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Hey Guys , Just got back from the game and

Wanted to share my thoughts on the site.

For weeks I was contemplating to purchase the Southampton ticket , exams just a week away I wasnt so sure. However I just felt like this could of been a game similar to aston villa , yes an emphatic win.
How wrong was I , sitting in the front row of the west stand I was absolutely freezing my hands off. I watched a poor first half display from my beloved chelsea.

Ramires started off very sloppy being dispossessed very easily. Some of his passes went astray early on and throughout the game he never looked himself constantly chasing the game.
It wasnt really working for oscar on the right handside against the very calm and fantastic defender Shaw and hazard and oscar swapped occasionally. I never really saw much of hazard , he tends to drift in and out of games alot .

But my biggest dissapointment was Mata , I was really looking forward to seeing him play, he never really asserted any control. Lampard did well for the second goal but apart from that he just played it simple turning and passing. On many occasions the long ball to oscar or hazard who were hugging the touchline was on , but he passed to azpi instead. I noticed he apologised a few times to oscar for not releasing him instead.

I have supported chelsea from my early teens , living in holland then I grew watching mario melchiote , ed da goey and we had few dutch players. Stamford bridge isnt the same anymore the atmosphere the divisions, everything feels weird and I just want it to go back to normal.

Lastly as i walked out the stadium all you could here was F. 0Fbenitez your not wanted here , your not WANTED HERE.
I wanted the Chelsea back

comment by RtM (U1097)

posted on 16/1/13

Better

posted on 16/1/13

Can we offer to play Arsenal away?
Otherwise we could be in for a bad weekend.

comment by RtM (U1097)

posted on 16/1/13

posted on 16/1/13

Do you follow Dutch football as well as PL/Chelsea?(just interested in how highly you rate Omeruo, Kalas and our other loanees if so)

posted on 16/1/13

Hi guys. Like the OP, I spent the evening freezing my ballacks off in the Matthew Harding Lower. Really thought Lampard and Ramires struggled to control the game and Oscar and Mata were completely off the boil. We have all made the excuse for Torres that the service to him was poor. Well, the service to Ba was poor tonight but at least when Ba was on the ball he looked good. Hopefully we put this behind us and pick up a good result against Arsenal at the weekend. They won't sit back the way QPR, Swansea and Soton have done so it could be a very interesting game IMO.

posted on 16/1/13

Also guys I dont like the atmosphere in the stadium, The shed end singing RDM for 2 minutes when the team needs there support and were trying to get the first goal. Many of us in the westand were just against this rdm signing, leave that for after the game.
Its clear our players are not comfortable playing in their own back yard ..thats crazy.

The guys in the shed end and mathew harding mostly sing super frank , as if he is the only player in the team. quite sad

posted on 16/1/13

I sang Super frank a few times but not constantly , because im tired of this Us agains the board and the politics that has taken over our club.

posted on 17/1/13

^ frank hater - burn him @ the stake!

comment by RtM (U1097)

posted on 17/1/13

posted on 17/1/13

West Upper is truly sad. Didn't fill in fully until the 65th minute after half time. No standing. No chants. 1 in 8 a Southampton fan.

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