passing from midfield to attacking is good enough but sadly it ends there..
nice attacking play by zhirkov, but unsatisfied with joe cole n drogba performance today..
ballack also seems unsettled when the age factor starts to kick in..
except lampard, essien and mayb drogba, i hardly see any good long shooter from chelsea.. is that the quality we've been lacking with?

i admit it is not a penalty but at the same time west ham was given 3 chances to save the shootout...i think its fair for them...disappointed performances...joe should have scored; mikel play well....its a fair result for west ham...but we cant complain too much cuz our performances are really need to be IMPROVISED! i missed bosingwa, essien, & anelka.

zhirkov almost scored, he play well too...malouda & kalou didnt take the opportunity to prove carlo tht they are good....wasted...better let go kalou to gunners he can become new henry/adebayor...
sturridge need more matches to get along with the BPL paced...hope carlo put him in 1st 11 for next match and drop out kalou..hope anelka to recover soon from injury.

good nite blues.

we dont have dribblers and speed demon....these are the attributes our team dont have.. just look at our quick counter attack which highly i doubt either they are doing it by running or walking....$#^$&

really agree with Kerplunk. Suddenly Chelsea look exactly the same team that Scolari managed. Chelsea totally different team from team that easily beat arsenal at emirated. Since game against City, team suddenly losing their focus. Chelsea badly need winger and Zhirkov really looked superb.

ballack was actually one of the better players today imho. some bad mistakes towards the end, but certainly had his moments.
i have to disagree with u again on the formation change. its not the shape. its the players. 4-3-3, 4-4-2,4-5-1,1-1-8, won't make the slightest of difference if they're not up to it. simple as that. kalou and joey cole shouldn't have started the game.

cech was much better today, you can see terry telling the defenders to go up higher! awesome save by cech. the defending was okay but one mistake from ashley cost us a penalty.

the starting midfield was crap. malouda did not perform. joey is good outside the box but suck at shooting. ballack seriously cannot play the anchor role. once mikel came in, it was much better, he stole alot of balls and also passed nicely.

drogba had a bad day, he was invisible most of the time. kalou, he isnt first eleven material yet. studgy was quite good once he came on but i dont see the partnership with drogba.

lastly, i'd give credit to westham. their defense was very very solid.

another advantage not capitalized.

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Added on December 21, 2009, 2:19 amwhen you sub in malouda, he performs, when you sub in yuri, he performs. when you start either one of them, they dont perform.

This post has been edited by madfag: Dec 21 2009, 02:19 AM

sturr has pace but lack strength, he cant hold the ball well. mikel held the midfield okay. joey had a disappointing night, u could tell he really wanted to score. yuri should be give more starts like i said, he can do alot of damage. and is alex still injured or what? carvalho has been really careless these days.

a good save from cech towards the end today from set pieces, might have cost us the game if it had went in. very dangerous.

ah, no one mention iva..
iva got nice strength..
he easily nudge wu player aside..

and can somebody explain the bottle incident?
whos the victim?
streaming lag at that point, im clueless..

iva wasnt doing his usual damage today but yeah he does have strength.

i think it was when lampard when to take the corner, some hammers fan threw at him. lol such a hate figure at west ham, wonder why nobody hate joey as much?

its totally non sense when iva commits fouls. he is obviously faster than that player and barely touched him and the ref penalize him for nothing. non sense.

is iva still slow now. he fights for every ball too. those that he cannot reach he tries to slide and reach it.

Ivanovic deserves every bit to play for Chelsea.

yup.. been wondering abt that too..
both player are from wu, but they focus their hatred more towards lampard only..
feel sorry for him..

100% agree with that..
btw, about the penalizing, i think the ref make the decision as he sees iva is a lot bigger than the other player,
since bigger always have higher impact on smaller, thus iva is the one accused at fault..

thats totally right. iva was right to shake his head just now, it was a terrible decision. iva is fast and tough and he can win the ball too. too bad his header didnt went in! damn it.

sometimes referee decisions are deceived by their angle of view..quite tough for them also la...sigh

another draw, only 4 points gap, Chelsea should play better for next match.

But don't know why all big guns keep slipping~ wow

EPL become interesting.

This post has been edited by guitarleo: Dec 21 2009, 08:25 AM

the tackle on studge might not have been a pen, but bear in mind kalou won a pretty clear penalty imo when green clattered into him. so somehow it evened itself out if you're looking at it that way. didier was totally clueless for the best part of 90 mins and can't say he was much better than kalou. his first touch was nowhere to be seen and i think at times like these, we needed players like yuri and iva to start crossing them in with deadly accuracy. we had our chances with follow up shots just outside the box but i struggle to recall a single one that was actually on target.
i'd like to point out carlo's subs were spot on too. his changes had an immediate impact, but the players who began the match just didn't do enough in my eyes. when u have your attacking midfield players smacking balls high up into the stands, no amount of formation tweaking is going to rectify that.

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West Ham was a class apart on spirit and passion, kept pressuring our players every time we had the ball. Our passing/normal game suffered because of that, hence we could not get decent and proper shots on goal.

Sturridge showed us some glimpses of his talent, but wasted IMO as apart from the penalty, he did not do much after that. Joey was also full of flicks and all that, but to no great effect.

We missed Nic up there with DD if you ask me, DD was just frustrated the whole night with neither Kalou nor Sturridge working well with him.

we sak last night . period. even ref give us a free penalty. continue like this form, we will be eaten alive by jose's inter , not to mention bye bye to the top spot. imagine last night , west ham was the one that gotten the dubious penalty. how do we feel ? its 1 point gain and not 2 point lost last night . we dont hv 3 point to begin with. we hv 0 point last night until ref decide ok lets give chelsea a hand with a penalty that needs to be taken 3 f***ing times. so yeah. cech had a fine save on 88 minute , if that went thru, we deserve it all night long for playing like school boys.

JT scandal ? no wonder freekick defending like crap , he is part time tour guide ..........

buck up , or at this rate we will be handy over the title to manunited ( arsenal ? ) by january.

This post has been edited by esca_flo: Dec 21 2009, 12:12 PM

IMO they should have brought in zhirkov earlier .... kalou and joey cole did not play well at all.... cole missed 2 or 3 decent chances , kalou just did not shine ... drogba just had a bad day at the office.... the rest was okay but i think the way they played yesterday was different... they tried to play the ball faster than the usual pass and move game by chelsea.... west ham did really well to hold chelsea yet manage to create some attacking chances.... i dont think we deserved to win yesterday ... west ham defence were quite good... next match they should start with zhirkov and sturridge ,later in 2nd half replace sturridge with kalou because i think he is a super sub ...

the main thing is that we wasted 2 points

rest assured , chelsea will regain their composure , they have to. i want this season BPL title.

KTBFFH!