[Archived] Rovers 0 Chelsea 1

[RovertheHill]

Anyone know if it is a sell-out - want to know what time to leave and whether the queue at the chippy will be out of the door ! !

[Blueboy Downunder]

a draw for us would be a great result......and only a totally destruction of their side will get us anywhere near a win......come on rovers!!!!

[S15]

Friedel

Neill Todd Mokoena Johansson

Flitcroft

Emerton Tugay Savage Pedersen

Dickov

Thats my team.

[Eddie]

Why total destruction of their team? If we are the better team we will win, hell if we are going to win I'd still say we won't be the better side. They aren't unbeatable.

[blue/white]

Hopefully, Sparky won't be combining 1864 and Bob Fleming's ideas for tonight's match. That is, placing 10 Dickovs across the goalline behind Brad

I pray that he's got a better approach.

Edited February 2, 2005 by blue/white

[Robertson]

anyone know what the teams are?

come on lads!!!

[EwoodGlory]

Friedel

Neill Nelson Todd Matteo

Thompson Savage Mokoena Emerton

Pedersen

Dickov

Subs: Enckleman, Amorouso, Reid, Tugay, J Johnson

[herbergeehh]

What is that effing slow, poor Italian defender doing on the bench instead of Johansson? I hope it's an injury, no matter how weird that might sound..

Interesting team though, the game will be won/lost in midfield methinks! Put Mokoena on Lampard, and follow their attacking runs as closely as possible - and hope for a Dickov/Pedersen goal..

[Tango]

Not the best of starts... Arjen Robben scores again

[Obbien]

...and Friedel probably should have taken it.

[krislu]

1-0, poor job by friedel!

The way Duff skinned matteo after 20sec...

[blue/white]

Da*n !!

Not the start we needed ! Jeez, hope the lads tighten it up, how do they look? Nerves ?

[Obbien]

Robben out..injured. At least that's good news

[Obbien]

I actually thought we played well the first five minutes... but to get a start like that.. a nightmare.

[Alex Rover]

What the heck has happened to Brad recently . That was a bread and butter save and there's no excuses from that angle. It didn't even go in the corner

[Obbien]

Dickov misses penalty.. unbelievable save by Cech!

[USRoverME]

It seems like Savage's name is popping up on every attack chance we get... at least accoring to the gamecast from soccernet... What do the people watching think? he seems to be playing well, and attacking well?

[Alex Rover]

Dickov misses penalty.. unbelievable save by Cech!

Not unbelievable as it wasn't a great penalty kick. Not enough power and not far enough in the corner :-(

[rover6]

Are we playing with five in midfield or is Pedersen playing as a striker?

[modes98]

I like this rough em up attitude! Seems to be working, they are running aorund pushing and shoving!

Not a bad performance a dfew pathetic passes mainly by mokoena, causing more problems for ourselves which is not what we need.

In there for a goal or 2 and pick up some points

[AJConroy]

As the Sky Prem Plus anchor says, not a classic first 45minutes. But .. after that poor goal, we've more than held our own. Not totally convinced by this 4-5-1 but it seems to be working quite well. For reasons I dont understand, always more difficult to decide on MOM performances on TV .. but for me Savage doing well, MGP making lots of incisive passes. We can score tonight.

[rebelzero]

Dickov misses penalty.. unbelievable save by Cech!

Not unbelievable as it wasn't a great penalty kick. Not enough power and not far enough in the corner :-(

that's unfortunate. Even BBC claims that the penalty was "well-struck"

still plenty of time left...

[krislu]

We have infact played well in the first half, but when Freidel makes a howler and Dickov cant convert a penalty then we cant win against Chelsea...

Thompson and Emerton have been poor, along with Friedel and the general passing... EDIT: of course I forgot Matteo, why is he so slow, and why cant he pass the ball?

Edited February 2, 2005 by krislu

[Rovermatt]

Our passing is shocking. We can't string three balls together.

Matteo is hoofing the ball into the air at every opportunity. Utter rubbish.

[Obbien]

Half time.. 0-1. I think we've been very unlucky not to be in the lead or at least have a point so far. Apart from the goal, Chelsea hasn't really proven much... they certainly don't look like England's best team. We've shown some great play, unfortunately luck isn't on our side it seems. Great half by MGP , Savage has also been solid.