Chelsea Thread

[prinnysquad]

It is when it's the Mags. No excuses are good enough.

[vanpeebles]

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[abigsmurf]

A lot of what I've read in match reports suggest that Newcastle were kicking lumps out of us. The worst thing about the match is it's left us with 3 injuried players, Kalou's going to leave us with a lack of options.

Still, hopefully Lampard and Terry will be at full fitness for saturday

[buster_broon]

A lot of what I've read in match reports suggest that Newcastle were kicking lumps out of us. The worst thing about the match is it's left us with 3 injuried players, Kalou's going to leave us with a lack of options.

Still, hopefully Lampard and Terry will be at full fitness for saturday

not true

there was one bad tackle in the first 5 minutes and the newcastle player was booked

Kalou and Beyiyoun (spelling) both pulled up with nobody in touching distance with what looked like hamstring issues, but both players ran and ran until they were injured so the injuries were caused by them trying too hard

apart from that there was nothing else

Chelsea's vision and the passing of the ball were incredible especially Anelka, subbing Terry at half time proved a costly mistake by Ancellotti

i enjoyed myself and Stamford bridge is a pretty tidy stadium and the seats were excellent

Alex is a diving git, totally conned the referee

but if a team won a game on skill, Chelsea were by far the better team

ninja edit
neither team fielded a full squad, so you can say none of them are really that interested in the carling cup

[hudson]

Beyiyoun

Almost, but I like the sound of 'Bi-eye-yoon'

[SharkSkin-Man]

I prefer Davd Pleat's Benny-noon version the best.

[hudson]

Yeah that's class.

Last season in the Europa league, there was a match being shown and between Pleat and the commentator they amazingly couldn't say Aquilani properly. I heard two variants and no correct pronunciation. They were... "Aquilano"and "Aquilana". Truly stunning work.

[abigsmurf]

It's a bit worrying if Chelsea get any long term injuries to defenders. Ferreira has shown time and time again he's a liability and our defence was a shambles with just Alex as the only quality player.

[Kron]

Ferreira's a defensive power house compared to Zhirkov, I worry everytime he plays.

[abigsmurf]

We're really going to need a quality defender in the jan transfer window aren't we...

Hoping Kakuta gets fit quickly, if he fufils even half his promise, he'll quickly get into the first team once his strength and stamina have built up.

[abigsmurf]

First big test today.

We've a nice buffer over Arsenal and Man U but it would be nice to show that our team is excellent against good and lower sides. Last season we went into a massive slump after awful Carling Cup performances, hopefully we won't see a repeat.

[abigsmurf]

Fairly happy with that first half. City didn't look dangerous.

Ref doesn't seem to know what a block is, a couple of blatent blocks (one should've been a penalty). Man City have been deliberately physical and the ref is allowing a bit too much.

Only downers was a bit of a lack of commitment up front and Mikel giving the ball away far too dangerously.

Deathly quiet at the City of Manchester though, Chelsea fans were outsinging city for large parts.

[Jebus]

Dreadful game though...

City...all that money and no strikers! How much did Silva cost? Embarassing really.

[ShadowDancer]

Chelsea should really step it up now, city are there for the taking.

Although I expect both team to step it up. Very subdued 1st half.

[abigsmurf]

Chelsea have been attacking but they're not got the space to 'turn it on'.

An interesting thing would be to take off Anelka (who City have been cancelling) and put on Kakuta. Don't think Ancelotti would take that sort of gamble though, even if he was the type to make non-fitness related subs at half time.