Chelsea Thread

[abigsmurf]

Good stuff, this could've been an incredibly frustrating game.

[abigsmurf]

Five in a row! Go me!

Gonna be a tough game. Need to get an early goal and keep trying for the whole match. We can't rely on Turnbull keeping a clean sheet.

[Charlie]

I've a feeling we'll draw tonight and fail to progress.

[abigsmurf]

Chelsea's lack of penalties is just becoming comical now.

Aside from that, we only came alive in the last five minutes. Jose knows how to play against us. Khirkov in particular was bad and Anelka was a bit off.

[Kongster]

Excellent blocks and last ditch tackles from the Italians in the first half.

[EJG1980]

Excellent blocks and last ditch tackles from the Italians in the first half.

Well, technically, not Italians until Materazzi came on

Great performance by Inter in the second half, I think they deserved the win.

[abigsmurf]

Out and deservedly out. We were crap. Couldn't string a decent pass together, made little effort to go for the ball.

Zhirkov, Ballack, Cole, Anelka, ivanovich... All terrible.

Red card on Drogba was a stupid decision (funny how the ref ignored the retaliation 5 minutes later by a milan player which was a straight red offence) but it makes no difference.

Poor performance. Doesn't bode well for the league or even the FA Cup.

[Rossco]

It seemed like Drogba stamped on the guys ankle to be honest. Interesting to see the replays and analysis now.

[Kongster]

Well, technically, not Italians until Materazzi came on

Great performance by Inter in the second half, I think they deserved the win.

Heh

Inter got their tactics spot on, an impressive away performance. Mourinho doesn't lose at Stamford Bridge.

As for Drogba..oh dear! lolz

[C']

Really impressed with Inter over the entire tie really but think they deserve credit specifically for going to Stamford Bridge, outplaying Chelsea and getting a win.

I'll admit that whilst I thought Mourhino was more than capable of setting up a team to defend a one goal lead, Chelsea at home would be too much and would get through easily but Inter's performance was far beyond what I expected.

[vanpeebles]

Pretty funny but for all the money and riches, that Chelsea side is pretty poor.

[Kieran76]

Big game bottlers!

[Adrock]

At first I'd have agreed with you smurfy, but seeing the replay after the match. Drogba was definitely a straight red, that stamp on the ankle was stupid.

I see the frustration from Chelsea though, typical Italian tactics of being niggling the entire game. All in all Inter deserved it.

[Malavon]

Poor from Chelsea to be honest. Their fans outsung for the entire 90 minutes by 4000 Inter supporters, Terry once again harrassing the referee (twice in just the first 18 minutes!) and they were outplayed for the majority of the match.

Not sure what to make of the Drogba red card, didn't seem to be much in it but I only saw it the once so don't really know.

Sneijder was superb, thought Eto'o was poor until the 79th minute - Turnbull did well to deny him a second.

[nakamura]

Inter were very impressive. The goal was sublime also. I agree with Smurfy on some level I wasnt sure about the card but I can see why the lino flagged for it.