Great game. 3 points!

Personally, I think that Ballack was great in this match. He had a few good runs and basically, he's running all around the pitch.

One more thing, did we resize the pitch?

jt the most richest dfndr ma!!! haha

btw, many top player dunt want to move to chelsea nw. dis is bcoz carlo said that newly signed player will be loan to lesser rank club first..

no more big transfer saga this season closing dateline transfer like robinho's last year ..

great performance by Chelsea & they did play beautiful football now. The partnership of Drogba & Anelka really works now.

My MOTM also foes to Essien.....

I don't understand......Then what's the purpose of signing that player? That's not the case if he is top player....for unproven teenager, yes maybe~

fact; QPR's the only team who's got rich billionaire owners and yet still play shit football hehe

this is the case of Jonathan De Guzman right?

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Added on August 30, 2009, 2:27 pmPeter Kenyon wants the academy to produce the next JT

This post has been edited by kink_ass: Aug 30 2009, 02:27 PM

ooh what an enjoyable game last night! lovely to watch from the very first minute. even lovelier after we got the first goal.
great performances all around, especially in midfield. lamps is still looking for his best position, but still managed two assists. his mistake was almost a game changer though anelka was a bit off especially his first touch. i for one was expecting the net to bulge when he capitalised on burnley's early error that lead to a 1 on 1 with the keeper. but credit to him for busting his gut to get to drogba's perfectly weighted pass into the middle for the goal. as pointed out by many of u, the MOTM deservedly goes to essien. he was EVERYWHERE today and his range of passing made him look like the 'black pirlo'

honestly guys, when was the last time we saw essien spraying forward passes with such accuracy? the one for drogba to square to anelka (for the 1st goal) will be hard to match this season i can tell u that. he had other similar gems as well. and i thought he actually looked poor in pre-season!
carletto may have managed to unlock another side of his game..or maybe it was there before but just wasn't encouraged by previous coaches
either way i'm looking forward to see if he continues in similar vein for the next game!

p.s : do u guys thing burnley parked the bus last night? i was too busy enjoying our passing game to really take notice, but it did seem like they 'half-parked' it.

no but goalie was very good last night. he kept the damage minimal.

i dont think burnley really parked the bus either. but with our midfield powerhouse, maybe it seems that way. even the commentator said that they couldnt even get out of their own half.

wut do u mean by parked the bus?

kudos to burnley then. showed some good incentive in the game but in the end it proved to be their downfall. a lot of lower to mid-table teams will take this as a blueprint of 'how not to play against chelsea at the bridge.' a major disappointment for me though, is not seeing sturridge getting some playing time after we went 3 nil up. couldn't understand the rationale of bringing in mikel at all.

i mean by the time ACN comes around, we'll be left with anelka, sturridge and di santo as our main strikers. di santo is currently sidelined at blackburn and studge has only gotten a 10 minute cameo vs sunderland. correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't we going to lean heavily on him once our african boys pack their bags? our-over reliance on nic and even more so drogba, is beginning to show. with di santo still out, this will be a big worry imo.
either carlo isn't hugely impressed by studge, or the italian has another ace up his sleeve.

yeah maybe one coming through from the academy

WOOT!

This post has been edited by kink_ass: Aug 31 2009, 03:11 AM

park the bus term was coined by JM i think , those days when the opposition come to the bridge , they will defend heavily putting all their players behind the ball to defend hence the term park the bus ( in front of the goal), the bus in this context refers to the team bus which the opposition came in.

hope CA can make STAMFORD BRIDGE a fortress again just like JM era.

hope with CA help we can won in the champions league aite!!!

Burnley keeper Jensen: I just saw Blue shirts everywhere


Burnley goalkeeper Brian Jensen admits they were given a lesson by Chelsea on Saturday.

"I just saw blue shirts everywhere," he said. "The passing, the movement, the full-backs coming forward, the attacking football.

"It was a bit of a footballing lesson for us.

"It's great to watch and everyone can see the quality. It doesn't matter who they play, you saw it against Sunderland and Steve Bruce said it was one of the best attacking displays he'd seen. We saw it again and nobody can deny it.

"I don't want to say too much because I'm a Man United fan myself but, personally, I think Chelsea are the team to beat so far."

source http://www.tribalfootball.com/burnley-keep...erywhere-287741

MU fan. He is better than Foster, maybe got a chance there.

Goodbye Sheva. No matter how small your contribution, thank you. All the best to your career with Dynamo Kiev.



This post has been edited by plokoon: Aug 31 2009, 08:37 PM

haih. good bye shevchenko. you'll be missed

fabio borini anyone?

so its confirmed then..anelka, sturridge and di santo as our main goal getters when the ACN commences. i'll feel a bit more confident once joey and yuri are fully fit. pray nico stays injury free.

This post has been edited by Kerplunk: Aug 31 2009, 10:08 PM