Closed Norwich 1-3 Chelsea

[James 5,214]

Just back from the game!

♬ THE SHIT FROM SPURS THEY BOUGHT HIS FLIGHT BUT WILLIAN HE SAW THE LIGHT HE GOT A CALL FROM ABRAMOVICH AND OFF HE WENT TO STAMFORD BRIDGE ♬

[quickpassnmove 924]

Yea....luckily it'll only happen after January if it ever happens. By then we'd have our midfield sorted out with a big money move like Witsel(hopefully).

City in 2 weeks time

what a great midfield duo Paulinho and Witsel would have been. how bout Pogba and Witsel? IDK but Chelsea need MORE in center midfield. Mikel, Essien, Lampard? laughable compared to top European sides and some of EPL sides.

[Shane 2,275]

what a great midfield duo Paulinho and Witsel would have been. how bout Pogba and Witsel? IDK but Chelsea need MORE in center midfield. Mikel, Essien, Lampard? laughable compared to top European sides and some of EPL sides.

I'd imagine your a troll, but your post is crazy. The system we play allows Lampard to sit deep and Ramires to do the running, which they are doing to great effect lately. Spurs splashed out on the likes of Paulinho, Eriksen etc and when Lampard and Ramires went to centre midfield against Spurs we bossed them.

[Strike 7,251]

Didn't break Norwich down though. Won through a counter

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Just to clarify: Chelsea with a singular driving force in center midfield is good enough to actually play football (not park the bus) to compete for another European title? What does Lampard contribute in your world?

Well I've heard he's quite good at scoring goals... I don't think he is the world class player he once was and we need to improve in that area if we are to compete for another European title.

But we just beat Norwich away from home, played OK and you only find the negatives. Drives me insane. Do you think Chelsea fans who were at the game are sat on the train home and finding negatives about the team?

We won. Be happy.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Glad we won but in the second half, there was way too much space between the central defense and central midfield.

Ramires and Lampard attracted out of position too easily leaving a lot of spaces behind which is why Norwich managed to create something almost every time they went forward in the second half. Our fullback's positioning, especially Cole, was very bad at times. It was weird today, because we weren't exactly committing a lot of men forward, yet we always looked short at the back! Not our best performance at all.

how come FPL doesn't consider that Oscar pass an assist for Eden? I need points

Probably because Tettey got the assist

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Just back from the game!

♬ THE SHIT FROM SPURS THEY BOUGHT HIS FLIGHT BUT WILLIAN HE SAW THE LIGHT HE GOT A CALL FROM ABRAMOVICH AND OFF HE WENT TO STAMFORD BRIDGE ♬

Loud and clear for the last 10 minutes! Great support.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

MOTM - Mourinho.

[quickpassnmove 924]

Well I've heard he's quite good at scoring goals... I don't think he is the world class player he once was and we need to improve in that area if we are to compete for another European title.

But we just beat Norwich away from home, played OK and you only find the negatives. Drives me insane. Do you think Chelsea fans who were at the game are sat on the train home and finding negatives about the team?

We won. Be happy.

I'll be happy when Chelsea can play quick, expansive football in the future. not happening this season. thanks to Willian, there was a spark. thanks to Norwich's failures and new players integrating, Chelsea got some slack.

[DJames 729]

The last 10 mins or so of the game is how we need to start playing from the start! Ok enough game we weren't sublime but we got the job done eventually. 3 points in the bag at the end.

[bushman 2,043]

Today´s game showed how important Chelsea bench was. How many teams can match that ? Not many in my view.

Jose´s bold substitutions helped to win the game.

[Wimbledonblue 94]

City in 2 weeks time

The terrifying thought of City at home eh? They lost their last away game to Villa. Also lost to Cardiff on the road. They were lucky to get a point at Stoke as well. Why are you scared of a team that has been absolutely shit away from the Etihad this season? Please, enlighten me.

[Jase 43,479]

Disagree with the comments giving Mourinho the credits for the win, the players, including some Norwich players, won us this match. His reactive nature nearly cost us the victory.

Exactly, they were flying once Mou started playing with 3 defenders.

Our build up wasn't the best.. Our goals then came from their big mistakes, but we did have some input in them:

Bad Norwich corner>Ivanovic header>Aerial challenge won by Hazard>Long pass from Oscar>Bassong Mistake>Goal

Bad challenge from a couple of Norwich players while none was marking Willian>Brilliant goal

However we didn't play bad before we got equalized, and just because Mata didn't score or assist it doesn't mean he was bad. He was ok.

Willian has the talent, it's a matter of consistency now for him.

Cheers!

Yes, you could say his tactical changes could have cost us the game but at the same time, his changes in the formation and bringing attacking players on, helped us to crank up the pressure and arguably won us the game. He took risks in trying to win the game. Can sometimes go either way. Shouldn't be surprised with it since it's Mourinho. Better than Benitez who just sticks with the same system and makes like for like changes(and probably happy with a draw)...

[Tomo 21,733]

Wait till we play City....Yaya is gonna gonna get some.

Depends which Yaya turns up, if the one who played against us last season does were in trouble, if it's the one who turned up at White Hart Lane last April, then were playing 10 men.

[Wimbledonblue 94]

I'll be happy when Chelsea can play quick, expansive football in the future. not happening this season. thanks to Willian, there was a spark. thanks to Norwich's failures and new players integrating, Chelsea got some slack.

I would call our 2nd half performance against Spurs 'quick, expansive football.' We have a team that are more than capable of doing so. Either you have a very short memory or know absolutely nothing about football. I'm going for the latter.

[Jase 43,479]

Yea....luckily it'll only happen after January if it ever happens. By then we'd have our midfield sorted out with a big money move like Witsel(hopefully).

City in 2 weeks time

3 weeks actually.

And if you have been watching City this season, you would notice that they aren't the same physical and defensive force under Mancini. They are arguably more attack minded and fluid offensively under Pellegrini but defensively they are a suspect, as proven by their 3 league away games this season and against Bayern. City now only play with 2 midfielders in Fernandinho and Toure and despite their qualities, there are always spaces to be exploited behind them when you get at them and their defenders look shaky in 1 v 1 situation.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

The terrifying thought of City at home eh? They lost their last away game to Villa. Also lost to Cardiff on the road. They were lucky to get a point at Stoke as well. Why are you scared of a team that has been absolutely shit away from the Etihad this season? Please, enlighten me.

They have better quality in the centre midfield area and we, at this point to time, lack a midfield enforcer to dictate the flow of the game. All the more, we have a misfiring and inefficient firing squad up front.

I'm not saying they're better than us, just that they have better quality in the areas we are not so good. But we have our AMs and Mourinho. Not terrified, though.

BTW, those results have got nothing to do with the City we have to face.

[robsblubot 3,529]

As a Cole fanboy i haven't recognised he's so bad all this season,but today i saw. He really needs to be droped and rayan should get a chance.

any way lets keep this momentum.

he's older now and fullbacks need pace; he will regain his fitness in a bit.

Voted Oscar, but MotM for me really was Jose Mourinho.