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Article By AnneMc8 Comments »Dec 23, 2012
Chelsea scored early and then barely stopped, getting eight past Guzan at Stamford Bridge today. There were goals from Fernando Torres, David Luiz, Branislav Ivanovic, Frank Lampard, Oscar, Eden Hazard and a brace from substitute Ramires to move Chelsea from seventh to third in the table.
After Torres’ zippy early opener, Luiz blasted the ball wide of Guzan and into the back of the net during the 29th minute of play. Chelsea’s third followed five minutes later, courtesy of Ivanovic, who nodded home after Guzan had made a superb stop.
With five minutes of the first half remaining, Villa had their first shot and it was well off target from Bannan, who sent the ball soaring through the Matthew Harding stand.
Things didn’t get much better after the break, although it was only a clever interception from Cahill (predictably) that stopped Benteke slotting the ball in in the 52nd minute.
Lampard made it 4-0 with a low shot from 25 yards.
Piazon came on for Mata and his first touch was sublime: he split the defence and passed to Ramires, who drove the ball under Guzan to make it 5-0.
Number six came from a penalty conceded by Herd, who was deemed to have tugged Oscar in the penalty area. Oscar kicked high and wide of Guzan, adding to the keeper’s miserable afternoon.
By this point, Villa looked utterly shell-shocked and it was no surprise when goal number seven found itself in the top left-hand corner of Guzan’s goal, struck left-footed by Hazard.
In the final minute of normal time, Ramires was afforded the simplest of chances, having been left free in the area, and he completed the slaughter.
After the game, Lambert said Villa had been ‘beaten up’ and that sums up the afternoon quite well really. No excuses, we were slaughtered.
Happy Christmas, Villa fans… Keep the faith. This time next year, we could be table toppers…
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lets be honest most of us would have taken 3 dtaws from this 3 game stretch ending w spurs we have 3 points
By table toppers, one can only assume you mean the Championship… entirely possible.
Ho can you go from last weeks result to this week? Very easy last weeks result was a complete fluke and take that result out of it and we would deeper in the proverbial. Our worst result in the top flight will hopefully get our thick chairman to maybe come over and have a look at what is happening and sack Faulkner would be a start.
I said it at the start of the season and I still say it now that there are player in this side and squad who are not fit for the championship let alone the prem. At least 5 of the starting line up and half the bench.
It’s a disaster but hey ho I will always love the Villa!
This reality check really hurts. Sooooooooooooooo embarassing. What agreat start to Christmas. Headless chickens the lot of them.
AND, you just had to settle with Norwich for poaching their manager. Have a nice Christmas!
Norwich can have him back we just can;t afford another humiliation like that one.But things will not change until Randy wakes up to the fact the fans choice was the wrong one mind you the saying is you reap what you sow.So to all those fans whom are still backing Lambert have a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and look forward to the championship and behond as if Lambert is not sacked soon can see the future being a decade spent in the lower reaches of English football.Forget the tin pot cup our league status is more important.
Not going to get the firing squad ready just yet. I am a fan of Lambert, I have to believe he can turn things round. The problem at Villa lies further up the tree. Lerner and Faulkner are deadwood as far as I can see. The sooner we can get new owners the sooner Lambert can spend some cash. Its no good shopping at Harrods with nowt in the bank. Randy is a banker and we all know what we think of bankers. Never been keen on him and probably never will be. However, he might change my mind in January. But dont hold your breath.
Guys, its time to encourage Randy to leave the building.
Well maybe this will get us realy fired up for spurs! the ladz have something to prove now; after 8 nill im hoping for a strong peformance on boxing day. As for all those who feel lambert should be sacked after this one display… thats not going to solve anything! just last week we were all singing his praises! This was our first realy poor performance since West Ham if you ask me. I think we could do with another forward in january but i dont think the funds are there… oh well Merry Christmas to all!