Closed Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa
POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS



English Premier League
21st August, Wednesday, 2013
Stamford Bridge
19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

[Match Stats]

Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa

Goalscorers: Chelsea - 6' Luna OG, 73' Ivanovic / Aston Villa - 45' Benteke

Possession: 69% - 31%

Shots (on target): 15 (3) - 7 (3)

Corners: 1 - 2

Fouls: 13 - 16

Yellow Card: 1 - 3 (Chelsea - Ivanovic / Aston Villa - El Ahmadi, Westwood, Benteke)

Red Card: 0 - 0

*Stats obtained from ESPN website*

[Hutcho 8,443]

Got there in the end. Got the points. Jose made the right subs. Lukaku proved he is the best striker we have. We got a bit lucky but the points are ours. Improvement needs to be made, but we got the result.

Lukaku wasn't on for long but he looked lively and dangerous so he is my motm.

[Mr_President 404]

eh shaky performance, but 3pts matter most.

I know villa fans will whinge about the peno shout but, in my very biased opinion, it should have been a FK to us for a foul on Terry. The reason his arm was in the air was because he was being dragged down and climbed on by the Villa player, moving his arm like that was a natural reaction (for balance..)

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Terrible, terrible game. Villa will feel cheated and with good reason. We deserved to lose this match. JT was probably my MOTM, Rami was decent and everyone else was terrible. Ivanovic should be benched for a months for this performance.

Just want to forget this match..

[Barbara 15,149]

Cech is my motm

[Strike 7,218]

3 points. top of the table. get used to this, people

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Ramires was amazing. Again!

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Wasn't a good performance but managed to grind out a win, like we used to.

Cech saved us

Lukaku has to start until we get a new striker

[Hutcho 8,443]

Terrible, terrible game. Villa will fell cheated and with good reason. We deserved to lose this match. JT was probably my MOTM, Rami was decent and everyone else was terrible. Ivanovic should be played upfront after this performance.

Just want to forget this match..

fyp.

[Shakez 755]

Mata is not ready yet, Lukaku should start up front next game.

[Milan 17,857]

One of the Jose's bogey teams behind us, with three points in the bag. Can't complain. Unlike the crying Lambert. His tears will surely fog the camera when giving an interview.

[sainttourist 68]

The good thing is that we got 3 pts. Last season in this situations we always drop it. But improvement is must be done, with this game we hardly can achieve much.

[NishC300 1,865]

People here complaining about us getting lucky (which we did, Villa could easily have won the game)

But United have been winning like this for years.

Lukaku was incredible, did more than Ba did in 60 or so minutes.

Cech's my MOTM!

Ivanovic's awesome but he needs to remove this thuggish part of his defending. He concedes unnecessary cards because of this (a bit like Ramos does)

Loved Mourinho's interview!

[Strike 7,218]

Lukaku is our best striker. end of

[NishC300 1,865]

People here complaining about us getting lucky (which we did, Villa could easily have won the game)

But United have been winning like this for years.

Lukaku was incredible, did more than Ba did in 60 or so minutes.

Cech's my MOTM!

Ivanovic's awesome but he needs to remove this thuggish part of his defending. He concedes unnecessary cards because of this (a bit like Ramos does)

Loved Mourinho's interview!

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Cech is My MOTM...

Victory and 3 points!

[Thendo 1,088]

Brana was a beast today, motm for me!

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Very lucky to get the win but I'll take the 3 points. We're still finding our rhythm obviously and you could see how disjointed the front three looked. Hazard played well overall but Oscar and Mata were poor and never got much going. In general, our touch was just off. Missing the net, missing passes but it's early and the important thing is the win.