Closed Chelsea 1-0 Stoke

[zolayes 14,489]

Stoke tactics today:

Timewaste

Foul whoever comes towards them

if it stands still hold on to it ..

if it moves chop the legs off it

[Laylabelle 9,393]

I know how that feels, well i usually feel like that for almost every Chelsea game.

Even when Chels score you still feel eeeeeek waiting for whoever their playing to get one back

[Kojo 4,676]

Even when Chels score you still feel eeeeeek waiting for whoever their playing to get one back

Exactly, i was just saying that to Sheva earlier, it's a huge problem we have, we sit back and play even worse, the United game was great because we kept going at it, untill after the 3rd goal we were getting nervous. And conceded 3 goals.

Everytime we score i'm still nervous because sometimes you feel now it's time to get really bad.

[Laylabelle 9,393]

Even 2-0 up against B'ham didnt feel that confident.Espically after the penatly they just completly seemed to fall apart.

Yeah defintly they seem to get to relaxed or loose complete concentraion.Espically this season in the last 10 minutes or so.

[Ramires7 32]

as i can see watching that match... it was 10 vs 10 not 10 vs 11.... kalou was playing the whole 90 minutes when will Matteo learn... at least AVB knows not to play him... hope he doesnt play against Napoli or we are screwed for sure

[zolayes 14,489]

as i can see watching that match... it was 10 vs 10 not 10 vs 11.... kalou was playing the whole 90 minutes when will Matteo learn... at least AVB knows not to play him... hope he doesnt play against Napoli or we are screwed for sure

youve been brain washed Kalou was not the worst out there today

[Sheva. 5,373]

youve been brain washed Kalou was not the worst out there today

You must be kidding!?

[OneMoSalah 8,793]

Dont see why some people are criticizing Drogba anyway, he may of not played to the best of his abilities but he scored didn't he? I ain't no expert but he is a striker and I believe that is what he is on the pitch to do... score.

[Trueblue1982 48]

Even 2-0 up against B'ham didnt feel that confident.Espically after the penatly they just completly seemed to fall apart.

Yeah defintly they seem to get to relaxed or loose complete concentraion.Espically this season in the last 10 minutes or so.

i didnt have that horrible gut feeling today, i think we looked solid all game, and on an even postive note, everton beat spuds, 4 points of 3rd drag them into a fight for 3rd and 4th, draw will do nicely monday !!!

[nullabletype 987]

Dont see why some people are criticizing Drogba anyway, he may of not played to the best of his abilities but he scored didn't he? I ain't no expert but he is a striker and I believe that is what he is on the pitch to do... score.

Unfortunately the world of football isn't as black and white as that.

[carefreeluke 27]

I don't mind Stoke but fuck me were they dirty today. I'll have to see it again but Fuller's stamp was disgusting. Shawcross complaining about us time wasting at the end, fuck off. Stoke were doing it the whole game.

Looks like Di Matteo has gone back to the formation Ancelotti used. Credit to him for changing it as it was clear AVB's system was not working, he was bold in bringing on Mata in the first half also which in the end won us the game. I don't know where we'd be without Mata this season. All that matters is the three points at this point in the season, we must finish 4th especially as we will be bringing in a new manager, it will be harder to attract a manager if we're not in the Champions League.

Cahill today was quality, he's played well since he's joined us, I hope Di Matteo continues to play him alongside Terry as that's our best CB pairing. Unfortunately, there are still problems with how we set up, we've gone back to Ancelotti's formation but what cost Ancelotti in his second season was the lack of width we had especially on the right hand side. Ramires is playing on the right, the same role Anelka played, we have no winger or proper width. Even on the left today, Kalou was always coming inside. We looked most dangerous today, in the first half when Kalou and Ramires were in wide positions, every time they came inside we lacked options. We need width. I miss the days when we had Robben and Duff on the wings, proper wingers. Today, we also failed to get the ball on the floor and keep possession, we forced too many balls which ultimately helped Stoke.

Still a much improved performance and a much needed win.

[Badboy 1,526]

Correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure United needed 2 controversial pens to beat Stoke at Old Trafford and that was on a wide Old Trafford pitch.

Narrow pitches like The Bridge suit Stoke down to the ground.

Correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure United needed 2 controversial pens to beat Stoke at Old Trafford and that was on a wide Old Trafford pitch.

Narrow pitches like The Bridge suit Stoke down to the ground.

I meant it in a general sense, when teams go 10 men against united then you know what's going to happen.

[teignman 441]

Not exactly a top notch performance, but we did the business and got a bit of rest for some of our key players. Some of the oft-maligned players actually did pretty well (Mikel and Lamps). Kalou was actually decent, ish. Two final thoughts: Stoke are one of the worst teams to watch, and ShawX is a walking yellow card.

[Peace. 4,352]

Didn't see the game. Though, on paper it doesn't look good at all considering we were 11 Vs. 10 for 65th minutes.

[tmessy 139]

good result, other than DD playing like SHIT, it was a good goal, and good number 100 for a club legend... BUT! the starting XI was not the best and i think RDM quickly saw that which was good than stubborn shit AVB... (cheers RDM)

Torres could of came on for mystery man Kalou, and honestly he probably would of brought the best out of drogba being that he would actually work and more than likely give that pass (that he needs for himself) to drogba...

should work on that tandem... torres has the best link up play and one of our best dribblers...

----mata----

------torres--

-DD----------

like manure do with the little fuck and shrek...

[Tomo 21,733]

I meant it in a general sense, when teams go 10 men against united then you know what's going to happen.

The team that went down for 10 men will go ultra defensive like Stoke did and United would eventully grind them down (which we did).

[CHOULO19 24,332]

[bababoom 4,478]

No they're not!, did anyone complain when we beat Bolton 5-1?, no they didn't. Infact hardly anyone even said, well Bolton are just really terrible, infact did anyone even say that?. You don't know that, and i'll tell you why you don't, because our shit team can't put in a good performance to actually know if people are unhappy when we win and put in a good performance.

The people who complain are no where to be seen when we win comfortably. It's only when we play shit, they come out and start writing nonsense.

Like for example, when AVB was here, every time we played bad we had the same people writing in the 'AVB OUT' thread... when we won games, they were no where to be seen, they never even praised him, these are the same people who ONLY talk about negative stuff... i'm tired of it.