Chelsea 2-0 Villa

Things didn’t quite pan out the way we’d hoped. The dream didn’t come true. We didn’t finish the day top of the Premiership. But no hard feelings, it was always a pipedream.

We actually end the day two places down in fifth and, beyond everyone’s belief, Hull take up our third place position. Liverpool also spoiled our party by coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2, so had we beat Chelsea, we still wouldn’t have gone top.

The rumours that were flying around about Chelsea’s injuries were only half true, but injuries barely seem to matter with them because they have so much strong back up. The Chelsea side that we faced today was awesome. We played well and against many teams we would’ve romped home with that display but the game Chelsea played today was way beyond beatable for us. It could easily have been a worse scoreline than 2-0 with the amount of chances they had.

One note of interest was Joe Cole going off injured, so if he misses the England game next Saturday will Ashley Young start? Fabio Capello was there today to see his two best left midfielders but, while Cole was excellent, Young failed to shine. I won’t be surprised if bloody Downing starts if Cole is injured.

Curtis Davies had a bad day and saw himself replaced by Carlos Cuellar at half time, also Luke Young made way for James Milner but neither could help Villa muscle a goal. Most of the Villa team had a decent game though today but the Londoners were too strong.

Still, there is nothing to be ashamed about with this game, Chelsea were exceptional, not even Man Utd could’ve beaten them today, so we can keep our heads high and go into our next game, home to Pompey, still confident.

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