Closed Sunderland 0-0 Chelsea

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

So that was who it was! I'm not completely blind then.

Maybe Jose was getting worried about Cahill?

[DazLaughlan 55]

Did mourinho actually tell him to warm up or did he just go himself? Players warm up all the time on there own regardless of the situation on the park.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

What the team needs is some freshening up, bring Schurrle for Oscar, and play Filipe Luis ahead of Ivanovic, this has always been Mou's weakness

[Laylabelle 9,535]

Went for optimistic rather then realistic in my prediction...woops.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

as long as we don't lose, that's the main thing. we got another point on the board.

[Hutcho 8,443]

1. I fucking hate Sunderland. Anti-football.

2. We were VERY poor today. No pace, no idea, no nothing.

3. We need to rotate our squad.

4. Well played Matic.

Fuck sake, lets batter the spuds in mid-week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbeaten still. Up the blues!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

Ermmmm... Well thats awkward.

[Kendrick 339]

When it's "Black Friday" and there is 40% off Cahill, you just have to take it!

Shit happens. Nobody thought we'll win every game. A win against spurs and we will forget all about it.

I just hope the players will show up on wednesday because they looked a bit tired yesterday.

[didierforever 7,349]

So you are basically agreeing with what I said about fullbacks pushing up to create width, thanks pal.

DELUDED!!!!! level of delusion here.

but let me not break your delusions that we need to change all 4 of our defenders for the next season. i am sure that jose will "SORT" out our defense. we will talk when we start the next season and lets see what all changes jose makes to our back line.

PS - a "bad" result really shows whose who!!! "the defence needs sorting" one of the LOLLEST comments i have read!!!

[Fulham Broadway 17,313]

Draw a fair result, we didn't do enough in the final 3rd. Although credit to Sunderland, they defended well making it hard for us. Thought we were quite lucky costa didn't see red, so I'm thankful he's only missing spurs midweek instead of 3 games, also his 5th yellow out the way, which it wouldn't have been with a red. Thought Matic and Hazard looked knackered. Willian was our best player. No complaints with Jose's subs, he went for it at the end to be fair, but given we were lacking width and struggling to open them up by going down the middle all the time, Luis could have prised them open.

Drogba or Remy Wednesday? I think Jose will go Drogba

[coolhead23 1,147]

Sunderland game was one of those bad/lethargic day at work ... Things not going as planned, just dragging on, wanting it to end, etc, etc ... Just a matter of time that we will bounce back and this would be forgetten ...

Having said that, Jose needs to rotate the squad a little ... with 2 games every week and no rotation will have a negative bearing (fatigue) on the players in the long run ...

New day, new start, let's move on ..

[Special Juan 28,141]

Stewards were an absolute bunch of cunts on Saturday by the way- Telling everyone to sit every two seconds even when the chant of "Stand up if you hate Tottenham" rang around. But in the same instance it was alright for a Sunderland fan to make gestures such as 'slitting a throat' and constant hand gestures.....But obviously they ignored that and kept having a pop at us.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Interesting stat:

Spurs ran 5Km more than any other PL side at the weekend against Everton.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

Stewards were an absolute bunch of cunts on Saturday by the way- Telling everyone to sit every two seconds even when the chant of "Stand up if you hate Tottenham" rang around. But in the same instance it was alright for a Sunderland fan to make gestures such as 'slitting a throat' and constant hand gestures.....But obviously they ignored that and kept having a pop at us.

Quite surprised, in my experiences they've actually been alright up there.

[Special Juan 28,141]

Quite surprised, in my experiences they've actually been alright up there.

The typical jobsworth approach from most of them.

[Special Juan 28,141]

Few pictures from Saturday....

[Azpinator 2,325]

I just can't get over a Chelsea fan typing the word "Ivanovitch" in this thread.

[DazLaughlan 55]

Few pictures from Saturday....

I think I was pretty much next to you judging by the photo!! That steward was an absolute nob.

[Special Juan 28,141]

I think I was pretty much next to you judging by the photo!! That steward was an absolute nob.

Probably were mate, I'd had a good scoop though

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

After the media labelling us as an all-conquering machine, now they all go about how we have been found out, City going to catch us because of their easy December schedule.

After a couple of days of reflection, one positive we can take from this match is that our defence has stabilized after some erratic performances at beginning of the season. I still got no clue why Jose played the same team 3times in a row. One would not even do this in Fifa. At least could have mixed up the offense.

But if we keep up working on us, there will be no "found out" at all. We have an ensemble of creative players, who will at their day, make enough chances for any striker to score esp one of the calibre of Diego Costa. Secondly, we still have the good direct long ball football in us + danger from set pieces. Would have hoped for a bit more of that on Saturday, but I am pretty sure, if this would have been a game at St.Marys, Swansea or white Hart Lane we would have.

[The Chels 2,502]

Interesting stat:

Spurs ran 5Km more than any other PL side at the weekend against Everton.

Not surprising. Their pressing was really impressive and they managed to score from a turnover high up the pitch as a result. Hopefully they don't play like that against us because no matter how good you are it is very difficult to play against that kind of pressure, as Barca and Real have found out against Atletico. I really wish we'd play with that intensity, perhaps not all the time but at least in the big games.