Originally posted by thylord at 13-3-2008 05:57 AM
Derby.. the worst team ever to play in premier league history..
tak leh la kata gitu, actually diorang over achieve last season, "termasuk" la ke epl, bajet tadak, player sereme bukan epl material, takkan nak tukau satu tim
# The performance. Clinical, professional assassination of a very poor team. No doubt under Jose Mourinho we抎 have stopped at two and left them with some dignity but it did seem the players that started the game were after proving a point or two, or at the very least making amends for Saturday抯 debacle against Barnsley.
# No Shaun Wright-Phillips or Florent Malouda, and the cloned Michael Essien on the bench, which after Saturday is the least I抎 have expected. Claudio Pizarro was also relegated to invisibility, which for me is always a good sign.
# Carlo Cudicini. Had bugger all to do bar the goal Derby scored, but I watched the whole game and counted around five up-field punts
1. Derby. Simply the worst team to come to Stamford Bridge in a very long time. Seriously, they could have picked eleven of us from the crowd and we抎 have given Chelsea more of a game. On this showing they抣l do well to survive in The Championship.
2. The atmosphere. At least until the fourth goal went in the loudest noise was that of fans chatting about work that day, or what they抮e doing this weekend. Quite a few empty seats in the Derby end didn抰 help, but also in the home parts of the ground it was quite obvious this game wasn抰 much of an attraction. Is it down to recent performances? Avram Grant? Midweek apathy? Who knows, but on this showing we抎 struggle to fill a 50,000 seater.
3. The substitutions. At 6-0 we抮e cruising and looking good for a few more, then the tactical genius on the bench decides to switch from an exciting 4-3-3 formation, with players playing their roles and creating havoc, to a 4-2-4, after which we never got anywhere near as close to scoring. Off came Ballack for Didier Drogba, and immediately midfield started to look barren. Off went Claude Makelele, to be replaced by the interloping long lost Charlie Essien, identical twin brother in every aspect to the guy we signed from Lyon with one glaring omission, the ability to play football. It抯 either that or his 揵odysnatched
Post time 13-3-2008 07:20 AM
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