Actually I am quite happy with the draw.

Forgot to share with you guys, I just had a dream this morning.
I dreamed Torres scored his first goal in the last minute when Lampard give him a through pass.
Then he score a hat trick in the next game. I was celebrating in my dream then I woke up.

I have no idea on Borini but he has quite a talent. I hope we can keep him.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0...2319192,00.html
Luiz, Torres, Malouda and Essien are going to start.

Do you think Mikel will start to stop MCY counter attacking play?

And, looks like Wigan's Nzogbia is leaving his team. Anyone watch this winger play before?
Personally, I love the way he play.

This post has been edited by ericling: Mar 19 2011, 03:18 PM

Morning guys Really happy to see Spurs being held by West Ham.
Thought Bolton could pull 2 points away from MU but not. Bolton seriously deserve something. Well, back to Chelsea!

Do you guys actually notice that when Torres was in Liverpool, his form always on top when his hair is long and with a hairband? I always see him scoring a lot with a long long hair and a hairband.
Maybe just some superstition by me, but sometimes I can't really deny them!

This post has been edited by ericling: Mar 20 2011, 10:33 AM

It's either Hiddink or Carlo for me.
but, I want Carlo to stay, I believe the players want too.

Carlo is the manager that can impress us, prove us that the decision is correct. Just take Ramires as an example, he bought him. In Ramires first few games, that's horrible. Everyone was disgusted to see his performance. Normally manager will drop him, but carlo not. We were shouting at Carlo to command him to drop Ramires.
But look, Ramires is now a star player. What a player he is. Great improvement.

Who can have 7-2,7-1,7-0,8-0 result in one year and in Premier League? He can impress us.

And by the way, what's wrong with Carlo? Is he leaving? He is doing nothing wrong. I don't blame him for our Nov,December slip. Sometime you do good, sometimes you slip. Nothing will always go with your way.

We have to buy a playmarker, temporary solution?
Andrea Pirlo on a free transfer if he quit AC Milan?
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Chels...icle716869.html

Charlie Adam +1
I will take Adam anytime over Pirlo and Kaka.

He's a commander, a great vision playmarker. Good set pieces taker. A very good player.
Not sure about Hamsik, but Adam is a EPL proven player.

I would also like to see we bring in some winger, and if we can get Van Der Vaart, that's a bonus, but that sounds impossible for him to leave Spurs.

Neymar is good, but I worry he will become another Balotelli. His attitude is really worrying.

Sturridge return is interesting, it might be the world most threatening forward line ever which with Sturridge and Torres.

Back to our current squad, who do you prefer to play to pair with Torres? I want to see Drogba-Torres.
Stoke is a physical team, we need Drogba's physical strength.

I have some feeling why Torres can't score. From recent matches, his movements were a bit too complicating and too fast. Our midfielders felt it's hard to pass the ball to Torres so they just take on the ball into the penalty box them self.

Torres movements are good, he can opens up all the space for the midfield, but if Torres want to score goals, he should try to make his movements simpler a bit so that his team mates can pass the ball easily to him.

But I'm sure,if the players pay more effort on the training ground, our forward ball will be more organize and we will start scoring more goals in open play.

I thought I am the only one with this superstition?
True, just take Wenger as an example. He got the award, then Arsenal slip in the following month
And Bolton's player, Elmander. Has been banging goals but after he got the award, he got no goal anymore.

Scary.

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Added on April 2, 2011, 7:47 amand by the way, is it Luiz the first player to get "player of the month" on his first BPL month?

This post has been edited by ericling: Apr 2 2011, 07:48 AM

Torres and Kalou had a slight knock after coming back from internationals. Should be no problem.

I want Drogba's physical. So it's Drogba-Torres for me. I really hope Malouda can perform and Torres to score goal. Come on!

MU leading with 4-2 on 87th minutes.

Torres drop into bench.

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-4-2 formation:

1 Petr Cech
18 Jose Bosingwa
4 David Luiz
26 John Terry ©
3 Ashley Cole
7 Ramires
5 Michael Essien
8 Frank Lampard
15 Florent Malouda
39 Nicolas Anelka
11 Didier Drogba.

Subs: 22 Ross Turnbull, 2 Branislav Ivanovic 19 Paulo Ferreira, 17 Yury Zhirkov, 12 John Mikel Obi, 21 Salomon Kalou
9 Fernando Torres

Mana itu Bosingwa?

So frustrated to watch this game.

Bosingwa, get back your defense work. Stoke keep on attacking our right side.
Malouda, rubbish. Always take lots of touches in the build up but end up pass back to the defense. Sub him out for Zhirkov right now.

On a positive note, oh! Drogba finally scores! Great powerful header and great movements. Come on Drogba!
Ramires, Lampard combo is nice to watch.

This post has been edited by ericling: Apr 2 2011, 10:51 PM

This match is so scary to watch.

Carlo shouldn't sub Ramires out.
Should sub Drogba out for Kalou,Bosingwa to Iva, Malouda to Zhirkov.

Impressive from Cech by the way.

Drogba looks sharper. Climbing up his form.
Drogba and Torres. COME ON CHELSEA.

Malouda and Bosingwa really cannot start against MU. Terrible. Is Alex back for MU first leg? I want Iva at right back, he did brilliantly against Nani last time.

Hi to all the visitors, yes, we're human. When the referees did some bad decisions, of course we will blame the referee. It's impossible for you to not blame the referees when the referees did all wrong decision that against your favorite club.

But in Chelsea, we don't take referee as a part of the game. We will blame our players or managers as the first problem. If our players or manager did nothing wrong and we lost the game, we will only blame the referee. I guess most of the fans from any club will do the same thing also right?

This post has been edited by ericling: Apr 3 2011, 07:58 PM

It's going to be a long long long post since I have a lot of things to share today.

That's one of the most frustrated or exciting match I watch Chelsea play this season.
My hair messed up after the match because I keep on messing up my hair when I got frustrated.

Speaking our substitute, I don't know is there any benefit of subbing Ramires out for Kalou? That's really a poor sub. Or Carlo is resting Ramires for UCL?

Drogba is aging, but he's still class. Start him to pair with Torres. I would love that. Both of them are getting on the move again and expecting some combo of them banging lot of goals for us in the next few fixtures.

No one is doing passing job for us. NO ONE. Malouda tried but he fail every time. Those pass that I remember are all from Ramires, his low cross from the right to the penalty box has been good.

Speaking about flanks, Malouda. Oh no, facepalm.
I understand why Carlo doesn't want to start Zhirkov. He's trying to play 442 and Zhirkov is more suitable for a more central position to enable his run.

Looks like there's no one performing that can replace our left flank?
Have you guys thought of Anelka? His crosses are not bad and he has the pace.

Lampard, I think he's a bit greedy that thinking Torres is opening up space for him so that he can score. He tried to score instead of passing the ball every time. We need A PLAYMARKER.

Essien is doing his defensive job well but not attacking. I miss all the good passes or through passes from all these players. The reason that our forwards were not scoring for past few games is the problem with delivery.
Look at Stoke game, "Send the ball here, I will finish it" and Anelka sent it to the area, Drogba finished it. That's the way. And we're not lacking of that class of players. We have good players. I believe if we pass the ball more and our forwards will score more and more.

Transfer. We need a playermarker as I said just now, and a wings too. A right wing or left wing.

Drogba-Torres
Zhirkov/Anelka-Essien-Lampard-Ramires
Cole-Terry-Alex-Iva
Cech

I would say this is the best line up for MU match.
Sub Drogba out for Anelka when he's tired. Aging problem is catching on Drogba.
Hopefully Alex can play so that Iva can face Nani to cope with his pace. I am losing my faith on Bosingwa, he always caught out of position and it cause us concede lot of goals on our right side.

As we all know, it's not going to be an easy match. We don't have Luiz this match, may the best team win and COME ON CHELSEA!

This post has been edited by ericling: Apr 5 2011, 07:38 PM

Alex and Josh will be unavailable for tomorrow and Luiz is cup tied.
Looks like Bosingwa is going to play at right back. Please, don't go forward too much.
And thanks god, they're practicing free kicks It has been a long long time since we score from a direct free kick.


This post has been edited by ericling: Apr 5 2011, 09:47 PM

+1 for Anelka on the left wing! It's either Anelka or Zhirkov but there's no way for Malouda.
I am a bit worry for Ferreira though. It has been a long time since he played match.

Bought chewing gum, lolipop and some crackers so that I won't feel sleepy tonight COME ON CHELSEA!

That's what we need A wing, if we can't get Robben, better get anyone else.

Ugh, almost for Torres.
I feel we're doing quite good, but marking problem punish us again. No one mark at Rooney at all.
Attacking department is doing quite good. Drogba looking sharp and Torres should do better. Ramires quiet.