Won't be long now before we lock horns again with the Chavs. The thing this year is we are a better team than last season and it's games like this that the players all want to play in and there is one thing we can be certain of under Rafa, the team will be prepared.
On the day it's the team that makes the fewest mistakes or someone does something incredible that will win it.
For me Chelsea have two defenders, Ashley Cole and John Terry that although good players are prone to making mistakes, with Cole he often gets to far forward and a fast counter attack can isolate him then he has has to rely on others to bale him out. Terry is different he can look in control but again a swift attack will often have him sliding in to win the ball at some point as he just cant stop himself.
Nando is the perfect forward to exploit Terry with his pace and with SG in and around helping him, we shall open them up, if ever he Nando has a guy in his sight it's aimed at John Terry and he should be in for a rough time.
I have always respected Hiddink as his teams are organised, having watched his Dutch team play in the CL they beat all and sundry with attacking play, against the lesser teams this worked well as they were always better of getting more goals than his opponents.
I remember when they played AC and over two games, they were the better team but they lost. Beside not taking their chances that night it came down to the last 20mins and when their players were tired AC hit them on the break, result, game over.
Point is his teams play honest open football and unless he has changed his footballing Philosophy I expect the same which means we must put pressure on them from the start, make them play toward their goal, but I get the feeling this game is set up for Stevie G and Nando and the rest of the squad
We owe them from last season and we will want to prove a point.
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