Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Rigadon]

The ref was utter garbage.  Gave them everything he could.  Terry should've been booked for dissent after our penalty but wasn't so his assault on Young meant he only got a yellow.  As others have said, Essien's constant tripping and breaking up our counters were not punished with a card.  Wankers.  John Terry: cnut.

Great we equalised but it still feels like 2 points dropped the same as the Man Utd game did. 

Some really good signs though.  The team playing with some pride and some belief was great to see.

Young, Dunne, Gabby, Cueller and Petrov all had their best game of the season and Clarke was brilliant.

We have GOT to stop conceding last 5 minute goals though.

Finally, Lerner's reaction to the equaliser was ace.  GO ON RANDOLPH!!!!

[goldenjimi]

Brilliant today.  Hopefully it can be the start of a positive run and not a flash in the pan.  The players all looked like they wanted to play for Houllier for the first time in a while, Wednesdays game is a big un now.

Skys commentators were annoying tho, I think they have forgot about all our injuries already, they kept banging on about Houllier using the kids, he had no choice, the biased gits!!

[Legion]

Brilliant. Friedel was outstanding in goal. Their first goal was not a penalty. Clumsy defending, yes. Played with pride, passion and belief. Dunne was much improved. Great start to the New Year. Another goal to add to my signature!

[Goldie.7]

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...
 

I think that's a bit harsh the guy has just left them. He's chelski through and through what else is expected?

[Tony]

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......   

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?

Collins jumped, Malouda didn't, that's a free kick to the defender. Collins didn't have his hands on the striker, it was a clean jump.

[Karlos96]

Brilliant today.  Hopefully it can be the start of a positive run and not a flash in the pan.  The players all looked like they wanted to play for Houllier for the first time in a while, Wednesdays game is a big un now.

Skys commentators were annoying tho, I think they have forgot about all our injuries already, they kept banging on about Houllier using the kids, he had no choice, the biased gits!!

I know I heard Redknapp say we had one or two injuries.  One or two it must have been around 10 or 11 at one point.

[dave.woodhall]

One draw doesn't make things right, in the same way one pitiful performance last week didn't mean the sky was falling it. But it might shut a few agenda-driven gobs for a few days.

[luke25]

I'd mentally prepared myself for a thrashing today, so much so that I just shrugged when they took the lead, trust us to then go and turn it round and slowly but surely my hope started to build, so much so that by the time they were 3-2 up I felt physically sick, what a time to pick to finally decide to show some fight and spirit, have'nt felt that excited by a goal since that Everton game, brilliant stuff and a complete roller coaster of emotions

[Des Little]

Very proud of them all.  It looks like we've refound our team spirit as well.  Randy's celebration was my highlight from today, fantastic

[brontebilly]

Think the criticism of the ref is overly harsh. Essien should have been booked but cant think of any of our yellows that werent deserved. Thought he got both penalty calls right. Felt we played very well in the first half. It was MON style tactics, a bit Stoke esque at times with the long balls but we mixed it up at times well too. Ashley Young had a purple patch of about 20 mins and that was key to us going 2-1 up. Unfortunately I thought we shat the course a bit after that. Bit of a comedy of defensive errors for the second and a bad mistake from Albrighton for the third but didnt he do well to create the equaliser for Clark. Good character shown by the young man. A great point in the circumstances. If we had shown more ambition, three were on offer today and there is still a lot to work on but thankfully at last there was something to be proud of. Must say I thought Chelsea were terrible. Anelka, Essien and Ferreira in particular.

Friedel - Not much to do for the first half but a few great saves in the second. One of many that were at fault for their second but some great saves.
Cuellar - committed and good in the air as always. But he needed to step up and play offside on a few occasions. To be fair very little came down our right.
Collins - stupid for the penalty and gave the ball away criminally at times. Still a bit iffy for me.
Dunne - Much much better. Looked a lot quicker. Got under the ball for Drogba's goal but some great interceptions which will have given him confidence.
Clark - great for 70 mins until Kalou came on. Positionally caught out a bit after that as Gabby tired in front of him. Calmness personified with the equaliser and had another great chance in the first half.
Downing - jumped out of a few tackles and should have offered himself as an outlet in the second half more but very little came down our right to be fair.
Reo Coker - excellent first half but tired after the break and was empty long before the final whistle.
Petrov - very strong first half. As expected tired along with Reo Coker. Certainly Delph should have been introduced instead of one of them.
Gabby - showed a decent workrate for a change in an unfamiliar position. Exposed Ferreira and later Boswinga but a change was needed 10 mins before he went off as he was wrecked.
Young - our best player in the first half I felt. Just looked dangerous when on the ball. Needs to have more belief in his crossing when he whizzed them in today Chelsea were in trouble. Was disappointed with him in the second half though as we needed him to hold onto the ball better. Think Gabby and himself should have been switched for a bit.
Heskey - pissed me off initially as felt he was ambling about but to be fair once he got a few touches he improved and a fine header. Held it up well on occasion, just a pity he hasnt the pace to threaten the last defender anymore

[Toronto Villa]

If a bloke the size of Collins jumps for a header, and a much smaller man like Malouda makes no effort and is backing into the defender, then the reasult is what you got. Malouda was very clever and conned the ref into giving them a pen. Fair play to Malouda, but the ref should have caught on to that.

[Clark W Griswold]

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......   

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?

Collins jumped, Malouda didn't, that's a free kick to the defender. Collins didn't have his hands on the striker, it was a clean jump.

You are probably correct in relation to the laws of the game, but what you fail to notice is that our player jumped onto their player, and as far as i know, that is not allowed.

[Risso]

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.

I hope so Chris.  I hope we carry on with that level of performance, and don't follow it up like we did the Man U game which had a similar feel to it.

[Tony]

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......   

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?

Collins jumped, Malouda didn't, that's a free kick to the defender. Collins didn't have his hands on the striker, it was a clean jump.

You are probably correct in relation to the laws of the game, but what you fail to notice is that our player jumped onto their player, and as far as i know, that is not allowed.

If the ball had been going to Malouda's chest, then yes it's a foul, but it wasn't, he needed to jump to win it, that's a foul on the defender if he doesn't jump.

[Shrek]

Brontebilly, did you watch the game? Chelsea committed 18 fouls villa committed 12. So you tell me how we got 7 bookings and they got 2? There were no nasty challenges just little jiggles from both teams, i cannot remember a ref more one sided.