Sunderland 1-3 Chelsea: CF Monterrey in Club World Cup
COME ON CHELSEA
By Since66
December 9 2012
In the wee small hours of this morning, CF Monterrey (Mexico) beat Ulsan Hyundai (Korea) 3-1 to secure a place in the Club World Cup semi-final against Chelsea, who are en-route to Japan as I write. The game will be played on Thursday 13th December, k.o. 10.30am (UK time).
Yesterday at The Stadium of Light Chelsea recorded another victory over The Black Cats – ‘The Portly One’s first win in the league – Torres gets another two, takes and scores from a penalty – and Torres could have had a third when his shot cannoned off the corner of the woodwork to fall invitingly for Juan Mata to stroke in Chelsea’s third.
I am not too sure what Cechie Boy was doing as Adam Johnson’s cross-shot fizzed past him with 25 minutes to go. Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake perhaps, which gave Sunderland a glimmer of hope and although Sunderland hit the bar with seconds remaining, the scoreline was deserving of a Chelsea victory.
Whereas Chelsea couldn’t convert the first-half chances at Upton Park last week, the correct fitting shooting boots were worn yesterday.
On the performance and the manner of the victory, ‘The Portly One’ said, “The team have been training really well, you cannot train too hard before or after a game, so it’s been mainly light training sessions and just tweaking a few things.
“We had more confidence, the players knew what they had to do, and Fernando was one of those players.
“Little by little we are adjusting things, but if we have more confidence, with the quality we have we will win games.
“Today the team played well, especially in the first-half. We had to change the shape after Romeu went off, Sunderland were pushing and pushing, but we showed the quality and character we have.”
Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, (Colback 67), O’Shea, Cuellar, Rose, Larsson (Saha 80), Gardner, Johnson, Sessegnon, McClean, Wickham
Goal: Johnson 66
Booked: Gardner 42
Chelsea: Cech (c), Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Cole, Ramires, Romeu (Oscar 19), Moses (Bertrand 60), Mata, Hazard (Lampard 78), Torres
Goals: Torres 10, 45 (pen), Mata 48
Booked: Ivanovic 71, Ramires 84, Mata 86
COME ON CHELSEA
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