Just watching this in full, for the first time. Half way through the first half, Mourinho had a point about diving, just got the focus wrong. Hazard a few times and David Luis gets a ridiculous call when backing into Suarez and falling over. Webb would have needed a linesman to make the call on Eto'o, who should have gone for that tackle on Henderson. Agger has looked like a centre back playing left back, Sktrel and Sakho still don't communicate enough but aren't playing badly. Johnson gets kudos for the goal line clearance, but his positional play has been awful, losing runners and both centre backs and Lucas have covered his arse on a few occasions.
Lucas has been OK so far as well, some good positional play and interceptions, the best of midfield three as Henderson has been invisible and Allen just plain poor. Coutinho and Sterling have had some good moments without an end product though and Suarez has had nothing, early goal excepted, too feed off. Some of Suarez's isolation is in part due to Cahill having a good game and David Luis really impressing me, shepherding the space between the defence & midfield.
As in the Man City game, I've noticed on more than a few occasions Johnson's team mates are becoming very reluctant to give him the ball, even when he is wide open and that's not a good sign. As Chelsea take the lead, you can't help but notice, like the first goal, a couple of fortunate ricochets, on this occasion however it is compounded by some poor defending and keeping.
Opening of the second half and we really take control of the game. Chelsea do seem content to sit back but we have been applying some real pressure. Some Chelsea players still seem to have an inner ear infection.
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