Chelsea’s record against Manchester clubs when Howard Webb is the official: 0 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses.
Reliable Cole for Chelsea
Ashley Cole leads Chelsea in matches started (27), is 2nd is assists (7), and has a 90% (1293/1431) pass accuracy this season. One of the most reliable players for Chelsea!
Chelsea target in Europe
Chelsea target Willian’s stats for Shakhtar in the Champions League this season: 6 starts, 1 goal, 16 shots, 9 chances created, 86% (232/270) passing, 10 take-ons.
Arsenal and Liverpool falter
Arsenal and Liverpool have only obtained 1 point COMBINED from their last 3 matches. Chelsea are pulling away from them just by not playing terrible.
Cahill on taking criticsm
“If people criticize me (at Chelsea) I won’t take it to heart. All that will happen is I will prove them wrong.” – Gary Cahill (The People)
Chelsea – Norwich Stats Recap
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Many Chelsea fans thought the 0-0 draw against Norwich today was not a great result – while it certainly wasn’t ideal, Norwich has been playing well lately…
Norwich has lost only 1 of their last 9 matches and are 9th in the Premier League. A draw away isn’t as terrible as some fans may think.
The result today spoke more of the effort by Norwich, who played well defensively, and also Chelsea’s continued and consistent lack of finishing off scoring chances…
Norwich get their 1st clean sheet of the season against Chelsea, who have scored only 3 goals in their last 3 PL matches. Not enough goals.
Spurs and Arsenal beat Norwich at their place, Chelsea draw. Today was arguably the best result for Norwich all season.
Chelsea today against Norwich: 20 shots (6 on target), 85% (467/551) passing, 4 successful crosses (out of 39 attempts, yikes), 15 tackles.
This is a match teams “equal” to Chelsea are winning and clearly a team Chelsea should be putting goals in against, yet Chelsea had only 6 shots on target.
However outside of Juan Mata who has been fantastic this season and Frank Lampard (who went off injured in the first half), the rest of the Chelsea attacked continues its up-and-down season…
Mata today against Norwich: 5 shots (led the team), 81% (51/63) passing, 3 chances created, 3 successful crosses (10 attempted), 2 take-ons.
Outside of Mata, Chelsea completed only 1 of TWENTY NINE crosses today. Speaks volumes about the long passing and lack of aggressiveness.
1 for 29 on crosses – it’s simply not good enough. Leading the charge was Jose Bosingwa who continues to not only receive criticism for his defensive work rate but also his offensive contribution…
Bosingwa today against Norwich: 1 shot, 78% (42/54) passing, 2 chances created, 3 take-ons, 0 completed crosses (8 attempted), 4 tackles.
0 for 8 on crosses is not helping his cause. A great comment on Twitter pointed out what I’ve been saying for awhile now, it’s as if teams almost want Bosingwa to have the ball because of his poor decision making and defensive work rate.
Chelsea have Norwich number
Chelsea have won their last 5 meetings with Norwich in all competitions scoring at least three goals in each game.
Azpilicueta Speaks About Chelsea
Marseille defender Cesar Azpilicueta: “If Chelsea want me, they should discuss with Marseille. If a proposal comes, I will think about it.” (L’Equipe)
Lampard Top Chelsea Scorer
Frank Lampard is the top goalscorer for Chelsea with 10 goals this season (Premier League & Champions League), he has 1 more goal than Sturridge and 4 more goals than Ramires and Drogba.
Ramires Top Tackler
Despite playing recently on the right wing Ramires still leads Chelsea in tackles (68) and tackles per game (3.05).