Are Chelsea a One Man Team?

There's one obvious player missing from Chelsea... and without him they have been shit for the last 8 games.

Lampard.

No Lampard... No Chelsea?

No, they're just off form.

They were without him when they were on good form as well though.

kyro7 wrote:No, they're just off form.

Why are they off form?

Lampard.

The-Reporter wrote:

kyro7 wrote:No, they're just off form.

Why are they off form?

Lampard.

They were doing fine without him before.

kyro7 wrote:

The-Reporter wrote:

kyro7 wrote:No, they're just off form.

Why are they off form?

Lampard.

They were doing fine without him before.

Yeh but now they've gone shite.

Maybe if Lampard was in there he'd be putting some of his 20 a season away and keeping the points racking up.

The-Reporter wrote:

kyro7 wrote:

The-Reporter wrote:

kyro7 wrote:No, they're just off form.

Why are they off form?

Lampard.

They were doing fine without him before.

Yeh but now they've gone shite.

Maybe if Lampard was in there he'd be putting some of his 20 a season away and keeping the points racking up.

He'd just put penalties away we went without Rooney for most of this season, and Arsenal have spent most of it without Rvp, Vermaelen and Fabregas, so if it is the case, then Chelsea have a problem.

I think he means Ballack.

It's because of disharmony in the squad due to the sacking of Ray Wilkins.

I think it's the duo of having missed BOTH Essien and Lampard thats had such a detremental effect on thier peformance. Two key players for Chelsea Football Club, speaking Anatomy and Physiology wise, Frank Lampard and Micheal Essien are so called part of the Vertebral Column (spinal cord) basically with them missing, the thoracic verterbae and lumbar vertebrae have essentially been taking away from the vertebral column, this will have a devastating effect on the functioning of the body (Chelsea)

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Dean wrote:I think it's the duo of having missed BOTH Essien and Lampard thats had such a detremental effect on thier peformance. Two key players for Chelsea Football Club, speaking Anatomy and Physiology wise, Frank Lampard and Micheal Essien are so called part of the Vertebral Column (spinal cord) basically with them missing, the thoracic verterbae and lumbar vertebrae have essentially been taking away from the vertebral column, this will have a devastating effect on the functioning of the body (Chelsea)

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is many reason

i think assistant sacking is also a factor but biggest one is

-drogba out of form
-malouda tiring and playing in bad position by ancelotti
-kalou shitness
-alex, ivanovic and terry always getting injury. not once this season have all 3 of them being fit at the same time
-ramires passing ability less than cattermole
-lampard, zhirkov, benayoun injuries, bosingwa injured, essien always suspended or injured. even cole is playing with injury
-only 3 player this season in chelsea have not being injured, cech, malouda and mikel. cech is fine but mikel and malouda need rest. they played so many games now because everyone else is injury

so is mix between poor form, bad blood behind the scene and a lot of injury

for a club like chelsea, they surely dont have same depth as they had in past when they use to paying people 100,000 a week to play in reserve football but chelsea also did not expect to have lampard, benayoun, zhirkov, terry, alex, ivanovic, drogba, essien, injured this season. i think when they buying ramires, ancelotti did not mean for him to start matches this season yet but because of so many injuries he force to using him when he is not ready. is sad because ancelotti my favorite coach and is onyl reason why i follow chelsea results but not many thing is going right for him right now who himself is showing some bad sign with strange substitution like always starting kalou and not sturridge

in my opinions chelsea need to buy 1 new defend, 1 new midfielde and 1 new striker. they not having to be stars, they just needing to be good enough quality to play while there is injuries. ancelotti saying a few month ago that he rather use the youth player than buy new players but it seems only youth player that is even playing is mceachran and sometime sturridge and bruma/van anholt

Essien is a big miss too.

But yes Lampard runs Chelsea so not having him for so long is a disaster.

I dunno, I really can't put my finger on it, everything we do is just not turning out right

I think injuries is a crap excuse tbh, look at united last season, their defence was fucked and they still didn't play as bad as us, even with Carrick at CB.

That's the kinda fighting spirit we're missing tbh.

Ancelotti is disappointing me. I thought he would have been able to get his team together, despite the injury difficulties that the team is having. But so far, he seems incapable of putting together a winning team.

Scuba Steve wrote:Ancelotti is disappointing me. I thought he would have been able to get his team together, despite the injury difficulties that the team is having. But so far, he seems incapable of putting together a winning team.

Agreed, thought he would've figured this by now.

Chelsea had lost Essien, (injury/red card susp.) Terry, and Drogba had malaria. So let's not forget that they had a some big parts missing along with Lampard out.

dena wrote:

Scuba Steve wrote:Ancelotti is disappointing me. I thought he would have been able to get his team together, despite the injury difficulties that the team is having. But so far, he seems incapable of putting together a winning team.

Agreed, thought he would've figured this by now.

Chelsea had lost Essien, (injury/red card susp.) Terry, and Drogba had malaria. So let's not forget that they had a some big parts missing along with Lampard out.

Arsenal have missed RVP, Fab and Vermaelen which is the spine of our team for almost the whole season. Injuries don't count as an "excuse" for losing games but they have certainly missed the players. I just think maybe fat frank was the key and now its showing.

The-Reporter wrote:

dena wrote:

Scuba Steve wrote:Ancelotti is disappointing me. I thought he would have been able to get his team together, despite the injury difficulties that the team is having. But so far, he seems incapable of putting together a winning team.

Agreed, thought he would've figured this by now.

Chelsea had lost Essien, (injury/red card susp.) Terry, and Drogba had malaria. So let's not forget that they had a some big parts missing along with Lampard out.

Arsenal have missed RVP, Fab and Vermaelen which is the spine of our team for almost the whole season. Injuries don't count as an "excuse" for losing games but they have certainly missed the players. I just think maybe fat frank was the key and now its showing.

When they are of that extent, they kinda are. United missed Rio for the first bit of the season and although they never lost they obviously weren't good. I think injuries are fine excuse, everyone has them, but that doesn't mean they are less of an impact to individual teams.

Just because you start losing games without a major player, which isn't even the case for Chelsea, doesn't necessarily mean that you're an one man team.

They were'nt one when they went on a run early in the season. They aren't one now either.