Chelsea piled the pressure on the chasing pack with a 2-0 win over Hull City at the KC Stadium, with City and Arsenal not playing until Sunday and Monday respectively Jose’s men have done what they were supposed to do and sit pretty on top of the league. Chelsea courtesy a fine goal from Eden Hazard opened the scoring in the 56th minute and from that moment on it was all Chelsea. Hull early on had a few chances but after Chelsea went ahead there was no way back for the tigers.
Willian had a huge impact and found pockets of space in the Tigers defense. Oscar was denied two clear cut opportunities but the second goal did came, late on when Torres coolly slotted home.
What we learned:
Cech has yet another record in the bag:
Petr Cech had yet another clean sheet and has now become Chelsea’s all time leader in Clean Sheets. 209 is the number and Cech is showing no signs of taking a break. What a servant he has been to the club. A proper legend. Courtois will have to do a lot to reach this mark.
Cech is only the second goalkeeper in the BPL to keep 150 clean sheets. Only ahead of him is David James with 169. Surely a record Cech will be looking to break.
Jose after the game had this to say about the legendary Czech Goalkeeper:
“Cech is almost 10 years at the top. Now he’s beaten Bonetti’s record & next year probably breaks the Premier League record.”
Hazard continues his brilliant form for Chelsea:
Hazard has continued his blistering form lately and today again he was the one who produced a moment of brilliance to put Chelsea ahead. It took Eden Hazard 31 games to score 9 goals in the Premier League last season for Chelsea. He’s managed it in just 21 games this season.
Hazard’s form recently has been absolutely fantastic not only in attacking sense but the way he has worked his socks off defensively. In his last eight BPL appearance, Eden Hazard has been involved in 8 goals (five goals and 3 assists) and he can only get better.
Jose after the match was full of appreciation for Eden. He said:
“Every manager wants players like him. You are watching a much more mature player with much more responsibility now.”
“For Hazard to win the man of the match for the third consecutive game is something nice.”
Cech also appreciated what Eden has brought to the team. he said:
“If he keeps on working, Eden Hazard can become one of the greatest players.”
Hazard while talking about the rumors surrounding him and PSG had this to say:
“I (want to) keep on going for a long time”
Torres among the scorers again:
Taking nothing away from him it was a very cool finish, he had been working hard all game and it did pay off in the end. Fernando Torres has scored in back-to-back Premier League appearances for the first time since December 2012. It’s a good sign really and hope he can build on that. He is working hard and it’s quite evident still we can’t really rely on him alone and we’d be needing the midfield to do the bulk of the scoring if we are to win anything this year but our main striker among the goals is a good sign.
Jose on the Chelsea strikers:
“Chelsea fans always support the strikers, which helps players in a difficult moment. Now Torres is enjoying his football.”
David Luiz is enjoying his role in Midfield:
David Luiz win 10 headed duels today, the entire Hull side won 16. He has been working his socks off in midfield tirelessly working around the defense and making the forward pass when needed.
David Luiz has made 16 effective clearances against Hull. The number is unreal, honestly. Also 4 interceptions, and 9 accurate long balls. A fantastic performance by the Brazilian, We’ll be seeing him more in the defensive midfield role it seems. He surely is loving it.
Willian once again with a solid performance:
We all expected Willian to take some time to settle in but he has been fantastic, an absolute live wire and in my opinion is the main reason why Mata is on the bench. The energy levels shown by Willian so far this season has been brilliant and today he did notch up an assist as he set up Fernando Torres who got the 2nd for Chelsea.
All in all a good performance. One thing worth mentioning is that we are solid defensively and with every passing game we are getting better and better. This is Mourinho’s Chelsea, Clinical and mighty efficient.
Can’t wait for the United game on the 19th, Bring it ON!
I fink hazard has d potential 2 bcom d world best player in years to cum..weldone eden
wow! what a good performance, and seriously people will start regarding us as one of the favorites to win the champions league.í ¼í¿§
that match was the complete duplicate of the first premier league match 2-0. hazard played super and so did Oscar. Now all we need is arsenal and man city to lose(which is very unlikely).
so did willan
Imagine an addition of a world-class striker to this squad… Any team is beatable in Europe!
Another nice performance by the men in blue.big ups to hazard for that solo effort.ktbffh!
Where’s all the “boring, dull mourinho out” fans now!? There’s only one way to play football… The winning way! All we need is someone like costa up top and we can beat any team. The man utd match is a massive one now, must win. I think city will edge it this year if we dont buy someone like costa in Jan.
yes, Where are they, stupid fans??
Did you watch the match? The only positive was Hazard. It was boring. First half was rubbish, yes we won but regardless of that it was pretty quiet.
Am very comfortable with this performance. All the players are working hard. Congrats to cech for is record, hazard is a talent, luiz is learning hw to play in midfield, he won duels, some of his long passes were wasteful. Though i like his aggresiveness. I cant belief willian is consistent! He is a hard working player. Ktbffh
can i ask you something cfc_obessed are you fat
@james. Am not. Are u affraid to tell me wot u did not like about my comment? Just say it and lets talk about it. I know u didnt watch d match, u only come here to read. Say ur negative word about d team, lets hear it
A solid second half performance. Well deserved victory i can’t wait for our match against United. We need to destroy them @ the bridge come on Chelsea.
Hazard is enormous.
Oscar should pass the more often to Torres.
very nice play and a good win. but what was clattenburg finking? he made a lot of wrong calls and all seemed to be against us.
ask again @matt, those saying mou is here to destroy chelsea, where are they? this is wat mourinho can do to u wen u tlk alot aba him.
Bob, do u think football is an easy profession? So the only positive u can see in dat match is hazard? U should be tied down and not allow u to watch another match dude. Hull are a decipline team. They ve agile midfielder in livermore & huddlestone. They change their style to match our play, we re playing away, can u hear the noises of their fans? So u mean clean sheet is not positive? Constistency of our trio is not positive? Torres scoring is not a positve? Injury free is not a positive? All wot we learnt dat d admin wrote re all positive, cant u see it. If u watch next match, i ll beat u bob. Dont be overambitious, opposition teams do play better against us
i wouldnt call huddlestone agile. Solid yes but definately not agile
U can call him anything, all i know is dat he is a good midfielder, at least for their team
Football is not an easy profession, but how much do they get paid again? how much is the hull city team worth in comparison to forget the Chelsea starting 11, but just Chelsea’s bench.
Cech – Clean sheet Chelsea record
Cahill – 50th Chelsea start
Torres – 200th BPL start with a goal
It was a good performance..hazard and the rest did well. Pls ashley cole has to go at the end of the season. Eeverything is going perfectly asides the mata issue. If mata started the match, at half time he would have been substituted but mou did not substitute any of the attacking players. He left them and iit paid off. He shd have more faith in mata.
bertrand to southampton we bring shaw in, have van annholt as deapth that position is sorted
Well… I love how the team is taking shape..
Still think that there’s a place for Juan Mata..