Hybrid Angel 2,130 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Fucking quality night at Turf Moor, the away support was immense. Talk about a goal waking a team up, so much so I took Burnley to score first and Chelsea to win in Coral outside the ground.The crowd never stopped signing, and the players after giving away that early goal were totally superb. Fabregas was on another planet, and him sat in next to Matic is going the best midfield pairing this season by a long stretch. Matic just breaks everything up, he's like a fucking wall. Delighted for Costa, his touch into feet and link up play is immense, exactly the player we have craved.I won't go into to much detail as I am going to write an article later.Top away day, top support and one tired dad and lad. UTCDid your son sing the Steve Gerrard chant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Did your son sing the Steve Gerrard chant? Yes he did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulvhedin 526 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 soooo, that's the point of having Schurrle in our squad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussy 0 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Fabergas's passes was just like magic throughout the game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I love the chemistry and link up play between Costa and Eden...its a sign of great and immense thing to come...dis season is gonna be da BOMB.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Boring old Chelsea. 19th century football from Mourinho. Pathetic, disgraceful football. Parked the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Woke up still grinning about that Cesc assist Barbara you are awesome.Back off bro, she's mine.Are you two hitting on my wife?! Banned.You realize that, as an Arab, I now have the right to hang you by your junk over my house? Watch your backs, boys...@Barbara, honey, you want me to hang them by their junk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionsden 4,689 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Only 12 votes for hazard wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Yes he did That's a very valuable lesson he needs to learn. He can't say bad words....unless it is about scumpool and slippy G! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Woke up still grinning about that Cesc assist Are you two hitting on my wife?! Banned.You realize that, as an Arab, I now have the right to hang you by your junk over my house? Watch your backs, boys...@Barbara, honey, you want me to hang them by their junk? Scary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzchap 8,966 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I'm still happy but tinged with Anger over another shit referee performance - can you appeal Yellow cards? If not - then that needs changing! Costa was clearly fouled.A little gutted that we didn't put them to the sword - Goal Difference might count come the end of season.Definitely loved our increase in passing tempo - still needs work, but we can see where it's headedThis is what managerial stability brings. Solid improvements in style and understanding -,rather than a new manager every season with new ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 There was a secret message behind yesterday's refereeing:earthmen prepare to meet thy doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
different level 1,056 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Awesome example of attacking play on the first game of the season. I'm very happy with the link up play between our midfield, the attacking trio and the striker. Cesc was the one to light the fuse and make that connection look so good in this game, his fantastic pass to Schurrle for the second goal, the way he bossed the midfield and that well taken corner for Ivanovic's third. Hazard had a good game. trying to create spaces for himself, had a key part for the 2nd goal and again the player with most dribbles in the match. Greatly impressed with Costa, the way he terrorized the defense and how he smacked that goal. He was unlucky to be booked by that cunt Michael Oliver.However, the way we defended was not the most convincing. I noticed the first half we were leaving too many open spaces for their attacks and I thought that's because we're applying more attacking minded football, but then when we were supposedly shutting the game down the second half that trend continued and we let them create too many shooting opportunities.I am also unhappy with the way we conceded especially with the way we covered the offside after the corner and then the defenders surely could've done a better job at blocking Arfield's shot.Another thing, probably Sean Dyche didn't see how much we struggled last season when a team parks the bus on us. He went too bravely and tried to attack us, leaving a lot of spaces for our fast wingers to exploit and we raped them in the space of 15 minutes to make a comeback and secure a healthy lead. I'd like to see how we'd fare against a side that tries to do a WHU on us with our current attacking options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,314 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 hardly any sleep and on a coach for 13 hours yesterday, but worth it. Worthy performance of what i can remember Completely pissed stopping at Warwick and Birmingham on the way, great support. Ashley songs, Lampard songs , ole ole ole chelsea. Hour to get on the Motorway coming home, back at 4 00 am. We're gonne win the league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x240k17_mourinho-a-lot-of-good-things_sporthttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x240jvu_fabregas-controlled-the-game-well_sporthttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x240j3y_schurrle-feeling-good-hd_sporthttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x240ji3_ivanovic-good-reaction_sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bababoom 4,478 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I wouldn't really worry about our defence, Burnley played with two big, physical strikers. It's not everyday John and Gary both have to deal with that. Burnley are also very direct, they hardly ever play it on the ground when pressured, very much of the old school style of football. Jose touched on it but we couldn't fully introduce our high pressing game beacuse they don't play out from the back, instead they would instantly look for the two big strikers. If you remember last season when we played Southampton at home we couldn't cope with their pressig so instead we bought on Ba and went direct, this meant that we could never be pressed beacuse as soon as we got that ball we would lump it in the box.In the PL the majority of teams try and play out from the back so expect to see our hig pressing a lot this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Tell you what is severely underrated is costa's pace, he is really rapid across the ground. I didn't notice this until seeing him live last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Legend 11 4,062 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I hope people can come to grips with the fact that with this new attacking nous we will not be as solid in the back. We will be better than most but don't expect last years rock solid defense to be on display week after week... Defense is about the team shape and right now we're looking to get more people in attacking positions which will in turn leave us a little exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Great game!striking to me was the constant movement and how our players (esp mid) moved in blocks, which allows for short passing as opposed to those, overused (last season) long balls. Long balls are a valid tool, but their much lower completion rate can destroy a team's possession esp away from home.Matic, Fabregas, and Oscar were fantastic in midfield. There was a bit of a gap between defence and middle and I reckon this happened because our defense line is used to play very deep and with this new midfield they have to move up a bit. I hope their lack of pace won't cause too much trouble, but we shall see.early days and our opponent was pretty weak, even at home, so I will be cautiously optimistic for now.No surprise on Diego for me as I've known he can actually play football... unlike some other strikers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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