Closed Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal

[Hutcho 8,443]

Exactly.

LOL! Joker!

[Ollie 4,400]

Indeed, the first half was absolutely fantastic, especially doing it against a team like Arsenal. We did it to them in the first half at the emirates too. The 2nd half was bad but considering we just let a 2-0 lead slip against Southampton, it should breed confidence that given the same scenario we managed to see the game out.

Probably get the cunts moaning about our goals and making excuses but the facts are:

Martin Atkinson is a blue, i knew we'd win when he was appointed lol

The foul on Coquelin didn't change the flow of the move, he gave the ball away, end of.

Szecesny never moaned about the pen, he knew.

Oscar was blatantly fouled in the first few mins and that shoulda been a pen.

in Arsene we trust.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Considering how bad Hazard was in the beginning of the season, I think he's the best defensively out of the 3 amigos now. Does put in some work, but still went missing once or twice in the second half.

Mata is the weakest defensively. Oscar can do the job in the middle pressing, tackling and marking but on the wings I think he's completely lost. He's shockingly bad at positioning when in defense.

To be fair though, not having a midfield that can control a game also hurts all our attacking mids. Today under pressure, Hazard and Mata were clueless in posession whenever they did win it back. But that's a tough position for them, you can't expect your attacking mids to help control a game in your own half, we missed JT and Mikel.

But that first half, I downloaded it and watched it again, mmmm so sexy! I'd say our best half under Benitez, more of the same against Swansea.

[DJames 729]

First half we were very good. I'm dissappointed in Ramires though...he could have passed it to Mata ( i think it was) who was in the box in front of the freaking goal instead of a launching it into the stands. Ba also had a good chance to score but was a bit unlucky although I'm sure he saw the defender there and it would have been better for him to attempt a high ball instead of that low ball he did. Torres hmm I dunno what to say about him had two good runs but his finishing is worst that an amateur. The last 10 minutes or so of the game was nerve wrecking but we came away with the win and points and that's all that matters.

Cahill is my motm just for that last minute clearance

[Dion 2,476]

Considering how bad Hazard was in the beginning of the season, I think he's the best defensively out of the 3 amigos now. Does put in some work, but still went missing once or twice in the second half.

Mata is the weakest defensively. Oscar can do the job in the middle pressing, tackling and marking but on the wings I think he's completely lost. He's shockingly bad at positioning when in defense.

To be fair though, not having a midfield that can control a game also hurts all our attacking mids. Today under pressure, Hazard and Mata were clueless in posession whenever they did win it back. But that's a tough position for them, you can't expect your attacking mids to help control a game in your own half, we missed JT and Mikel.

But that first half, I downloaded it and watched it again, mmmm so sexy! I'd say our best half under Benitez, more of the same against Swansea.

I thought Oscar defended really well today, he won the ball back at least two or three times. But when he is on the wings he's clearly worse. The best plays from him came when he was more centralized today.

[Rupert 130]

What are you on about... Rafa is the one making the tactical changes and substituions. He has made glaring errors that are obvious to everyone regarding those things. Where did i say that whenever we draw or lose its rafa's fault. Specific to this game, are you trying to tell me that he did some amazing managerial work today. You don't get it do you... I am more than happy winning every game 2-1, but we should have been comfortable and we had to hold on against that arsenal team for virtually all of the second half which isn't an ideal situation...And thankfully we were able to, due to some defensive heroics from the likes of cahill etc.

Man Utd were under pressure from LFC last week - even Ferguson said it was tense. They gave up a goal to Spurs today in the last minute of extra time. You don't hear Man Utd supporters rounding on their manager when they win or draw - its only Chelsea fans who do that.

[robdog 2,084]

Man Utd were under pressure from LFC last week - even Ferguson said it was tense. They gave up a goal to Spurs today in the last minute of extra time. You don't hear Man Utd supporters rounding on their manager when they win or draw - its only Chelsea fans who do that.

Bro you are delusional. You talking about the same manure fans that were burning cars in the street when The Glazers purchased the club. Yes, two years ago manure fans felt that Sir Red was past it. Yes, we don't want help from telly tubby. We will never accept. And the reason why CFC won today, was not due to rafadyce's incompetence but le arse not having enough firepower to defeat CFC. le arse aren't the invincibles from 10 years ago. They are a shell of themselves & most likely it will be the last we see le voyeur managing that side. Hey you want to hoop & holla that CFC won, then by all means go ahead, but try to sell rafadyce's failed tactics as an improvement of what we seen in our recent past, cause it's not. Yes, CFC fans don't like rafa & he doesn't like us. C'est la vie

[Hutcho 8,443]

Man Utd were under pressure from LFC last week - even Ferguson said it was tense. They gave up a goal to Spurs today in the last minute of extra time. You don't hear Man Utd supporters rounding on their manager when they win or draw - its only Chelsea fans who do that.

Lol... Ok firstly they didn't have their best striker sitting on the bench for 80 Mins. Or have their best defender sitting on the bench the whole game. And it's only Chelsea fans.... So arsenal fans going crazy about wenger didn't happen right... When rafa makes such obvious mistakes they are still mistakes whether we win lose or draw that have already come back to bite us... Please tell me how I have said every game we lose or draw is on rafa... I didn't say that. This game we won contained some major managerial problems... We got away with it which is great. But he has too often been reactive in when he makes his changes rather than being proactive and that is concerning...

[Joe Cool 388]

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v43268822Rpgtckg4

Best part of the game for me.

[royg 96]

Torres starting this game was not ideal, but Making Demba Ba play 3 games in 7 days, with another important game in 2 more days, i.e. 4 games in 9 days, is crazy.

I dont think Rafa really had much of a choice, as the only chance of overturning the COC deficit against Swansea, is to have Ba start.

And in hindsight, since we won this game, now we will have Ba to start vs Swansea, its good rotation.

Yes, the Subtitution could have happened earlier.

However, IMO it is wrong to curse him no matter what he does....

If Ba started today and we won , but then torres started against swansea, and we could not go through, RAFA = VILLAIN

Torres started today and we won, and Demba will probably start vs Swansea, RAFA IS STILL A VILLAIN

He is not what we wanted, but lets try and judge his rotation with some sort of reasoning.

Spot on mate! To be fair with Rafa his Bertrand substitution was indeed a game changer in some manner. We really need some stability in the midfiled specially when opponents are pressing.

[Term-X 7,891]

Hazard man of the match, joy to watch atm, Ramires could have easily been the villain yesterday.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Hazard man of the match, joy to watch atm, Ramires could have easily been the villain yesterday.

How?

[Kojo 4,676]

How?

Despite him breaking up a lot of Arsenals play and grafting in the midfield, his shocking decision making did almost cost us.

Especially that chance where he skied it, how the fuck did he even do that? like sweet jesus.

Though fair play to him he did a lot of work and if you look at it one way, without him we might of conceded more. However I'm not convinced he should be our permanent DM, he's good but not great, should be a squad player.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Despite him breaking up a lot of Arsenals play and grafting in the midfield, his shocking decision making did almost cost us.

Especially that chance where he skied it, how the fuck did he even do that? like sweet jesus.

Though fair play to him he did a lot of work and if you look at it one way, without him we might of conceded more. However I'm not convinced he should be our permanent DM, he's good but not great, should be a squad player.

He does make some dumb decisions, but if we were going to blame it on a clear chance it should have been BA. I love him and I just bougt a long sleeve shirt with his name on the back, but you just dont lose such a clear chance.

I just dont think you can say Rambo almost cost us the game, it is pretty strong. You can say his shot was ridiculous though.

[Kojo 4,676]

He does make some dumb decisions, but if we were going to blame it on a clear chance it should have been BA. I love him and I just bougt a long sleeve shirt with his name on the back, but you just dont lose such a clear chance.

I just dont think you can say Rambo almost cost us the game, it is pretty strong. You can say his shot was ridiculous though.

That was just an example, there was a few chances where his decision making was nuts. Though I'll admit it is harsh, as without him i think we would of been hopeless.

That's two good games for him against Arsenal now, he seems to love playing against them. One thing you can't deny is Ramires's commitment to the team, Ramires is a difficult player to work out, but i will say he's inconsistent, but he's consistent. Like I've never seen him have a shocker once, his worst game I've seen was against Napoli, when him and Meireles where getting skinned all over and we lost 3-1. However Ramires has such a consistent mentallity that he never gives up, ad because of his pace he can always get himself back into the game regardless of how many mistakes he's made. Though his technical abillity is what's inconsistent, he will pull out wonders like his goal and assist against Barcelona, then he will pull off the worst crosses in history and completely ruin a great and easy chance.

His dribbling is weird also, he seems to be so useless with skill, then he will go and take on two man city defenders then place it past Joe Hart...

[Rmpr 8,977]

That was just an example, there was a few chances where his decision making was nuts. Though I'll admit it is harsh, as without him i think we would of been hopeless.

That's two good games for him against Arsenal now, he seems to love playing against them. One thing you can't deny is Ramires's commitment to the team, Ramires is a difficult player to work out, but i will say he's inconsistent, but he's consistent. Like I've never seen him have a shocker once, his worst game I've seen was against Napoli, when him and Meireles where getting skinned all over and we lost 3-1. However Ramires has such a consistent mentallity that he never gives up, ad because of his pace he can always get himself back into the game regardless of how many mistakes he's made. Though his technical abillity is what's inconsistent, he will pull out wonders like his goal and assist against Barcelona, then he will pull off the worst crosses in history and completely ruin a great and easy chance.

His dribbling is weird also, he seems to be so useless with skill, then he will go and take on two man city defenders then place it past Joe Hart...

You are being way too harsh. Not because the things you said arent true, but because you cant have such high expectations like if Rambo was a superb world class player. He is a limited overall player, but he does a very good job on role he is supposed to and he also works really hard.

I have said this already, Lampard is going to LA and we need a top CM (Deep Lying Playmaker) to balance what we have with Ramires. In games where you need tackling and speed you play Rambo and in games where you need better ball control, vision and skills you use the new player. With the players we have right now we are very limited and this causes us to expect more from our players than they can offer. I would love for Rambo to be blended with Fernandinho, but it just wont happen. He still an important player to the team, no matter what.

I think we wouldnt win without Ramires. He had his mistakes (but no one said it was a perfect game), but his upsides were greater today.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

I think Ramires is actually a very good dribbler, def the best dribbler out of all our CMs. He had a shocking miss today but I don't even think his decision making is bad, I actually think more often than not it's very very good. But he has his flaws as people have pointed out horrible first touch and just not good enough to help control a game in the middle of the pitch.

[communicate 2,703]

You are being way too harsh. Not because the things you said arent true, but because you cant have such high expectations like if Rambo was a superb world class player. He is a limited overall player, but he does a very good job on role he is supposed to and he also works really hard.

I have said this already, Lampard is going to LA and we need a top CM (Deep Lying Playmaker) to balance what we have with Ramires. In games where you need tackling and speed you play Rambo and in games where you need better ball control, vision and skills you use the new player. With the players we have right now we are very limited and this causes us to expect more from our players than they can offer. I would love for Rambo to be blended with Fernandinho, but it just wont happen. He still an important player to the team, no matter what.

I think we wouldnt win without Ramires. He had his mistakes (but no one said it was a perfect game), but his upsides were greater today.

I think a better pairing for rambo should be a player in the mold of carrick/xabi alonso, somebody who can let Ramires to go up and down all day. Rami really looks uncomfortable when he is played as holding midfielder and being pressed