I agree..Lampard usually places his penalty shot into the left or right bottom corner so easy to guess. But then, most of the time Lampard's shot is usually very powerful and accurate and will still go in even if you block it.

yeah, but only that time he wasnt so lucky. we got 3 chances to score but miss. do you guys notice drog free kick, its getting better

wow i just read from soccernet that ancelotti seems like blaming cech for the goal scored by tevez. he said cech should have done better with his positioning. i'm not sure about this because havent seen any replay yet. you guys detect any mis-positioning by cech during the freekick?

hopefully this will not affect cech's morale. it is not good for a player to be single-out for blame publicly. this already happen once during scolari era when he dissapointed with drogba effort and make it public..

i'm surprised too!! but cech does mistake by wrong judgement; exactly how almunia did when drogba scored his freekick!...but ancelotti shud blamed lampard too...in total; the whole team played an average game thats it...its better to blamed the whole team rather than 1 player

Mourinho never publicly criticized his own players.
Maybe Ancelotti did that because he wanted Cech to realize that nobody is superstar in his team.

no leh.. lampard's shot when kick btm left or right very weak 1 leh.. only at middle top is strong

he change d tactics already... usually ashley cole will be covering d sides... n cech d middle... it was a hole that adebayor created that allowed d ball through.. i believe cech is used to the old tactic with ashley covering d sides

i think he did it to the wrong player..

He did say Balotelli performance are close to ZERO..unless Balotelli take that as a compliment, otherwise..it worst that than a critics..

u mean astro 816...is it free for sports channel subscriber?

personally, i really doesn't like managers to publicly criticize their own player. the morale of the player will be greatly affected by it. this is because everybody will know about the player's form. however, each player will react differently in different situations. hopefully cech is one of the player who react to criticism with greater performance. 'let action on the pitch do the talking'. recently, this is exactly what ashley cole do during the arsenal game. the fans boo him all the way and as a reward, he assisted in two of the goals hehe

*alaskanbunny: i don't think ashley cole job is to cover the side of the post during free kicks. he only do that during corner kicks. when there is a wall, the purpose of the wall is to cover one side of the goal mouth. and the job of the 'keeper is to guard the other side of the wall. in the case of tevez's free kick, cech is a little bit out of position. he is stacking in the area covered by the wall and left the area he really should be covering wide open.

btw regarding APOEL match, i really hope the team can win with big margin. this is to ensure the morale is restored. keep the faith and KTBFFH!!

You're wrong! (One more thing! Shay Given's goalkeeper coach is actually ex-Chelsea staff)

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Stop playing the blame game anymore, Lampard is human too. So what if he misses once in a blue moon? There's no such thing as a perfect penalty taker.

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Added on December 8, 2009, 9:50 pmHe learned from Ronaldo. I bet you will notice the similarity with the manner he approaches the ball.

This post has been edited by plokoon: Dec 8 2009, 09:53 PM

yes i notice drogba freekick alike C.ronaldo freekick since this season start

yeap. even the myth about Germans not missing penalties was proven false when Ballack missed the first penalty in the Carling cup. but these should not happen again if we want to win the league. we need consistency and the belief that we can win anyone!

anyone notice lampard will play will his tongue EVERYTIME he takes a penalty ?

hey guys, anyone will be watching the match later?
possible line up?

looks like the team is playing a much faster counter attacking football now. pressing hard when the opposition midfield is in possession. very good play by kakuta so far! defense is a little shaky and i hope essien is alright

2-1 up,goals by essien and drogs goal was started by a brilliant move by kakuta. Well done,kiddo!

This post has been edited by kink_ass: Dec 9 2009, 04:51 AM

looks like we're still not back to our winning ways from a last minute mistake from mikel. but i think it was a good run for kakuta and borini. they showed that they can play with the seniors. we MUST WIN the next game be it one nil or 5 nil. we need a win to regain momentum!

looks like Carlo Ancelotti is pissed off with the players for losing concentration in the second half. i think the positives from the game would be that joey and malouda deserves to start the next game and kakuta is making is way up the ranks. yuri was quite quick on the attack too but i think he can do better, needs some better timed tackles.

Essien hit back in a polite manner by saying whole team is to blame. not fair to blame only 1 player.

Chelsea must hire Matt Le Tissier as a penalty taker coach.