Samuel’s Thread I Chelsea Football Club

8-0

Massive win, even in pre-season

Yeah, everything seemed to work. I left out a main part of the update, which involved statistical information. Ah well, I'll just reuse it in the next one against Brisbane.

You smashed the Mariners

Brisbane beat Norwich
Prediction:
Chelsea 1-2 Brisbane

Paartalu's going to kick your ass Samuel

Ryan74 wrote:

Paartalu's going to kick your ass Samuel

+1
+2 from Mike

AusMufc wrote:

You smashed the Mariners

Brisbane beat Norwich
Prediction:
Chelsea 1-2 Brisbane

I also had a clear penalty turned down. Thanks for the prediction, although as I said on the last update that'll have no effect on the 'Prediction League'.

Ryan74 wrote:

Paartalu's going to kick your ass Samuel

Other way around, I'll be nutmegging him throughout the game.

I don't care if it doesn't have affect, I just want Brisbane to win

AusMufc wrote:

I don't care if it doesn't have affect, I just want Brisbane to win

We shall see, update will probably be posted tonight. I've yet to play the game.

4-0 win.

Late good luck

Great win, 4-0 for your next game

MD_91 wrote:

Late good luck

Great win, 4-0 for your next game

It's cool, thanks for the good luck anyway. Seems people are expecting a comfortable win, I've played the game and...

Well, the update will be later so you'll see...

1-0 win.

Update will be posted in any second, I honestly have no idea what happened.

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Pre-Season Cup Final: Brisbane Roar v. Chelsea Football Club - 2011
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Brisbane: (4-3-3)
GK – Michael Theoklitos
RB - Ivan Franjic
CB – Sayed Mohamed Adnan
CB - Matt Smith
LB - Shane Stefanutto
CDM - Erik Paartalu
RCM - Mitch Nichols
LCM - Massimo Murdocca
RW – Henrique
ST – Besart Berisha
LW – Thomas Broich


Chelsea: (4-1-2-1-2)
GK – Petr Čech
RB – José Bosingwa
CB – John Terry ©
CB – Branislav Ivanović
LB – Ashley Cole
CDM – Michael Essien
LM – Juan Mata
RM – Raul Meireles
CAM - Frank Lampard
FW – Daniel Sturridge
FW – Didier Drogba

First Half

Didier Drogba opened the scoring in Australia after a fairly open 18 minutes. An interchange of passes between England’s Frank Lampard and Spain’s Juan Mata after dispossessing Murdocca in the middle of the pitch lead to a clear pass to the unmarked African who held his nerve to slot the ball past Theoklitos. Brisbane almost equalised in the 27th minute when a well-timed cross from the left flank found Henrique who then smashed a volley wide of the far post. Afterwards, Chelsea spent the rest of the time remaining in the first half to find a goal that’d hopefully kill off the opponents. Unfortunately for Andre Villas-Boas’ men the second goal came from the home side thanks to a well worked corner by Broich which found Sayed Mohamed Adnan.

Second Half

Brisbane’s late equaliser in the second half proved vital as the game restarted, Chelsea who dominated an Australia side the day before were hoping to do the same here. Chelsea had numerous amounts of opportunities to get a goal, most notably being Raul Meireles’ open goal chance. But obviously in football you can never write a side off, regardless as their stature as Brisbane had a penalty awarded in the 78th minute. Berisha stepped up, and sent Petr Čech the wrong way. The momentum was now with the home side, the atmosphere was epic, and Chelsea was pushing on for a late equaliser. Salomon Kalou was introduced in place of Daniel Sturridge, making his near 150th appearance for the club. It didn’t take long for the Ivorian to make a huge impact in the game, providing a magical cross for the waited Didier Drogba at the back post to score into an empty net. The game was level, and the clock was ticking away. Not much happened after Chelsea’s second goal, with both teams sitting back and hoping for the best in the penalty shootout. It’s more than noticeable that Chelsea’s penalty record isn’t the greatest, so the next couple of minutes mightn't be great for the blues.

Penalty Shoot-out

Broich
Didier Drogba
1-1.

Henrique
Fernando Torres
1-2.

Berisha
Frank Lampard
1-3.

Nichols
1-3.

*Chelsea win 1-1 (3-1) against Brisbane Roar.*

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Andre Villas-Boas’ Comment: “It wasn’t what we were expecting today from the opposition in terms of performance; they came out and played at their best. It was a hard fought victory for us today, and this’ll only help our chances for the league.”

Man of the match:

Didier Drogba
Goals 2 (3)
Assists 0
Tackles Won 7
Pass Success (%) 91%
Match Rating 9.60

AusMufc wrote:

Ryan74 wrote:

Paartalu's going to kick your ass Samuel

+1
+2 from Mike

+3 From Neal!

neal_canuck wrote:

AusMufc wrote:

Ryan74 wrote:

Paartalu's going to kick your ass Samuel

+1
+2 from Mike

+3 From Neal!

He didn't cause me any problems.

PS: On EA, I received permission from a certain member to use his recreated footer. That'll be the only graphic in my updates as I said in the beginning of my thread, along with a matching header. - These will only be used in important updates, reflecting in match results or something major.

Brisbane drew with Chelsea
But you won on PENS

Paartalu must have had an off night or something

AusMufc wrote:

Brisbane drew with Chelsea
But you won on PENS

Paartalu must have had an off night or something

It was a completely different match from the one against Mariners, although we still dominated huge areas of the pitch.
Thankfully.

Most likely, I thought he was fairly overrated.

Brisbane should have won

P-P-P-Paartalu overrated? He is too good for Liverpool, and Liverpool > Chelsea so he is >>>>>>> Chelsea.

AusMufc wrote:

Brisbane should have won

P-P-P-Paartalu overrated? He is too good for Liverpool, and Liverpool > Chelsea so he is >>>>>>> Chelsea.

Nah, they were lucky to survive the full 90 minutes. I should have landed the knock-out punch earlier.

I strongly disagree with both statements.

Paartalu is not overrated though. You better take that back boy

I'm sowwy.

I love how we're having three different discussions, in three different threads. I'd post again in the criticism one but I don't want to completely derail the thread.

Better delete our spam from there

In other words, you've removed my points and posts. I deserve compensation.