Last night saw us drop two points to a side placed 18 league positions below us, but let’s be honest – it isn’t the end of the world.
The obvious conclusion to be made is that these dropped points make the tie against Arsenal on Sunday all the more important, but in reality three points has always been the only satisfactory outcome in five days’ time.
It isn’t ideal that we were firing blanks on a day when we could have opened up a four point lead on Man. Utd., but they are yet to falter this year – unfortunately neither are they likely to do so this weekend against Pompey.
You can’t help but think had this tie hadn’t been called off in early January the outcome may very well have been in our favour.
So why should we be cheerful?
Take one look at the Premier League table and we are sitting pretty with a two point advantage with the second highest goal tally and the joint second stingiest defence in the league.
The previous four league games leading up to last night’s fixture saw us tally up 14 goals whilst only letting in an average of one per game. Not to mention taking all 12 points.
Didier Drogba is back. And fit. And scoring. Our Ivorian talisman has come back injury free and with his 15th league goal within 40 minutes of his return – leaving him five goals shy of his highest goal haul in the league when he scored 20 in the 06/07 season.
We still have Michael Essien to come back from injury.
Liverpool are fifth, out of both domestic cups and playing in the Europa League.
Rooney hasn’t had a blip. Or a pre-World Cup metatarsal related injury.
So what I’m trying to say is - you can’t win them all. The chasing pack will drop points too.
Let’s just hope Arsenal drop all three on Sunday afternoon.
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Posted by wilhoehne on 02/04/2010
go Chelsea! we are at the top of the pack right now.
There is no negative....
... i'm looking forward to the arsenal vs. chelsea matchup this sunday more than i care about the Super Bowl.
Love,
Wil
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Posted by elfo on 02/04/2010
I KNOW CHELSEA COULD WIN ARSENAL THE IS AT HOME SO EXPECT A WIN PLEASE SHOW MAN U THAT WE CAN DO IT PLEASE PERFORM WELL I KNOW CHELSEA CAN DO IT BUT WE NEED TEAM WORK.. I HOPE THERE IS NO MORE MISTAKE AND DROGBA IS NOT PLAYING ALONE THERE IS NEED TEAM WORK WHEN DROGBA IS BACK THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT ANELKA,MALOUDA,LAMPARD... IS SLACK..WHY DROGBA IS BACK AND PLAY AGAINST HULL WHY THE SCORE SHEET IS DROGBA ONLY SCORE THE ONLY GOAL... COME ON CHELSEA BETTER AND PROVE TO ARSENAL THAT WE ARE BETTER I BACKS PLS
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Posted by Hristo Ivanov on 02/04/2010
The team can not always win. There are weak games too. The important is to stay top and win the important games - for example against Arsenal this weekend. These are the big teams. More important lately is the weak form of the team when they play away. Tight match against Burnley and it was normal to draw against Hull, which I believe are more compact team. The team lacks character when they play away. Chelsea really need a passing player in the midfield. My best wishes for Lamps, but he is not the man to lead the team. He is player just like Paul Scharner for Wigan. Same type. We need a man to take the ball in the midfield and to know what to do with it - not only to pass it to someone else. We need a man to control the ball and to give a direction to the whole team, not only guys who play for CASH!!! We need Di Matteo - a true heart
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Posted by jermaine on 02/05/2010
We should be cheerful and also hope that Rooney gets injured or something. We have the arsenal game in the bag, no doubt about it. The titles are ours this year and the only thing that bothers me right now is jose mourinho.
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Posted by SR on 02/05/2010
I agree with the post, there are reasons for Chelsea fans to cheer yet.....Man Utd still have to play Man City away AND Aston Villa away...not to mention Liverpool(remember the 1-4 loss last time?).....I hope this is just a blip and we score 7 more against the gunners!!!
SR
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Posted by Jonikazz on 02/05/2010
Yes i agree with you guy that the titles is our but, my problem is our team work when we play away, if we can form our team as we are playing home when we are away nothing we make us lose any match, i know gunners have nothing to rejoice of because the know we have already have the three point waithing for the game to be play.
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Posted by elfo on 02/06/2010
I AGREE THAT MAN UTD ROONEY HAVE INJURED IT WILL BE BETTER BUT I KNOW THAT IF MAN UTD CAN WIN THEM ARSENAL IS NOTHING FOR US THEY WILL NEVER BEAT CHELSEA I HOPE DROGBA WILL SCORE AN HAT-TRICK TO SHOW MAN UTD AND ARSENAL WHO CHELSEA ARE I KNOW WE CAN DO IT PLEASE PROVE TO MAN UTD WRONG AND PROVE TO CHELSEA FANS THAT WE CAN DO IT ALL THE VERY BEST TO CHELSEA...
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Posted by kennedy on 02/06/2010
Am commenting about the current squad is very strong and good,but i would to say that its good to win every game to win the epl,n way where is bosingwa?
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Posted by NEIL on 02/06/2010
I'M GUTTED THAT WE DID NOT PERFORM WELL AGAINST HULL AND WIN THE GAME. TODAY WE WUD STILL HAVE BEEN IN FRONT OF MANU BY TOMORROW THE GAP WUD HVE BEEN 4 PTS STILL AFTER WE BEAT ARSENAL AND THOSE MUPPETS SUPPORTERS WUD BE ON THEIR KNEES PRAYING FOR OUR DOWNFALL.IF WE WANT TO WIN THE LEAGUE WE NEED TO RAISE OUR GAME GIVE A MUCH MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE AGAINST ARSENAL AND THE GAMES WE HAVE LEFT. CHAMPIONS DOESNT PLAY LIKE WE DID.UNDER JOSE WE PLAYED BADLY AT TIMES BUT WE KEPT THE CONSISTENCY AND WON GAMES EVEN BY THE NARROWEST OF MARGIN. MR ANCELOTTI PLEASE MOTIVATE THOSE PLAYERS TEACH THEM THE WILL TO WIN SHOW US WHAT YOU R MADE OF IF YOU WANT TO BE BETTER THAN YOUR PREDECESSOR AND BUY SOME YOUNG TALENTED PLAYERS NOW THAT THE BAN HAS BEEN LIFTED GET RID OF THE OLD FACES OR ELSE YOU WILL BE RUNNING NAKED AROUND COBHAM COME NEXT CHRISTMAS. TIRED OF SEEING MAN UNITED WINNING THE LEAGUE ITS GETTING BORED TIME FOR A CHANGE. ALL THE BEST FOR THE COMING MONTHS. A TRUE BLUE THRU AND THRU!!!
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Posted by Charles Utoh on 02/07/2010
This game is a must win, we can't afford to drop any points today, it might be difficult to catch Man United if they go ahead.
Just play Drogba and Anelka upfront, and make sure Mikel holds the midfield tight, the game is ours to loose, The colour today will be blue, Up blues!!!!!!!!!!
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Phil Lythell is a Chelsea season ticket holder and lifelong Blues supporter stretching back to the sepia-tinted days of Kerry Dixon and Pat Nevin. Author of Chelsea-centric blog 
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