Thought we started the game excellently but just couldn't find the net. Then as Chelsea started getting into the game we scored! and they didn't know what to do for a bit. Don't recall them having a chance in the first half at all. We were superb.
I thought Chelsea were excellent second half - outside our box - but we were even better defensively (Pellegrini has finally learnt. That's the best I've seen from him defensively since Malaga played Dortmund in the CL!) Great stuff! We were compact, narrow, disciplined and determined not to concede. I can't describe how happy I am about that!
Chelsea had one real chance. ONE! And they had most of the possession and played in our half for long stretches of the second half. And they created one chance against our defending.
And then as they tired, we sucker punched them with fantastic counter attacking football and good pressure on the ball to win a corner (for a goal) and force a mistake (for a goal).
We were brilliant!
Great stuff!
Still need to sign more players because once you go past about 13/14 players we drop in quality significantly but that's for another day... I'm gonna watch the 90mins back now!
Buzzing!
