Rant Box: Chelsea v West Brom
By: Jack | December 25th, 2008Tis the season … for poor results.
Chelsea have looked less like an elite club and more like a pub side of late. A goalless draw away to Everton on Monday followed a home draw with West Ham, and leaves the Blues with just one win in the top flight since November 15 at Bolton.
How do we get it? Well, playing West Bromwich Albion is a good start. At home? Well, it still should be OK (I hope).
The Baggies are coming off a solid 2-1 result against Manchester City so they should be up to the task Stamford Bridge usually presents. Chelsea should be motivated also, seeing as the squad has been listless and uninspired of late. If Uncle Phil wants to be in charge for another month, he must start to get through to these guys.
Word on the street is Drogbacite will be handed a rare start. I like it. Although he was utterly useless in his 45 minutes against Everton, he is imposing and presents plenty of problems to opposing sides. I mean, who would you rather not see: Le Sulk or Drogs? Easy answer.
EBJT will be sitting this one out thanks to the red card he picked up from Premier League referee, and part-time cross dresser, Phil Dowd. While Ricky Carvalho has returned to training, I doubt will see him. So expect Ivanovic and Alex in the middle of defense.
You can bet Phil’s favorite pet, Deco, will be in the mix as well. F**k.
Regardless, you have to like our chances against WBA. If we can’t pick up three points against Championship sides, we need to start rethinking our goals for the season? UEFA Cup place, perhaps?
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Sigh…I wish he’d take Deco off and play a 4-4-2…If we don’t get out of this with 3 points then I think it’s time we welcome ol ‘arry Redknapp to the Bridge…
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deco should be benched until he gets his act together considering he’s inexperienced to epl and fatigued at 31.play 4-4-2 put malouda/kalou at least more energetic with lamps and mikel joe. Plain and simple a realistic and achievable target in jan. Is ARSHAVIN. Plays wing,centre or attack.impressive skill and at least f*****g crosses! Russian . . big brownie points 4rm da boss. .he wouldnt be angry spending the cash. Sell ferriera(why do we still have or need him) and alex replace them with academy players and get attackin mid and strikers
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Hello Chelsea boys,
I am a diehard Chelsea fanatic from Egypt and have been ever since the 80s. I am new to blogging and decided to start here. I want to emphasize my concerns regarding the 4-1-4-1 formation that has been lacking in producing goals. A winning team needs at least two strikers to provide that lethaltouch in front of the goal, see Manchester United (Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov) see Liverpool (Kuyt and Torres) even see Villa (Agbonglahor, Carew, Young). Yes, Anelka might be on form but I would prefer to see him play along side our Ivorian bulldozer, see goal versus West Ham. Moreover, Scolari’s insistence on starting his favorite lad on the squad, obviously Deco, has paralyzed his options especially when he has such a wide variety of footballers in the Midfield (Mikel, Lampard, Deco, Ballack, Essien once fit, Kalou, Malouda, J. Cole, Beletti, Miroslav Stoch, Frank Nouble, Gael Kakuta), It is unbelievable how Scolari has the midfieldof the highest caliber worldwide. I have been dissapointed with John Terry, and hope he has a strong come back. Ultimately, Chelseais up one nil at the moment, so enjoy our first win at the Bridge since I don’teven remember.Posted from
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Glad to hear from you AD, I trust you’ll stick around. As for today, I was fairly impressed with our movement and ability to finally create some clear-cut chances. More on the match later.
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Indeed Jack, but once again chances were only created against a lower table club in this case a club really low on the table. If only we can show the same skills with the clubs in the top half of the table we should be on top come summer.
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I agree somewhat. Then again, we looked terrible against West Ham and their subpar as well so there was some improvement.
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