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Florent Malouda Looking For Credit

Half the time when I hear our player’s come out and say we deserve more credit than we get, I tend to wish the club had some sort of gagging order to stop them sounding like whining bitches but actually, on this occasion, I think Malouda has a point.

Following a double winning season where we were spoilt with goals and our second successive 6-0 of the new season, Florent Malouda says “It is difficult to know why people still seem to think Arsenal and United play the best football. Even when we finished on top of Arsenal, people said they played better than us. If you want to win the league, you have to be efficient, but when you look at how many goals we are scoring, you surely have to recognise there is real quality about us.”

And he’s right. From what I was hearing, the pundits were far more excited about Arsenal’s 6-0 win over a ten-man Blackpool side and considering the stick we used to get during the defensive days of Mourinho, you can’t help thinking they must be a little short-sighted. Yet as Malouda points out “The manager has worked at making sure we control games and you are seeing an evolution in our play. We are keeping more clean sheets but also scoring a lot more goals. It is not enough for us now just to go 1-0 up. We have developed a killer instinct and want to finish teams off. There are goals throughout this team and if there is an opportunity to kill a game off, we take it. We’ll never go easy on teams and it is great for confidence to know just about everyone in the squad is capable of scoring goals.”

Clearly we don’t sit back when we go a goal or two up anymore and I don’t just say that off the back of our first two games of the season. Last season saw a much more attacking game from us than we’d become accustomed to and yet there’d still be plenty who’d have us believe the only reason we took the title was thanks to United’s defensive injuries.

Obviously that wasn’t the case and whilst, like a few others, we did have the odd blip last season, I think that as Carlo Ancelotti pointed out in his new autobiography, the defining moment for us was our ability to come together as a team after defeat to Inter, accept our failings as a team and address them as a team.

Obviously our pre-season seems to have provoked a similar response – well, that and defeat to United in the Community Shield as well. I don’t think anyone expected a couple of 6-0 wins from us at the start of this season irrespective of who the opposition was, we’d lost to worse opposition over the summer after all.

With all due respect to Wigan and West Brom, we will face much tougher opposition as the season goes on and as Carlo Ancelotti insisted after our opening day 6-0, we really can’t expect that sort of scoreline every week, but I have to agree with Malouda – this isn’t the same Chelsea side from the Mourinho era – Carlo Ancelotti seems to have us playing some of our most attacking football in years and if that still isn’t enough to get us the odd word of praise in comparison to our rivals, then so be it.

At Chelsea though, we’re loving it!

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