Chelsea vs. Manchester United

Carrick has been absolutely class, I wish he would play like this every week, hes even been back tackling!
 
Chelsea will come out and totally attack now. They are the home team, they have to. Lets hope we manage to weather that and sneak another one. Great game though and still 135 minutes to go!!
 
I thought something wrong was with van der Sar, after he threw the ball away, Nick Coppack saying Kuszczak sent oout to warm-up. Hopefully Edwin is ok and we won't see Kuszczak.

Great first half, Chelsea looked quite good in first 15 minutes, had a chance in the end, but we're playing better than them.

Hopefully we'll finally get the proper result.
 
Some nice composure by Carrick and he's playing some great long balls. His passing accross the width of the pitch has been great and that bit where he tracked back to get Drogba good stuff. I can see us getting one more goal. Chelsea look shell shocked.
 
How many has Rooney got since January. Some may not like him...but there was a reason why we were desperate for him to stay.
 
Please, please don't park the bus now. Keep up the tempo.
 
How the feck do you guys even find time to type in such a tense game like this?!?

Decent half. Greatly worked goal. Rooney's impressed, Carrick has stepped up and Rio and Vida is always good to have. Parks' panicked at times but overall a good half.

Laptop, and posting when ITV have close ups of Drogba's face.
 
I thought something wrong was with van der Sar, after he threw the ball away, Nick Coppack saying Kuszczak sent oout to warm-up. Hopefully Edwin is ok and we won't see Kuszczak.

Great first half, Chelsea looked quite good in first 15 minutes, had a chance in the end, but we're playing better than them.

Hopefully we'll finally get the proper result.

Didn't VDS throw it away because the ref wanted to switch ball?
 
Rio and Vidic make the difference. Just having them in the back is such a confidence booster.
 
you noticed that too :mad:

It's like they've rocked up to Stamford Bridge and thought, 'right European match, Chealsea at home, we get behind Chelsea cos they're English innit' and nobody bothered to point out both teams are English. Spastics.
 
Redknapp: "Chelsea have got to score to get something from this game"

The expert input overwhelms me
 
Is it their formation that Chelsea is struggling with? Ramires out wide, no extra midfielder in their to press the United midfield. No wonder Carrick has space because Essien is focused on Giggs and Rooney while Lampard just strolls around.
 
MirrorFootball Good news for Chelsea: Martin Atkinson is stripped off and preparing to come on for the second half
 
:lol:

RTE taking the predictable "both teams are pretty shite except Rooney" line rather than acknowledge a good half of football!
 
How did they not score at the end of the first half? Two chances and they missed. Great clearance from Evra.
 
Need to weather the inevitable onslaught. We were in this position a month ago, so hopefully we've learned our lesson.

Don't rest on your laurels, United!
 
Is it their formation that Chelsea is struggling with? Ramires out wide, no extra midfielder in their to press the United midfield. No wonder Carrick has space because Essien is focused on Giggs and Rooney while Lampard just strolls around.

Playing drogba and torres together as well, they don't look they want to get stuck in the mid all too much either
 
Need another to take the steam out of Chelsea's drive - great first half though with Carrick having a superb game. Rooney's everywhere and playing a blinder too.

C'mon !!
 
So, based on the dozen or so times we've absolutely hammered them in the first half of late, who here isn't expecting us to get a kicking second half?
 
Hope we break from our normal pattern of gifting the other team the impetus after we score. We absolutely must keep going because Chelsea are too good a team not to score if we let them keep attacking us.