Came in about 20 mins ago and completely forgot about the Spurs v Palace game. Goody, Spurs lost! Well done Palace. Hope Puncheon was involved and had a blinder.
Before I went out I mentioned that I thought the standard of football wasn't that great. Having come back in and started watching again, at 4-1, I don't think it has improved much. Fabregas appears to be in slow motion, Oscar useless already, and Man City seem to be uninterested. Guy Mowbray just described the Chelsea passing as sublime. Not the stuff I've been watching. Very average.
As a Spurs fan on the BBC stated form is hard to gain but easily lost. Man City could be demoralised by today and you wonder where they are going with Pellegrini on his way out. Chelsea have their confidence back and we would be foolish if we do not defend deeper than Man City, otherwise they will destroy us, hopefully we can do the same that we did against Arsenal while at the other end you feel Mane and Long would cause their defence problems.
Chelsea have just played a second string City side, on top of having played a useless Newcastle side, last weekend. All that has proved is what we already know. If you let them play, they can damage you. They weren't so good against a decent team, midweek, losing 2-1, and I would be surprised if we gave them the same amount of time on the ball, as they had today, when they come to SMS.
I don't think Chelsea where ever a bad team but just low on confidence and fed up with Mourinho. We know their defence can be vulnerable but you cannot say that Fabregas, Willian, Pedro and Costa are not looking dangerous therefore we need to compact the space behind our defence. I am sure we will keep it tight but Chelsea are growing in momentum.
Both teams are in form and on paper they have a better starting XI than us (fortunately in theory does not always hold!), so we need to be effective and take our chances - I still think a point would be good.
