losing is not a good thing to happen at chelsea but on the bright side, hopefully it can knock some sense into everybody not to be too complacent. i strongly feel we will come back stronger from this defeat.

half of the season already gone. we win all three match against title contender and lose 1 to title pretender. the other half of the season hopefully we win all. 2games at home (arsenal, city) and 2games away (man utd, liverpool). and for these away games, i dont think we will use the 'cursed' away jersey haha

maybe losing in the carling cup have taken away the momentum of the team..

KTBFFH

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..

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!!

i also didnt watch the match but from reports, it seems mikel lost his concentration again. i'm not sure what mikel trying to prove now. he already given the chances but he didnt performed well. late tackles.. lost possesion although he has great strength.. poor in passing..

i really hope he can improve his performance more. imo, he is in the same mold as ballack. i like ballack but i wish soon he can be replace by mikel. he has so much potential. what a waste if cannot use it all in every game

wow..its like 50% chance we will face europe top gun in the round of 16. hopefully can get the smaller team but i really doubt it. if you all remember during JM era,we always 'accidentally' pitted with barca.i think it will be no different this time.

personally, i think they somehow already 'pre-determined' on which team we will face next. i dont know how to explain this. maybe it is just my gut feeling hehe btw, i think we will be pitted against barca or inter. my reason, UCL governing body always looking for some drama in the competition. competing us against our former boss surely can heat up something. and a replay of last season UCL semi-final with barca also will rock the world haha

lets pray my prediction is not true and we will face 'easier' team. no man utd, no barca, no inter, no ac..let them finish of each other hehe

ageed with Kerplunk on the need to stay the way the team is playing now. our team is bless with superb wingback so, why not use them to their highest potential? by playing in diamond formation, they will be used to the fullest. for me, i strongly feel our diamond formation really depend on the player at the top of the diamond aka the attacking player. i'm not saying that the anchor man (essien) is not important but in epl, we have one of the, meanest defense. at start of season, we rely on deco. but now, his performance has dropped. maybe the team should use joe cole more. deco can go on rotation with ballack. it is a waste for not using joe cole ability and speed.

as for ucl, i think we will meet with milan. carlo will meet his former players or worse, we will meet inter. btw, still 50-50 to meet the top guns..

i also hope kakuta start in the game against everton this weekend. for me, its good for him to gain match experience, be it when the team is winning as well as during the hard time. players need to adept to different kind of situation and must not be content with the current condition. if he only feel it while he is at bench, the effect wont be hat good..

as with joe cole, i think he is trying / asking the media to divert their attention to other matters instead of pursuing stories about kakuta. young players which is exposed too much to the limelight can halt their progress. maybe because they will feel like superstar already and thus affecting their growth.

sad stories with essien. hope mikel will play well during his absence. wonder why ghana still requires him to join the team during AFC even though he is injured.. for me, better keep him under chelsea medical team care. if lucky, can have him back even before february hehe

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Added on December 11, 2009, 8:10 pmjust an addition on 4-3-3 formation..this is just my opinion though. i strongly feel there is no need to revert back to 4-3-3. 1st of all, the only wingers we have is malouda, joe cole, zhirkov, kakuta and some youngsters. let be honest, joe cole and zhirkov is prone to injuries and that left malouda and kakuta. malouda is not a consistent performer while kakuta is learning. although with luck, hey can performed very well in certain match..but that is a gamble, especially we nearly arrive at half of the season.

we are no more in JM era where at that time we have abundant of wingers. robben, duff, cole, kezman (he is forward i think but still can play out wide). furthermore if we play 4-3-3 definitely anelka will play at one of the wing and he doesn't like it. our department is perfect. drogba and anelka complement each other and with them, we have they perfect combination of forward. disrupting the flow and chemistry of this formation sure will cost us dearly.

diamond formation sometime doesnt work because of the player that had been chosen is not suitable with the opponent. as example, using deco instead of joe cole during match with man city is proven to be unsuccessful where deco is easily out-muscled by city defender and midfield. and during that match also, we certainly lack speed. so, ancelloti and the rest of the team should analyze the opponent first before deciding who to play.

hm..so long i membebel haha cheers guys ^^V

This post has been edited by dynames07: Dec 11 2009, 08:11 PM

hm..tonight i'll be watching the game alone..dunno if the mamak will open chelsea game or not..so far to join my friend..alone at salak selatan T_T

hope can win big tonight. need to be very carefull with saha. that guy got some magic at his feet haha

4-0 (drogba 2, anelka, joe cole) >> a bit greedy hehe

just to add something. we conceded 10 goals in 4 matches and that is 2.5 goals average per game. what a frightening figure..

drogba, anelka, mikel, iva, carvalho are superb
lampard, ashley are normal.
others..dunno what to comment. joe cole seems to favor a hard target although there are other easy options..

plus..lady luck didnt smile upon us today..and our defender maybe gained some weight before the match that make them so lazy to jump (count how many fellaini got free headers)..

guys..man utd lose. that mean we have 3 point advantage above them. need to sort out things quickly especially in defense so that no more slip ups after this

aww i dont like all the rumors about our beloved cech. i like him. even my mother like him (she said because his face is clean and he got long arms lol)

every player have their ups and downs. i'm fully supporting and praying so that cech can regain his invincibility back. i know in him, we have the best goalkeeper in the football world.

wow talking about the 'drama' in football hehe

btw, welcome back jose ^^

oh my..liverpool lost. man yoo also lost. this maybe the greatest gift by santa to us if we can capitalize the situation hehe

go chelsea go
KTBFFH

this a very creative post
+1

This post has been edited by dynames07: Dec 20 2009, 08:27 AM

wow suddenly feels like our team thread is so quiet..last post before this is 7.20pm, 22/12 haha

btw, just want to say congrats to terry for being in the FIFPro team of the year. he truly deserves it.

the matches during christmast seems quite tough. 26th and then 28th december got match. hopefully the players can be rotated accordingly to prevent excessive faatigue.

i didnt watch the match against west ham and i heard anelka is injured.. any news on him?

i tot drogba and kalou already gone for afc rite? ivory cost require their players to come 2weeks early to the competetions. correct me if i'm wrong hehe

wow..we draw against birmingham..what a game..dunno what o comment. quite dissapointed actually

hm..i think ancelotti is trying to rotate the player but it seem to have negative effect..maybe they play in condition too cold until they become clueless >.<

the team really must get all three points on next match 28th december. and ancelotti, please dont be so relax up there when the team havent taste a win for quite some time now..

hm, sacking a manager is not the solution. hiddink is superb and so do ancelotti. the difference is on how they tackle problems within the team. let ancelotti do the math and equation for our team and let us pray for the best.

as for me, i think the diamond should be more flexible rather than being too rigid. what i mean is that the player that is within the diamond should be able to stretch wide when the opponent player is concentrating at the middle of the park and vice versa. the key point is ADAPTABILITY. our diamond now is favoring more on pushing plays through the middle and when opponent put many players at the middle, we stuck.

2ndly, we should really gives lampard his freedom back. he look really uncomfortable at the side of the diamond. IMO, lampard and essien is very crucial focal points in our team. lampard at top, essien at bottom tip. the side of the diamond should be filled with players who are comfortable to push play through the middle AND to play out wide (aka as pseudo wingers).

finally, ballack and deco definitely started to show the sign of aging. thier decision is not as sharp as their former self and i strongly feel they should warm the bench. i'm also eagerly awaiting zhirkov to prove what he have. other than him, we also have joe cole who can fill the side of the diamond (he is adapted in playing at center and side). malouda is inconsistence. kakuta also have great potential in him.

tonight match really need to win..havent taste victory for quite a time now