Premiership preview: Watford v. Chelsea
Saturday, 31 March 07, 08:13 AM · Comments (7)
I find international breaks unexciting these days. It's hardly surprising given the state of the English national team. Sven-Goran Eriksson dulled my passion for England; Steve McClaren has killed it altogether.
My apathy meant that I took time out this past fortnight from checking football news every five minutes; it made a refreshing change. The blog suffered because of it - sorry for the lack of updates - but blame McClaren for that.
Of course it was nigh on impossible to completely avoid the on-going joke that is England. I confess to periodically perusing my RSS feeds to see if John Terry had given any indication of his true feelings about McClaren, or if Frank Lampard had been blamed for the current Iranian hostage crisis.
Thankfully we can all now look forward to an uninterrupted six weeks or so of proper football before the England spin machine fires up again - starting with a trip to Vicarage Road to play relegation favourites Watford.
Chelsea assistant manager Steve Clarke confirmed yesterday that Lampard will start despite missing England's midweek win over Andorra after breaking a bone in his wrist during training.
In contrast Arjen Robben could miss the rest of the season after opting to have surgery on a knee injury. Robben returned injured from international duty with Holland on Thursday after playing two games for his national side.
Robben's absence is offset by the news that Joe Cole could make an eagerly awaited comeback from a broken foot as early as next week.
Michael Essien and Wayne Bridge remain sidelined with knee injuries.
Chelsea have recorded 4-0 wins in their last two meetings with Watford, an FA Cup third round replay in January 2004, and this season's reverse fixture when Didier Drogba got a hat-trick, and Andriy Shevchenko added the other.
Watford won their only previous home Premiership fixture against Chelsea in September 1999.
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Two words sums it up
F**k!!
Phew!!
DO not agree with Mikel.
I love Chelsea. Does Mikel think he is fit for Chelsea. If so he should put up some levelof maturity. Well done Mourinho
Cometh the hour, cometh the man!!!!!!
Kalou has chipped in with some important goals of late , and if we do win the league a good slice of the credit should go to him.
In reality, we should never have allowed ourselves to be in a position to drop points to Watford. Too many playes were below par.....
Having said that, I thought Frank had a good game, and seriously hope that he tells McLaren he has had enough of the abuse he receives from fans of other teams. Can't see him doing it, but it would be great to have him solely concentrating on Chelsea, especially if we are going to pay him 120 grand a week for the next 5 years!
Some one is fast becoming our get out of Jail card...
Some one once mentioned that this is not good for our hearts... Well I offer to disagree... I would rather watch Chelsea and ManU matches now than wait for an Arsenal or Liverpool match...The way teams are playing against us and the way the Refs are handing games over to ManU is becoming too interesting...
Amazing,
If we can continue with these under par performances and win we should be able to finish up six points behind MU Rowdies.
We were poor against average Watford. Who made the most chances.
KTBFFH
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Goals scored by Ben Sahar were some light during these two dark weeks.
This game really pooled my nerves!!! I went completely ape when Salomon clicked that header!!! Well done Chels!!!!