Bigger balls

Chelsea still lack balls. We lacked balls in the game against Manchester City and lacked balls on Sunday against Manchester United. The team has improved massively from last season due to the massive improvement on the part of our players and creating a balance in the squad from this summer's transfer activities but it is not far from the truth to say that this team still lacks the massive balls of the 04-05 Chelsea team. They killed the game even before it started. Once they took lead the match was practically over no matter the opposition. This current squad has played against United, City and Arsenal this season and has drawn 2 and won the Arsenal game. In those 2 Chelsea took the lead before conceding late equalisers. The ability to see out the bigs games is a quality that the previous teams had that this team needs to grasp very quickly before the turn of the year. There will be no room for error when the knockout stages of the Champions league begins next year.

United must really have it in for Chelsea. I mean how then do you explain what happened on Sunday? We were cruising to an 8 pts gap and then all of a sudden BANG...... the team is brought to the ground to do damage limitation. I mean this is a United team that is supposed to be not playing well with a questionable backline and even graciously gifted out all 3 pts to Swansea City when school reopened in the BPL  so what did we do that was so bad that they couldn't do the same for us? The least they could have done was play that famous 3-5-2 formation. Isn't the best way to try something new and make it work is to use it against the man you trained so you can all gain some experience? I guess Van Gaal is not that good a mentor after all.

It's been a long time coming. Since the times when we had  Eiður Guðjohnsen,Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Gianfranco Zola in 2003 all banging in the goals for Chelsea have we had more than 1 forward carrying the team forward on his own and I must say that has practically always been Didier Drogba since then doing the job for the team till he departed in 2010 to be succeeded, albeit unsuccessfully, by Fernando Torres. This makes the amount of silverware the team won in that period all the more sweeter. The team placed second last season and was only a couple of bad results from winning it with a team whose midfielder (Hazard) scored more than the combined total of the strikers .But things look very different this season. The strikers are in super form led by Diego Costa with 9 goals already supported by Loic Remy and The Drog himself. It makes for pleasant viewing when you lose your 1st choice striker to injury and the 2nd choice comes and scores.  You lose the 2nd too then the 3rd choice too comes on and score 3 goals in 3 games within a week. The injuries aside it really makes for pleasant viewing. Manchester City won the league last with all their forwards very potent in front of goal. If the attack can continue delivering the goods the happy one might just turn into the excited one.

2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or shortlist:
Gareth Bale (Wales)
Karim Benzema (France)
Diego Costa (Spain)
Thibaut Courtois (Belgium)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
Angel Di Maria(Argentina)
Mario Gotze (Germany)
Eden Hazard (Belgium)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)
Andres Iniesta (Spain)
Toni Kroos (Germany)
Philipp Lahm (Germany)
Javier Mascherano (Argentina)
Lionel Messi (Argentina)
Thomas Muller (Germany)
Manuel Neuer (Germany)
Neymar (Brazil)
Paul Pogba (France)
Sergio Ramos (Spain)
Arjen Robben (Netherlands)
James Rodriguez (Colombia)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)
Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)

Everybody knows that Ronaldo is at the forefront to win it but why is James Rodriguez in there and not Luis Suarez?
I guess we all prefer a 5-goal non - biting world cup star to a 31-goal biting BPL star.