Today was one of Drogba's "off" days. He played well but not at his best, thats how easy it was. Best striker in the WORLD forget about the prem . Hope he's on again next week against Stoke
Ah like how yuh put the "off" in quotations....believe it or not I was looking at the game and givin' him MOM still. Is almost like yuh could see he was decidedly going to take a back seat in the scoring today, but was doing everything else he could do to ensure his team's victory. I have to admit, the football gods really gave us a nice season-opening schedule that should help establish some momentum/rhythm and regain our confidence after that shaky preseason and CS defeat to manure. If we lookin' at Stoke next week we should look to come out hard and play some more, as lefty say, 20/20 cricket on dat side and secure a easy 9 points to date. It is not going to be easy to repeat the feat and go 6-0 against our main rivals like we did last season, but if we could keep this side healthy, nobody eh beatin' we.
I was almost feelin' sorry for Wigan today to see Essien comin' off only for them to have to deal with Benayoun boy. That little Israeli only know one thing and that is to attack. (I shouldn't be surprised!) As much as I love Jose, I always had issue with Chelsea's too-slow and sometimes negative build up on counter. Not so undo Carlo and you could really see that he is a more nose-to-goal player than Joe Cole, even without the ball. This side is more direct, coming fast and hard and they go be even deadlier when Ramires start gettin' een on de action. I feel is my boy, Mikel that will get sacrificed when that happens but it should really be Lampard.