Chelsea 1-1 Everton: Time to Get Worried?!?!
Answers?!?!?
By Since66
December 5 2010
With the upcoming fixtures against Tottenham, Man Utd, Arsenal and Bolton (Yes Bolton) on the horizon, Chelsea's December started as miserably as November finished. Everton, our nemesis at the Bridge gained a deserved point, a comeback after their home trouncing by the Baggies last week at Goodison Park.
With John Terry back at the heart of the defence and Michael Essien returning in the midfield, you could be forgiven before the start of the game that Chelsea would get back to winning ways and although it took to nearly half-time for Chelsea to take the lead, expectation was high that the Matthew Harding End would witness one or two more goals.
For the umpteenth time this season, Chelsea were guilty of missing chance after chance, the goals from the start of the season have dried up and something needs to be sorted on to get that ball bouncing back into the net.
I don't know whether the confidence in front of goal has dried up or that Chelsea have been 'found out' and teams know to pack out their areas when Chelsea are attacking. The topic is a big question and Chelsea need to provide answers sooner rather than later, or we could find ourselves slipping down the table faster than a sledge on a snowy, slippery hill.
Another major concern is the way Everton came back into the game in the second-half producing wave after wave of attacks and how Chelsea let Baines skip past three Blue shirts, before producing a wonderful cross for Cahill to head back for Beckford to head home a deserved equaliser.
Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa (Ferreira 64), Ivanovic, Terry (c), Cole, Essien, Mikel (Sturridge 87), Malouda, Kalou, Drogba, Anelka (Ramires 77)
Goal: Drogba (pen) 41
Booked: Terry 73
Everton: Howard, Neville (c), Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Coleman, Rodwell, Fellani, Pienaar (Bilyaletdinov 86), Cahill, Saha (Beckford 57)
Goal: Beckford 86
Booked: Neville 28, Howard 40, Cahill 73, Jagielka 90
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You´re right though - we should have sealed it in the first half and we were pretty much robbed of playing against 10 men by the ref who baffled us all by not sending Howard off.
2nd half we were poor and lacklustre - Everton took advantage and played well.
Despite getting Essien back he looked SOOO languid - hopefully he´ll get fitter v Marseille and play much better at the Lane next weekend. Malouda was also disappointing but why has Ancelotti got him playing so deep? For me, there was the problem - a below par Malouda and Essien.
We should be better v Spurs...although I´m not looking forward to it.
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.