Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Tony Boucher]

Pride - an emotion I've not felt for a while

[TopDeck113]

I'd have bitten your hand off if the point had been offered before kick-off, so can't complain.

We're still conceding far too many goals, but much more togetherness and fight out there today.  We must now follow if up with a victory over Sunderland.  If we do, maybe, just maybe, we can start to think that perhaps the darkest hour was indeed just before the dawn.

[richard moore]

is it me or is RAY WILKES A FUCKING IDIOT OR WHAT
i agree complete and utter banker just totally biased

 

Yep, dismissing us like we are Southend United. Wise up you ugly little, gob-eyed, Addams family resembling git, you were a no mark club until some dodgy Russian came along and in many respects you still are. You'll never win the Champions league and the only way from here is down for your poxy little chavvy club...
 

[Irish villain]

Dunne was the Dunne of old. I hope we hold onto him.

[Clark W Griswold]

Review of Chelsea goals.

1 Undeserved penalty and 2 shots turned in following saves.  Hardly bad defending.

Must admit I thought it was a penalty.  Also thought it was a really stupid challenge from Collins. to the 3rd.

If the striker doesn't jump and it's not due to the centre half holding him down, he's making a back for the defender and that's a foul, that's what happnened, it should have been a free kick to us.

Agree completely - Collins never took his eyes off the ball - Malouda backed in.

Did you all fail to notice that Collins had physically raised himself off the floor, such was his success in climbing up the back of Malouda?

[JUAN PABLO]

oh and I apolgise to my 5 year old son , for runing up to the TV at 3-3 and giving John Terry one of the biggest wanking signs ever..   I just got abit emotion son......   

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm glad I don't live in That America.

I was watching a Fox Soccer stream and caught some of the summarising afterwards, which was fucking awful. "JT" this, JT that, and one tit saying Villa still look like a team on the slide further down.

Oh, and Warren Barton.

[Goldie.7]

Lets not get too carried away though.

This match was similar to the Manure game. We played pretty decent and got a point, the following week we got hammered 0-2 by blackburn!

[Clark W Griswold]

I'm glad I don't live in That America.

I was watching a Fox Soccer stream and caught some of the summarising afterwards, which was fucking awful. "JT" this, JT that, and one tit saying Villa still look like a team on the slide further down.

Oh, and Warren Barton.

Warren Barton - I'd like to repeatedly rub an industrial cheese grater across his face.

[Irish villain]

Lets not get too carried away though.

This match was similar to the Manure game. We played pretty decent and got a point, the following week we got hammered 0-2 by blackburn!

Given how little we've had to cheer this season I am going to milk this for what I can!

[Chris Smith]

That was more like it. Let's hope that's a sign of things to come now we're getting the injured players back. I thought Dunne and Cuellar were superb but there were lots of great performances coupled with more spirit and fight.

I went from wanting to kill Albrighton to loving him in the space of 2 minutes.

The ref was a twat.

The season started today.

[JJ-AV]

Gabby and Ashley were brilliant.

[Goldie.7]

Sky was no better the commentator was saying 'Cuellar should of handled the ball for their equaliser.......... I couldn't believe it!

[PaulTheVillan]

I am really proud of that performance.

Can't fault any of them.

Proud that a product of our academy got the 3rd goal.

[Monty]

You just saw the fight and belief come back into the side as we went on. Petrov and NRC showed how much we've missed them - neither played a blinder but both had good, solid games of a standard which you should expect from your holding midfielders. Good decision by GH to play the four centre backs, and though Clark didn't look comfortable I doubt Warnock would have done better. Still conceded three, which is a bit of a concern, but Brad's return to form and the fact that we did actually defend better were both real plusses.

Compare and contrast: we go one down early on against City and the heads drop, we give up without any of the game gone; today, we go 3-2 down in the dying minutes and not only do we not give up, we keep our heads to come back and score an equaliser. I think the fighting spirit was exemplified by when, at 3-3, we got a free-kick on the halfway line and everyone went up for it - we believed we could even nick a winner. Great to see and roll on Sunderland.