All posts tagged "Chelsea"

  • MOTD: Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool

    It was sort of a limp, bittersweet last hurrah for Steven Gerrard.  Chelsea had already clinched the title and Liverpool lined their entry to the pitch in the traditional guard of honor.  If the Reds had anything...

    • Posted May 10, 2015
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  • Wenger’s Invincibiles not all that different to Chelsea

    There’s more to titles than glitz and glamour, and, if anybody, Arsene Wenger should know that.  His “Invincibles” in 2004 didn’t waltz their way to the title; a fierce warrior in Patrick Viera rooted their midfield and...

    • Posted May 4, 2015
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  • How Mourinho reinvents mind-games

    Arsene Wenger was right, Chelsea can play a “boring” brand of football, and their last eight wins have all been by one-goal margins, including today’s title-winner against Crystal Palace But as a football manager, one doesn’t always...

    • Posted May 3, 2015
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  • MOTD: Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea

    Chelsea surely could have beaten Arsenal today.  They had the chances, and more importantly, could have felt pleasure in squashing the second-placed side that some still thought had a distant shot at the title.   It was...

    • Posted April 26, 2015
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United

    Manchester Untied maintained seventy percent possession and Louis Van Gaal argued that his side were “dominant,” but Chelsea won. United may have had better players on the day and a more attractive brand of football, but Chelsea...

    • Posted April 18, 2015
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 2-2 PSG (3-3 agg)

    It was almost bittersweet for any English football fan (bar Chelsea supporters, of course), to see the same side that has dominated the Premier League so thoroughly, out-played, out-fought, and out-thought by a ten-man Paris Saint-Germain side....

    • Posted March 11, 2015
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  • MOTD: West Ham United 0-1 Chelsea

    It was anything but a promising day for Chelsea: greeted in a hostile London derby, West Ham United maybe put a little more into every tackle than necessary. Certainly, Sam Allardyce’s men gave Chelsea a run for...

    • Posted March 4, 2015
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 1-1 Burnley

    Minute thirty, minute thirty-three, minute forty-three, and minute sixty-nine. Minute thirty, minute thirty-three, minute forty-three, and minute sixty-nine. Jose Mourinho repeated his mantra five times before walking out on his dumbfounded interviewer. These were the four moments...

    • Posted February 21, 2015
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  • MOTD: Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Chelsea

    In few games this season have Chelsea been so aimless in possession, uncomfortable to open themselves up to PSG’s counter-attacking menace. Jose Mourinho’s men were content in keeping possession to run down the clock, especially after they went...

    • Posted February 17, 2015
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 1-0 Everton

    Jose Mourinho recently complained about his “very short squad.” Not literally in terms of height, mind you, but their depth. Chelsea indeed struggled without Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas in the starting lineup, though not in goal....

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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