Chelsea 1 Blackburn 1

Disappointed, No other word can describe what fans are feeling right now. After bright start to season, after not loosing a single game when African cup of nations was on but now dropping important points which will see Chelsea Title Hopes damaged.

Even Carlo Ancellotti will not be able to tell what exactly went wrong in the game, have we created enough chances? Have we scored early? Have we defended well? Have we taken game to opposition? and answers to most of the questions is YES. if you leave incidence where ferreira was caught napping rest defence was ok considering early exit of Ivanovic.

Injuries are taking toll on Chelsea, despite of having very strong squad more than 6 injuries can hamper performance of any team. Influential players like Ashley Cole, Essien, Cech, Ballack, Carvahlo, Bosingwa are missing then your team will always be vulnerable. It is like you take out Roonie, ferdenand, vidic, giggs, and Nani or take out torres, gerrad from Liverpool or take out fabregas and arshavin from Arsenal. Loss of big players always makes an impact and that is what is happening with Chelsea. Media as usual blaming players, manager and owner for loss but they are ignoring all odds

One big reason is that, Chelsea again failed to use its full backs, this is one reason coming into picture again and again, after fantastic performance week in week out from Ivanovic, now he is not able to create quality balls in the six yard box. Chelsea scored many goals this season from such crosses and explosive runs of Ashley Cole. In game against Inter as well Chelsea failed to use full backs and this point is now exploited by all teams. Carlos Ancellotti has to device a way to involve full backs, current 4-3-3 is not allowing RB and LB to go full throttle ahead as there is one player less to cover in case of counter attack. Carlos with current players (Many key players injured) should use 4-2-3-1 with Anelka on top. This may feel crazy but this will work as drogba can create moments of brilliance, use his physic to win long balls from Centre backs and Anelka can zip past opposition CBs. With Lampard and Malouda on both Sides and Mikel and Ballack back. This will give lot of confidence to IVA and Zhirkov to go ahead and try to create scoring opportunities.

----------------------Cech/ Turnbull--------------------

IVA--------------Alex---------------Terry--------Zirkov

-------------Ballack/deco-------------Mikel-------------

Lampard------------------Drogba--------------Malouda

--------------------------Anelka-----------------------

 

We all know what Anelka did when Drogba was not there, How Malouda has suited well in winger position and lampard will have lot of room to put long hits to goals. And ballack/deco can provide the magical pass needed to set anelka free.

Chelsea needs to be calm and look at what they can achieve this season rather than what they can not achieve. They have to concentrate on next few games, get good results and suddenly they will be in again for sure. Big matches like Chelsea Vs Manu will be classic match of the year as this will decide who is going to lift the cup this year. In case of Draw arsenal will be hot favourite.

I know this is not right time to draw conclusions as Football is the game that is full of surprises.