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Chelsea’s Bounce-back-ability

So, we lost our first game this weekend and the footballing world seems to be delighted. I mean, didn’t they all predict it? We’re not very good after all, are we? Or is it because we’re such a threat that that’s just what they all want to believe?

Fair play, we weren’t very good against City, in fact, our players just didn’t look arsed but then it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve played rubbish against them would it? Personally I’m beginning to think that our performances against City are down to a sheer lack of respect for them but maybe that really is just a personal opinion. As far as us failing some major ‘test’ though, as I keep saying, we lost to them twice last season but it didn’t stop us either taking the title or scoring a record 103 goals to do it.

And whilst I suppose it’s true, prior to playing City, we had played clubs a lot nearer the foot of the table than they’d like to be but then, they’re still games it’s important to get the points from as well (and racking up a bit of goal difference never goes amiss either). I’m sure Arsenal would have preferred a 6-0 win at home this weekend but as yet, I’ve to hear the masses writing them off.

Arsenal haven’t won anything for a while though, whilst for us, it’s been three Premier League titles, three FA Cups and two League Cups in six years and whilst the biggie continues to elude us, it isn’t that long ago we were at least in the final. So, do they have more credibility because they have less money? Well, it was City buying anyone who could lace a pair of boots this summer, not us. In fact, we offloaded a fair few of our high earners and replaced them with two signings on smaller salaries and a few of our youngsters, so it can’t be down to that old chestnut anymore.

We don’t even have the motor mouths of Mourinho and Kenyon to berate us for anymore, and the ‘boring, boring’ tag definitely doesn’t sit with the sort of football we’ve played under Ancelotti. Fortunately, neither does the idea of us falling apart after one defeat because the response to this sort of setback under Carlo Ancelotti is usually to use it to our advantage.

So yes, we probably were getting a bit carried away with all the goals we’d banged in before this weekend and playing against a side prepared to park a bus probably did come as a bit of a shock but we’ll face much tougher tests than City as the season goes on and I’m sure our response to this weekend’s defeat will make it clear we’re ready for them.

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