Chelsea v Leicester City (R) Well since nobody started one yet, I thought I'd just get it going. Article from Sky Sports here... http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,1-1118602,00.html I don't see how they can lose this game, but present form has been quite poor.
Re: Chelsea v Leicester City (R) Well, GPK likes to start them and seeing as he's a supermod he's head gaffer Anyways... Sucks to say this at this early stage of the season, but this is a must win game for us.More than just for the points as well.This Leicester team will have all the qualities that we have been finding terribly difficult to overcome lately, infact, all the qualities that are leading to the demise of the confidence and great start we had. Long balls up the middle, hard tacklers, big lads up front for set pieces and corners, 11 players that are willing to run all day.Also they are in dire need of points.Now, they may not expect to gain a load on the road, but you can be damn sure these relegation threatened teams are looking to their home games for points and will bust a gut to win. They are also up for it more from a financial point of view as well.Our big prima donnas will get their fat pay checks no matter what, however, promoted teams usually have bonus and achievement (a stay up package if you will) rewards for their players explained at the begining of the season. All in all this will be one tough game for us to win. Due to recent form i expect nothing, whilst hoping for a win- but i think a draw will be the outcome on Sunday. If we lose Ranieri will see his 7th life float away!
v. Chelsea 13-3-4, 42 PTS, 3rd Place (-7) Leicester 4-7-9, 19 PTS, 17th Place (-30) 2:00 PM Local Time 9:00 AM EST FSW Tape at 2PM and 7PM Live on Big Blue ChelseaFC.com News on Soccernet TEAMtalk-Chelsea BBC-Chelsea Other Round 21 Fixtures (Times ET) US TV Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:00 Arsenal v Middlesbrough PPV Pubs 10:00 Birmingham v Southampton 10:00 Blackburn v Bolton 10:00 Charlton v Wolverhampton 10:00 Fulham v Everton 10:00 Leeds v Tottenham 10:00 Liverpool v Aston Villa 12PM Delay FSW 10:00 Portsmouth v Man City Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:05 Man Utd v Newcastle Live PPV Go Chelsea.
This is the type of attitude we can expect. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,6903,1120411,00.html
Putting things in perspective http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=D&xml=/sport/2004/01/11/sfnroy11.xml
Good grief...... WTF? Desailly? Against a team renowned for long ball and aerial attacks, a team that will look to set pieces and corners above all for their goals? I hope i'm wrong and he has a blinder - but i think his time has passed against a team like this. Gallas on the bench for f*** sake. I truly believe now my theory on Ranieri and gallas. ------------------------Carlo--------------------- Melchiot-----Terry----Desailly------------Babayaro Gronkjaer----Makelele-----lampard--------J Cole --------------JFH------------Gudjohnson--------- Middle of the park is what you would expect i suppose given the injuries and the form of Mutu simply had to dictate a rest to at least give Hasselbaink and Gudjohnson a shout for the day. Sullivan Mutu Gallas Geremi Huth
I have to agree clan, I am watching on PPV so will check in again at the end of the game. Intersting thing is that Huth is also on the bench so Galas may be covering full back only?
Wouldn't doubt that at all Dr I. I'm sure ranieri has half an eye on the cup game next Tue, but, still Bridge not even in the squad is an eye opener.
Well now, thats a better start... ....for a change we score an early goal. Hope it's not a case of too early and we back off here.
Well good to see Eidur and Jimmy link up as in days of yore. Leicester looked to be getting back into it the 2nd goal was well timed. If we really get on top I would like to see Huth given some time on the pitch.
Good stuff Good half for the lads. How interesting to notice that the team out there is almost entirely the team from last season, in fact, if Petit was in for Makelele and le saux was in for Cole, it would have been last seasons team.
Well, well, well... 4-0 away win. Great result. Will look forward to seeing this one on the telly in a bit.
Excellent first half. Joe Cole was everywhere, getting a lot of little runs inside the pen area and did well to cross for the first goal. Disappeared in the second half but mostly due to Leicester picking their game up. 4-0 score line was flattering in the end but we completely deserved it with a confident passing game in the first half and a gritty, bravely defended second half. Was a bit dismayed to find Dessa in the line up at the start but must say he had a good game as did JT. Well done BLUES!
Well not the pretiest of 2nd halves but we stuck to it played the ball around and got another 2 goals. We just have to keep the momentum up against Watford and then onto the 2nd half of the season. Yes it is good to see Muto get back on the scoresheet.
Four Goals, Three points Adams said: "Whilst we lost 4-0, we have to understand the difference between the sides and it's a lot of money. "He's bought some quality players and we couldn't cope with them on the day. “ – micky adams 9 of the starting 11 were Chelsea players last season, BEFORE the Roman revoloution. I think at the end of the day, the foxes just aren’t good enough to be in the prem, they are a crude and defensive side, only one shot on goal in the entire game. Leicester do they best to try and destroy the game. Time for them to go back to playing in the First Division (they can take Leeds and Tottenham with them ). Great to see Mutu score, and what a goal Babba's 2nd goal in 4 and half years as well. Happy Days.
Truly aweful performance by Leicester - simply abysmal and a poor advert for the quality of the rest of the Prem.They are without a doubt a very one dimensional team, traditional some might say, long ball up the middle type.Thank god most teams have moved on from those days.Still, it was a very professional performance by our players.Desailly even got stuck into it, making his presence felt on several occasions. Score did kind of flatter us in a way, however, there was certainly no desire to get stuck into them in the second half.Mutu did of course exibit that emotion, but then he's on a personal crusade at the moment - glad it's over for him. I wouldn't get carried away with the result or the performance as they were so bad we really couldn't help but win in the end.What was nice though was that we went away to a potentially tricky ground - and, lets be honest, who actually thought it would be that easy - and came out with the right attitude.Far too many times this season we have started far to slow as players lazed into position and took too long too turn on for the game. Actually the next three games will be against similar opposition, Watford, Brum and Rovers will all be looking to get it over the top on us, especially brum as they will have the usual 4-5-1 formation of visiting teams.
What a great goal by Mutu - some swerve on that one! Hope he can start scoring in bunches again Lampard had an uncharacteristically quiet game - maybe he should rest against Watford. If we need him to beat Watford....... Good win. We didn't beat them by much earlier in the year, and we're 5 behind the leaders, with games still to go against the top 2. Nothing's over yet Watching that game I had one interesting thought - if JFH was a bit more unselfish, we might be talking about him as one of the great forwards of our generation. Watching him take that shot with 2 potential teammates waiting for pullbacks.......I know he'll knock a few of those in, and I know he will pass occasionally, but......there's a reason he's been on so many disappointing and underachieving teams, IMHO.