- Feb 13, 2004
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Okay, that hurt.
But lets look at it this way:
We lost Modric, VDV and King Ledley in the Summer.
Kaboul, BAE and Scotty Parker have all been out injured for a while.
Dembélé and Bale were absent for today's game, for one reason and another.
Aside form Dembélé, who is already so important to us, that is seven of last season's 1st choice team (when Ledley was available, of course). And Adebayor, started on the bench and is clearly still very rusty.
And we really pushed a very good, almost full-strength, top-of-the-table and unbeaten Chelsea team, to the limit. We deserved something from that game, and but for a horrible error by Walker may just have got an equaliser, given the amount of chances we were creating and the momentum we had.
I am not quite sure that I was happy with AVBs selections today, surely Lloris should have started after his performance against Spain, and Ivanovic was crying out to be really pressurised down our left <TRIES VERY HARD NOT TO CASTIGATE BALE>, but he never even put Townsend on for the last 15. But even so, that was a fair effort.
So chins up Yids and Yidettes
But lets look at it this way:
We lost Modric, VDV and King Ledley in the Summer.
Kaboul, BAE and Scotty Parker have all been out injured for a while.
Dembélé and Bale were absent for today's game, for one reason and another.
Aside form Dembélé, who is already so important to us, that is seven of last season's 1st choice team (when Ledley was available, of course). And Adebayor, started on the bench and is clearly still very rusty.
And we really pushed a very good, almost full-strength, top-of-the-table and unbeaten Chelsea team, to the limit. We deserved something from that game, and but for a horrible error by Walker may just have got an equaliser, given the amount of chances we were creating and the momentum we had.
I am not quite sure that I was happy with AVBs selections today, surely Lloris should have started after his performance against Spain, and Ivanovic was crying out to be really pressurised down our left <TRIES VERY HARD NOT TO CASTIGATE BALE>, but he never even put Townsend on for the last 15. But even so, that was a fair effort.
So chins up Yids and Yidettes