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This post has been edited by harvster: Apr 19 2009, 03:28 AM

Point taken on intensifying the pressure on ManUtd.

Well, not exactly everyone, I guess we Chelsea fans never did

i read at first page

Ex-Arsenal Star Parlour Urges Wenger To Target Chelsea Keeper Cech

but now what happened? lol ..


ballack lampard played well .. motm drogba ..

i thought theres a penalty when malouda pushed cesc, most of arsenal's fans at mamak sorak, sekali corner rupanya hahaha ..

haha. point taken on chelsea fans. lol


well here's to ensuring man utd doesnt win any of the 3 trophies left. i'd rather you guys have it. but let us have the epl.

cech - could have saved the first goal if it wasnt a deflection from ashley, overall did okay. went out to fight for the ball on arsenal's last corner.
ivanovic - as usual, better on the defense than the offence, there was a great back cross into the box from the right.
alex - superb defense from the brazilian, winning headers, held adebayor and a great block from arshvin's strike
terry - the bionic man! injured and still fighting. did lots of SUPERB tackles. all of them rightly timed and we gained back possession.
ashley - worked hard to keep walcott's threat.
essien - not at his best today i must say. could do better.
ballack - smart play, getting us the free kicks we needed at injury time , overall average performance.
anelka - i dont really wanna blame him for the marking of gibbs. overall okay performance and hard work from the frenchman, but i wouldnt say he's at his best.
lampard - hmm, good and bad! imho la. lost a few possession but also stole a few. but great assist that helped us come back to wembley for the second time!
malouda - total menace on the left flank, defended well, attacked well, scored the equalizer, deserves praise. HAIL MALOUDA! looks like he is not going anywhere next season
DROGBA - my man of the match. mainly because he scored the winning goal for us. the most important goal of the game. TOP CLASS striker. held of Sylvester, great control and got pass fabianski, FINISHED the job! madfag's MOTM!

overall - sloppy and no possession at first, picked up the game later.

WE'RE THE PRIDE OF LONDON!

finally, after reading mostly all of the keepcoming posts...and wait it to ended..hehe...

congratz guys!!!for going into the final!!!
nice win after all...and its certainly a revenge after the defeat at the bridge last match against them...
after follorwing it online (gamecast) in the 1st half, then i opt to go watch it....
pretty obvious we control that game....particularly midfield...
drog and malouda really own their defense....though anelka look a bit quite...
while in mid....nothing they can do, including that fabregas...
while our fullback look a bit shaky, look iva...also ashley, really need to work hard to contain with speedy walcott..
even sometimes need to double up with malouda...huhu.
all in all, they play crap...thanks to wenger...

about the goal conceded, iianm, its deflected, right?so its not anyone fault to blame to.. but did i see cech a bit off position that time, before the goal?

again, nice win, but yelah, even if we win, its still good to get clean sheet right...or to be more precise, not trailing....
afraid it will backfired one day...

and about the ashley cole play, remember, walcott is just a warm-up...
the real test was against messi, the current best player in the world. ..owh, almost forgot...he wont play...
so whos our lb then in that match will be? carvalho?
and why did alex start ahead of carvalho?did RC injured, or need alex for freekick?
anyone knows?

hope we can do our revenge on the final ( if the "team" is quali into final)

come on chelsea!!!!yes!

must win at least FA cup.. hehhee

Ivanovic will most likely cover for Ashely Cole at Nou Camp.

bosigwa back d ar?

i thought beletti will cover?

Well, Ivanovic is a right footer and he has played all positions at the back four so far in his career. Given Messi's tendency to drift to the center, Iva is well suited for the job to suppress him. The only weakness would be Iva's lack of experience at left back as he has only played at this position once during his time for Lokomotiv Moscow. As for Belletti he has not even played at that position before. He is a right back and an occasional defensive midfielder.

So if Boss still can't make it in time for the 1st leg, Iva will switch to the left. Belletti/Essien will most probably cover at right back. Can't see Mancienne being picked as this is Barca we're talking about.

This post has been edited by plokoon: Apr 19 2009, 10:52 AM

Should put Essien as LB.

no no, ivanovic lack of acceleration and agility, he will not be able to handle barcelona speed. to stop barcelona we need some one with speed like belletti. Yesterday match you can see that he is some time out run by RVP.

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Added on April 19, 2009, 11:27 am good review bro.

But i have some concern yesterday on cech's form. the shot by walcot could be easily stop by him 3 years ago. F@#$ Hunt for this.
But maybe of the goal, A.cole escape with a handball and even a red card maybe.

essien too sloppy, many miss pass although he can win possesion but he keep giving it away when counter.

and lampard also not at his best, not many great pass.

Malouda have been transform since Hiddink incharge

This post has been edited by Alexdino: Apr 19 2009, 11:27 AM

Balletti can't handle Henry and Iniesta. He will make silly challenge and give away many free kicks. You might use Balletti but not at Camp Nou because of the pitch size.

ya agreed .. cannot put ivanovic to contain messi le .. sure failure

i have more trust in beletti than him

ivanovic is quite easy to past as shown yday against arsenal

Nice show boys. I knew it from the start that ud win the game! Fantastic play

You guys can go on and win the cup you can go on and win the CL as well!

As long as my United wacks Pool to the title. Thats of course not disrespecting ure chance at the title too

Arsène Wenger: I could've had Drogba for £100k!


Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has revealed that he once passed up the chance to buy Didier Drogba – for just £100,000.

Drogba cost Chelsea some £24 million when they signed him from Olympique Marseille, but seven years ago when the then 24-year-old Drogba was still finding his feet with Le Mans in the French Second Division, he could have joined the Gunners for a knock-down bargain fee.

"We watched Drogba very carefully when he was at Le Mans and his value was just £100,000," Wenger told journalists.

"But we felt at the time he might not be completely ready.

"Sometimes when you watch a striker playing in a scrappy Championship game you can think ‘yes, he has something but... ’

"We continued to follow his progress but suddenly he moved to Guingamp, then to the club of his dreams at Marseille and then on to Chelsea.

"Looking back now, of course it was a mistake. But it is not just us who now have regrets. There were a lot of other clubs watching him then."

Lol. ManUtd have worked so hard to come this close to winning all 5 trophies I dont think they just want to pip liverpool to the epl.

May the best team wins

find at cfcnet

Drogba under Scolari
- 8 starts, 13 subs, 3 goals, 2 assists

Drogba under Hiddink
- 12 starts, 0 subs, 9 goals, 1 assist