Closed Aston Villa v Chelsea

[Laylabelle 9,384]

Sod City result Jose won at Villa park!!!

[The Mak 4,459]

Suck on that one Skeletor.

[Shakez 755]

Great victory, these are the games we would've lost last year.

[Jusek 2,031]

Huge win!

[The Skipper 20,593]

7 points clear. Yes.

[chrismada9 1,948]

Nervous but a BIG win...

City dropped big points at home, just a pity it wasn't all 3

[Laylabelle 9,384]

Hahah woops:

Gareth from Harpenden: Speaking as a Chelsea fan, the words you always love to hear are "James Milner replaces Edin Dzeko". It's like Ferrari saying they are replacing their F1 racing car with a Fiat Uno to win a Grand Prix.

[Viper22 2,418]

Match Ratings IMO:

Courtois - 5 - A few uncharacteristic wobbles from the big man. Hopefully he'll be a bit more solid under the high ball when bumped around by opponents because people will try it a lot now.

Ivanovic - 6 - Great finish for the goal, caught ball watching at the corner we conceded from. Typical Ivanovic display. No idea what to think about him sometimes...

Terry - 6 - Solid performance from CLL.

Cahill - 6 - Decent performance from Cahill. Made one good interception and didn't back off anywhere near as much as usual. Still prefer Zouma though.

Azpilicueta - 4 - Pretty poor performance from Dave today, hopefully picks himself up as he's been poor the last 2 games.

Matic - 7 - Typically great performance from him. Nothing gets past the Spider.

Ramires - 6 - Lots of running, lots of energy, solid display.

Hazard - 8 - Stunning finish for the goal. Great play around the pitch and so hard to get the ball off of.

Oscar - 2 - The only reason this isn't a 1 is because he didn't give away a penalty or score an own goal. Woeful performance. His passing stats would be a nightmare to look at.

Willian - 9 - Quite possibly his best performance in a Chelsea shirt. Great energy, great play and much, much better. Evidently taken the signing of Cuadrado personally.

Drogba - 3 - Poor from the Drog. No presence, poor passing, shouldn't be ahead of Remy ever again.

Remy (sub) - 6 - Was good after he came on, worked very well with Cuadrado which is a big positive.

Mikel (sub) - 4 - Poor passing towards the end but we've come to expect that from him.

Cuadrado (sub) - 5 - Didn't have much time but showed glimpses of greatness. Did more in 10mins than Oscar and Drogba did in a combined 130mins.

[fmsch24 312]

Would have liked it to be 8, but 7 is good as well, go Chelsea

[MichaelDance 552]

What a fantastic game and what a win Nice to see our new winger playing too. Cahill has been at his best today, maybe Zouma has made him see he needs to pull up.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,898]

So happy, so proud of the battling performance. I'm not happy with the quality of the squad but the players are what they are and they got us over the line today. Love 'em for it.