haha super-sub indeed! i think sooner or later kalou has to accept that this is his best role. judging by the lack of a transfer request, i'd like to think he has. salomon made quite an impact with a neat defence splitting pass and a goal. studge must've been a little miffed as he tried to break krul down with countless shots, and kalou nonchalantly puts one in with his first on target. priceless.

MOTM was a close fight between mata and the crossbar. i'm leaning slightly towards the crossbar on this one.

thank you for pointing that out! he was offside, and any linesman with a good eye would have put up his flag and luiz shouldn't even be booked. how convenient for alan pardew to leave that part out i think after that luiz had another bad mistake where demba ba barged him off the ball, but from then on he was very good. not as good JT on the night, but still very good.

Studge got the goal he richly deserved, and AVB's plan to turn him into the hulk seems to be working. He was thorn in newcastle's side for 90 mins and if not for krul, could've bagged a hattrick. Such a tantalising performance by the lads vs newcastle, and i was most impressed by their confidence in attack and in possession. Yes the defence looked a bit shaky at times, but a cleansheet at st.james is by no means easy. Remember this is the team which snatched a point from old trafford.

If we took all our chances it could so easily have been five or six and anybody who watched the game would know it wasn't a scoreline that flattered us. Although we're out of the carling cup which is such a shame for our youngsters (haih kesian josh), for me this result makes up for it and will have a huge impact on where we finish this season. Meanwhile, all the best to nico and alex at their future clubs. They've contributed a lot and their time at chelsea will be remembered fondly.

p. s: to a certain extent i agree with jovi, it would be good if AVB settles on a starting line-up, particularly upfront. but u can see he's managing torres carefully now, and the way our spaniard celebrated his assist for kalou fills me with optimism, because it shows deep down he knows its about the TEAM performance. when u have that mentality, half the battle is already won. apart from that i didn't like how lampsy reacted after being subbed.

Sincerely hope Kalou can stay.

Btw, why is so many young eastern european kids being linked to us? I always thought youngsters get linked to Arsenal year in year out, now our turn?

at least we can hope they buy youngsters but dun sell it after they r in form.. this is not a business or something like little chick, feed them grown up and sell it out..

Just to confirm.
Our UCL game is "tonight" 3.45AM right?!

is tomorrow 3.45AM morning..

Alan Pardew is a moron, when his team is in the good end of decisions, you never see him complaining. we were the better team on that day and we won. its too bad his defender got injured and we capitalize on that to make the scoreline worse for them.

what Torres needs is players that plays to his style and provides him the assist he needs. the african gang in Chelsea is definitely not cooperating.

and to be honest, another thing lacking compared to the old Chelsea is our talisman, Frank Lampard. the 20 goals a season he contributes is gone and its a huge blow to alot of our title chase. i used to remember everytime we needed a goal to win, sooner or later, Frankie is gonna give it, the superman headers, the well timed runs, the 30 yard curlers, the ever reliable penalties and the free kicks.

and he missed that penalty last game.. sigh~

subscribe to eskweston on youtube. he always upload reserve and youth team game highlight.

I freaking love his free kicks!! (well, used to).. LoL
He's still my #1 player hahaha

Our friend was referring to money was not a problem for the club. If the club wanted Aguero so bad, they have to bid him with an absurd amount of money in order to fend off clubs like Citeh.

We should put a £50m on Aguero instead of a player who has not been himself since before the world cup in Africa.....

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:15 pm
Spot on. Did he know how he got a point against United?

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:19 pmWhat I meant was if he wants Drogba just play Drogba week in and week out. Let Torres as a sub and otherwise.

You're being sarcastic! Roman will chop you!

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Added on December 6, 2011, 1:45 pm

Now how inappropriate is that, Kenny?

I remembered what Drogba said during our CL against Barcelona...... WAFD?

Pro players should avoid from being racist, swearing and obscene gesture.

This post has been edited by jovigrunge: Dec 6 2011, 01:49 PM

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may be now not much senior players to target at ?

else kaka ?

Kinda nervous for tonite "do-or-die" match!!!! Hopefully ChelseaFC prevail....

P/S:- knock out or not, in AVB we trust!!!!

LOL what that have to do with the african gang ? When TORRES on, DROGBA does not start, KALOU rarely play, MIKEL is a DM, ESSIEN is injured. Stop defending TORRES blindly, he need to adjust to how AVB want him to play, you dont buy a 50m striker that require to buy another 100m worth of player to suit him. So far we already bought MATA and MEIRELES combine worth around 40m, yet TORRES still sit on the bench. Dont come telling when TORRES start MATA and MEIRELES does not start, that why he cannot score or perform. They have countless of training together, i believe AVB definitely see a lot better than us.

i got a pretty bad idea... just hope to qualified last 16 tonight... or else.. lets say worst come to worst... will AVB win back to back EURO cup Champion?

indeed bro. i'm really worry since our defense keep leaking goals especially in UCL.

For much safer option, we can put Ivanovic partnering JT while Fereira deployed on the RB. he definitely not giving much service to attack, but very reliable at the back.

but, my intuition says AVB will choose the same back four from the previous game.

pretty sure that AVB will deploy the same formation as NU game since we have the habit to give away silly goals in UCL. But that going to put pressure on both our makeshift winger as they have to work twice as hard covering what has been left by our fullbacks.

Hope Oreo get a start ahead of Mikel, since he provide more option (tho sometimes prone to mistake as well) than Mikel.

im not blindly siding Torres but he will be our main striker when Drogs leave. would i call Torres a Chelsea legend? no. Would i call Drogba a Chelsea legend? yes. but unfortunately Drogs isnt going to hang around for very long but Torres is.

but its so friggin obvious that the players around Torres are not helping him when they are playing together. Look at Kalou, he scores from a Torres assist and what does he do? he goes off to the other side to celebrate. you dont see Mata doing that after getting an assist from Ashley.

i memang dont agree buying 50m strikers but buy already what to do, obviously have to get in a few players to complement him. or would u rather sell him and get a cheaper striker, we're obviously gonna lose more money selling him and buying new players.