• Chelsea – Crystal Palace 1-0 (1-0):
(Dagbladet): The mission of José Mourinho and Chelsea before the home meeting with Crystal Palace in the afternoon was simple:
Win and become champions.
With victory would Londoners namely opppå 83 points. Among the rivals may Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal achieve the highest score – 82 – but they must win their last five games.
And when Chelsea had a chance to make the title party at home in “bridge”, did they just that.
That is, today’s match was anything but gala performance, but there is no with helblå sympathies who cares as long as the title is now in the bank.
– This is delicious. I’m glad that I’m part of this, but Chelsea are bigger than me. This is my fourth title, but it’s the first time I win here at Stamford Bridge. Look at the fans, they are the best. Now we will celebrate and rest, says Didier Drogba told Sky Sports on the grass lawn right after victory was assured.
sparkle not
The match summed up in a way Chelsea’s spring season. They won by a solid performance, but never sparkled. Eden Hazard scored the match’s only goal on a rebound after their Penalty.
Series Masters has been heavily criticized for being boring the last few months, but 2 TV commentator Øyvind Alsaker believes that it is not quite that simple.
– To say that they are boring is only half the truth. People have bad memory and forget that Chelsea played the best football of all last fall. They scored the finest goals and was quite superb. In the spring, there have been different. They have run a little more “safety first”. They have scored fewer goals, had fewer terminations and had less ball possession, but it is perfectly conscious of Mourinho, he says to Dagbladet.
Former great player and Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit goes however frontal attack on Mourinho’s style of play in an interview with The Mirror.
– Made his is boring in my opinion, the players he advises over deserve much more. Mourinho deserves a negative label due to the calculated way Chelsea play on, says Gullit.
– I find it’s incredible, because his players have ability to play great football, which we so in some brief moment when they were under 1-0 away against Leicester on Wednesday and was forced to step on the accelerator.
– Typical Mourinho
Gullit points out that the last month Chelsea edition characterizes a typical Mourinho team.
– The reason is that Mourinho has not changed. He always has his hand on the handbrake. It does not work in my opinion. I think really sorry for the players, says Gullit.
– They could win just about every game in spectacular fashion if Mourinho asked the guys play with the handbrake off. Then we would see great football and many goals, he adds.
Øyvind Alsaker agree with Gullit in that Chelsea might be kept foot on the accelerator further throughout the season.
– They have one of those few top stables, so I agree that they increasingly also tried to play offensively this spring, but they win at typical Mourinho-view. He used basically the same 15 players in fall and winter, and it has its price. You can not establish that they could ravaged with whom they would all season, says TV2 commentator.
Long yawn
Alsaker however built on some of the same as Gullit . He has no doubt that Chelsea could tried to entertain more in the last part of the season, and he feels pretty sure players could imagined the same.
– players will probably basically play the same Field all season, but Mourinho gets what he wants to win and pick trophies. Therefore players loyal to the program, said Alsaker.
Today’s game against Crystal Palace was one long yawn, but it means little.
Things however could have been different After a scanty half hour shouted namely Palace penalty when Jason Puncheon shot from a good position in the box.
The tough shot had toward Thibaut Courtois’ right corner, but was blocked by John Terry. The only problem was that it went through the outstretched hand on Chelsea stopper after touchet his knee first.
Referee Kevin Friend pretended However the game go on.
Hazard -straffe
Just before the break it was instead Chelsea who were awarded a penalty, and not surprisingly, was Eden Hazard involved.
The little Belgian got himself namely a real hip swing of James McArthur when he was at full speed into the Palace box after a lovely hælpasning of Willian.
The punishment he took himself, but it was horrible weak and was saved by Julian Speroni in the Palace goal. Hazard, however, had no trouble to head the rebound from the Argentinian net.
It ensured Chelsea club’s fifth league title in history.
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