To date the facts are that Chelsea have a trophy in the bag and are 5 points clear of their nearest rival with a game in hand. We are currently the most attacking team in the league and have scored the most goals and despite all these achievements Jose is still to win the manager of the month award.
A lot of big decisions haven’t gone our way this season and from where the FA is concerned it’s not stopping Chelsea. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, winning a match 2-0 in a final without Matic is a massive confidence boost and a master stroke from Jose, we now have a viable plan B for Matic tested on the biggest stage.
I don’t think this victory brings us to paradise and everything is now beautiful for us. We have a big, difficult game tomorrow, and we have a big, difficult game next week in the Champions League.
This insatiable appetite for success is the hallmark of a champion.
“West Ham are a good team,’ he noted. ‘They can be everything: defensively very strong, very dangerous in attack, very dangerous playing direct football with long balls to target men, and also very dangerous attacking spaces and trying to play on the counter-attack with fast people like [Diafra] Sakho and [Enner] Valencia.”
Chelsea’s player of the season Matic will miss the game though suspension, and I wonder wether we could see Zouma deployed in midfield with Ramires again. Another surprise inclusion could be Filip Luis but as I have mentioned before, the final line up is a team he thinks is capable of neutralising any threat and at the same time exposing any weakness he has seen in West Ham.
