Chelsea 2-1 West Brom

[dave30 728]

poor choice in my opinion to bring on drogba for torres and again no creativity that could easily have been brought into the team through josh or yossi .

[5354 204]

If we get Mata i still think we need another winger, someone who's fast and skillful, and who's not afraid to run at players. Hazard anyone?

Suddenly I remembered we have Kakuta.

[Badboy 1,526]

We really lack a creative player, i really get one lol because that was poor. Kalou is Garbage and i could not stop laughing when he got subbed in the 34th minute, i remember when that happened to him in another game OH YEAH IT WAS AGAINST LIVERPOOL IN THE CHAMPIONSLEAGUE, he still made the first 11 in the next game though.

[Tortilla9 390]

Poor piss game despite the win. 3 points but feels like a loss. Against a better opposition we would have conceded 3 at least... WBA crapped 2 amazing chances.

Yes, a lot of you praise Torres for his effort, but effort alone wasn't enough... I can remember only 1 good dribble by him, the others he fucked up... he tried too hard and failed many times, that's the reason he was taken off to be replaced by an even poorer Drogba. And despite the goals Malouda and Anelka were shit.

Not Torres best game, not his worst. I think he kept trying to make something out of nothing because he couldn't get involved in the game. Some teammates clearly can't or won't see him on the pitch.

[zinctek 401]

we also keep forgetting D.S will be back game after next him up front with torres should be good . he brings something extra to the game.

[termninja 5,290]

It was a classic guys. They parked the bus and we couldn't break through it due to lack of creativity and pace. I hope AVB realizes this and stops saying we are good enough.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Honestly I think that this result is better than a 2-0 win in terms of moral. AVB's subs were brilliant and we played very well in the second half....I'm a happy man

[francozola 2,040]

Shoulnt get carried away because bosingwa, malouda were utter shit despite combining nicely for the winner.

Lamps was missing as usual. Dear god how has he become so poor in such a short space of time?!

Don't know why so many of you were disappointed with ivan coming on. Thought it was a great change even at the time. Alex was clearly struggling.

Drogba was shit. Didn't look bothered. Should have kept Torres on.

AVB still has A LOT of work to do.

[Rambo 1,729]

Why we played poorly especially in the first half is very simple. Lack of penetration in opposition's final third and horizontal passing and lack of movement was responsible for the shambolic display. we saw a different Chelsea in the 2nd half and AVB should take the credit for it. People should stop overreacting as we played well in the 2nd half and things can only get better from here.

Well said. People aren't giving the credit West Brom deserves as well, I thought their defense was great.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Poor piss game despite the win. 3 points but feels like a loss. Against a better opposition we would have conceded 3 at least... WBA crapped 2 amazing chances.

Best players imo: Ramires, Hilario... can't think of any more

Worst players imo: Kalou, Drogba, Malouda, Torres, Lampard, Anelka

Yes, a lot of you praise Torres for his effort, but effort alone wasn't enough... I can remember only 1 good dribble by him, the others he fucked up... he tried too hard and failed many times, that's the reason he was taken off to be replaced by an even poorer Drogba. And despite the goals Malouda and Anelka were shit.

Kalou's ceiling is reserves, tops.

I wouldn't really put Torres as one of the worse today, because the team in general were quite bad, and in comparison to the team he was OK could of done better but hey

[nullabletype 987]

Poor piss game despite the win. 3 points but feels like a loss. Against a better opposition we would have conceded 3 at least... WBA crapped 2 amazing chances.

Best players imo: Ramires, Hilario... can't think of any more

Worst players imo: Kalou, Drogba, Malouda, Torres, Lampard, Anelka

Yes, a lot of you praise Torres for his effort, but effort alone wasn't enough... I can remember only 1 good dribble by him, the others he fucked up... he tried too hard and failed many times, that's the reason he was taken off to be replaced by an even poorer Drogba. And despite the goals Malouda and Anelka were shit.

Kalou's ceiling is reserves, tops.

As a regular Torres defender, I have to concur with your analysis. He did nothing for me today. Hilario was our best player for my money.

[warnie_666 1,081]

Atrocious First Half.

Nothing has changed from last season. Same Formation, Same Players only different manager.

Which begs the question, did chelsea do the right thing by firing Ancelotti.? They could have brought in Mata and Modric for Carlo too....But anyways

Good: Hilario, Ramirez, Mikel,

Bad: Drogba (Was he even playing?), Lampard,

Ugly: Kalou. I have absolutely no clue why he starts...

Torres, was decent and much much better than Drogba but the midfield with a Poor Lampard is just dire. Absolutely no creativity.

Malouda and Anelka were OK.

[bluephoenix 1,125]

Still believe in AVB he turned things around in the second half. A very very good move of removing Kalou sooner than latter and I think that did the trick LOL.

DD looked very indifferent, not the DD I knew from last season.

[LukakutoStamford 779]

Honestly I think that this result is better than a 2-0 win in terms of moral. AVB's subs were brilliant and we played very well in the second half....I'm a happy man

There were about 10 minutes of sublime play and the rest was ruffshod. I wouldn't go as far as to say played very well but the first half was so poor that by comparison the second half must have looked like Barca

[Ollie 4,400]

When Kalou was subbed after 34 minutes, i thought of this forum lol. Credit for AVB for not bottling his public humiliation. Now AVB knows surely that's he's not Chelsea material and he needs to get rid and replace ASA f'n P

[bababoom 4,478]

Why be ungrateful for the goal he scored?

I'm not ungrateful. Heskey scores goal should we buy him? oh and let's forget about his overall performances, only his goals...yeah.

[Badboy 1,526]

Ramires at the moment is probably our best player. Lampard is past it and Drogba looks like he is going that way too. END OF AN ERA GUYS !

[Guest justin_3d]

AVB will buy Mata and maybe Modric and all the problems will be solved.

It's the same thing we where asking last season when Carlo was in charge.

AVB is not superman to make this same squad tittle competitive.

He has to spend, or will get the sack if he sticks with this same squad!