Chelsea 1-0 West Ham

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Badboy, you liked my idea then?

I'd like to see a 4-4-2 employed, with Joe Cole, Lampard, Mikel, Wright-Phillips in midfield, with Drogba and Kalou leading the line.

[PaulH 2]

Been lookin forward to this for a while! I reckon it will be a great game ending 4:2 to the Blues.

[James 5,138]

Chelsea boss Avram Grant will be without the suspended Michael Essien for the visit of West Ham.Petr Cech (calf), Michael Ballack (ankle), Florent Malouda (knee), Ricardo Carvalho (back) and Paulo Ferreira (ankle) are all absent.Dean Ashton and Scott Parker are in contention to start for West Ham after coming through a midweek reserve game.Freddie Ljungberg (migraine) is back but Lee Bowyer (hernia) faces a test and Craig Bellamy (groin) is out.

[Lord 0]

I hope that Frank will be very motivated today. Only victory2-0 Lamps, Cole

[Steve 10,227]

not long now boys and girls lets hope for a big win

[Cameron 30]

23 Carlo Cudicini35 Juliano Belletti33 Alex26 John Terry ©18 Wayne Bridge12 John Mikel Obi8 Frank Lampard9 Steve Sidwell10 Joe Cole11 Didier Drogba21 Salomon Kalou

[captainmarvel 1]

good team.. pretty much what we expected. Glad Alex is playing alongside JT2-0 win for us. Drogba and Kalou

[Ricky10 5]

Cant wait for the game the build up is on now

[BlueLion. 21,491]

West Ham get us underway, the atmosphere is brilliant.Ow, Joe Cole takes a nasty one from Noble. Mikel fires over and wide.1321: I have to say, we've been absolutely awful.1325: There have been so many fouls, its been stop-start all the way. Carlo has made some excellent saves. 1326: Mikel with an awful tackle on Scott Parker, deserving a yellow card at least. Chopped him down from behind.1328: We have no penetration at all, Wright-Philluips should be brought on for Kalou, because he has been awful.

Edited December 1, 2007 by BlueLion

[Ricky10 5]

Alot of fouls here today i agree with you Bluelion Kalou as been awful

[captainmarvel 1]

What a SHIT performance.. can't even string 5 passes together.. getting ridiculed by WHU's excellent closing downKalou, probably being the shittest of the bunch.. His first touch makes me cry.. i would like to know how many times he has given the freaking ball away because of his first touch.. patheticMikel gets the award for being the stupidest.. with yet another one of his trademark stupid challenges.. it wasn't a red.. obviously not.. but it was so incredibly stupid.. and the way things are going for us, there could easily have been a ref who WOULD have given the red. He has so much of quality but needs to stop being so damn stupid on some occasionsPathetic performance. even worse than Derby last week

Edited December 1, 2007 by captainmarvel

[BlueLion. 21,491]

5 yellow cards already; 3 for West Ham and 2 for Chelsea. I can see someone getting sent off.Half-time, what an awful London Derby.

[Layla 0]

We've been crap!Wouldnt be surprised if this finised 0-0 the ways its going leaving us farrr behind.We cant pass!They've parked a bus as well we're making stupid challenges and cant find a way throughArg come on Chelsea!Get your act together and get the 3 points

[captainmarvel 1]

would like to get a comment from Grant right now.. right after this first half.. before we have a chance to turn things around.. TWAT

[BahrainiBlue 32]

not a good performance at all

[captainmarvel 1]

kalou needs a slap.. right after he is taken off of course.. ridiculousSWP on please!

[chrismada9 1,948]

Bad, bad game, Chelsea are getting easily frustrated at the moment, and if it carries on it's going to cost them.Sidwell is my weakness at the moment, in midfield. He's having a hell of a lot of trouble settling in, and West Ham players are always closing him and Lampard down, and there's no Essien to drive the midfield forward and provide chances. Before the second half, I would bring on SWP for Kalou. Kalou for me as well hasn't done enough. Bring SWP on, move him to the right and put Joe Cole on the left hand side. At least if SWP is on he will deliver excelling pace down the right, and terrorise defenders, like he did against West Ham last season.Terry and Alex in defence worries me a bit because they're too similar. Above all else, we need to get a goal in the second half. We need to get the ball to Drogba so he can deliver chances for us.

[BahrainiBlue 32]

i think we should take kalou off put on SWP and make Joey and SWP swap wings