Friendlies, Matches, Pre-season - Sunday, August 3, 2008 18:48 - 57 Comments

Chelsea humiliate Milan | Anelka does read this blog

Typical of Chelsea, isn’t it? Losing to Lokomotiv one day and demolishing Milan a couple of days later. Now, let’s not undermine this win with any remarks like it was a weakened Milan and all that. Couple of points. Firstly, this Milan team is surely better than Lokomotiv. That shows we’ve done a lot better job from a penalty defeat to a 5-0 thrashing. Secondly, Milan were lacking key people in the attack. Whereas in defence and midfield, it was a team that should not have lost 5-0. To beat a team 5-0 is always a great thing. If Chelsea were to field a similary depleted team against a full strength Milan, I don’t think we’d have lost 5-0.

Anelka stole the show today. Now it’s 7 goals plus some assists by Anelka in the pre-season. Ever since I threw my gripe about him in this blog, he seems to be fired up. If there was ever a player of the pre-season award, it’d go to him. Sadly enough, I do remember this match between Arsenal and Liverpool in the 06-07 season. Julio Baptista was pretty much a flop move and the Arsenal fans were losing patience over him. In that match at Anfield, Baptista scored four goals and the Arse fans rejoiced that the ‘beast is back’. And the rest is history, I mean joke, to be exact. Continue…