3-0 win ... aku arap anelka menten centrefowed, jgn dok ngade2 ikot ckp avram nk men wide left .. lgpon olimpiakos xde 3 main player diorg .. kekekekee
TEAM OF THE WEEK
GK: Brad Friedel (Blackburn)
RB: Jamie Carragher (Liverpool)
CB: John Terry (Chelsea)
CB: Martin Laursen (Man City)
LB: Ashley Cole (Chelsea)
RM: Ryan Babel (Liverpool)
CM: Paul Scholes (Man Utd)
CM: James Harper (Reading)
LM: Joe Cole (Chelsea)
ST: Yakubu (Everton)
ST: Mikael Forssell (Birmingham)
Manager: Martin O'Neill (Aston Villa)
It's been a tough week for those hugely likeable multi-millionaires at Chelsea. Poor them, they didn't win the Carling Cup on Sunday and have spent the week sulking, or fist-fighting with your assistant manager if you are John Terry. But at Upton Park on Saturday Terry was back to doing what he does best - no, not causing havoc at a central London lap-dancing club - namely defending very well, the highlight of his performance being an acrobatic goal-line clearance from a Carlton Cole lob.
Flanking the skulking Terry is another rich and successful Chelsea stopper who is having a tough time at present. Poor old Ashley Cole has spent the last few weeks moping around the house on his lonesome - seeing as his pop star wife, Cheryl Cole, is currently ignoring him due to his tendency to play away from home. On the pitch though, Cole celebrated a 4-0 thumping of West Ham with his first goal in a Blues shirt, tucking home from a tight angle.
Completing our hat-trick of Chelsea players, Joe Cole deserves his inclusion on the strength of his exquisite goal at Upton Park, quite apart from his continued threat and trickery throughout the game. Collecting the ball from Nicolas Anelka on the left edge of the penalty area he took one touch before drilling a perfect left-footed half volley beyond the despairing Robert Green. Why on earth he wasn't included from the start in last week's Carling Cup final is anyone's guess.
Avram Grant rounded on the media on Friday, and then answered his critics in style with Chelsea's emphatic 4-0 victory over West Ham the following day. Yet the Sunday newspapers are still predicting his imminent demise at Stamford Bridge.
The News of the World claims a phalanx of Chelsea stars will quit the club in the summer if manager Avram Grant remains in charge at Stamford Bridge. And the Sunday Mirror claims in an 'exclusive' that he will be moved 'upstairs' to a director of football role, with a new man brought in to manage the team.
According to the News of the World, the under-fire Grant faces "a battle with Barcelona and Real Madrid over his star players." It claims that Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Michael Essien and Ricardo Carvalho are all unhappy with the current regime at Stamford Bridge in the wake of last week's Carling League Cup defeat by Tottenham.
It adds that Lampard and Drogba - who was left out of the 4-0 win at West Ham yesterday - are targets for Barcelona, and says Essien and Carvalho are wanted by Real Madrid, and goes on to claim that the quartet will leave Chelsea if Grant is kept on as manager.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Mirror carries the headline, under the 'Exclusive!' tag: "Av's Off', with the sub-headline: "Sorry Chelsea fans, he's only going upstairs."
According to this story, Grant will be diplomatically shunted upstairs this summer as Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich overhauls the Chelsea backroom staff.
It claims that the Israeli coach, who was surprisingly chosen to succeed Jose Mourinho last September, will be required to relinquish his current duties and become Chelsea's director of football.
The Mirror reports that Grant "has confided in close friends that he will make way for a new boss. He has also publicly commended the idea of Chelsea appointing a director of football. He will be that man."
The newspaper adds helpfully that relations between Grant and his coaches, Dutchman Henk Ten Cate and long-serving Scot Steve Clarke, are "uncomfortable."
Apparently their Chelsea futures will be determined by the appointment of the new manager, who could be another Dutchman, with both Guus Hiddink (a friend of Abramovich's) and Barcelona's Frank Rijkaard (Ten Cate's boss at Camp Nou) identified as possible successors.
Against this barrage of speculation, Grant and his squad are attempting to prepare for two crucial cup ties this week: the return leg against Greek champions Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League, then the FA Cup quarter-final against Barnsley.
Originally posted by Ax at 3-3-2008 09:56 AM
TEAM OF THE WEEK
GK: Brad Friedel (Blackburn)
RB: Jamie Carragher (Liverpool)
CB: John Terry (Chelsea)
CB: Martin Laursen (Man City)
LB: Ashley Cole (Chelsea)
RM: Ryan Babel (Liverpool)
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Post time 2-3-2008 12:06 PM
ingatkan takde jersi putih sizen neh
