Joe Cole was then lost to injury before the Stoke game and Kalou took a knock in the same game and was taken off at half time. By this time things were getting slightly insane, and had it not been for the depth of our squad, loud alarm bells would already have started ringing from Fulham Street. With the squad already stretched, Scolari would have done without Drogba taking another blow on his knee and not only that, 3/4th of the back line also took knocks in the CL game against Cluj. Fingers crossed for JT and Alex to make the important game at the weekend against high flying Aston Villa. Ashley Cole too got a sore back after the game but he should be fit.
I can only have sympathy with Scolari, who got rid of some dead wood in the summer market to keep the squad small and handsome, but he wouldn't even have dreamt of this scenario. In fact, no one can. It will be interesting to see the line up he puts on the pitch in the weekend but one thing is for sure, it would by no means be what he'd have planned for while trimming his squad for this kind of game. Let me get into Scholari's shoes for once and pick eleven fit players from the squad. Following could well be the line up at the weekend:
Cech
Bosingwa Ivanovic Ferriera Cole
Lamps Mikel Ballack
Kalou(if fit!) Anelka Malouda
Bench: Cudicini, Bridge, Mancienne, Miniero, Di Santo, Sinclair, Woods
Lets hope Deco and Carvalho are back soon!
7 comments:
dood mineiero still has time to go
go disanto this is ur moment
crisis? what crisis? we have super super frank!
this was supposed to be top of the table clash with everyone backing villa to upset the blues. but with half of the first team out, the blues produce 14 shots on and 13 off target. but for friedel, the scoreline could have been more emphatic. carry on blues, pl trophy will have blue ribbons this time!!! :)
Villans got a footballing lesson
and chelsea showed they are the best club team in UK this season
whoa
just a reimnder wat lampard can do for england
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=nVagEz7kBcY
Does beating Villa mean the best team in UK ?
the missing players : carvalho,essien,drogba and deco. But anelka is pretty good player who could walk into the first team as well . So surely not as bad as it is made to be.
Thing is not just beating Villa but the manner that we did under the circumstances. Last season we had almost the same team that played against Villa except for Bosingwa...and no one could have expected this kind of attacking football then by the same bunch of players.
Good times!
Moreover terry played wid an injury that wud normally taka 1 month time to recover for an ordinary guy ....he is certainly a bionic man
anelka was not fit completely
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