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Anelka with a poor shot on goal after some lovely work from Malouda!!

That should have been a corner! Came off Downing's shoulder and went out!! Stupid bloody ref!

Free kick in a dangerous position for Chelsea!!

Fucking hell Mikel wake the fuck up!!!!

JT gets booked for a foul on Ashley Young

Bloody hell, great run from Ramires, linking up well with Zhirkov! Poor cross

Essien's passing has been poor today!!

This is a MUCH better second half for us!! We have to keep this up. Villa can't get the ball out of their own half at the moment!

Great strike from Malouda! Should have gone for the corner though!

Zhirkov should give us some stability and speed down the left. Flo moved to the right... makes sense!

I'd rather have him start than anything else. Then again can't McEachran come on. If he's on the bench. Maybe he can come on for Mikel/Ramires and instrument the attack.

I agree, hasn't lived up to expectations at all so far. I honestly believe him and Malouda should swap positions, I say that because even Malouda is findinh it hard to find space on the left. By the way Downing is playing like the devil told him to play good!

absolutely poor first half, never managed to threaten goal, defence looks VERY vulnerable without Alex in there!! One massive reason why we fail to win at Villa Park: Villa really love to close our midfield down and go on a quick counter attack... once again, we're finding it hard to keep up with them. One good thing, is that we've kept a lot of possession, shame we haven't been able to use much of it to our advantage! MASSIVE improvement in the second half please!!!

Since we're all Chelsea fans, it would have been an interesting and fun sight to see Liverpool struggling, but I think it would be a huge miss for the Premier League without Liverpool there. I guess it's vital for them to have succeeded in this court case against Hicks and Gillett, because had they have kept hold of the club, there would be massive problems for them, and they would have experienced what happened to Leeds United a few years ago. Financial problems that led to relegation as lowly as League 1. Players leaving the club because of the same problem. The deduction of 9 points would have started a rocky road... not to mention their poor start to the season.

Yeah I agree, Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona springs to mind

It looks as if someone insulted him, and he couldn't take it, so he left the pitch...... or he got sent off for descent, one of the two. If I could speak Portuguese, it would be easy to explain

makes more sense if they do. They wore black at Villa Park the last two seasons By the way BlueDrew, are you aware of when we won there in Guus Hiddink's first game in charge when Anelka scored the only goal in a 1-0 win??

I fail to see how Begovic would be first choice ahead of Almunia, and a supposedly "in-form" Fabianski at least Arsenal have two relatively good goalkeepers... who do we have?? Cech, and a couple of keepers who are shite at making decisions.

AMEN I think Kakuta has a massive chance to prove himself now, Chelsea realise that with Benayoun injured, they'll need to offer him a contract.

welcome to the forums dude! Hope you enjoy it here gunna be a close game this weekend! :eyebrows:

Hahaha! I was the one that found the emoticon (carlo one that is) :blue scalf:

can't say I know much about this guy, but I'm sure he can be the next McEachran if he's signing at that age!

I guess that's true, but think about it in a more logic factor. No-one buys any of Real's players unless Real don't need them. Pepe is a regular starter in Real's squad, and since Real have been nasty to us in us attempting to buy their players, they'll just wave the speculation. Mexes on the other hand, his contract at Roma expires in January, which means we have a chance to sign up a rather quality central defender for nothing.

Pepe I reckon is a good defender, but I would rather see us sign Mexes than him.

It was 2-1 mate, not 3-1, but yeah I know what you mean.