6 Wins out of 7 Games Played for chelsea this season... Well Mr.Ancelotti couldnt expect anythin better from his team.... People said they have had the best possible draw... May be yes they did, but what chelsea did right is to hit the ground running........ After a tiring world cup it would have been easy for any team to loose points playin against lowly teams as the opposition players are likely to have got more rest as very few were on national team duty......Considering these intricacies Hell yes it is difficult to get a result against any team in the premier league..Credit to Mr.Ancelotti and team !
Chelsa had been on a rampage since last season.... At the end of a gruelling season in may this year chelsea was still able to bamboozle opponents with succesive 7-0 wins.... This year they started where they left off last season by recording 6-0 wins... Flourent malouda has been the reason they were able to do that so consistently... The 31 year old french man had been a revelation the past year....after his initial struggle to impress scolari and Grant he got his chances once Ancelotti took over.... He grabbed his chance with both hands.... He is not only creatin goals but scoring goals for fun at the moment. His form was such that no body noticed frank lampard goin avol in the chelsea engine room.... Malouda coupled with the old horses drogba and anelka have propelled chelsea to top of the table... The signing of 'Nicolas Mersenary Anelka' has proved to be a shrewd one... He did hop around plaayin for many clubs but not only did he add firepower and creativity to chelsea attack he also brough the much needed balancle on the right hand side for chelsea.....
In defence the departure of carvalho to real did not effect chelsea much.. Alex had been as solid as ever and terry seems finally out of his off the field problems.... With ancelotti using Branislav Ivanovic on the right hand side of defence previously a problem area for chelsea had been solved..... Ancelotti is mixing his tactics well and introducing solomon kalou and Danny sturridge well when their speed could be best used...
Michel essien had proved what an asset he is on his come back this season.... The box to box - All action midfielder whas sorely missed last year...All in all chelsea r firin on all cyclinders this year and only time can tell if they will continue the mometum...
Friday, October 15, 2010
What a Mess !
Gerrard Houllier recently claimed his reign at liverpool was better than the reign of rafa benitez... Well what can one say.... one thin houllier did is to consistently finish in the top 4 of EPL ! By liverpool standards thts definetly not enough........ Rafa was brought in to change tht....... but in the end i mus say he messed up big time !
Rafa Benitez would be placed alongside mourinho as one of the best tacticians in football... but in his time at liverpool the area he failed big time is transfers ! inspite of spening over 200 million pounds all he did every season was crib that he did not have enough funds..... though he made a few out of the world signings like Torres n xabi alonso, i mus say he failed to use them properly... rafa had one of the best visionaries of the game in xabi but all rafa did is to make xabi warm the bench for most part... no one can deny the quality of alonso.... but some time lucas leiva was preferred to alonso... would you believe it ?
what rafa failed to do is to find a decent strike pairing for torres..... not that he did not try, but vorobin n Ngog simply did not fit the bill.... torres being the leadin marks man needed a support striker and the work rate and bent of mind of durk kuyt would perfectly fit the bill ! i honestly do not understand why rafa played him on the right wing instead of his natural strikin position.... another blunder by benitez is his handling of wingers... he bought and completely demoralized Ryan babel who was once regarded as one of the most talented youngsters in europe... given a chance he did show his brillance by scoring winning goals against the likes of macnhester united... and yet again for some reason no one can comprehend why babel could only find himself on the bench ! then came riera to fill the gap on the left flank only to get fed up and leave liverpool in one season ....
And rafa some how did not manage to do in 5 years what roy hodgson did in 2 weeks... buying paul konchesky.... the former fulham left back is solid in defence and deadly with his crosses.... if you remember konchesky scored a belter against liverpool in the FA cup inal of 2006..... i jus cant understand why dossena n string of other left backs were tried by benitez only to leave the liverpool defence vulnerable....
inspite of havin torres, gerrard, alonso and reina in his side how rafa benitezs mistakes caused liverpool to go only back ward... and we all would end up thinkin Mr. Houllier is right !
Rafa Benitez would be placed alongside mourinho as one of the best tacticians in football... but in his time at liverpool the area he failed big time is transfers ! inspite of spening over 200 million pounds all he did every season was crib that he did not have enough funds..... though he made a few out of the world signings like Torres n xabi alonso, i mus say he failed to use them properly... rafa had one of the best visionaries of the game in xabi but all rafa did is to make xabi warm the bench for most part... no one can deny the quality of alonso.... but some time lucas leiva was preferred to alonso... would you believe it ?
what rafa failed to do is to find a decent strike pairing for torres..... not that he did not try, but vorobin n Ngog simply did not fit the bill.... torres being the leadin marks man needed a support striker and the work rate and bent of mind of durk kuyt would perfectly fit the bill ! i honestly do not understand why rafa played him on the right wing instead of his natural strikin position.... another blunder by benitez is his handling of wingers... he bought and completely demoralized Ryan babel who was once regarded as one of the most talented youngsters in europe... given a chance he did show his brillance by scoring winning goals against the likes of macnhester united... and yet again for some reason no one can comprehend why babel could only find himself on the bench ! then came riera to fill the gap on the left flank only to get fed up and leave liverpool in one season ....
And rafa some how did not manage to do in 5 years what roy hodgson did in 2 weeks... buying paul konchesky.... the former fulham left back is solid in defence and deadly with his crosses.... if you remember konchesky scored a belter against liverpool in the FA cup inal of 2006..... i jus cant understand why dossena n string of other left backs were tried by benitez only to leave the liverpool defence vulnerable....
inspite of havin torres, gerrard, alonso and reina in his side how rafa benitezs mistakes caused liverpool to go only back ward... and we all would end up thinkin Mr. Houllier is right !
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