Strictly Chelsea Talk:

God save us  there is even a trend for chelsea.

Where are my fellow gunners!

match against  liverpool , lucky blues for  the awarded penalty , else

Mouth.

having an early  early lead on d table gave manu d title.

BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES for life

is it really true that chelsea are building for Ronaldinho?
wat do u think if Ronaldinho eventually join jose squad and he help the blues to win champions league?

Dreams

i dont understand o!!!

one time, AB's head is ok, the other time, it begins to go haywire. No Dinho

 
PRE-MATCH: ASTON VILLA V CHELSEA
There is the chance of a first for José Mourinho when we travel to Villa Park on Sunday. Club historian Rick Glanvill and statistician Paul Dutton explain.
Rick attempts a spot of sequence analysis.
 
Normal service has resumed? Chelsea are top of the tree for the first time since just before five o'clock on Saturday 30 September 2006.
We'd just dropped our first home points of the season to the team we play this Sunday. Even though Didier Drogba grabbed his eighth goal of the season that afternoon, Chelsea had almost 20 shots on goal and Sorenson guarded his goal like a demon, Villa were good value for the 1-1. Stiliyan Petrov appeared to be settling in nicely, Liam Ridgewell looked England senior material, and Milan Baros and Juan Pablo Angel prowled dangerously.
Those were the early days of the Martin O'Neill/Randy Lerner era. The O'Neill bubble punctured last winter and the manager - always cautious in his optimism - has changed a lot he didn't like in the 11 months since that draw at the Bridge. Gone are Ridgewell, Baros and Angel, plus Jlloyd Samuel, Gavin McCann and others.
The first few games suggested more was needed. You'd be hard-pushed to find a Holte Ender with nice things to say about Petrov. Likewise the error-prone central defender Martin Laursen.
Villa fans were hoping for a cash-splashing exercise before the August 31 deadline to re-spark the post-Doug Ellis period, and Lerner has dug deep to create a new spine in goalie Scott Carson, Nigel Reo-Coker, centre midfield, and Marlon Harewood, centre-forward.
This week he lured Zat Knight from Fulham (presumably impressed by his keenness to score for Villa last weekend while still with the London club) and is close to recruiting Curtis Davies from West Bromwich Albion - ideal young replacements for Laursen and competition for Olof Mellberg.
That's not to mention his purchases in the January sales, Ashley Young (looking livelier on the wing recently) and John Carew, both of whom still have something to prove.
There is, though, a considerable investment in youth going in Aston, and if you add the impressive Scots forward Shaun Maloney - around whom there is currently a buzz - and the already recognised athleticism and skill of Gabriel Agbonlahor and Luke Moore, you have a side lacking experience but fearing nothing and capable of accepting the O'Neill tactics implant.

After Chelsea's fine start, maybe there will be better times to play the tails-up Villans than straight after a rousing 2-1 comeback last weekend and a midweek 5-0 win - easily their biggest win since an 8-3 at the same stage of the Carling Cup over Wycombe in 2005. But surely it is good to encounter the hard-working Villa Park pitch so early in the season.
It has traditionally been one of the host venues for FA Cup semi-finals - an honour relinquished with the completion of Wembley Stadium. Over almost 90 years Chelsea's success in semi-finals there was evenly split.
We reached our debut FA Cup final by beating Everton 2-0 in 1915, beat Leeds in 1967 and saw off Fulham in 2002. But the Villa Park surface ended our Wembley dream in 1996 when Ruud and co. faced Manchester Utd, and more poignantly (if possible), we lost twice in successive years, 1965 and '66, against Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday, both 0-2.
Our last visit there, on January 2 in the Premier League, was as viscerally disappointing as any of those cup losses. Weary Chelsea started the game and went downhill from there, making McCann look a world-beater. One or two great chances were squandered in the first half, but after the break Villa looked the more likely to score. A third consecutive draw left Manchester Utd six points clear at the top.
It is actually been eight years since we won at this venue: 1999 and Luca Vialli's team of Flo, Zola et al. Oddly, since the start of the Premier League, results there between us have largely gone in streaks (see below).
The March 1999 game brought our fourth win a row. It was followed by three consecutive draws, then two Villa wins on the trot, and finally another three stalemates. (I don't know what it all means either, but perhaps Da Vinci Code enthusiasts out there could crack the sequence and let me know before the bookmaker opens this weekend.)
Unlike December last year, it's United who trail now, even if they will almost certainly reduce the deficit to two points on Saturday, the day before we play. Liverpool and Arsenal could also join us on ten before kick-off. We currently have the most points, the highest goals-for total and the equal best goal difference.
It's surely time to press the pedal to the floor and see where it takes us - as long as it's not a traffic jam on the M6.

ASTON VILLA V CHELSEA - Paul Dutton has the statistical state of play.
Chelsea sit top of the Premier League for the first time at the end of a weekend's fixtures since our 2-0 victory at Craven Cottage against Fulham on September 23rd last year.
Villa Park is the only Premier League ground that José Mourinho has visited and failed to come away with a win since his arrival in 2004.
Chelsea have gone eight years and nine games without a win against Villa away on one of our least successful hunting grounds.
Our last victory there was in March 1999 when second half goals from Tore André Flo, Bjarne Goldbæk and Flo again completed an easy win and inflicted Villa's fourth successive defeat under John Gregory. The team was De Goey; Ferrer, Desailly, Leboeuf, Le Saux; Petrescu (Lambourde 78), Wise, Morris, Goldbaek; Zola, Flo (Nicholls 90). Luca Vialli was our manager.
Since then we have drawn six and lost two in the Premier League as well as a 2-1 fifth round League Cup defeat in 2003/04.
Our Premier League record at Villa Park is as follows:
1992/93 Chelsea won 3-1
1993/94 Villa won 1-0
1994/95 Villa won 3-0
1995/96 Chelsea won 1-0
1996/97 Chelsea won 2-0
1997/98 Chelsea won 2-0
1998/99 Chelsea won 3-0
1999/00 Drew 0-0
2000/01 Drew 1-1
2001/02 Drew 1-1
2002/03 Villa won 2-1
2003/04 Villa won 3-2
2004/05 Drew 0-0
2005/06 Drew 1-1
2006/07 Drew 0-0Villa have won only four of their last 15 home Premier League games stretching back nine months.
They have avoided defeat in 11 of the last 12 league outings.
Aston Villa's best finish in the Premier League is runners-up in 1992/93 with 74 points, ten behind champions Man Utd and two above third placed Norwich.
Villa's last top flight title win was the old First Division in 1980/81. Their most recent major piece of silverware is the League Cup in 1996.
Aston Villa are one of only seven clubs to have been ever present since the Premier League was formed in 1992. The others are Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Everton.Villa's summer transfer activities have been:
Ins: Zat Knight (Fulham, £3.5m), Nigel Reo-Coker (West Ham, £8.5m), Marlon Harewood (West Ham, £4m), Scott Carson (Liverpool, loan).
Outs: Liam Ridgewell (Birmingham £2m), Gavin McCann (Bolton, £1m), Jlloyd Samuel (Bolton, free), Juan Pablo Angel (New York Red Bulls, free), Aaron Hughes (Fulham, £1m), Lee Hendrie (Sheffield United, released), Steven Davis (Fulham, £4m), Chris Sutton (retired), Eric Djemba-Djemba (released).
Chelsea are unbeaten in the last 18 Premier League games winning 12 and drawing six. We have suffered just one defeat in 31, which was at Liverpool in January.
Frank Lampard's goal against Portsmouth last weekend was his 93rd for the club and put him equal eighth all time scorer with Barry Bridges.
There are no suspensions on either side.
The match referee is Mark Clattenburg who took charge of just two Chelsea games last season, the league wins away to Blackburn and home to Portsmouth.

Chelsea's overall record against Aston Villa in all competitions is: played 133, won 49, drawn 31, lost 53.
Head-to-head in the league at Villa Park: played 60, won 13, drawn 18, lost 29 LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME
Aston Villa 0 Chelsea 0
Barclays Premiership, Tuesday January 2, 2007, Villa Park.
Chelsea (4-3-3): Hilario; Ferreira, Boulahrouz (Gérémi 33), Carvalho, A Cole; Essien, Makelele, Lampard (c); Wright-Phillips (Shevchenko 66), Drogba, Kalou (Mikel 75).
Booked Drogba, A Cole, Carvalho
Villa (4-5-1): Kiraly; Mellberg (c), Ridgewell, Cahill, Bouma; Agbonlahor, Gardner (Osbourne 26), Petrov (Baros 74), McCann, Davis; Angel.
Booked McCann
Referee Phil Dowd.
Crowd 41,006.
This was our third successive draw over the Christmas/New Year period. We failed to score for the first time in the season. Villa didn't have one shot on target. Ballack and Gareth Barry were suspended.

of course, he is.

i ear the guy and dogba are both coming 2 bayelsa state vry soon

  i laff at u













PAT NEVIN: VILLA PARK IN PERSPECTIVE
   Barclays Premier League            
      Pos   Team   Pts      
   In this week's column, Pat casts an ex-professional's eye over the first defeat of the season and sees no reason for major concern.   3   Everton   10      
      4   Chelsea   10      
      5   Man City   9      
      Full League Table            
   The last thing you want at a football club after a win is an international break to halt your momentum. Unfortunately it doesn't work the other way around when you have had a negative result.   Next Match            
      Chelsea Football Club   Blackburn Rovers Football Club         
   After a defeat, players want to rectify the situation as soon as possible and that is what Chelsea would have wanted after Sunday's match at Villa Park.   Stamford Bridge            
      15/09/2007 17:15            
   Blackburn at home in 11 days is now a frustratingly long time to wait, but they will have to. It is worth looking at the positives; such as they were, in the defeat.   Last Match            
      Aston Villa Football Club   Chelsea Football Club         
   Two players managed to get their debuts out of the way and there is little doubt that both Alex and Juliano Belletti will be important squad members during the coming season after both completing a steady 90 minutes with their new team mates.   2   0         
      02/09/2007 16:00            
   After losing the soft goal at a corner, José Mourinho was once again quick to go into ultra attacking mode. Having five forwards in Drogba, Kalou, Pizarro, Joe Cole and Florent Malouda on the park for the last half hour, it led to that entire period being played almost exclusively in the home side's half of the pitch.   Match Report            
      TableNext MatchLast Match            
   Maybe Chelsea were just too frenetic with their play, and slightly less measured than they should have been, knowing that Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal had all previously picked up full points over the weekend. There were however ten men in claret and blue behind the ball almost permanently in that last third of the game, a situation that is never easy to break down.   QUICKLINKS            
                  
   Countless corners and huge periods of possession made little difference as it proved impossible to create many meaningful chances. With the cushion of a goal and then a cause to fight for, Villa played as if their lives depended upon it. Let's hope they will do the same when the other title contenders come calling.   Tickets            
      Fixtures            
   The most common reaction to this situation is to eventually punt high balls forward into the general area of the penalty box, but that is one area where Aston Villa are particularly strong. Chelsea tried not to fall into that trap and the introduction of Joe Cole in particular was aimed at making use of any little gaps that might open up as the Brummies tired.   Megastore            
      Tv Online            
   There was no lack of effort and certainly every tactical angle was attempted, but sometimes you have just got to accept that it isn't going to be your day. Every team knows that tortuous feeling and most teams usually have an opponent who becomes a 'bogey' for them.   Chelsea Betting            
      Tours            
   It feels as though The Villa are that team for Chelsea in that they are developing an infuriatingly regular habit of frustrating us.               
      RANDOM LINKS            
   When Chelsea eventually left John Terry up front, the chance of losing another goal from a rare break was always going to be a danger. The important thing from now on is that Chelsea have to get out of the habit of losing goals first, then having to go and chase the game.               
                  
   The team that wins the Premier League this time will have to go at it 100 per cent right from the start of matches because the league has more teams who are stronger this year than it has had for a long time.               
                  
   The Premier League also has quite a few managers who have the tactical nous to identify the opposition's major threats and know how to close a game out.               
                  
   Martin O'Neill had been doing this for years with Glasgow Celtic, particularly in European competition, so he has to be applauded for managing to get away with a 2-0 win, even when there was a long period when his team only had around 18 per cent of the possession.               
                  
   One thing is for sure, with that amount of ball, Chelsea will not lose many of these types of games, and so it is certainly not time for panic yet.               
                  
         
                  

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KALOU: PUTTING AFRICA ON ICE
Salomon Kalou was one of three players to rejoin training at Chelsea on Tuesday following international duty.
Monday had been a day-off for what remains of the squad following call-ups but today the young Ivorian striker returned to Cobham along with John Mikel Obi, who had played an African Cup of Nations qualifier for Nigeria at the weekend, and Tal Ben-Haim, free for club duty again. Israel had only one Euro 2008 qualifier scheduled this fortnight.
       For Kalou, his time abroad had seen an international job completed. A 0-0 draw away to Gabon ensured qualification for the African Cup of Nations although there wasn't exactly dancing in the streets throughout Ivory Coast at the news.
       Anything better than a 6-0 defeat would have guaranteed safe passage to the tournament.
'We knew we were going to go through, it was not a surprise,' Kalou confirms, talking after his first Chelsea session back.
'But it was also very important that we went through the qualification competition without losing any games. It was good for confidence.'
       Ivory Coast finished with ten points from four games, their group reduced to only three teams because Djibouti withdrew.
'Now we come back and try to bring that positive spirit that we had with the national team to our clubs,' he adds, having come on in the 62nd minute of Saturday's draw.
Ivory Coast's qualification means all Chelsea's Africans will, if selected, be involved in the January/February tournament.
      Nigeria had secured a place even before their Saturday win over Lesotho and Michael Essien's Ghana are the hosts.
Ivory Coast, with Didier Drogba in the side, were losing finalists two years ago when they were defeated on penalties by Egypt, the previous host nation.
      The 2008 event will be Kalou's first major international tournament, his Ivory Coast debut having been made in February. He has six caps.
       For now though, he is putting all that to the back of his mind.
'It will be my first tournament but most important is just to be focused here at Chelsea and if I am in good shape for my club, that is also very good for my national team.'

@cabali
chelsea wil loose 3 of their most influencial players and drop 9 points.