Capital One Cup Semi-Final - 8/9/22/23 January *** Spoilers ***

Have to say Torres had better start playing much better or Ba will take his spot very quickly. He created more action in 10 minutes than torres did the whole time he was on.
 
Good to see Swansea won away from home. Hope they can do the business at home (but how Ba looked in the few minutes he was on, he should start the 2nd leg and will be a handful)
 
divaboy said:
Such a shame I used to love watching Torres for Liverpool as a football fan,
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Me too. I couldnt care less about any premiership team tbh, but I like to watch great football and players, and I think Torres at liverpool was one of the best I have seen in the league....now it is just embarrasing.
 
I like Ba and he's looking like he's going to give Torres a fight for the first choice forward in the Chelsea team.

Also; thought his yellow card was harsh, not a penalty nor a dive.
 
Has there ever been a team that had more chances to win a trophy in a season and not won anything?

Community Shield - Lost
Super Cup - Lost
Club World Cup - Lost
Carling Cup - heading out of
Premier League - probably not going to win

Cant wait till they go out of the FA Cup as well :D

(you know I've pigeon'd it now)
 
I had free tickets to see Chelsea tonight.

Comedy moment of the night was Swansea fans roaring out "You're having a laugh, you're having a laugh, Champions of Europe, you are having a laugh" just after the second goal.

As bad as torres was, chelsea villain has to be ramires. His distribution to the front 4 was terrible. In the end they were all standing in a line in front of him while he failed to play anyone in. Lampard was more direct but Rafa should have told Mata or Oscar to sit in the middle and start playing some passes. Oscar was shoved on the right of a three man midfield with Mata in front of him. No one was moving much and no one was trying to play anyone in. All that happened was Chelsea compressed into a tight final third and lacked the creativity or movement to pick the lock. They also didn't want to cross when torres was on the pitch.

Good fun to watch though!
 
Never have, never will rate Ramires, think he's one of the most overpriced and worst buys in years and frankly I think Oscar is crap, had 2-3 good games and the rest he's pretty crap.


Weren't they saying even before the QPR game(might have been after) that Benitez has a worse record with Chelsea than Grant/Hiddink/Di Matteo had. He's now already lost as many as Di Matteo, more than Hiddink and one less than Grant.

People started getting weird over Rafa, praising not conceding in a couple games to much, then overhyping wins against Sunderland, Villa and Norwich followed by the single half decent result which was a tight 2-1 win against Everton.. 2 more losses since then.

Frankly their record has been abysmal, scoring 8 against Villa doesn't mean Benitez has done well and his "Torres" inspiration was 7 goals against truly awful teams, European/world minnows and 2 of the leagues worst teams. Against better teams Torres looked as awful as usual.

They've got Stoke away, tough most seasons and especially this year, Arsenal, then a few easier games(reading, newcastle, wigan) before a run against City, WBA and Fulham(Fulham at home so might actually perform).

Basically Benitez hasn't beaten anyone you wouldn't expect basically every manager in the league to beat with that team, he has lost to West Ham, QPR, Swansea and didn't look great in the world club cup.
 
No1newts said:
Wonder what odds you would have got before the games for a Bradford/Swansea final :p
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I don't know, but I chucked £10 on Michu to score first at 10/1 :D

Great win, shame we have to keep tight at home in the next leg. It's going to be tough to protect a 2 goal lead with Ba in form, so we will probably need a goal or 2 on the night.
 
EVH said:
Great win, shame we have to keep tight at home in the next leg. It's going to be tough to protect a 2 goal lead with Ba in form, so we will probably need a goal or 2 on the night.
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The way Ba was playing last night (if he starts), Swansea will need at least two in the next match as well.

No dis-respect to Swansea's defending, but its concievable Chelsea can get 3+ if they play as a team with a good team selection on the night.
 
I expected Chelsea to win this one comfortably and then draw at Swansea. As it is, I can only see Swansea going through now, Swansea are a different side at home and should defend well enough to see it out.
 
drunkenmaster said:
frankly I think Oscar is crap, had 2-3 good games and the rest he's pretty crap.
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there were rumours of him coming to spurs and i was gutted when he went to chelsea and he did look good to begin with but he doesn't look anything special recently. not really built for the pl. sold in the summer methinks.
 
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