Chelsea 3-1 Norwich

[Henrique 9,133]

Well, too early to judge Villas job, but until now, really disappointing.

Looking a pretty avarage manager.

[Styles 9,790]

I have to say I feel a little sorry for the new manager. He has come to a club with far more negatives than there are positives. We have established players (Terry, Lampard, Drogba) and recent big-money recruits (Ramires, Torres) that simply do not suit what he wants to do.

Terry is never going to be part of a defence that plays a high-line. He's slow and it won't work. But he's the captain and has more influence at the club than probably the manager does.

Lampard is old and is arguably our biggest problem. But he's a club legend and won't tolerate being dropped. Drogba is 33 and simply incapable of producing his absolute best all the time. Torres is frankly rubbish and cost 50m. What the hell can you do with him? Ramires is a great athlete but a pretty rubbish footballer. What the hell do you do with him?

AVB has one hell of a job on his hands and I wish him well but he is really going to struggle.

[Corazón De León 58]

Really glad we won, but our defence looked so nervous! They need to improve! And I cant wait for Cech and david Luiz to come back!! Mata, Ramirez and Lukaku played really well, hopefully Torres and Mata will be great together. And Sturridge will be back for the next match so thats good!

[Henrique 9,133]

Mata scored in few minutes the same amount of goals as Torres in almost 20 games. Impressive.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

DROGBA TO BE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2434371,00.html

[Henrique 9,133]

I have to say I feel a little sorry for the new manager. He has come to a club with far more negatives than there are positives. We have established players (Terry, Lampard, Drogba) and recent big-money recruits (Ramires, Torres) that simply do not suit what he wants to do.

Terry is never going to be part of a defence that plays a high-line. He's slow and it won't work. But he's the captain and has more influence at the club than probably the manager does.

Lampard is old and is arguably our biggest problem. But he's a club legend and won't tolerate being dropped. Drogba is 33 and simply incapable of producing his absolute best all the time. Torres is frankly rubbish and cost 50m. What the hell can you do with him? Ramires is a great athlete but a pretty rubbish footballer. What the hell do you do with him?

AVB has one hell of a job on his hands and I wish him well but he is really going to struggle.

Villas is smart. He has to build a networking inside the club before benching Terry, Lampard and asking Didier to leave.

He is a young and an unproven manager, if he make such drastic changes, it will be recipe for a disaster.

Just remember what happened with Scolari when Ballack and Didier thought he wasnt good enough.

[Styles 9,790]

Villas is smart. He has to build a networking inside the club before benching Terry, Lampard and asking Didier to leave.

He is a young and an unproven manager, if he make such drastic changes, it will be recipe for a disaster.

Just remember what happened with Scolari when Ballack and Didier thought he wasnt good enough.

I had a fear that we got the right manager at the wrong time and August has more or less convinced me that belief is correct.

[Tomo 21,751]

If August was a boremter ow who would be champions this would have happened.

If the league went in the August pattern till may.

10/11 Chelsea (breaking every record in the book) Actual champs: Man.Utd

09/10 Arsenal (playing amazing football and scoring over 100) Actual champs: Chelsea

08/09 Chelsea (with Scolari bringing a new wave of flair to the league) Actual champs: Man.Utd

07/08 Liverpool (Rafa finally gets it right and Torres bangs the goals to the title) Actual Champs: Man.Utd

06/07 Man.Utd (Started the season with 8 in 2) Actual Champs: Man.Utd

05/06 Chelsea (without letting in a goal all season) Actual Champs: Chelsea

04/05 Arsenal (back to back unbeaten season's) Actual champs: Chelsea

I cba to go back any further but in the last 7 season's only twice has the eventual champs started the strongest, just saying.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Lets be honest, so far AVB hasn't exactly had the easiest times but the philosophy he is trying to lay down is better in less physical leagues like La Liga and Seria were ball manipulation is used more ahead of physical strength and even though we haven't played great we've managed a win today. If you look at Man Utd last year, they won the league as they were able to grind out results against the lower teams that were holding them/beating them, we are going to have to be able to do the same to mount a title challenge and today we managed to grind out a decent result. Also, it is too early for AVB to be judged and imo he is a top manager, I don't think Rom would splash out £13.5 mil to take in a completely average manager, even though he is rich it just seems stupid.

[TomCFC 357]

Highlights and interviews - http://www.footytube.com/video/chelsea-v-norwich-city-88667?ref=search

[Milan 17,956]

Glad Mata got his chance today. What a difference having him on the left flank from having there Malouda. And before the second goal, when we were beginning the counter-attack, I just watched Ramires and couldn't close my mouth how bloody fast he was, stunning.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Glad Mata got his chance today. What a difference having him on the left flank from having there Malouda. And before the second goal, when we were beginning the counter-attack, I just watched Ramires and couldn't close my mouth how bloody fast he was, stunning.

Mata is a breath of fresh air compared to Malouda, we just need another creative player to take Lampards place, who was dire today, and we will start to play better.

[Chelsea? 892]

I actually thought Lampard kept our middle together pretty good today

[Domino- 116]

DROGBA TO BE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

http://www.chelseafc...2434371,00.html

I hope everything goes positive and get better as soon as possible.

Is large :blue scalf:

[Badboy 1,526]

I actually thought Lampard kept our middle together pretty good today

Hey don't worry mate, i would probably sound as stupid as that if i watched a game of baseball. :goodpost:

[magic weeds 446]

Now its that time someone wishes lampard gets injured a lil bit. We will be having some freshness on the wings with Sturridge and Mata available. The mid has to be sorted out, but apparently "Mr. Untouchable" is really untouchable. Disappointing.

[Chelsea? 892]

Hey don't worry mate, i would probably sound as stupid as that if i watched a game of baseball. :goodpost:

ok, stop playing. I'm gonna need that rep point back guys.

Besides, Lampard had an assist and a goal. He also made a few smart runs

but a mid of Mikel, Ramirez and Lamps seems confused. Ramirez and Lampard are players that seem to be interested in going forward or defending rather than controlling the middle. that's why I wanna see Josh a little more; or a new signing

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Any reactions from AVB after the match?

[Kojo 4,676]

ok, stop playing. I'm gonna need that rep point back guys.

Besides, Lampard had an assist and a goal. He also made a few smart runs

but a mid of Mikel, Ramirez and Lamps seems confused. Ramirez and Lampard are players that seem to be interested in going forward or defending rather than controlling the middle. that's why I wanna see Josh a little more; or a new signing

Yes he got an assist, but tbf it was because of Bosingwas long range effort, it wasn't anything special from Lampard. But Lampard wasn't that bad this game, he didn't give the ball away, only once i think and did make a few decent passes, but he's not good enough to be a starter for Chelsea, we need a better player in there who can make magic and create play, i think we are now sorted on the wings, hopefully anyway... since we now have Mata, but a creative midfielder is needed, Lampard cannot knock out long balls or long passes, he probably could but he lacks the vision.

And Styles i do totally agree with you about Terry being to slow, he can't play in this high defense line, how many times have we been caught out with these long balls?, shit load of times, if we play like this against United were fucked...

[termninja 5,290]