s self-sufficient: “We are very clear about achieving targets of nil-funding from the owner by the end of this season and that is a huge step forward.”
Every business has to be profitable which is why people do it. Fortunately, we have an owner who is not just looking for profit from it but is so passionate about football and backs the club more than his wife. No longer interest-free loans from the owner by the end of the season. Cool. It doesn’t mean Roman is no longer supportive of Chelse FC. Kenyon said the owner is as committed as he ever was.
The Chelsea chief-executive also not expecting much of action in January but did not rule out the buying or selling. I think Scolari will have to decide who we should sell or buy.
What the heck!!! Huntelaar to RM for 20m euros. He is worth twice than that!! There goes the player i wish for long time to buy. I think hunter has a great change at RM, since both their strikers (Raul and Nistelrooy) are aging. How many dutch players are now at RM? Are they still wearing white or have they changed to orange?.
But I am very much disappointed that Chelsea did not nab him. I have posted at least 10 number of times that CFC can grab this guy, and if some one from Chelsea management or scout is reading this blog, i would say , “Wake up, look around and stop fucking yourself!!”
So, what options are we left with to sign for striker? Villa is going to be very very costly, i think we should target Benzema. After huntelaar , my vote goes to benzema. He is young, physically aggressive, pacy and thirsty. I think Manure is very much interested last season to buy him, so act fast and get this guy before some one does. We need to find replacement for DD.
Hey, Oh My Blue
Huntelaar may be very good in Holland but who knows how good he could be in PL or La Liga. I think it was certain that he would end up going to Madrid. They were after him for a long time. Schuster did not want get him before but now Ruud is out of season and he forced to get a decent striker there was no other choice than Huntelaar.
I don’t think Chelsea really interested in this guy. ManU got Berbatov they don’t need a striker now. So, we have a pretty good chance to buy either Benzema or S.Aguero in the summer. Kenyon said he is expecting pretty busy summer. We will compete with the likes of Barca, AC Milan and Inter to get a Aguero. Aguero is someone we are keeping eye on pretty closely.
bluechampion, I think the ref should have seen that offside run by van persie besides is was just like last year drogba scored 2 goals but that game should have been a tie. Ballack and lamps should have scored in that game they had a very good chance that game should have been a win for us. Since scolari came we are not winning as much games in Stamford than avram grant when he was the Chelsea manager. we should do alot better, and Chelsea had to beat boreax just to qualify for the champions league and scolari failed to do that
i dont rate huntelaar that highly, he is mid 20′s and although he slotted them in reguarly in the dutch league so did kuyt, kezman and many other players that just cant cut it in the stronger leagues. Dutch football has great attacking players but good midfield players and defensive players they do not have.
Benzema is a much better player. I doubt we will buy unless we sell.
104 denver
wayne bridge has an accurate foot, is not bad taking kicks and has all the attacking abilities that a.cole dosen’t, my only problem is his pace, he is not particularly quick but I think it is something we should be looking into
Hi Blue Champions,
@Denver and Wisey
With regards to Felipo Scolari.Remember what the players said about Jose Mourinho.
1) Firstly Terry and Co. said it felt as if there was a twelve man on the pitch.
2) Chelsea was well organised. They didn’t play like headless chickens.
3) Profesionalism.
Cheers
For those wondering where Fabio Paim is, hes gone back to Portugal to his club. Apparently he felt reserve level football was not to the standard he needs to develop as a footballer, and seeing as he had no chance of breaking into the first team he felt it was best he go back.
@112. chelseachelsea
is that for real …. we should have given him a chance to see what he can do !!! now he is going to become a very good footballer and we are going to miss out on him!!
we want to but bastain he can give what cr7 is giving to man utd…..bastain is stylish player with good football brain and he is very quick too…..and one more advantage is he as the long range shooting ability which would be very useful in epl
Valencia have attempted to ease the fears of their supporters following media reports the club are in serious financial trouble.
Los Che, Spanish champions in 2002 and 2004, have been in the news this week with regards to their economic plight, but Valencia general director Javier Gomez insists talk of bankruptcy is well wide of the mark.
“I want to state the following: in first place, what is utterly false is that the club is in bankruptcy,” Gomez said on Canal 9.
“Secondly, we are working hard to implement a viability plan that will give economic and financial stability to the club and that, obviously, has its difficulties.”
He added: “We are working on the economic viability of the club. It`s having it`s difficulties, as do all businesses. We are working on it and we hope to achieve it.
“To the fans we want to ask them to be calm, because we are working hard to obtain this economic and financial stability and achieve what we all want, which is sporting success. We are working with the financial institutions, as is usual.”
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David Villa?? May be we should settle for David Silva at least , for the place of Malouda, he has got a very better left foot !!
Oops, don’t read that “Very” in the last sentence.