**** OFFICIAL Premiership 2007-08 season Thread!*****

[jeramy576]

sheva is [censored]. He can't handle the speed and physicality of the EPL. He's too soft for the league. But Roman is in love with him so he'll be in there.

And The Arsenal may not get a result but they'd but up a much better fight

[jeramy576]

mikel is a rather reckless player. He makes lots of foolish challenges.

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I think he's getting a bit of a bad rep

[ThaSaltCracka]

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And The Arsenal may not get a result but they'd but up a much better fight

[/ QUOTE ] I know TOAFK isn't going to like this, but they would have gotten a better result. So would ManU as well, and its because of their style of play.

Chelsea's biggest problem right now, is not having Drogba, yeah thats an obvious statement, but when you have no playmakers in your MF, you need the big man up front to play off of. He's perfectly made for their style of play, with the 4-3-3 Jose played. I am curious if thats what they will continue to play or switch to the more conventional 4-4-2.

[gusmahler]

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And The Arsenal may not get a result but they'd but up a much better fight

[/ QUOTE ] I know TOAFK isn't going to like this, but they would have gotten a better result. So would ManU as well, and its because of their style of play.

Chelsea's biggest problem right now, is not having Drogba, yeah thats an obvious statement, but when you have no playmakers in your MF, you need the big man up front to play off of. He's perfectly made for their style of play, with the 4-3-3 Jose played. I am curious if thats what they will continue to play or switch to the more conventional 4-4-2.

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One could argue that not having Lampard is worse than not having Drogba. Lampard seems to make the wingers play better.

Sheva didn't have a good game. He can finish the ball OK. But he just can't seem to handle the ball outside the box. Lampard being there would help that.

[ThaSaltCracka]

Gus, you certainly watch more Chelsea than I do, but IMO Lampard is overrated. I think Drogba is the guy that drives your teams offense.


Also, Chelsea has Fulham next weekend?? Fulham might finally keep a clean sheet!

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Just a fun fact.

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In 11 meetings with Manchester United, Mourinho lost only once.

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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?...et&cc=5901

Way to go Roman!

[gusmahler]

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Gus, you certainly watch more Chelsea than I do, but IMO Lampard is overrated.

[/ QUOTE ]That's what I thought too. I saw a lot of games last year and never thought he was special. Then I look at the stats at the end of the year and he has 20+ goals. That said, he certainly played better at the MF than the guys they had playing today.

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I think Drogba is the guy that drives your teams offense.

[/ QUOTE ]He was a monster last year. Remains to be seen if he can be the same.


Also, Chelsea has Fulham next weekend?? Fulham might finally keep a clean sheet!

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[ThaSaltCracka]

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Also, Chelsea has Fulham next weekend?? Fulham might finally keep a clean sheet!

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[Pontuan21]

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Also, Chelsea has Fulham next weekend?? Fulham might finally keep a clean sheet!

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John Terry is to undergo surgery this evening for a depressed fracture of the cheekbone. Out of England's next two qualifiers next month?

[panda]

Good god chelsea were crap today again. Shevchenko and Sidwell were both awful, the team would have looked better without them and with just the other 9.

There were nearly lots of fights in the crowd between people chanting Mourinho's name and other's of the (surprising) view that "without Abramovich there wouldn't be a club."