Well, this is gonna be long for me:
1st Half
What a lot of complete and utter shite.
Dudek: Looked out of it totally. Pics from in front of the wall showed a massive area to pop it in. I could have slotted that. Poor handling and we were lucky not to be one down before after he scooped a scuffer to their right back. Made a fantastic reflex save onto the bar but overall was very poor. Nothing to do in the 2nd half. But maybe just as well.
Defence: Deal with as a whole. Fucking poor!! Yes, even Carra. Slow, passing out of defence was abysmal, especially by Sami. Djimi is no Ashley Cole. Arse made them look all over the place. Sami embarassed for pace on more than one occassion
Midfield: Garcia is a liability pushed out on the right. Great in the centre (2nd half) where he has options on both sides for his stuff. Drawn into centre to easily and left loads of room for Pires, Cole and Reyes to exploit.
Hamman: Created nothing. Broke up nothing really. Innefective in both roles. Arse just passed it around him. Needless foul for free kick as ball had run away from Arse.
Xabi: Ineffective after first 15 min. Couple of passes went astray and was pressed when he had the ball, bypassed by Arse when he didnt.
JAR: Never got involved. Had a sitter that should have been pulled back to Garcia for a tap in. Looked absolutely knackered and again was pulled all over the place by Arse.
SG: Totally lost. was playing further up than Milan a lot of time. He's our major playmaker and unless hes got something to pass to or tackle hes wasted.
Milan: Ineffective!! Looked as though he knows he's not gonna score (or be here next year)
Overall: Outplayed by a good Arse performance, but didnt look like they knew what they were meant to be doing.
2nd Half
Dudek: Fuck all to do really, but didnt exactly inspire confidence.
Defence: not as much to do, but again didnt inspire confidence. Arse didnt attack, so they didnt look as bad as 1st half. Picked apart for 3rd.
Garcia: Much more effective in the centre but seemed to lack any conviction. Couple of good lay offs but nothing outstanding from the little fellah.
Gerrard: Played deeper and much more effective. We seemed much more involved with him breaking up and starting things. Much preferred position. One glorious pass for Luis.
Xabi: More time on the ball as Arse played deeper. Couple of gooduns, couple of wasted uns. Seemed a lot better with SG around him. Nothing spectacular though.
Kewell: Not a HK hater at all but surely this lad must know he has to perform. Was shite. The rest of the team upped their game ...he was fuckin wasteful. Times run out for me Im afraid. Spent more time lookin and complaining for fouls than doing anything anything productive.
Smicer: Ineffective. What he did do was slow down attacks and basically give the ball away.
Cisse: Huge improvement on Baros. One or two good layoffs, one or two shite ones. Seems to think he needs to score with every ball he gets. Fast as fuck like. But needs to realise he's got others around who will score.
Overall: Thought we were a little better but Arse sat a lot deeper giving us more posession and made us look good. Dont think we created more than one flowing attack the whole 2nd half.
The game overall: We still have a long way to go to be up with Arsenal, who are a very good team. On their day, they are much better footballing team than Chelsea. Not all doom and gloom though...we're goint to the CL final and no fucker else is.
Already had the bitter bastards on the text.
