Closed Chelsea 2-0 West Ham

[Buffalo talks Blue 85]

Brilliant shot that

Brilliant ass that .

[sureshot 20]

Lol as if he has gotten that from Benitez rly... he was just doing what the coaches asked them, you dont actually believe Benitez told him to do all that what he did yesterday?

Yesterday he was playing like he did @Lille, like he wants to play... if anything thank Rudi Garcia...

I'm not saying he didn't already have it in him or anything. I'm just saying, him asking the ball after moving away from the sideline, inbetween the lines is something he started doing more efficiently. Something I think is due to the boring positioning training they went trough in the past weeks. I've watched every game of him at Lille, he has been spectacular don't get me wrong, but he didn't have Mata or other worldclass players to play with. And if you think players don't evolve due to managers I think the"Lol" is on you.

With a team like this you want pressure on the ball, you want to push forward, you want fast football. And Chelsea under Di Mateo was too slow and predictable. I don't say he wouldn't get there either, that's something we'll never know.

I think also he's not a guy who wants to impose himself and he want to make his feet talk so it's a natural process to evolve and make himself more important game by game.

I don't like Benitez that much either but you got to tip your hat for that manager being in the position and pressure he is.

[Mundaka 243]

I'm not saying he didn't already have it in him or anything. I'm just saying, him asking the ball after moving away from the sideline, inbetween the lines is something he started doing more efficiently. Something I think is due to the boring positioning training they went trough in the past weeks. I've watched every game of him at Lille, he has been spectacular don't get me wrong, but he didn't have Mata or other worldclass players to play with. And if you think players don't evolve due to managers I think the"Lol" is on you.

With a team like this you want pressure on the ball, you want to push forward, you want fast football. And Chelsea under Di Mateo was too slow and predictable. I don't say he wouldn't get there either, that's something we'll never know.

I think also he's not a guy who wants to impose himself and he want to make his feet talk so it's a natural process to evolve and make himself more important game by game.

I don't like Benitez that much either but you got to tip your hat for that manager being in the position and pressure he is.

I know what kind off coach Benitez is, and all of his teams played rigid football (liverpool, inter), i think this mustve been the first time a team under Benitez that the players switched positions that many times. And to say that it was predicatable under Di Mateo? What do you call the football under Benitez then the first 3/4 months???

Only thing i give Benitez credit for in comparison to DM is that the players track back better, but optimally that wont even be needed, its just a matter of positionplay, they run way to much now.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/mar/17/chelsea-john-terry-coins-west-ham

The FA rn't going to do anything about it. West Ham fans r just spoilt brats!

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The Metropolitan police is investigating incidents of coin-throwing by West Ham supporters at Chelsea, with the Football Association expected to launch its own inquiry once the referee's report has been filed.

[Laoch20 22]

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3113230/title/frank-lampard---200-chelsea-goals

A really good article Breaking down all of Franks 200 goals.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Brilliant shot that

And who says that the future can't relate to the past?

[Rupert 130]

I know what kind off coach Benitez is, and all of his teams played rigid football (liverpool, inter), i think this mustve been the first time a team under Benitez that the players switched positions that many times. And to say that it was predicatable under Di Mateo? What do you call the football under Benitez then the first 3/4 months???

Only thing i give Benitez credit for in comparison to DM is that the players track back better, but optimally that wont even be needed, its just a matter of positionplay, they run way to much now.

You don't know Benitez or you would't make such an ill-informed statement. He is not known for rigid boring football. You must be thinking of Mourinho.

LFC under Rafa scored more goals in a season than ever before in their long history, also more points in the PL. The players at Inter, LFC, Valencia and his earlier teams all spoke of his flexibility. How he expected them to know three or four formations and to change the formations during a match. In Spain he is thought of as near genius for the way his Valencia team cut through the opposition - winning the Liga twice over Real Madrid and Barcelona beating both of those teams on the way. In fact he got the LFC job partly because the exciting and swashbukling way he demolished LFC at Anfield in the previous season during a CL match. (LFC supporters, who are very well informed, were typically appreciative of the performance even though it was by an opposing team). Many players have spoken about his influence on them - how he taught them the small things that made them more effective and better team players. Torres, for example, has give Rafa a lot of the credit for his explosive form at LFC. Most critics would agree that Gerrard and even Carragher had their best years under Rafa and there are many others who blossomed under his direction.

[Mundaka 243]

Would be strange if he wouldnt have made players better at all after those years... but the way we played yesterday is not his style, at all, and certainly not something he teached Hazard in a few weeks...and i compare with teams that play very fluid football as in ajax, dortmound, barcelona, lille, brazial clubs, Belgian/Holland/Brazilian/Chili NT's...

You can (try to) be tactically flexible, but still be rigid btw...(fe Mansitty)

Ow andscoring goals and being rigid has nothing to do with eachother anyways, like you mentioned, look at RM

+ your list of his victory's/tactics n stuff seems nice and all but is really next to the point...

[Ankit 3,176]

Brilliant shot that

This is not from the west ham match. It's from some other match, i know it because i made it my DP right after.

[1chelsea 864]

Sweet is all I want to say

[TrippingStep 336]

I'm not saying he didn't already have it in him or anything. I'm just saying, him asking the ball after moving away from the sideline, inbetween the lines is something he started doing more efficiently. Something I think is due to the boring positioning training they went trough in the past weeks. I've watched every game of him at Lille, he has been spectacular don't get me wrong, but he didn't have Mata or other worldclass players to play with. And if you think players don't evolve due to managers I think the"Lol" is on you.

With a team like this you want pressure on the ball, you want to push forward, you want fast football. And Chelsea under Di Mateo was too slow and predictable. I don't say he wouldn't get there either, that's something we'll never know.

I think also he's not a guy who wants to impose himself and he want to make his feet talk so it's a natural process to evolve and make himself more important game by game.

I don't like Benitez that much either but you got to tip your hat for that manager being in the position and pressure he is.

Mandaka and you are partially right.

Some moves he made, he already tried it at Lilles but the technical quality of the players there were not great. Always 1second too slow to pass the ball in the pocket of space Hazard had to run past players.

With Balmont, Gervinho, Debuchy, they had so much players running blind alleys, it was frustrating to watch. Like they were not doing the same sport.

But you're also right, Benitez improved Hazard on some of his movements.

And for example inside the box, he moves a lot better than before, positioning himself in front of defenders to be first on the ball if the keeper fumble a little bit.

But it's easier with a player like Mata than with a player like Gervinho. At the end, Hazard was not following as much Gervinho as he would never looked to make a pass and know when to stop running.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Result - Chelsea WIN

Full-time score (Chelsea goals for first) - 2-0

Chelsea's first goalscorer - Super Frankie Lampard!!

[Mufassir08 2,400]

The most freaky thing for me was tony gale wanking over carroll's performance instead of mata or hazard .

[Backstreet09 499]

Ba was horrendous , missed like 4 open goals ? He got more through balls and had more chances than Torres had in his entire Chelsea Career . Oh yesh , I may sound a bit biased and I'm a Torres loverboy but that just was the shittiest performances I've ever witnessed with my two ugly guilty eyes in my whole shit life .

Torres on the other end , I know he has been shit . Sometimes it seems he even is not trying but well class is class and Ba hasn't got any =P

Come at me Broooooozzz , but this is the ugly truth and i just cant stop laughing on the dudes who were saying we should go on with Lukaku and Ba next season ? SERIOUSLY >.<

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

The most freaky thing for me was tony gale wanking over carroll's performance instead of mata or hazard .

Played 10 Year for them...

[Special Juan 27,474]

Tony Gale and Craig Burley should be put against a wall and shot along with the person who invented crab sticks.

Fahct.

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea have kept 11 clean sheets in 29 Premier League matches this season, compared to just 10 in 38 in the whole of last season.

[Strike 7,271]

This is not from the west ham match. It's from some other match, i know it because i made it my DP right after.

Oh...not surprised. Site seemed dodgy to give away classy pics