I watched the game and come away from it thinking "Good performance" and "Good result, we're through!" and being honest I cannot believe the negativity that has come from "Chelsea fans" on here and Twitter to me after the game.
Some of you lot need a kick up the arse and to get a sense of realism right now. I have been a fan of "My local club" having been born in Princes' Beatrice hospital 38 years ago and raised in and around Chelsea ever since.
I have watched and been to games to following the Blues in really good times and really bad times and never will forget just where we have come from. I NEVER take the success we have had for granted and will never do so in the future.
I get frustrated like alot of the real football fans of our club when we aren't playing well, well things appear to be going wrong and people at the club make certain decisions. That's all part and parcel of being a fan. I get frustrated when it seems to me as though players aren't playing well, seem up for a game and can't be bothered in games. I want to see every single player wear the Chelsea shirt with pride and give everything to the cause.
Now listen, there is one thing being the above when it's justified and simply put, the comments I have seen from certain fans about the game yesterday make me question why?.
Some comments I have received on here and via Twitter yesterday are as follows:
The current central midfield of Malouda-Meireles-Ramires againt QPR summarizes the whole football incompetence of AVB. This guy might be good at man-management but he's terrible at football.
Perhaps the worst chelsea performance in years! It's just lucky that QPR were so so bad - but we still needed a very dodgy penalty decision. No pace; no creativity; no idea.
What a woeful display! I couldn't believe AVB's statement that it was an "excellent team performance"
GREAT PERFOMANCE? WHAT WERE YOU WATCHING???!!! WE'RE SHITE!
Are you serious? performance was poor lacking any creativity in midfield. QPR were toothless but we didn't look like scoring.
The point I am making is that a couple of games ago when I said we couldn't buy a win and no matter how the performance is, we just need to win games again to get confidence back and to get on a run, yesterday was the same.
I don't care how well or badly we played, all that mattered was that we got the result and went through to the next round. Surely as a realistic Chelsea fan you can see that?.
Yes we need to improve on areas of our game and I am sure AVB knows that. Yes it's obvious we need more creative players in our team to become the free flowing, fluid and fast paced team we all want to see playing week in, week out but the problem is, we haven't got those players at the moment.
I actually thought it was a good performance from our Chelsea side yesterday. QPR WERE toothless and Cech didn't have alot to do at all apart from maybe two saves with the most dangerous being right at the end of the game. That was because Chelsea were dominant in possession of the ball and forced QPR on the back foot for most of the game.
Do you honestly think that QPR fans would be moaning if Luke Young's shot found the way into the corner of the net despite the way they had played yesterday? OF COURSE NOT!.
Some of of you GLORY BOYS need to wake up, and enjoy the fact that we have beaten our local rivals by a debatable penalty 1-0 and are through to the next round.
Yes it was a dive by Sturridge, but the referee gave it and being honest, the defender should never have put himself in that position to give Sturridge the chance to win the penalty.
I am all for criticism, I am one of the most vocal supporters blog's out there and do write exactly how I FEEL about things and hopefully people relate to it.
When people are complaining just for the sake of it, then it becomes a joke and I find it very difficult to even consider these people true supporters. Some people are never happy, you get that in any walk of life but like I said, the real, true supporters who have been following Chelsea for as long as I have, will realise that in some cases, a win is a win and that is all that should matter.
As to the game itself, like I said it was a professional performance from us. Ivanovic coming in at right back has a calming effect on our back four and sures things up in my view.
It also seems to me as though someone has had a word with David Luiz as he seems to have worked on the defensive side of his game. He has had a couple of really good defensive performances in the last few weeks and it's good to see.
JT coped with everything really well and Ashley Cole did ok up against SWP. For me, the man of the match for us was Raul Meireles. This guy has been a revelation in my eyes lately. Asked to sit and hold and play the dirty role in the midfield, he has played really well. I still think he should be playing further forward in a supporting role and Romeu plays there, but yesterday he was everywhere, all over the pitch.
Florent Malouda came in and also had a better game. He was far more involved playing in the middle and did well. He did what was required and that is all that should matter this morning.
The news on Ramires doesn't look good but before his injury he played better than last week.
Juan Mata was busy as ever, wanting the ball at every opportunity and kept his head to put the spot kick away.
Danny Sturridge did OK but still needs to think of the better option at times rather than take the extra touch or to have a shot. He just needs to work on what he does in the final third of the pitch but that will come with time. He kept the full back occupied all game, in a game we won so who cares.
As for Torres, he worked hard again, never scored but didn't really get an opportunity and just needs to carry on working to get that yard of pace back.
Overall, a solid, professional performance in a game we won 1-0, beating our local rivals and going through the to next round of the competition. If someone offered you the result before the game, you would have been a fool to not take it.
So to all the glory boys, get a life, get a sense of realism and acknowledge for once that it was the result that was the be all and end all yesterday and OUR TEAM got it!.
KTBFFH
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