Rant Box: Chelsea v Fulham
By: Jack | May 1st, 2009
I just worked a 12-hour workday. Have a go, people.
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Apparently I haven’t missed much waking up at the end of the first half (slept at 4am) This is like one of those matches where its like: ahhhh nice to see you back chelsea glad i don’t have to worry about ya as you’ll perform beautifully for us while we have breakfast (or lunch for you euros)
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Look out Chelsea were BACK>>>>>>>>>Barca Fan…..
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Of course the Barca fans are back. These guys can’t stop whining.
Regardless of that, they were scary today. Superlative display.
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Just watched the Barca v Real Madrid game and am pretty scared for our CL chances…Especially if our defense is as shaky as it was today..
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sorry–how is saying “look, our team just played really well!” whining? for the record, can a barca supporter (don’t worry, they’re not my team, so you can respond calmly and logically to this query) say anything without it being whining?
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Um, it’s whining when you come onto a Chelsea blog to say it — especially in the context of the upcoming match.
jeremy, I also appreciate your appalling attempt to bring sarcasm (c. logically) out in your comment.
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saying “we played well” is whining when directed at your next opponent? i wasn’t being sarcastic–i actually would have appreciated some reasoning in your response. i guess we just have different understandings of what the word means, which is fine.
regardless, if guus saw that game today he’ll probably keep 10 of your boys inside the 6–that ought to be fun to watch.
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Keep tight on Xavi again and you’ll shut Barca down…again.
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First, jeremy, nowhere in this post do I see “we played well” so your argument/debate/whatever you want to call it is null and void.
Second, don’t watch then.
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Chelsea are you ready to play some football on Tuesday? Or is the world going to be treated to another tedious display of “dogged defending” mated with old-school British skills (blast-the-ball-up-the-pitch). What a cowardly waste of talent. You can do better than that last performance. Or can you?
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haha, Barca fans can say what they want, but the bottom line is the Spanish league is complete rollocks, there’s no competiton. Even Liverpool spanked real madrid!
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@ blastball
It depends how you define ‘courage’ and ‘football’. If you define them as our rolling over to have our tummies tickled by The Best Attacking Side in the World (copyrighted trademark) like Real Madrid did with their amateur defending, then no. It takes guts to produce a defensive display like the one on Tuesday, and had we come away with a win then it would have been more of a tactical masterstroke than it already was.
The amount of complaining Barca’s fans, players and management have been coming out with since Tuesday shows that psychologically we have struck the first blow – they’re frightened that someone’s actually got the gall to try and stop them playing. Should we get the first goal on Wednesday, expect more of the same.
In the end, if Chelsea make the final, it’s down to Barca’s inability to adapt their play to a more stubborn opponent than the teams that open up and get spanked in La Liga every week, rather than Chelsea’s cowardice in defending, which is an equally integral part of the game.
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lol, jack, you’re right–the guy actually said “look out, we’re back”, which is less. i think we can drop it, though, because at bottom either you don’t know what the word “whine” means, or you’ve gotten so sensitive about the world’s reaction to your team’s display last week that a barcelona fan giving you a bit of harmless pre-match banter gets you all riled up. and i imagine you know how to use a dictionary, so that’s that.
as a fan of the beautiful game, i may well not watch on wednesday–as a fan of chelsea, it’s a pity you won’t have the option.
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re: Defending
Last time I checked Spain were the reigning champions of Europe. In order to remain unbeaten in Euro 2008 and defeat Sweden, Greece, Russia, Italy and Germany, they had to do a bit of defending as well as attacking. How did England fare in the tournament? Oh right, I forgot…they didn’t qualify. Keep on dreaming of 1966 and meanwhile the world will chuckle as you crow about how the next WC will be England’s. Watch out world here comes Peter Crouch, Rooney, Rio, and Ashley Cole! And Beckham too!!
Meanwhile in the EPL the influx of huge sums of cash from abroad has turned the EPL into the world’s greatest league (looking only at top teams). Do you think that if all of the Russian oligarchs and American moneymen moved their operations to another country the EPL would be as strong as it currently is? Drogba, Ronaldo, Essien, Fabregas, et. al would all decamp in no time to Italy, Spain, France, Senegal, wherever… Teams in the mid to bottom part of La Liga would have no problems with their counterparts in the EPL.
Looking forward to Barca schooling Chelsea this week. You better wear your diapers to the match.
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ooooooooooo (not)
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@ blastball
I hope to see you back here swallowing your pride if we win. Something tells me you won’t.
I don’t remember referencing England, international football or the EPL at all, so pretty much all of what you just said is rather irrelevant to this discussion.
Spain were worthy champions last summer; I never doubted their defensive ability. All I said is that Real, a team made up of several nationalities, were awful, and Chelsea will be nowhere near as fragile.I personally wouldn’t mind seeing how any of the teams outside of the top 7 in La Liga deal with the bruising approach of teams like Stoke and Bolton.
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Go here:
http://www.runofplay.com/2009/04/30/barcelona-and-the-idea-of-the-beautiful-game/
I’ve never been so excited to watch Chelsea play, just to see the world crack in two if they win 1-0, allow 43 shots on goal and have 2% possession.
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I seriously can’t understand what the hell barca supporters are so angry about. the bottom line is that to get the result that you need you should play to your strengths. barca’s strength is attacking. chelsea’s strength is their fast paced power football style, physicality, and their attack. however, barca’s attack is better than chelsea’s attack. now, here’s where I get confused. why is everyone so pissed that chelsea didn’t let barca attack? that’s like, strategy number fucking one. if your opponent is REALLY GOOD AT ATTACKING, then DON’T LET THEM ATTACK. chelsea got the strategy right. barcelona should have seen it coming.
cue barca tears and some random comment about how every team should always try to play attacking football.
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@ed that is exactly what I’m talking about. for barca, the way you win is as important as winning itself. well, that’s a rhetoric that is almost exclusive to barca. news flash, barca supporters – sometimes you have to put your head down and play some slow, ugly, and physical football to get a winning result. and for the rest of the world, the winning result is all that matters, and the bottom line is that chelsea got the result they needed, and barca didn’t.
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lol @ all these stats, yet you guys couldn’t get one goal..
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I see jeremy, the closet Barca fanboy, is still running amuck — as are the footballing elitists.
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Oh, by the way, full coverage of the second leg starts tomorrow.
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finn, you are right that NOT LETTING THEM ATTACK is what a team should do if they are being strategic. the problem, though, is that chelsea failed to do that. barça attacked the whole match. what was the possession percentage? i don’t know, but i do know that most of that possession was not in barça’s own half. so, they were attacking. were there two 1-on-1s with cech in the last 15′ or three? obviously, krkic missed a sitter as well, but the point is that barça DID attack and were not stopped from attacking nearly the entire match. nothing to show for their chances though. strategy number 1: don’t let them attack. sports rule number 1: you must score to win. that’s the bottom line. good luck to chelsea on wednesday. i would be much more nervous to be a chelsea fan right now than a barça fan.
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Is there a rule in football that states “you must make Barcelona look good, even if this means losing”? Because if there is Chelsea are clearly guilty of breaking it, as they made Barcelona look pretty ordinary last week.
Surely Uefa should fine them or something, maybe force them to field Real Madrid players so they get completely spanked and look like a pub team?
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