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Best tackle of the game has to go to Babayaro, Lampard thought he had turned him and was free to shoot when Babayaro swung round full circle and took the ball off him! Lampard barely knew what had happened.
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Our passing was awful and frankly we should have done much more damage but our final ball was always lacking. Carr and Ameobi both missed one-on-ones. Jenas in particular had a poor game. But the defence was awesome, espescially Bramble. Kluivert looks sharper with every game but he needs to lose a bit of beef.
It was rare to see Souness pick 4-4-2 with everyone playing in their correct position using two wide players. Injuries and suspension forced him to use some common sense! Good to have Boumsong, Dyer and Butt back.
Chelsea passed the ball better and played well for a team with 10 men but they only created one chance in 90 minutes and that came from a lucky deflection. The injury to Bridge was a fair tackle by Shearer, Bridge just fell awkwardly. Duff was injured by his own keeper as they tried to stop Carr scoring and Gallas pulled a groin strain or something. The end result being that they lost 3 players to injury and we didn't get a yellow card, and the best bit is they can have no complaints, it just wasn't their day at all.
They had to play Gudjohnsen, Duff and Lampard for 45 minutes ahead of the Barcelona game and if Gallas and Bridge miss that game then they will probably have to play Ferreira at left back and Johnson at right back, with Carvalho and Terry in the middle. Makelele, Terry and Cech are probably the only players who got a rest on the weekend for the Barcelona game. Costly game for Chelsea!
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