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Marseille 1-0 CHELSEA: Crisis, What Crisis?

MARSEILLE 1-0 CHELSEA

Well, what can I really say about last night’s game that hasn’t already been said? I’ve actually threatened to just copy and paste reviews now seeing as every game seems to be as bad as the last!

I mean, what do you actually want to read about last night’s game? Because if you want to read about how much effort we put in, how we had a genuine go at trying to turn our form around, how we took the game by the scruff of the neck, our big players stood up to be counted blah, blah, blah, then I’m afraid you’ve clicked on the wrong page because you’re not going to read that here. I’ll get it over with as quickly as possible though – which shouldn’t be too hard because words fail me after that anyway to be honest.

Ok, so we started off with some over-indulgence from the cameramen, intent on capturing every handshake and backslap Didier Drogba offered the Marseille players and that was only slightly more sickening than the kits on offer last night with Marseille clearly going into competition with us on poor taste front there.

Marseille had the opening minutes, with us looking a bit nervous defensively but as early as the 16th minute we could have been a goal up – and probably would have been if the ref hadn’t bottled it. One minute we had a penalty, with the ref very clearly pointing to the spot once Malouda had been hacked down by Diawara but the next, with a few odd mouth movements from some bloke minus his white stick on the line, we somehow got a corner. Not much of a trade-off since Diawara hadn’t touched the ball but with Malouda not seeming all that bothered anyway, no great surprise either.

A shot here and there followed, with Essien not troubling the keeper from distance, Kalou troubling him even less close up and Didier Drogba struggling to show any real conviction either way. And then the linesman struck again – in our favour this time, disallowing Heinze’s headed goal for one of the tightest offside’s after Terry had conceded a free-kick on the edge of our area.

Just time for a flash of Kalou’s backside before half-time, but with yet another penalty missed by the officials, that was about as exciting as it was ever going to get for us really.

Onto the second half – and it was bloody dire to be honest. We looked more and more disinterested as the half wore on and the most animated Drogba got was walking off in the 62nd minute when he was replaced by Sturridge. Marseille followed suit with a couple of substitutions of their own, so we had another turn, taking John Terry off for Jeffrey Bruma and just when Gael Kakuta thought he’d get a run out, Jose Bosingwa looked to have tweaked a hamstring with ten minutes to go and it was Van Aanholt coming off the bench to cover.

Anyway, before the game could turn into a complete non-event, we finally saw a goal – not for us obviously but that’s par for the course these days, so when Brandao scored in the 80th minute it didn’t come as too much of a shock. And that was pretty much that really, no heroic fightback, no passionate restoration of pride, just a kind of ‘hang your heads til the whistle and get off as quick as you can lads’ sort of end to the proceedings.

Spurs, United and Arsenal all to come – crisis, what crisis?

TEAMS

MARSEILLE: Mandanda, Kabore, Diawara, Heinze, Taiwo, Valbuena (Gonzalez, 63), Abriel (A Ayew, 63), N’Diaye (J Ayew, 86), Cheyrou, Remy, Brandao.
Unused Subs: Andrade, Cisse, Jordan, Andre, Sabo.

CHELSEA: Cech, Bosingwa (Van Aanholt, 79), Ivanovic, Terry (Bruma, 72), Ferreira, Kalou, Essien, McEachran, Ramires, Malouda, Drogba (Sturridge, 62).
Unused Subs: Turnbull, Mikel, Kakuta, Sala.

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