Match Report: Aston Villa 1-0 Chelsea

Chelsea FC fans have been left deflated after a shocking performance from the referee Chris Foy which gave Aston Villa a valuable victory. Foy, sent Willian and Ramires off and he also dismissed Mourinho to the stands. Both bookings were extremely harsh. A neat finish from Fabian Delph ensured the three points for Paul Lambert’s side.

The first chance of the game fell to Willian in the thirteenth minute, Oscar’s cross couldn’t find Fernando Torres. Willian recieved the ball but his shot rattled the side netting.

The first yellow card of the game was handed to Willian who fouled Al Ahmadi, after his header reached the Villa player.

After a poor first opening 40 minutes the game was sparked into life with a disallowed goal. Willian’s cross which was met by Terry reached Nemanja Matic. The Serbian controlled the ball and squeezed it past Guzan and into the Villa goal. Chris Foy awarded the goal, however he backtracked on his original decision and deemed that the ball struck Matic’s hand.

HT 0-0

Following a missed opportunity by Chelsea Aston Villa broke on the counter through Weimann, he pulled the ball back to Benteke who’s curling effort was agonizingly wide.

Moments later came the moment that doomed Chelsea and handed an advantage to Aston Villa. Chelsea’s Brazilian winger Willian, he was tracking Delph and slightly nudged him. Yes it was a foul however it was no way near a yellow card offence. Chris Foy’s poor officiating left the Blues in despair.

On the 82nd minute Aston Villa were ahead. Marc Albrighton played a wonderful cross to Delph who fantastically flicked the ball past the reach of Cech.

Christian Benteke almost doubled Villa’s lead with only a minute of normal time left. The Belgian hit a thunderous strike which was beaten away well by Petr Cech.

Villa were handed another Chance moments later. Delph was completely fred on the left but Cech managed to divert his effort on to the crossbar.

Yet another controversial moment in the game arose in the last minute of injury time. Ramires appeard to jump in on Ahmadi after he was dispossessed. Mourinho walked onto the pitch to contest the decision but he was also dismissed by Chris Foy.

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32 thoughts on “Match Report: Aston Villa 1-0 Chelsea

  1. Can’t fault the players for this. It was a bad day at the office. Pls can someone tell me, does this mean that willian is suspended against arsenal?? Torres was disappointing. Asides that, I think we will be fine. We most likely won’t win the league again but there is always nxt season. Ramires red card was well deserved. Yu can’t stomp a player’s leg like that. That was veery dangerous. The same thing he did to gotze in the super cup. Rami gets carried away easily. Well at least, its sure we will get to see the matic-luiz pivot

    • Oh, my friend we have a stubborn man otherwise the best pivot we have is matic-luiz’s pivot. I am very happy because rami is suspended because David Luiz. I dont see which team who can beat us with matic-luiz pivot but the only one who cannot see it is Mou. Shame!

      • @ adam.spot on.

      • Agreed 100%. Ramirez has not had a good match in a long time. Matic and Luiz together will be amazing. With Cahill and Terry behind them, we have real dominance in the back 2/3. I’m not sure why Mou doesn’t see it.

      • Wow I must confess you make some very tranehcnt points.

  2. Anonymous

    The only reason Torres continue to play at Chelsea is Abramovich. Again to day he dindnt bring anything: give the ball away, fell on ground like a baby, no a single target shoot. For a striker, it is a miserable, for us, it is a long bad week. How in world we continue to put Torres upfront. Our mildfieders will not always save chelsea. The striker has to score. Simple like that.

    Likewise, we have shruule but Mou insists with Oscar who has been very very very poor. Mou will cost us the tiltle because he is a stubborn man. This physic game needs Ba upfront but Mou cannot understand what everyone see. Shame

  3. Anonymous

    If the team couldn’t get the positives inside 70 mins of frustration, why then keep Ba, Shurrle up late and not Salah, Mikel at least for a point to take back instead of trial and error with Ramires – Matic partnership. I think the line up is primarily the issue.

  4. Correct your mistake. Aston Villa player collected the first yellow card when he fouled Torresa.

  5. referree hates chelsea..red card for Willian n reject goal. since when shoulder became hand? this referee needs a red card, from his last 8 Chelsea officiating he has given us 6 gud redcard, I knw we wer’nt gonna win when I saw it was Chris foy.

    • Gabby u realy spoke my mind te referee realy plan to frustrate chelsea it was quiet obvious he was the one who orchestrated the whole situation by his decision and for this plastic fans who literd this forum I tell u all to aply for mous job if u think u can do better

  6. Believing & selecting misfiring Torres insteady of playing with Eto is z first fault for our defeat. Torres is selected for only enjoy playing not to score. He accept scorring is z duty of other players. If Eto was given a chance to play this match, he ‘d scored at least 2. Jose took z defeat responsibility. Why Eto out? B/c of last match old man celebration?? No single target attempt by Torres but he simply run here & there. Why z booked William not substituted in steady of Oscar? Why Schurrle not start? Why Ramaris accostomes doing a tackle his habit? Our chance to title win ends with this game faults. Am disappointing z great performance of players like Haz ends without a single trophy.

  7. Martin, Norway.

    I think it is high time we sell Torres this summer. We should consider Demba ba instead of Torres in MATCHES while Torres comes in. Three things caused us the points against Villa. Mourinho substitutions were bad. Some players did not live up to expectations and the last but not the least is awful officiating, the man in the middle.

  8. i saw it coming with the jose’s untouchable bias line up.why didnt schurrle who is more direct start the match.what of demba? jose’s lov 4 cfc’s brazilian contingent may cost us the league title.jose must be fair 2 all cfc players if not worse may stil happen.matic is good.

  9. did i hear somebody say plastic fans.plastic fans are those that cant criticise their coach.real fans praise & criticize their coach.kompany was shown a red card in the 10th minut,yet city responded & provd they are superior 2 hull.torres inclusion hurts.we hav good players in every department,but u see jose selecting players based on sentiments even when those players need rest.ref didnt favor us,but if we are realy superior 2 villa,we wil batter them wit the bias ref,but we werent.hop 4 an improvement against gala.ktbffh.

  10. Neri Abayomi

    We have a UCL game coming- Salah and Matic r cup-tied. Still Mou didn’t use Salah to keep others fresh, Salah wud v brought somtin different to our team dynamic.

    Willian and Oscar v bin playing pretty poorly recently- Hazard was practically playing 2 roles, his and Oscar’s role. Willian just v dis insane workrate- he can’t pass, hell no he can’t shoot properly too.

    He keeps using d same starting line up, no rest for players dt r sure to start bigger games- Cole nt bin used, Cesar nt given any form of run in his preffered right back position, Kalas, Ake given false hope to stay behing rather dn go on loan, Ba scored 2 goals in d last game, he started a previously injured Torres. Where was Eto’o- Mikel bin snubbed in back to back games- When he becomes match rusty for d all important UCL games don’t blame him- pretty sure Mou wud go with a Lampard – Ramires pivot.

    The sales of Mata and Kdb v left d team short of options to fight for 2 huge trophies like d EPL and UCL. We r going trophyless and it wud sting badly wen and if Arsenal manage to win d FA CUP.

    • Hahaha here you come again. Man you are a good example of a hater and a glory hunter. I never saw you here for a while. Always strike when the team lost or had a poor game. Damn if I was allowed to ban someone on this page that will be you. Chelsea is in adaptation period and it won’t be a disappointment if we don’t win a trophy this season. At least now we are fighting for trophies unlike last two season when we were 15points behind the top of the table. Anyway I’m fully behind Mou on Salah’ case. When you have a chance to win a trophy it’s not time for experimentation. He came in middle of the season so for me I will be happy to see him given a run by next season. It’s funny how pple want Ake and Kalas to play in this period..only a stupid coach will do that. I don’t even think about them since we be kicked out of both capital one cup and FA

      • Emile10 has spoken. Yes I like your post. Good point!

  11. I don’t see d point of complaining. Mou does not like to start eto away from home. He never scores in an away game. All of yu shouting schurrle!!against tottenham, what did he do. Even when he came on, what did he do. Schurrle is not ready for the pre league. Salah???yu guys are jokers. If he started salah and we lost the match, yu wld have mou’s head. Yu cant fault his line-up. Oscar did well when he came on against tottenham plus he scored for Brazil. Is it Mou’s fault that he had faith that his poor form was coming to an end. All of yu are football manager and yu think yu can coach? In real life yu don’t get a second chance to review ur team selection. Let’s just look forward. Matic-luiz is not our best pivot. It is too defensive. It is only effective against a top team like livverpool or arsenal. But if we playing a team like crystal palace, it won’t work. Our best pivot is matic-lampard/ramires. Let’s move on. Its not everything tthat is coach’s fault. Ktbffh. Up I don’t see d point of complaining. Mou does not like to start eto away from home. He never scores in an away game. All of yu shouting schurrle!!against tottenham, what did he do. Even when he came on, what did he do. Schurrle is not ready for the pre league. Salah???yu guys are jokers. If he started salah and we lost the match, yu wld have mou’s head. Yu cant fault his line-up. Oscar did well when he came on against tottenham plus he scored for Brazil. Is it Mou’s fault that he had faith that his poor form was coming to an end. All of yu are football manager and yu think yu can coach? In real life yu don’t get a second chance to review ur team selection. Let’s just look forward. Matic-luiz is not our best pivot. It is too defensive. It is only effective against a top team like livverpool or arsenal. But if we playing a team like crystal palace, it won’t work. Our best pivot is matic-lampard/ramires. Let’s move on. Its not everything tthat is coach’s fault. Ktbffh. Up I don’t see d point of complaining. Mou does not like to start eto away from home. He never scores in an away game. All of yu shouting schurrle!!against tottenham, what did he do. Even when he came on, what did he do. Schurrle is not ready for the pre league. Salah???yu guys are jokers. If he started salah and we lost the match, yu wld have mou’s head. Yu cant fault his line-up. Oscar did well when he came on against tottenham plus he scored for Brazil. Is it Mou’s fault that he had faith that his poor form was coming to an end. All of yu are football manager and yu think yu can coach? In real life yu don’t get a second chance to review ur team selection. Let’s just look forward. Matic-luiz is not our best pivot. It is too defensive. It is only effective against a top team like livverpool or arsenal. But if we playing a team like crystal palace, it won’t work. Our best pivot is matic-lampard/ramires. Let’s move on. Its not everything tthat is coach’s fault. Ktbffh. Up I don’t see d point of complaining. Mou does not like to start eto away from home. He never scores in an away game. All of yu shouting schurrle!!against tottenham, what did he do. Even when he came on, what did he do. Schurrle is not ready for the pre league. Salah???yu guys are jokers. If he started salah and we lost the match, yu wld have mou’s head. Yu cant fault his line-up. Oscar did well when he came on against tottenham plus he scored for Brazil. Is it Mou’s fault that he had faith that his poor form was coming to an end. All of yu are football manager and yu think yu can coach? In real life yu don’t get a second chance to review ur team selection. Let’s just look forward. Matic-luiz is not our best pivot. It is too defensive. It is only effective against a top team like livverpool or arsenal. But if we playing a team like crystal palace, it won’t work. Our best pivot is matic-lampard/ramires. Let’s move on. Its not everything tthat is coach’s fault. Ktbffh. Up blues

    • The only point I don’t agree is when you say that “Matic-luiz is not our best pivot”. The reality is that Ramires doesn’t bring nothing when we play against DEFENSIVE TEAM because Rami doesn’t have the space to impress himself.

  12. DHEERAJ K

    Yesterday’s defeat was so hurting. We are beating top teams and against mid table teams we are struggling to find the net. But one defeat we cannot blame jose all of a sudden after all he is our boss. May be there are orders from abra that torres should be picked frequently.One thing i want to tell openly is torres is an absolute failure at chelsea. I personally no more want to see him in blue shirt again!

    • DHEERAJ K thanks bro. Torres is one of the worst player I ever see in blue shirt. Last night he was selfish, he can’t hold the ball, poorest first touch ever. I’m disappointed about his contributions to the team. I wish he can be sold now

      • Torres hurts us. I really don’t see why he continues if it was not because of Abramovich. He didn’t bring anything to the table. Nothing, nothing and yet he continues to play. How in world Mou leaves Ba to put Torres who coming from injury?

        Mou and players, I am sure, are so disappointed to see this situation.

  13. Anonymous

    To hell with Matic – Luiz fantasy.

  14. please

  15. @miles weda u believ it or not jose has been sentimental in team selection.schurrle isn’t ready 4 epl,but he has got more goals & made more positiv impact than willian whom in ur opinion is more ready.willian works hard,but cant pas bal at d rite time.with willian & oscar who cant find a tru pas,it wil alway be dificult 4 cfc 2 beat a defensive team.though schurl cant move the bal around in the midle,but he knows how 2 releas the bal wen it should,can shoot better & is more direct.against big teams,willian can start when we are playn 4 draw.ba is better dan torres.

  16. James Mwas

    @Sammie , i agree wit you i alwaiys trust Mou and his squad , no hard feelings for them .. Will be Champions sooner !

  17. @zyte and @ adam..if yu. Are being truthful to urselves, aside the 3 goals schurrle had againstt fulham, what was his conttribution to the game as a winger? Any good cross? Any through pass? Any fast counter? I can’t believe a chelsea fan can honestly say schurrle has been better than willian. Willian is not finished article yet but he deserves his place. @adam, if we were looking for a goal, who wld yu rather have on the pitch, luiz or rami? Can yu remeber chelsea -everton, rami’s performance when he came on. All mou’s decision can be justified. They may not be the best but they can be justified. Its not like he is using baker instead of matic or mikel instead of matic? Mou rotates his team, look at madrid. The reason why he is not rotating is that he does not ttrust those other ppl yet plus we are chasing the title, no time for trial and error. If he puts salah and he flops, fans will have his head plus it will affect the players confidence. Pls let’s just relax

  18. It’s funny how we become illogical whenever we lose or irrational. First, the blame should go to the coach: it’s germaine because if we had won the praise would have gone to him also. That’s not all, I had said earlier that it seems Mou don’t really school Hazard on excessive dribbles. If he wants to win even EPL player of the month award. He should study more of CR7 and Messi’s game: these guys dribble to score goals and not to dribble and stand still. That isn’t helping his development and it’s hurting Chelsea! Secondly, the cross that led to the goal game from an exposed Ivanovic’s wing. That wing was exposed one time too many. What was happening? Thirdly, Ramires got what he deserved, but Willian was a bit unfortunate and Matic..Matic, I’ll repeat is still a work in progress, he isn’t that complete. He gets you th ball and never knows what to do with the ball. At later stages of the game, you could see he was gassed out; tired, he was practically trying to stay on his feet. This I blamed Jose. A game at a time. This was visible before the first sending off. Fourthly, people are saying Torres is useless and all, funny, they are the plastic fans. This guy was just coming from an injury and berthed with almost a full game. Mou should have known better. You’re insulting Torres but when he gave us the away goal at Turkey you said nada. You call him selfish, which striker shouldn’t, still Torres isn’t, if he was Schurrle wouldn’t have scored a hat-trick against Fulham, because he (Schurrle) was selfish in passing the ball to Torres when he had the time to, yet just minutes later Torres gave him that assist for his hat-trick. Let’s see what happens on tuesday and saying Eto’o don’t score away goals, reason why Mou didn’t play him is unprofessional on Mou and confidence killing. If he doesn’t score he gives depth and frustrates the opposition.

  19. It’s funny how we become illogical whenever we lose or irrational. First, the blame should go to the coach: it’s germaine because if we had won the praise would have gone to him also. That’s not all, I had said earlier that it seems Mou don’t really school Hazard on excessive dribbles. If he wants to win even EPL player of the month award. He should study more of CR7 and Messi’s game: these guys dribble to score goals and not to dribble and stand still. That isn’t helping his development and it’s hurting Chelsea! Secondly, the cross that led to the goal game from an exposed Ivanovic’s wing. That wing was exposed one time too many. What was happening? Thirdly, Ramires got what he deserved, but Willian was a bit unfortunate and Matic..Matic, I’ll repeat is still a work in progress, he isn’t that complete. He gets you th ball and never knows what to do with the ball. At later stages of the game, you could see he was gassed out; tired, he was practically trying to stay on his feet. This I blamed Jose. A game at a time. This was visible before the first sending off. Fourthly, people are saying Torres is useless and all, funny, they are the plastic fans. This guy was just coming from an injury and berthed with almost a full game. Mou should have known better. You’re insulting Torres but when he gave us the away goal at Turkey you said nada. You call him selfish, which striker shouldn’t, still Torres isn’t, if he was Schurrle wouldn’t have scored a hat-trick against Fulham, because he (Schurrle) was selfish in passing the ball to Torres when he had the time to, yet just minutes later Torres gave him that assist for his hat-trick. Let’s see what happens on tuesday and saying Eto’o don’t score away goals, reason why Mou didn’t play him is unprofessional on Mou and confidence killing. If he doesn’t score he gives depth and frustrates the opposition. Finally, we shouldn’t blame the ref Chris Foy too much, we never did look threatening and our only goal from Matic was aided by his hand, which the assistant ref pointed to Chris Foy, that had given it initially.

  20. Thanks kes..dont mind those brain washed mourinho’s fans that cant see the truth..mou is running out of ideas and he’s afraid of failing tht’s why he doesnt see as title fav

  21. Ramires has been poor this season he can’t even create a moment of brilliance always scrappy with his first touches..we need classy midfielders like guarin,khedira,veratti,moutinho,vidal etc and FERNANDO TORRES my my my that guy even knows he is a flop!! A player without self belief..shove d dude out of chelsea pls..willian doesn’t offer a threat on gaol d way schurrle does pls willian should be left understudy of schurrle..

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