Chelsea 0-1 Man United

[spuz 143]

That was a clear foul..

Essien is simply lost in that holding role.. he lost possesion countless of times tonight.. Ramires is described as volante..what is like holding player that is the pillar of the team..

Barca played with Keita and Mascherano tonight...

But Barca can find a team mate though.

I don't see a problem with Ramires and Mikel in the middle. I'm betting it would be more productive than Essien and Lamps.

[Milan 17,955]

All we need to do is to repeat the 'Highbury 2004' game. Another epic night

[Ollie 4,400]

Torres done a hell of a lot more than Drogba today.

[spuz 143]

Please tell me what service Torres had tonight or any other game for that matter..... All his chances he has to create from nothing off his owm boot.

We've just been shite all season long. I think in training they turn up,compare wage slips and cars then off they go for the rest of the day to their page 3 girls.

[eldo 868]

But Barca can find a team mate though.

I don't see a problem with Ramires and Mikel in the middle. I'm betting it would be more productive than Essien and Lamps.

Aha..

I was asking myself how does a player that played 500 games for Chelsea need to be instructed how to pass to his team mate..I mean simple passes..

[magicrico 175]

Please tell me what service Torres had tonight or any other game for that matter..... All his chances he has to create from nothing off his owm boot.

Everytime he gets the ball he stumbles and it bobbles around. he never looks in control, what was that effort off the shin? His two best chances came from crosses tonight. So don't think you have much of a point. He looks dreadful.

[chillerz 19]

Please tell me what service Torres had tonight or any other game for that matter..... All his chances he has to create from nothing off his owm boot.

at least he needs to take the few chances he gets...Drogba crossed the ball at the end of first half..a 50 million striker ought to finish those chances

[Styles 9,790]

Aha..

I was asking myself how does a player that played 500 games for Chelsea need to be instructed how to pass to his team mate..I mean simple passes..

Lampard doesn't measure his performance on passing or linking up play. He simply measures his performance on how many goals he scores. He can make the sideways pass but will struggle to create angles or forward momentum with his passes. For instance there was a chance to break with Malouda running down the left and Lampard played the ball at 0mph BEHIND Malouda and it completely killed the chance to attack. Awful play which just sums up his game since coming back from injury.

[neel 257]

bring Ramires-Mikel-Benayoun , lets see what happens

[eldo 868]

Lampard doesn't measure his performance on passing or linking up play. He simply measures his performance on how many goals he scores. He can make the sideways pass but will struggle to create angles or forward momentum with his passes. For instance there was a chance to break with Malouda running down the left and Lampard played the ball at 0mph BEHIND Malouda and it completely killed the chance to attack. Awful play which just sums up his game since coming back from injury.

I'm not asking for some awsome creativity.. but just simple controle from central two midfielders should do enough.. we gave possesion away so easily when our mids tried to do some Hollywood passes.

[Krypt 241]

Didn't realise the second leg was next Tuesday. We score the first goal .. game on they score first game over. Come on Chelsea beat then and stop the media and uefa getting the result they want !

[BLionheart 516]

I don't get why the players are getting slammed for their performances today , the main problem was obvious :

ferguson >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ancelotti

we have only alex out injured , and still people are saying that this is the reason why we lost .. players get injured , deal with it , go watch man utd vs westham .

IMO all of our players with the exception of bosingwa did their best and ran their asses of :

1- Lamps is a is a great ACM when he plays in a 3 players midfield , with england he has proved not to be very effective in a 2 man midfield .

2- Essien has ran his ass off today , but he wasn't,isn't and will never be a creative player , tbh i didn't expect anymore from him .

3- Torres looked lively at moments and if it wasn't for that brilliant save from vandersar or his post , then he would have been a hero .

4- Drogba was our best player today , the man had all the right to be mad when he was substituted

5- terry , iva , cech and ramires were all superb .

6- please let anelka , malouda , ferrera , bosigwa , hilario all leave in the summer

7- if we don't sign 2 creative players (wingers/AM) , next season won't be so different.

tactically carlo was so naive , during his time with us , he never impressed me with his tactics , always very predictable but saved a lot of times by the quality of players we have , and his subs are usually awful .

what is killing me is that everyone knew bosingwa can be exploit , except carlo .

And TX is right , there is no justice in this world .

although i can only hope for an early goal at the old trafold

[Steve 10,227]

at least he needs to take the few chances he gets...Drogba crossed the ball at the end of first half..a 50 million striker ought to finish those chances

Oh please you sound like a newspaper......

[eldo 868]

My god. This fella first says how is old goat better than Carlo and then says how we need to change our team..

Btw..Essien never ment to be a creative player tonight. And then you speak about tactics..My god..

[Kostas 1,468]

Not too fussed about the pen decision as I've accepted that we don't get those in the CL but I just noticed that this season there are extra officials behind the penalty box.