Chelsea V Blackpool - (SS1 KO 4.00pm)

OPENROAD

Brilliant from the Blackpool fans "You're not as good as Arsenal" :D

Drumpot

eZe^ wrote: »

Chelsea are becoming an absolute joy to watch.

Against the West hams, Stokes, Blackpools, Wigans and West Broms . .

In all sincerity, it will be interesting if they play the same attacking footie against City Next week. Teams of Ancelloti are not renowned for their attacking flair ! !

IvySlayer

Drumpot wrote: »

Against the West hams, Stokes, Blackpools, Wigans and West Broms . .

In all sincerity, it will be interesting if they play the same attacking footie against City Next week. Teams of Ancelloti are not renowned for their attacking flair ! !

Agreed. When they score a 100 goals I'll be impressed. :mad:

Lukker-

Drumpot wrote: »

Against the West hams, Stokes, Blackpools, Wigans and West Broms . .

In all sincerity, it will be interesting if they play the same attacking footie against City Next week. Teams of Ancelloti are not renowned for their attacking flair ! !

So they didn't play attacking football last season. Smashing goal scoring records, beating the top 4 home and away?

eZe^

Drumpot wrote: »

Against the West hams, Stokes, Blackpools, Wigans and West Broms . .

In all sincerity, it will be interesting if they play the same attacking footie against City Next week. Teams of Ancelloti are not renowned for their attacking flair ! !

Been far more impressive than any other team in England so far this season.

OPENROAD

Chelsea :mad::mad::mad: needed at least 6-0 for my bet

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

How did it finish?

Mars Bar

4 0.

IvySlayer

THFC wrote: »

How did it finish?

Chelsea scraped it 4-0.

Lukker-

OPENROAD wrote: »

Chelsea :mad::mad::mad: needed at least 6-0 for my bet

Harsh

Could have been 8 on another day but Chelsea took their foot off and Gilks made a few good saves.

Johner

bw wrote: »

Great, and your full-time prediction?

4-0.

OPENROAD

Lukker- wrote: »

Harsh

Could have been 8 on another day but Chelsea took their foot off and Gilks made a few good saves.

Thought I was looking good at half time, still can't complain, have had a very good week betting wise

SimpleLogic

I had a bet on Chelsea to score in both halves

Drumpot

IvySlayer wrote: »

Agreed. When they score a 100 goals I'll be impressed. :mad:

AC Milan beat Barcelona 4-0 in a champions league final and were a hugely defence minded team at the time. Amount of goals scored does not necessarily imply that you have attacking flair.;)

I honestly cant say how good this chelsea team are . . Being able to thump Sh*t teams is brilliant (wish United could!), but in all fairness in terms of injuries and fixtures at the start of the season, it couldnt of gone better for chelsea to ease them into the front. Not moaning, just making an objective observation.

The perception of chelsea is multiplied all the more by the poor performances/results of United who in all fairness have a decent amount of injuries, a major concern over their best players mentality and are traditionally seen to be slow starters . .

That said, United's defence has been more open then a legless hooker after giving birth to quintuplets ! !

RichTea

Seriously, how good is Florent Malouda for Chelsea?

For the past two seasons or so he's been ripping teams to shreds fairly consistently. He scores proverbial hatfuls of goals too.

Mars Bar

RichTea wrote: »

Seriously, how good is Florent Malouda for Chelsea?

For the past two seasons or so he's been ripping teams to shreds fairly consistently. He scores proverbial hatfuls of goals too.

Yeah he has been impressive! But where was he hiding all that time before? I didn't realise he was 30. I thought he was only 25/26!

EDIT: Some Wikipedia searching done. No need to answer my question!

Essien

Drumpot wrote: »

AC Milan beat Barcelona 4-0 in a champions league final and were a hugely defence minded team at the time. Amount of goals scored does not necessarily imply that you have attacking flair.;)

The way Chelsea are playing these days they always have 5, 6 or even 7 players on the pitch capable of scoring from open play at any given time in a game, if thats not attacking flair then I dont know what is.

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Ush1

mars bar wrote: »

Yeah he has been impressive! But where was he hiding all that time before? I didn't realise he was 30. I thought he was only 25/26!

Umm, he was player of the year in France before he left for Chelsea.

As a Lyon fan, he was actually one of our real biggest losses.

Crann na Beatha

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Lukker-

Malouda came to Chelsea in 07 and he was largely average in his first season. He was a regular in the first team with various managers keeping faith in him but most Chelsea fans couldn't see why he was still in the team. Hiddink arrived and started to get the best out of him utilizing his pace far more than Mourinho or Scolari did. He has been an absolute revalation under Ancelotti and is really playing some amazing football. He seems to have a telepathic link with A.Cole and their partnership on the left must be one of the most terrifying in world football.

Drumpot

Essien wrote: »

The way Chelsea are playing these days they always have 5, 6 or even 7 players on the pitch capable of scoring from open play at any given time in a game, if thats not attacking flair then I dont know what is.

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Flair is not the ability to score goals, its actually the ability to do something out of nothing . . Messi has flair, Ronaldo has flair . .

I think you are confusing flair with the efficiency chelsea have been showing?

Lukker-

Drumpot wrote: »

Flair is not the ability to score goals, its actually the ability to do something out of nothing . . Messi has flair, Ronaldo has flair . .

I think you are confusing flair with the efficiency chelsea have been showing?

You seem to think attacking football means flair?

Mourinho was efficient.

Ancelotti is ruthless.

When your full backs spend the majority of games well past the half way line and this isn't considered attacking football then I don't know what is.

Did you actually watch the game either. If you did you might have noticed some of the outragous bits of "flair" that Drogba pulled off.

CR 7

Lukker- wrote: »

You seem to think attacking football means flair?

Mourinho was efficient.

Ancelotti is ruthless.

When your full backs spend the majority of games well past the half way line and this isn't considered attacking football then I don't know what is.

Did you actually watch the game either. If you did you might have noticed some of the outragous bits of "flair" that Drogba pulled off.

United v Rangers, full backs mostly in the opposition half. Does that mean the team had flair?

Just because Drogba can showboat doesn't mean the team has flair. And before you ask again, yes I did watch all the game. Was the second half flair-ful enough for you?

Ush1

Drumpot wrote: »

Flair is not the ability to score goals, its actually the ability to do something out of nothing . . Messi has flair, Ronaldo has flair . .

I think you are confusing flair with the efficiency chelsea have been showing?

Could easily describe Drogba that way.

flahavaj

This is the only Flair that really matter lads.:)