3 minggu seri, 3 miggu drop point. Lagi sekali kita mencatat keputusan yang mengecewakan dalam derby London minggu ini. Rasanya dengan ini aku menisytiharkan perjuangan meraih gerlaran liga sudah berakhir untuk CHELSEA. maybe. Lebih baik kita fokus kepadan UCL and FA cup. Sudah jauhhhh sangat kita tertinggal dalam kempen liga. Mungkin title race hanya 3 penjuru iaitu sama ada ManCity, ManU atau Spurs. Dan bukan CHELSEA. Kita kerap kali tercicir mata dan tidak konsisten. Dengan keadaan sekarang ini, ada baiknya kita fokuskan benda yang lebih realistik. Nak harapkan pasukan lain cicir mata, tapi kita yang asyik cicir mata.
Dari segi persembahan, memang mendatar. Peluang yang banyak tapi macam biasa disia-siakan. Bosingwa sangat menghampakan kali ni. Aku mengharapkan cross dan deliver pass dari dia, tapi tak cukup efektif. Bahagian tengah tidak berfungsi tanpa Remires. Lampard....... memang patut pon kau keluar awal. Torres? Torres perfom bagus, jadi aku tak boleh nak kutuk dia. Torres ada buat set-up kepada team mates dan nyaris-nyaris juga nak score gol namun sayang, keeper lawan sangat cekap, menafikan pelbagai percubaan bahaya dari player kita. Jangan lupa, gola Mata assist dari Torres.
ni sahaja yang dapat diulas. Hope Chelsea lepas nih perform lebih berbisa dari biasa. Keep The Blue Flag Flying High! assalamualaikum :)
Again, kita seri lagi dengan Spurs. Walaubagaimanapun, keputusan seri dengan Spurs tak seburuk disangkakan. Macam sebelum ni, bukan senang nak kalahkan Spurs di White Hart Lane. Top club pun macam Arsenal dan Liverpol pun kalah dengan Spurs di WHL kecuali ManCity je yang mampu menang dengan Spurs.
Bagi aku, performance pagi tadi memang superb gila. Masing-masing menyerang antara satu sama lain. Kalau nak ikutkan ball possession, CHELSEA lebih hebat dari Spurs. Kalau nak ikutkan, CHELSEA boleh menang, tapi peluang yang ada untuk score disia-siakan. Remires yang banyak buat silap depan goal, kalau tak dia dah boleh buat 2 gol untuk pagi tadi. Cerita pasal defend, memang susah aku nak cakap, habis kental dah defend pagi tadi, Man Of The Match aku rasa Captain kita, John Terry. JT lah yang banyak save bola dari masuk ke gol. Kemungkinan besar kita boleh kalah 2-1 kalau JT tak main sebab bola yang Adebayor shoot melepasi Petr Cech. Selamat JT ada.
Pagi tadi, 2 player kita terpaksa keluar padang akibat kecederaan, Mikel hanya sempat bermain selama 40 minit aku rasa akibat kekejangan otot dan terpaksa keluar. Mikel ditukarkan dengan player muda kita Oriol Romeu. Ivanovic pun sama terpaksa keluar padang akibat kecederaan. Ivanovic ditukarkan dengan Ferreira. Penampilan pertama Ferreira dalam EPL season ini.
Pasal Torres pagi tadi. Torres sempat main tetapi hanya 10 minit terakhir. Bagi aku 10 minit terakhir susah nak bagi impak besar dari Torres terhadap perlawanan. Dia dah la selalu disimpan di bench, apa yang diharapkan ialah Drogba. Berkenaan dengan gol pula, gol Spurs datang dari Bale, Bale melakukan set piece dan tepat kepada Adebayor yang menyondol bola menewaskan Cech untuk gol petama tuan rumah pada minit ke 8. 15 minit kemudian, kita menyamakan kedudukan hasil daripada top scorer kita, Daniel Sturridge. Ashley Cole membuat satu cross yang lemah dan disudahkan oleh Sturridge untuk menewaskan penjaga gol Spurs, Brad Friedel.
Sekarang bilangan mata kita dah makin jauh. Dengan ManCity 11 mata, ManU 9, 2 mata dengan Spurs dan berkongsi mata dengan Arsenal. Tunggu Isnin pula, CHELSEA vs Fulham di Stamford Bridge pada pukul 9 malam. KEEP THE BLUE FLAG FLYING HIGH. assalamualaikum :)
berita baru-baru nih telah mengejutkan chelsea fan bahawa penyerang termahal Chelsea, Fernando Torres akan dijual dengan harga 20 juta. Ini hanya satu pressure yang dibuat oleh media England terhadap AVB, tetapi kebijaksanaan AVB sebagai coach, " AVB has come out and rejected claims made by the media the other night that Chelsea were prepared to listen to offers of around £20m for Fernando Torres. " He said:
"It's not true, he is not available at any price.
Everybody wants to be involved all the time but Fernando is pushing for a place with Didier Drogba. Didier is on a good run at the moment but I am sure when Fernando is called up he will respond with the quality and talent he has. The question of when we will see him back; sooner or later, we don't know. We have to make the best decisions for the team.
There was a period earlier this season when both Fernando and Didier were not available through suspension. Fernando first, then Didier after. We still had plenty of selection and players available. We had Lukaku, Sturridge and Anelka.
Of course, Anelka will not be available anymore but we have Sturridge, Lukaku and Fernando competing for that place when did will be away."
Pemliki kelab Chelsea, Roman Abrahamovic tidak bodoh untuk menjual El Nino dengan harga murah. Beli mahal-mahal nak jual murah buat apa melainkan ada kelab yang sanggup membeli dengan harga asal. I hope Torres will stay at Stamford Bridge. Keep The Blue Flag Flying High
Having gone behind less than two minutes into the game against a side full of confidence, Chelsea might have crumbled but we did anything but, coming back into the game with determination, Raul Meireles levelling before the break and then Frank Lampard coming on to score a penalty winner late in the game.
The league leaders had a penalty shout of their own turned down in the first half but then had Gael Clichy dismissed with just over an hour to play. By that stage the momentum was already with Andre Villas-Boas's team who kept pressing until the moment came to inflict a first league defeat of the season on the leaders and send Chelsea up to third.
Best momentThe first goal was more pleasing on the eye but nothing can better Frank Lampard, who missed a penalty on his previous appearance and had been on the pitch less than 10 minutes, smashing his spot-kick home to raise the roof and keep Chelsea's season on an upward curve.
Team news The only change to the Chelsea starting line-up was the one most would have predicted - Jose Bosingwa coming in for suspended David Luiz with Branislav Ivanovic moving from right-back into central defence.
Man City made two changes to their defence from the side that beat Norwich in their last league game - Zabaleta and Lescott in place of Richards and Kolo Toure. James Milner replaced Samir Nasri in midfield with Mario Balotelli preferred to Edin Dzeko in attack where he was partnered by Sergio Aguero as they changed shape to 4-4-2
First half Manchester City scored from their very first attack. Aguero took possession midway inside the Chelsea half and with Terry in close attendance, the Argentine turned and played a perfectly measured pass forward to Balotelli. The City striker could have shot first time but opted instead to take the ball wide of Cech and the pursuing Ivanovic before slotting home. Just 93 seconds had been played.
Chelsea's response was hindered by two decision that didn't go our way.Ramires was whistled up for an inadvertent trip on Clichy as he chased a Mata cross with space opening up, and then at the other end no foul was given when Bosingwa tumbled when policing Aguero inside the area. The Man City man wasted a good chance by shooting wide.
On 13 minutes Bosingwa did get the decision when he hung a leg out and Silva went over inside the Chelsea penalty area. Initial TV replays were inconclusive on whether there was any contact.
The visitors were on top and looking good in possession in our half in the first quarter of the game, although Ramires did get the ball wide to Drogba whose cross was almost headed down into the right spot for Meireles to try his luck. He had earlier seen a shot deflect wide.
Going forward, Man City continued to look capable to finding gaps in the Chelsea defence, as Silva did for Milner but that incision fortunately came to nothing. The Blues were playing reasonably deep in a similar manner to the Valencia game.
Then on 24 minutes Drogba sprung into life and Hart tipped his shot, which might have been going wide, just past the post.
It heralded a spell of better play for Chelsea that ended in a goal although not before interruptions, Drogba needing treatment first and then Silva after he collided with Meireles's out-stretched boot.
The Portuguese made a much more important contact on 33 minutes when he ran onto Sturridge's cross to shoot into the Shed End goal from eight yards out. Terry had begun the attack with a long pass out to Sturridge who cut into the area and bamboozled Clichy and co. before centring for the scorer to strike. The wet and windy weather was worsening but the outlook was brightening for Chelsea.
Two minutes later, Meireles, who had escaped a booking for his foul on Silva, did see yellow after another high challenge, this time on Zabaleta.
The game, as well as the score was now more even, and Terry robbed Balotelli and knocked a pass onto Drogba, only for the Ivorian to be barged to the ground by Kompany with the Man City defence looking stretched. Kompany was booked.
Second halfSturridge was proving a problem for his former club and when he turned and went past Clichy in the first few seconds of the half, the full-back brought him down and was rightly booked by referee Mark Clattenburg. Sturridge could have rubbed it in even more had his shot not cleared the bar when he was well-placed after Yaya Toure missed his header.
On 52 minutes it was Mata's turn to ask questions of the league leaders. He nutmegged Kompany and was escaping when the City captain brought him down. Kompany already had a yellow card to his name and it was only fair to speculate if he would have been shown another for the challenge had that not been the case.
The same scenario was forthcoming just five minutes later when Drogba's quick thinking sent Ramires haring past Clichy who couldn't resist a trip. This time the ref did dip his hand into his pocket for a yellow, with the mandatory red card following.
Man City were being pushed back and Cole had been involved in a lot of Chelsea's attacks throughout. His cross just past the hour fell to Ramires for a thunderous strike that was blocked. Romeu was booked soon after for a clumsy foul.
Chelsea continued to look for an opening and a Bosingwa cross almost found Drogba's head.
Man City, who had sacrificed Aguero to bring on Kolo Toure shortly after the sending-off, now looked content to try to kill the game and settle for a point. Further evidence came when Silva was substituted by De Jong.
Chelsea brought on Lampard for Meireles with just under 20 minutes to play. Before the new arrival could touch the ball, Ramires was harshly booked for a challenge on Balotelli whose influence was waning. Drogba then picked up a yellow for a sliding foul on Zabaleta deep in the City half.
The game had become scrappy and that suited the visitors. Chelsea needed to find gaps but when Drogba and Ramires combined on the edge of the area, there was still not room for a convincing shot from the Brazilian.
Lampard was next to try with a ball out to Sturridge who shaped to shoot once before letting fly with an effort that hit the raised arm of Lescott. The ref pointed to the spot and Lampard made no mistake in front of the Matthew Harding End, firing high and straight past Hart to give his team the lead.
Now Mancini changed his tune as he attempted to restore an attacking impetus by bringing on Dzeko for Lescott. It was Drogba however who was the dominant attacking player as the game drew to a close, not too far away from netting with one audacious effort before the end.
The home crowd had been vociferous throughout and how the enjoyed the final whistle!
