Title Run In

[Viper22 2,418]

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/303589.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

^Read that if you all want a bit of a cheer up.

Schurrle and Schwarzer hitting the nail on the head, they're both so right. It's all jealousy - lap it up, Jose loves it!

Schurrle - "If people look at us and say 'Chelsea can't play' even when we win, it's just because they're jealous.".

Schwarzer- "It's quite amusing to hear the criticism because the bottom line is there was a tactic we employed and it worked down to a tee. We played within the rules and we played the best way we thought we could get a result, tried to frustrate Liverpool and it worked."

[cosmicway 1,333]

The three historical upsides of Greece:

Panionios - AEK 3-2 in 1960

Ethnikos Piraeus - Panathinaikos 4-2 in 1962

Panionios - Panathinaikos 2-1 in 1966

The last one sparked political crisis with the Panathinaikos manager Stephan Bobeck accused of disseminating communist propaganda (of all things) to the players and hence make them lose.

It was however one team involved. In our case we need two together !

[Jase 43,479]

Worth noting that Man City have only won twice in 16 Premier League meetings against Goodison Park against Everton and they've lost 10 times in that run including 4 defeats in last 4 seasons.

[lionsden 4,689]

Just this year (2014), not including the earlier part of the season...

Add Newcastle (L), West Brom (D), and Stoke (L) to that from 2013, and you'll see why people including myself harp about us not being good enough against the smaller teams as the reason why we're probably not going to win the PL this year.

Fixing this issue should be the main priority next season. we cannot keep relying on luck and individual brilliance to bail us out against the smaller teams. we have to become a better flat track bully whilst keeping our big game record next season.

[Melanicus 5,208]

We are so fucking good.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Apart from the West Ham game where we weren't clinical enough, in the other games we just weren't good enough, barely created any quality chances. The amount of shots do not indicate proper chances either.

one or two quality strikers would still have scored at least one goal between them from those half-chances in these matches.

[The Skipper 20,609]

one or two quality strikers would still have scored at least one goal between them from those half-chances in these matches.

I'm not disagreeing with that.

[lionsden 4,689]

one or two quality strikers would still have scored at least one goal between them from those half-chances in these matches.

And you know that for certain. how?

Man utd on paper have arguably the best striking pair in the league, how come their world class strikers (rooney and RVP) are unable to score from the "half chances" they have created this season to lift them higher up the table. they have been as terrible as us in terms of breaking down parked defences. The difference is our rock solid defence and jose.

Truth is there's a correlation between creativity and strikers productivity. The difference between the RVP of last season and this season is the change in level of creativity of the team. they were very creative last season, great strikers need quality service in order to be effective and productive.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

There should (could) be a thread on this great site were we can discuss non-Chelsea related football, for instance the Bayern vs Madrid game.

[Jase 43,479]

There should (could) be a thread on this great site were we can discuss non-Chelsea related football, for instance the Bayern vs Madrid game.

We have a thread for that...

http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/12965-the-european-leagues-competitions-thread-v2/page-285#entry894028

For any threads about non-Chelsea related topics, check out the 'Football Banter' section.

[Steagles 70]

Having Lukaku could've been golden this season... but maybe Jose can still pull the EPL title out with some help from around the league.

[LAM09 7,043]

Having Lukaku could've been golden this season... but maybe Jose can still pull the EPL title out with some help from around the league.

This is the weekend that decides the title IMO. If all teams win, City will be champs. I just have a feeling they will slip up though.

[Jase 43,479]

This is really just f**king depressing!!

[Rmpr 8,977]

If we had just a tiny bit of experience we would've won the league by now!

Also, I dont even need to mention our striker situation...

[didierforever 7,349]

This is really just f**king depressing!!

that "truly" is depressing... how the fuck did that happen.