Sunderland 2-4 Chelsea

[eldo 868]

That wasn't a fk. Mikel touched the ball before they clashed.

[King11Didier 916]

Hope manchester make draw or lose and we win.

[Cosmin 2,484]

Even if I'm not happy with the result so far, I must admit that this is a piece of great football. Chelsea were class, good speed passing, and lot of mobility. But I must say that Sunderland played well too! I hope we score 2 or 3 more goals, or at least 1 without conceding.

[King11Didier 916]

Drog out Malouda in Center-Anelka ; Left-Malouda ; Right-Kalou

[zolayes 14,489]

cmon blues ...chelsea and everton

[termninja 5,290]

If we can't beat Sunderland tonight we don't deserve the title, but I am confident we can!

Perhaps :

Mikel >

Ramires <

[King11Didier 916]

fuck man score second

[Kojo 4,676]

Damn i had to go outside and take a breather, please Chelsea win this.

[Billy. 2,742]

Come on Chelsea let do this get a few more

KTBFFH

[ruggedknot 105]

Rooney just scored another one . Nanny assisting .

[chrismada9 1,948]

2nd half about to start!! Come on Chelsea!!! :blue scalf:

[Steve 10,227]

Second half underway!

[chrismada9 1,948]

Why is Kalou still on the pitch!! He keeps giving the ball away!!

[DYC. 7,542]

Yes yes, a good performance .

We were passing the ball well, our off-the-ball movement was like hundred times better, pretty much every player was confident on the ball and (therefore) creating chances. Sadly I tuned when Sunderland just scored. But after seeing our play I was confident we would get back into the game, simply because we were playing well and it happened.Then Sunderland scored again, what a stupid goal btw, but we were still playing well so i'm confident about us eventually winning this one.

Did anyone notice we were playing the '4-4-2 diamond formation'?

Anelka has been great. I just knew Anelka would play a lot better in a free role behind the strikers (check my post in the tactics thread). His movement is fantastic, passing the ball much quicker, dribbling forward (with pace at times) and always available to receive a pass. Lampard lacks the movement for that role and that's why he failed in that role. All he needs to do now is get forward a bit more and start shooting.

Two other players who have been great too are Essien and surprise surprise Kalou. Kalou is really enjoying a good game. His passing is solid, his touches are (surprisingly) very solid and his movement is good. Last season I said Kalou would play a lot better in a central striker role, preferably in a two-striker system. And he's really proving me right. Keep it up Salomon. But about his goal, you either have to be very confident or very stupid to shoot from where he stood. It would be much easier to tap the ball to the left a bit and shoot it into a empty goal. But who cares, it went in .

I'm so happy right now . Keep it up boys.

[Milan 17,857]

Fuck, Lamps soooo close!

[chrismada9 1,948]

OH FRANKIE!! NEARLY!!

[termninja 5,290]

FUUUUUCCCCKKK!!!

[Steve 10,227]

WOW, how did we not score. Kalou did so well.

From the corner again how does the ball not go in....