SUPER FRANKIE LAMPARD

By Since66
February 28 2009

If Man Ure and Liverpool can get away with the late, late, winning goals then why can't we - at least we are scoring goals, unlike the Gooners (smirk, cough LOL LOL LOL). Seriously though Stevie Bruce must have been thinking on the coach back to the northern wastelands of England, how the hell Wigan lost today

Bruce must have been thinking on the same coach even more how the hell Wigan didn't take all three points after a madcap three minutes before the twenty minute mark had been reached.

Firstly Paul Scharner was one-on-one with Cech and Cech tipped his low shot away for a corner, then after Terry was booked for hauling down Zaki, Ashley Cole cleared off the line and then after Cech tipped the rebound shot, Terry cleared off the line via his back to leave the scoreline at 0-0.

All of a sudden the light switched on. First Drogba scorched one over the bar, then Mikel scorched Kirkland's palms and from the resulting corner and play down Chelsea's left, Lampard chipped a cross in, Bramble cleared only to JT who scissor kicked back towards the goal from 18 yards via a deflection off Emerson Boyce.

1-0 to Chelsea and from the moment JT cleared off the line the game Chelsea gained the upper hand.

Alex had a chance, Lampard had a shot saved by Kirkland, Ballack had a header cleared off the line but his effort was ruled offside, Terry went for another but was wide on 40 mins and Drogba hit a free-kick well over.

On 49 minutes Bramble cleared off the line after Drogba had chipped Kirkland but as the game wore on, the nerves were recalling Wigan's last gasp equaliser from last season.

Mancienne played well for his first full League debut and was substituted with about ten minutes to go. On came Quaresma and within seconds of his appearance Wigan had equalised.

Figueroa played a low cross in and Kapo stole in and although Cech got a hand to the ball he was unable to keep the ball out. With Liverpool losing 2-0 at the time, 1-1 was no good.

Think of Stoke, think of Stoke was all I could think of.

So I thought of Stoke. Three minutes were shown as the minimum added time, Belletti crossed the ball into the box, Ballack who did practically nothing all afternoon flicked the ball on and Super Frank was there to head the ball over the outstretched arms of Kirkland.

2-1 Chelsea

2-0 Middlesbrough

2nd place

Happy Days.


Chelsea: Cech, Mancienne (Quaresma 81), Alex, Terry (c), A Cole, Ballack, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou (Belletti 75), Drogba, Anelka

Goals: Terry 24, Lampard 90

Booked: Alex 8, Terry 17


Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot (c), Boyce, Bramble, Figueroa, Kapo, Brown, Cattermole (Rodallega 69), N'Zogbia, Scharner, Zaki (Sibierski 89)

Goal: Kapo 81

Booked: N'Zogbia 23, Cattermole 28

Goals Download:

http://www.chelseavideos.co.uk/Terry/Terry%20v%20Wigan%2009.avi

http://www.chelseavideos.co.uk/Lampard/Lampard%20v%20Wigan%2009.avi

Chelsea 2-1 Wigan: Nerves Stretched to the Limit

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carefree
01/03/2009 10:14

Super Frank

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dixon9
01/03/2009 11:33

Wigan played extremely well indeed and possibly deserved a point (but with all the bad luck we´ve had this season I´m not going to complain!).

And Titus Bramble?! What was he on?! Played like Beckenbauer!

But in a way it was a match for the defenders yesterday. Terry showed a range of passing and a fantastic goal and it was interesting that Lampard said after the match that Terry does show that sort of stuff much more in training.

Disappointed in Bruce. He normally gets it spot on with his moans but if he has a good look at Lampards goal again he´ll see there was hardly any push at all from Lampard (and could even look at the way Bramble pushed down on Ballack in the area before the ball was nodded on to Lampard).

Not a great performance by any means but then how many times do we see teams play with a headache after being in Europe a few days before?



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carefree
01/03/2009 12:22

It was a good win and Wigan were a stiff opposition.

They always seem to play well at our place remember the draw last season last minuet Heskey goal.

The pleasing thing for me was obviously the result and also for Mancienne to have a good run out didn't he look the part what a talent.

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dixon9
01/03/2009 12:52

Frank Leboeuf speaking to Cundy on Talksport from the States. Cundy led by telling him that Chelsea had won today and Frank replies with "Yeah I know and Liverpool lost. I'm sooo happy."



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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.

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Since 66
01/03/2009 14:10

We were all happy yesterday when we found out Liverpool had lost

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