The Chelsea Football FanCast #124
Chidge and the boys are back for either the last show of last season or the first show of the new season!! They have a fond look back at the legendary Double winning season; announce the winners of the first ever Chelsea Football FanCast awards, and look ahead to the new season.
Hamburger SV 2-1 Chelsea FC
A late goal foiled Chelsea as the Blues fell to a third successive pre-season defeat.
Frank Lampard had put the visiting side ahead with a tap-in when Michael Essien calmly picked him out as Hamburg goalkeeper Frank Rost rushed out, but Croatian star Mladen Petric lobbed home after Yuri Zhirkov sold Ross Turnbull short with a woeful back pass to restore parity.
So who are you? Rory65 from Redcafe.net
How long have you supported Manchester United for? 16 years
Have you enjoyed watching your pre season and what were some positives and negatives from those games? After the World Cup, which was such a treat if not a great tournament, it’s always great to see United back in action. It’s been especially enjoybale this year as a lot of young players have been given a chance to shine and some of them, such as Welbeck and Cleverley, have really shown encouraging signs for the future while Hernandez has looked very exciting in his 1st couple of games. We’ve looked a little suspect defensively but I’m sure that’s partly due to not being fully ready yet while we’ve also been without key players like Vidic and Evra who will be back for Sunday’s game.
In the third and final part of the Youth and Reserves season preview the focus will be placed on the players who are expected to go out on loan and the players who are expected to be part of the first team this season. This is without doubt the hardest part of the Youth and Reserves to discuss because as we stand it is very difficult to know, and it is open to opinion until the decisions are made by Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Arneson and Neil Bath.
Frankfurt 2-1 Chelsea
Chelsea’s pre-season preparations suffered a blow with a friendly defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt.
The Blues went behind when a mix-up between John Terry and goalkeeper Henrique Hilario allowed Patrick Ochs to score, although Frank Lampard did equalise in the second half.
In Part 2 of the Youth and Reserves season preview I will be focusing on the reserve team for the coming season. There has been a fair amount of change in the Reserves so let us start on those changes in this preview. First let us cover the players who have left Chelsea this summer, those players are players that have been regulars for the main part in the reserves squad. First one to depart in Niclas Heimann, Heimann hadn’t played that many games for the Reserves but has been in the age group for a while now.
Didier Drogba - 4
Florent Malouda - 4
Salomon Kalou - 3
Nicolas Anelka - 2
Frank Lampard - 1
Yossi Benayoun - 1
Though it was more than eight months before he made his competitive Chelsea debut, Branislav Ivanovic showed that he was more than worth the wait. Signed in January 2008 by Avram Grant after a series of consistent performances at Lokomotiv Moscow, Ivanovic has become an integral part of the current Chelsea set-up.....
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