Closed Man City 0-1 Chelsea

[drog.ba 239]

Hey remember this is a team in evolution, We are adding Mangala, Luke Shaw and Top class Striker this summer. Next year is going to be our year,

Jose is a tactical genius and we need to sign him for 10 years now.

We got Zouma instead of Mangala

[robdog 2,084]

I have to vote for Branna as the POTM. Not only did he score a goal, he performed his defensive duties perfectly. That one slide tackle on the endline in the second half where, he stopped the cross & was able to control the ball was simply marvelous. Couldn't ask for a better performance from him.

[Styles 9,790]

Masterclass. City couldn't live with us.

[Valdo 583]

Meanwhile at the Etihad

[zolayes 14,489]

I was wrong and I absolutely love it. And what a match of football.

a warning 1966 we won W C and celebrated ,,, 9 months later ,,,,,,,,,

[drog.ba 239]

Immense performance, I feel like Mourinho is designing a squad for these big games. Matic was excellent again; if he can add more goals we will be talking about Messi, Ronaldo and Hazard as the best three in the world. Tactically we can win these games without a new striker. Against teams that play like West Ham we need two world class strikers.

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Brilliant football match. Get the fuck in boys, deserved it.

Cahill, Matic, Luiz and Hazard the stand out players. Watching Eden Hazard play is like watching porn - the boy is special.

[Starman60 1,343]

AWESOME..............WE WERE FUCKING AWESOME

Now my team rating, player by player

Cech... awesome

Ivanovich.............awesome

Aspi.....................awesome

Terry...................awesome

Cahill..................awesome

Luiz....................awesome

Matic..................awesome

Ramirez.............awesome

Hazard...............awesome

Willian...............awesome

Eto'o..................awesome

Oscar................awesome

Mikel.................awesome

Ba.....................awesome

and lets not forget our Scottish masseuse who gave the team talk (according to Mourinho!!)...........awesome

and finally, Mourinho...........FUCKING AWESOME !!!!!!!!!

[robdog 2,084]

Gary Cahill vs Man City: 1 interception, 2 shots blocked, SIXTEEN clearances, ELEVEN aerial duels won. Just call him "Big Match Gaz"! #CFC

Don't forget his headers on goal. One that beat Hart, but was saved by his friend the post

[Barbara 15,149]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that sums up nicely this match.

In all seriousness, we just owned their arses in their turf. It was brilliant, it was orgasmic, it was sooooo fucking goooooooooooood.

Not for one moment I felt we weren't winning, not even when we hit the wood for the third time. That match had our name on it and we deserved the win.

I said before the match about this being the same tactics as against United, and in all honesty, I'm not sure if it wasn't. That was our third match of the season and now almost six months later we executed the plan down to T.

I even go as farther as saying that the opponent made a difference here. Unlike Arsenal and United who were cautious playing us, City did their thing and came for us - it's just they never got us, and by consequence we've explored all the spaces they left brilliantly.

Matic, Cahill, Hazard and Cech (in no order) are my MOTM (although in the poll I voted for Eden). They were simply fabulous, fantastic, on raping-mode.

Luiz was amazing in the pivot, Azpili did very well imo against Navas, Willian was a monster defending and helped Hazard in the attack (but god help us, we need a set-piece takes asap, all his corners and lateral free kicks are useless)

My only complain goes to Ramires and please correct me if I'm wrong - as I feel like I might be nitpicking. I bitched about him before the match, during the match and now I still feel if Oscar (or in all honesty anyone else) has played instead of him, the impact might have been even bigger. He was good defensively for some part of the match, but for most part of the second half he was tired, and compromised even defensively. He was absolutely TERRIBLE attacking, killing some of our attack, destroying our best chances and he's offered them a couple of chances too. I was never a big Ramires fan, but his performances for us in the UCL and ofc his stamina and energy in almost all matches won me over, but as I see this team progressing, I think after we solve our striker issue, it's time to find a better partner for Matic. Luiz just proved the difference a better player with Matic can do in our midfield and consequently domination.

Ramires is really good, but I think progressing as we are as a team, if we don't replace him coming next season, he'll be the weak link of the team. Maybe it's just PMS and nitpicking on my part, but I feel we could bring another guy next season, maybe van Ginkel can already be that guy, but looking at the players we have in all positions now, I think we can survive with the FBs we have, but we'd be rapists if we had a better partner for Matic... Luiz and Matic today just RAPED their midfield, but although I was very pro Luiz-Matic for this match I'm very against Luiz in the pivot in general.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Yo City

[blu35_army 551]

3 shoot hit the post,,they just lucky not conceeded more...

ETIHAD IS FALLING DOWN,,FALLING DOWN,,FALLING DOWN....

ETIHAD IS FALLING DOWN....

BY MOURINHO....

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[zyzz 711]

Just realised that we kept a clean sheet at Old Trafford, Emirates and Etihad. Good old Chelsea. :blue scalf:

[BlueLyon 9,359]

City is best team in world they said.

Well said.

[calculatingInfinity 1,443]

Great stuff and some players really showed some fantastic skills. There was a lot of good performances, Hazard was obviously the offensive oracle, but the whole defense was fantastic as well, Azpilicueta has been a revelation this season and Cahill started making much better decisions.

Matic was also nothing short of great, powerful and strong to win most of the midfield battles, but also very competent at going forward.

It was a great win, but if you must look at the negatives, which there were some of, I really wish Ramires would start fucking thinking before he does what he does. Today he seemed to lose the ball and destroy counters nearly every time he got the ball in that kind of situation, often also just blindly running into a wall of City defenders when there was much better passing options or just making bad passes. He works his ass off though which is always admirable, but dammit he can be frustrating.

The lack of goals is also still as worrying as ever, imagine what a team Chelsea could be with a striker of some physical presence of some quality.

[Chelsea? 892]

Right, can all the people who claimed we wouldn't live with them show themselves please and as quick as they were to have a go at us praise us for this result.

Absolute fucking class tonight, some in that earlier match thread should be fucking ashamed of they way they put us down.

Chelsea proving people wrong again.

FUCKING GET IN!!!!!

I was sure we'd park a bus. I even felt it was probably the right thing to do. But Jose showed why he's EASILY the best coach in the EPL

[robdog 2,084]

Not for one moment I felt we weren't winning, not even when we hit the wood for the third time. That match had our name on it and we deserved the win.

Sorry I didn't share your confidence. It was always squeaky bum time, especially when Speedy Gonzalez (love that moniker from Jose) got the ball. We didn't really have an answer to him. Also that the ref was catering to Citeh. They had some very good chances (I think Silva had like 3 of them). We held on. I was hoping we could get another goal, but hey I take the 1-0 win. I just love Boring Boring Chelsea

[wiefisoichiro 12]

Eat you city, we doubled city in this season, stop the streak last season, and well played by chelsea. Gratefully mou hear me to choice luiz-matic, the beat pivot in the world