Closed Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa

[Blue Armour 4,290]

The next time Lampard plays in midfield, it better be further forward of a midfield pairing like Ramires--MVG or Essien-Ramires. When he plays in the pivot himself, he just ends up pegging his pivot partner back, like he did with Ramires today. Ramires got more freedom only when Oscar, and later MVG, moved into central midfield.

[cchuka 99]

We're up all night to get lucky

[Stingray 9,441]

Didn't see the game but with Iva, Cahill, Terry in the backline and Lampard Ramires as the deepest midfielder, I've only seen bad matches.

I bet there were huge spaces between the axial defense and Lampard and Ramires.

I hope we will not continue with this line-up. Mourinho or not it will not work.

Huge spaces .... The playing pitch was appeox. 60 meters between last defender and striker. Complete opposite from the Hull's first half.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Phew lucky Spurs did not get Benteke would have been in trouble if they had him

[Sheva. 5,373]

Mou said he played Ivan to deal with Benteke and those long balls, understandable. I won't complain much about this game, Ba for one really disrupted our play with like 6 offsides, plus Mata wasn't match fit.

We can play much better and everyone knows it, just need to discover our best team.

[NishC300 1,865]

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Schurrle did well today and he deserves a start against United Monday night. Lukaku showed he is the man while Ba had a interesting game. Mata was off today

[Weckerz 3,781]

Games like this win you Championships tbh

Several players not fit but winning games, that's how it's done.

Good result

[NishC300 1,865]

don't feel sorry for villa they have got lucky against us so often .. feel SO Sorry for BBC they are broken hearted ,,, wankers ITV is better

BBC radio?

the media is just desperate to get a reason to criticise us

[Barbara 15,149]

We played shite but still got 3 points, those type of games wins you title's.

that's how ManUtd have been doing it for years now. All good with me.

We will struggle a bit. The good news is that Luiz may be available next week already. It'll make me feel much better.

[Coop 114]

Press conference ? here ?

Ik keep refreshing, still no lifestream.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU2PacFf99vhb3hNiYDmxww

[The Rising Sun 710]

We are too slow in our build up play, simple as that.

And our players dont seem to have full fitness, which they should.

Schurlle looked better today.

[sdrcfc 461]

The best teams can win when they weren't playing particularly well, this was us today.

[borriske 330]

Cech MOTM for me - 2 saves that made the difference.

Lukaku good at what we knew he would be best at - coming on as a sub. Not sure he is starter's material, but we don't have anyone else tragically.

Kdb making a strong case for himself without playing

On a side note: David villa scoring against Barca in the super cup

[Tomo 21,733]

Ba showed today he is better than Torres but still nowhere near good enough to lead the line for us, hopefully we get a forward who can rotate with Lukaku, Martinez or Yilmaz would be ideal.

[enes 153]

Ivanovic is just a machine, pahhaha. The goal from Villa was unnecessary, but it was okay!

[The Skipper 20,593]

Big let off.

Only players to really hold it down today were Ramires, Cech, Schurrle & Lukaku when they both came on, and possibly JT. Most of the rest were pretty sub standard.

Villa really would've had at least a draw if it wasn't for big Petr Cech who is my MOTM.

Only real positives I take away from this game is our 3 pts and that our ability to win games even when not playing well seems to be coming back.

Looking very much forward to the United game.

[Stef 15]

Not a very good game, but winning these kind of games is often what teams that'll finish first at the end do! That's the same in every competition. I think noone would have believed an easy victory today after seeing Villa play against Arsenal. They play very physically, lotsa pressure on the ball so that makes it difficult for the Chelsea smaller and more technical players. I think we saw the proof of that today and yes I agree, Mata needs more time cause he's far from ready. Ba was nearly invisible and Hazard couldn't make a difference cause other players around him weren't at the level they had to be. That affected his game too and I'm sure a lot of you will criticize him for that. Mazacar wasn't what it should be today. Lukaku was full of energy and played a very mature game in my eyes. Is he the number one striker, NO. Not in my eyes but he will make a difference in a lot of games. 3 points, that's what counts in the end and a better performance against United.

Oh yeah I almost forgot; I got all my predictions wrong. So the thing we all learned today, never listen to what I say!!!!! :-)