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This is an early test of Chelsea's bottle, with Liverpool slipping up they can go top with 3 points this evening. Let's see how it pans out.
 
RhQQ said:
This is an early test of Chelsea's bottle, with Liverpool slipping up they can go top with 3 points this evening. Let's see how it pans out.
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I would fully expect Chelsea to win today. Middlesbrough are no great shakes at all.

The test of just where this recent Chelsea revival is comes the next two Saturday's at home to Tottenham and away at Citeh.
 
You'd expect it, but you would've expected City to of beaten them a few weeks back, you would've expected Liverpool to of beaten Soton, you would've expected United to of beaten Arsenal, but hey, the underdogs get away fortunately unscathed at times :P
 
When did Gastón Ramirez and Adama Traoré become such an attacking threat?

Real good watch this. Middlesbrough bossing the first quarter. Chelsea the second. Heck of a save from Pedro by Valdés. Great poaching by Costa on the goal. If terribly bad defending from Middlesbrough for the first time the half.

Feel Chelsea need a second to sit comfortable. Should be a fun second half.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
When did Gastón Ramirez and Adama Traoré become such an attacking threat?

Real good watch this. Middlesbrough bossing the first quarter. Chelsea the second. Heck of a save from Pedro by Valdés. Great poaching by Costa on the goal. If terribly bad defending from Middlesbrough for the first time the half.

Feel Chelsea need a second to sit comfortable. Should be a fun second half.
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Adama looks like he could be a good wing back if you get me ;) haha
 
Big away 3 points, top of the table after 12 games even though you were beaten by Liverpool & Arsenal. Very dangerous.
 
Not our most beautiful win since changing to the 3-4-3 but fair play to Middlesbrough they gave us a good game today that Adama was a real threat! Moses brilliant once again fully deserved his motm award.
 
cfc12345 said:
Not our most beautiful win since changing to the 3-4-3 but fair play to Middlesbrough they gave us a good game today that Adama was a real threat! Moses brilliant once again fully deserved his motm award.
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Yeah, very hard fought win that was in the balance right up until the whistle. Middlesbrough just lack that extra quality in key areas.

Certainly scope to get in behind down the wings. I'll be real surprised if he doesn't tweak next Saturday against Tottenham. The way they work and press high, those central three will need a lot more protection.
 
Look we will have games where we absolutely blow teams away buy any side that aspires for Top 4 needs to be able to grind out wins away at home to good sides like Boro. Exactly what Chelsea managed with some luck going our way. No point getting carried away as our streak will likely end in the next 2 games and we will slip down the table but if we are going to drop points, let it be against the best teams and not anyone else.
 
Also I will put up my hands and admit it, I wanted Costa gone last season. He seemed more interested in picking meaningless fights rather than scoring goals. This season he has been completely different. Someone shared this example and I think itd extremely pertinent-

In the Everton game, Coleman went studs into Costa in a horrible challenge. The Costa of previous seasons would have spent the rest of the game trying to exact revenge and pick useless fights. This Costa brushed it off and focused on the more serious business of winning the game.
 
Alcaraz said:
Also I will put up my hands and admit it, I wanted Costa gone last season. He seemed more interested in picking meaningless fights rather than scoring goals. This season he has been completely different. Someone shared this example and I think itd extremely pertinent-

In the Everton game, Coleman went studs into Costa in a horrible challenge. The Costa of previous seasons would have spent the rest of the game trying to exact revenge and pick useless fights. This Costa brushed it off and focused on the more serious business of winning the game.
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Mourinho always seems to encourage aggressive players to play even more aggressively. Pure speculation, but I think this was the cause of Costa's style, if you can call it that. I do enjoy a bit of aggression, but everything has it's limits, and Costa went over that line more than once.
 
Is this the point where I get to be smug and remember I predicted Costa to tear it up this season? He's benefitting so much from effectively having another striker to play off, and Hazard/Pedro being narrower is stopping him from drifting off into the channels so much. The system just works for so many of our players (sorry Cesc :( )
 
With Gerrard retiring, I think it's time for us to enjoy this one last time...

[video=youtube;xxWJeZaV8-E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxWJeZaV8-E[/video]
 
Not a great performance but a wins a win especially when it's against Spurs! Victor Moses just keeps coming up with the goods.
 
Most will know i'm a pessimist at the best of times but today i really felt that record would go and i don't think i've ever been so pleased to be wrong! No way a vintage performance from us today in fact the 1st half we were out of ideas, Spurs had set up sensationally well to stop us and thoroughly deserved their lead. We kept playing it out from the back but Spurs pushed up on us forcing us to smash it long into no mans land!


However we got our bit of luck and it was a bit of magic very apt it was a Zola-esque strike when the mans sitting in the BT studio from Pedro. Very fortuitous the goal but that was the trigger for us, we woke up, Spurs panicked and the end result was inevitable. For me the main difference maker today was Costa, yes he didn't score but he was involved in absolutely everything going forward for us in the 2nd half he was an absolute nuisance he was for me man of the match. I would go on a rant about Harry Redknapp and his post game comments but he really is not worth the time the *******!


It will be shorter than usual this week so i'll wrap it up by saying 7 wins in a row now but the last 2 showed we can mix it up, winning whilst not at your best like tonight is a very good trait to have.


UTC!!!
 
Congratulations fellas. Don't really have a clue how you played or how the game went. (It was on when I got back down town but the City was too busy bouncing from our own pivotal victory.). But that's a massive victory regardless. Still not convinced a formation change is whats changed Chelsea to such a degree and that when its figured out they won't have the same issues. But one things for **** sure. Right here, right now, you're in this race and full credit to Conte for that. After the way this horrid version of Mourinho decimated you, he's revitalised the whole club and then some. I never had you even making Europe so there you go. Got that one spectacularly wrong to date.

This is fast becoming a three horse race.

I hope you're up for a fight because we're in this to win it until the bitter end!
 
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Chelsea plan to enter contract talks with Victor Moses in the coming weeks after it emerged he has become a transfer target for Barcelona, according to Sky sources.

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Is this a joke?
 
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