The Official Chelsea Thread [Vol 2]

[trackdemon]

Riff Raff said:

Negative Creep said:

How was that not a penalty for Ivanovic and how was that 2 yellow cards? Nice to see United managed to resign their 12th man during the close season

Fatty Dowd hasn't done us any favours ever.

But let's not lose sight of what happened today. A point away at OT with the first and second choice strikers U/S. Still unbeaten and top of the league. KTBFFH.

Fair point, well made. Should have been a win, should have had a pen, shouldn't have been a red; that's football (especially at OT, even post Fergie!). On a weekend where Citeh lose, and we're using our 3rd choice forward, taking a point at OT has to go down as an 'I'll take that'. Unbeaten too, which is nice.

[DeltonaS]

Negative Creep said:

How was that not a penalty for Ivanovic and how was that 2 yellow cards? Nice to see United managed to resign their 12th man during the close season

First yellow was not for the foul itself but for his reaction.....

Still red was too harsh.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Negative Creep said:

How was that not a penalty for Ivanovic and how was that 2 yellow cards? Nice to see United managed to resign their 12th man during the close season

The ref may not have helped us but that was a game we were capable of winning regardless of those decisions. We had plenty of time from Ivan going to the taking of the free kick to reorganise. Fellatio and RVP both unmarked. How come if we were only 1 man light??

[jammy_basturd]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Negative Creep said:

How was that not a penalty for Ivanovic and how was that 2 yellow cards? Nice to see United managed to resign their 12th man during the close season

The ref may not have helped us but that was a game we were capable of winning regardless of those decisions. We had plenty of time from Ivan going to the taking of the free kick to reorganise. Fellatio and RVP both unmarked. How come if we were only 1 man light??

I agree.

And you had plenty of time in the match to push on and get a second goal. Only being one up always left you liable to a late equaliser.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

jammy_basturd said:

I agree.

And you had plenty of time in the match to push on and get a second goal. Only being one up always left you liable to a late equaliser.

This is definitely Maureen's Achilles heel. When he brought Mikel on with half an hour left, he made it clear he'd settled for a 1-0 win. You just can't do that, regardless of how good your defence is. Certainly at 2-0, but to gamble on not making a single error in half an hour is asking for trouble.

[London424]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

jammy_basturd said:

I agree.

And you had plenty of time in the match to push on and get a second goal. Only being one up always left you liable to a late equaliser.

This is definitely Maureen's Achilles heel. When he brought Mikel on with half an hour left, he made it clear he'd settled for a 1-0 win. You just can't do that, regardless of how good your defence is. Certainly at 2-0, but to gamble on not making a single error in half an hour is asking for trouble.

I don't think it's his Achilles heel...it's just his approach to the big teams. He sets up not to lose...and he knows that the team have enough quality to win a big chunk of them. He'd rather they nick a late equalizer than go out and lose 2-1 being too open.

[Riff Raff]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

jammy_basturd said:

I agree.

And you had plenty of time in the match to push on and get a second goal. Only being one up always left you liable to a late equaliser.

This is definitely Maureen's Achilles heel. When he brought Mikel on with half an hour left, he made it clear he'd settled for a 1-0 win. You just can't do that, regardless of how good your defence is. Certainly at 2-0, but to gamble on not making a single error in half an hour is asking for trouble.

I'm not sure I see it that way. Oscar looked like he was going to get a second card, (and he wasn't having a good game, having gone into headless chicken mode) so taking him off was sensible. Putting Mikel on allowed Fabregas to push forward a bit, as he wasn't having a particularly good game playing where he was at that point either. It was obvious that Manure would be chasing the game, and like or dislike him, Mikel did stiffen things up a bit.

Given that we were still breaking forward at any opportunity, we could have got a second goal if luck had gone our way. It didn't. That's football.

[E65Ross]

Whilst I'm disappointed....think about it this way....

I reckon most here, and Mourinho, would have taken this weekend as a whole. Mac City play West Ham, Liverpool at home to Stoke, Arsenal away to Sundaland and Chelsea away at OT and, after those games, you don't lose place to Liverpool, you gain a point on the nearest rival Man City and don't allow Man Utd to gain any points on you....with Arsenal gaining 2 points on you and they're still miles behind.

A missed opportunity for sure, but the weekend as a whole was far from a disaster IMO. Anyone else think the same?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I would have taken a draw before kick off but still gutted to have thrown away the win.

If we'd got the last gasp equaliser I'd have been ecstatic, but we didn't....they did.

[smn159]

Had to laugh at them celebrating like they'd won the league after scraping a draw at home in the last minute though

[TwigtheWonderkid]

smn159 said:

Had to laugh at them celebrating like they'd won the league after scraping a draw at home in the last minute though

No, didn't laugh at all! Too busy kicking cat into the 50" plasma.

[Amirhussain]

E65Ross said:

Whilst I'm disappointed....think about it this way....

I reckon most here, and Mourinho, would have taken this weekend as a whole. Mac City play West Ham, Liverpool at home to Stoke, Arsenal away to Sundaland and Chelsea away at OT and, after those games, you don't lose place to Liverpool, you gain a point on the nearest rival Man City and don't allow Man Utd to gain any points on you....with Arsenal gaining 2 points on you and they're still miles behind.

A missed opportunity for sure, but the weekend as a whole was far from a disaster IMO. Anyone else think the same?

I agree, I think its just the fact that the equaliser came right at the end, that everyone is disappointed. We had no Costa or Remy, and no Ramires. Felt that we should have had a penalty in the first half when Ivanovic was bought down. Courtois had a good game, made some important saves. Fabregas wasn't at his full best either.

But I would rather take one point than no points at all. Move on from this, QPR in a few days time.

[Cie]

I hate that st "we support our local team" chant.

Great response from the Chelsea fans though with "you support a load of st"

Well, the load of st just scored.

[Amirhussain]

Cie said:

I hate that st "we support our local team" chant.

Great response from the Chelsea fans though with "you support a load of st"

Well, the load of st just scored.

They also scored for us tonight

King Drogba with another goal.

[Amirhussain]

Costa and Ramires set to return for QPR match.

[Black can man]

Fabulous goal from Oscar, First time on the run out side of the foot, Absolute beauty. Fantastic skills.

[trackdemon]

Yup, stunning finish - starts outside the post, then curls in; Green had no chance. We should probably be more than one up, they've offered nothing so far...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Our failure to fail to thrash QPR by 5 or 6 is really annoying. Round my way, everyone is either Chelsea or QPR. So would be great to give them a hiding.

[Cie]

Interesting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-...

[m3sye]

Cie said:

Interesting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-...

More staff needed to help the fans out