Chelsea are the top flight’s leading scorers from set-pieces in this campaign, netting 11 times from dead-ball situations and, for the second game in a row, they broke the deadlock through John Terry on Friday, who converted their seventh goal from a corner this season.

“It kills me,” said West Ham boss Sam Allardyce, when asked about letting in the opener on Boxing Day from a corner.

"To be fair, we are one of the best defending set-pieces this season, that’s why we are where we are, and we’re pretty good at scoring them. But that’s disappointing, against a team as good as this you can’t give them a goal off a set-piece. You’ve got so much to worry about in general play but we switched off.”

Blues skipper Terry revealed after the game the team had been studying West Ham’s defensive set-up at corners and spotted room to exploit. The centre-back moved to the back post when his marker, James Collins, went to attack Cesc Fabregas’ corner, and he was unmarked when he tucked in Diego Costa’s flick-on.

“We watched a video before the game on set plays and saw a bit of space in behind,” explained Terry. “It’s not normally a run I make but I fancied getting there, Diego flicked it on and I popped it in and was delighted to get us off to a good start again.”

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/15...-premier-league

I think our reliance on set piece threat is the reason y drogba start ahead remy.

Im seriously thinking that either iva / azpi shud be rested.

Can use felipe luis FK specialist

Agree. Maybe iva. Luis got better cross n attacking. Rotation is a must right now.

I vote for iva to be rest.come to think about it,last night game wasnt his best in attacking but still good at defending but got few times outrun by opponent.maybe fatigue starting to kick in

This post has been edited by lol~: Dec 27 2014, 08:12 PM

Just notice arsenal benefited from our fixture against west ham and Southampton.

what do u mean?
i thought nothing ever goes their way?
referee decisions always against them, gets the worst fixtures unlike us and teams play at 200% against them only?

This post has been edited by yokoloco: Dec 27 2014, 10:52 PM

Chelsea fixture.
26 west ham
28 Southampton

arsenal fixture
28 west ham
1/1 Southampton

West ham and Southampton should be tired down after facing chelsea before they meet arsenal.

+ FA againts them and its all MU fault

haha. i was implying something else.
won't want it the opposite way.. give them another excuse


most probably the illuminati also

You are wrong, our players dived and the ref didn't bother to blow the whistle.

Jokes aside, Marko Marin is the latest news in being terminating his loan offer earlier than expected. So many talented player goes to waste like that. Don't understand why Fiorentina took him up in the first place. I rather place him in one of the relegation battle teams to allow him gain more PL experience than letting him bench on Serie A team.

Torres no longer our player. He made a permanent move to ac Milan. I thought he is going to atletico?

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/...-permanent.html

bittersweet..
thanks Torres for everything..

but on the other hand, he's not our problem now

Too bad torres never found his form with liverpool during 4 season with us. 50m price tag too heavy for him. He join Milan permanently before he will join atletico. Hopefully he will rediscover his form with AM and hopefully simeone will get the best out of him.

Thanks you Torres. Your goal against Barcelona still one of the best moment in chelsea shirt

He made some important goals for us but it is hard to justify 85 million we had invested in him over 4 years. Nevertheless thank you for all those champions league goals.

https://vine.co/v/hEqY3TTQIjp

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B54iT_LCQAAaJW2.jpg

Permanently move to AC Milan so that they can make a loan swap deal with A.Madrid

Match day but i dunno whether going to be excited or not with the match since got AA flight gone missing

I hate it when we're doing them good.

Meaning?

tonight away match with sotong. nt confident can win