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Ya add me in the pile of not sure we need another player in this mold

A Bradford Chelsea final would be brilliant. The whole nation will be cheering against us and I must say I wouldn't be overly dissappointed if we lose to them then. But still many bridges to cross till we get to that one.

first 40 goals here: http://www.theshedend.com/topic/21448-chelsea-goalsstats-201213-season/?p=549534 Goal 41 - Moses deflects a header in off a Cahill header from the corner (G - Moses) vs Swansea (Prem) Goal 42 - Torres scores a goal after a dreadful clearance by the Donetsk keeper (G - Torres) vs Shakhtar Donetsk (CL) Goal 43 - Oscar scores another CL goal of genius, scoring from midfield after the keeper didn't clear it far enough and was caught off his line (G - Oscar) vs Shakhtar Donetsk (CL) Goal 44 - Moses scores another headed goal off of a Mata corner (G- Moses, A - Mata) vs Shakhtar Donetsk (CL) Goal 45 - Terry heads in a goal after a Mata corner (G - Terry, A - Mata) vs Liverpool (Prem) Goal 46 - Hazard heads in a goal after a cross crease chip by Oscar (G - Hazard, A - Oscar) vs West Brom (Prem) Goal 47 - Mata puts the ball in the ol onion bag after a cut back from Torres (G - Mata, A - Torres) vs West Ham (Prem) Goal 48 - Luiz powers in a typically luiz pen just 3 mins after Hazard had missed from the spot (G - Luiz, A - Mata) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 49 - Torres first opportunity is trundled by the keeper on a Chelsea break and finds itself at his feet again and he places it easily in the net (G - Torres) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 50 - Chelsea's 50th goal is scored in the 51st minute on a Mata free kick which is headed in by Cahill (G - Cahill, A - Mata) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 51 - A brace is notched by Torres as Hazard wonderfully works the ball through on a break and cuts back to Torres. (G - Torres, A - Hazard) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 52 - A 1 - 2 is worked by Hazard and Mata with the latter placing the ball in the net (G - Mata, A - Hazard) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 53 - Oscar is put through by Lampard and scores easily (G - Oscar, A - Lampard) vs Nordsjaelland (CL) Goal 54 - Hazard finds Torres on a cross and the forward directs the ball into the net (G - Torres, A - Hazard) vs Sunderland (Prem) Goal 55 - Ramires draws a penalty and Torres nets a brace under Benitez (G - Torres, A - Ramires)vs Sunderland (Prem) Goal 56 - Torres hits the upright and Mata finishes the goal off (G - Mata)vs Sunderland (Prem) Goal 57 - An Oscar backheel to Bertrand is passed to Mata who fires it home (G - Mata, A - Bertrand) vs Monterrey (FCWC) Goal 58 - Hazard pulls it back for Torres who scores on a slightly deflected goal (G - Torres, A - Hazard) vs Monterrey (FCWC) Goal 59 - An own goal scored by Chavez after a Mata touch (G - Chavez, A - Mata) Goal 60 - Moses sets up Mata who scores for Chelsea (G - Mata, A - Moses) vs Leeds (LGCP) Goal 61 - A corner by Lampard finds the head of Ivanovic and into the back of the net (G - Ivanovic, A - Lampard) vs Leeds (LGCP) Goal 62 - Mata passes to Moses who does the rest and takes touches and into the back of the net (G - Moses) vs Leeds (LGCP) Goal 63 - Luiz with a lovely long-ball through to Hazard who goes in alone and scores (G - Hazard, A - Luiz) vs Leeds (LGCP) Goal 64 - A Lampard shot is saved, collected by Hazard and threaded through too Torres who simply directs the ball in (G - Torres, A - Hazard) vs Leeds (LGCP) Goal 65 - Torres heads in a goal from a cross from (unknown) (G - Torres, A - ?) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 66 - Luiz scores a lovely dipping free kick from 10 yards off the 18 yd box (G - Luiz) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 67 - Mata crosses, Cahill collects, its saved and Ivanovic heads in (G - Ivanovic) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 68 - Lampard scores through the run of play on a brilliant ball from about 25 yds (G - Lampard) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 69 - Oscar is fed the ball on through by Oscar and puts the ball between the keepers legs (G - Ramires, A - Oscar) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 70 - A penalty is draw, perhaps a little favourably by Oscar who slams the pen into the top of the net (G - Oscar) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 71 - Oscar passes to Hazard who drops his shoulder twice in the 18yd box and brilliantly finds space and fires it home (G - Hazard) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 72 - The ball is passed across the middle by Hazard and finds Ramires who nets his first brace of the year (G - Ramires, A - Hazard) vs Aston Villa (Prem) Goal 73 - Mata scores on a shot from just outside the 18yd box (G - Mata) vs Norwich City (Prem) Goal 74 - A cross by Ramires is headed in by Frank Lampard (G - Lampard, A - Ramires) vs Everton (Prem) Goal 75 - A loose ball is found by Old Man Lampard and put home for his first brace of the season (G - Lampard) vs Everton (Prem) Goal 76 - Demba Ba puts home his first Chelsea goal after he sees in Mata's shot (G - Ba, A - Mata) vs Southampton (Prem) Goal 77 - Moses is fed the ball and strikes it home (G - Moses) vs Southampton (Prem) Goal 78 - A cross by Mata is headed in by Ivanovic (G - Ivanovic, A - Mata) vs Southampton (Prem) Goal 79 - Hazard sees the ball into Ba's feet and he slots it home (G - Ba, A - Hazard) vs Southampton (Prem) Goal 80 - Lampard is given the opportunity to be joint second top scorer with Kerry Dixon on the Chelsea all-time goals list after a pen is drawn by a handball (G - Lampard) vs Southampton (Prem) Top Scorers Torres - 14 Mata - 13 Lampard - 7 Cahill - 6 Oscar - 6 Hazard - 6 Ivanovic - 6 Ramires - 5 Moses - 5 Luiz - 4 Sturridge - 2 Ba - 2 Bertrand - 2 Cole - 1 Romeu - 1 Terry - 1 Own goals - 1 Top assists Mata - 18 Hazard - 17 Oscar - 7 Torres - 6 Ramires - 4 Cole - 4 Moses - 3 Lampard - 3 Ivanovic - 2 Piazon - 2 Cahill - 2 Luiz - 1 Clean Sheets Cech - 9 Turnbull - 2 Finally updated up to the 80th goal, archived 1-40 up top in the link and 41-80 are found here. Some of the stats won't match as they tally the Community Shield game which I did not include in the list of goals. Also there will be other errors I am sure on the assists, if anything is found you can let me know! Hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7hfCJ0bJ6M

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He is 25, he will be 26 this season. He is at that peak point of his career between 25-30, anything he was going to learn he would of learned by now

So why is Chelsea not top of the group? We are tied and have equal amounts of points and are up on goal differential. Is it because Shakhtar has more home wins? Or wth?

3 - 1 Chels

I can really see De Bruyne taking over Ramires' spot in the midfield pairing

The other aspect is that this team needs something more offensively. The triumvirate of Hazard, Oscar, and Mata only seems to succeed when they are the pitch together. We need a CF who can create goals a la Drogba who could score goals out of nothing. Even a Demba Ba would be alright, someone who can score that goal from a spot and situation which he really shouldn't. It is goals like that which win championships.

Probably the most worrisome aspect of this game for me is that it showed that our overall depth on offence is not all that great. The worrisome aspect is that it could haunt us in our busy month of December, a month that often causes us problems.

I thought Hazard was brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cKsajHiN4

Goal 1 - Ivanovic finishes after through ball from Hazard (G - Ivanovic, a - Hazard) vs Wigan Goal 2 - Hazard fouled in box. Lampard penalty. (G - Lampard, a - Hazard) vs Wigan Goal 3 - Hazard fouled in box. Lampard penalty. (G - Lampard, a - Hazard) vs Reading Goal 4 - Cahill long range shot. (G - Cahill, a - Hazard) vs Reading Goal 5 - Torres taps in from a square ball/cross from the left wing from Cole. (G - Torres, a - Cole) vs Reading Goal 6 - Hazard runs the length of the pitch and lays it on to Ivanovic for a tap in. (G - Ivanovic, a - Hazard) vs Reading Goal 7 - Torres fouled in box. Hazard scored penalty. (G- Hazard, a - Torres ) vs Newcastle Goal 8 - Torres long range shot after backheel from Hazard. (G - Torres, a - Hazard) vs Newcastle Goal 9 - Cahill smashes the ball into the net after a scramble following a corner. (G - Cahill, - ?) vs Atletico Madrid Goal 10 - Oscar scores a slightly deflected long range goal (G - Oscar) vs Juventus Goal 11 - Oscar scores an individual goal of the year candidate, pokes ball backwards through defenders leg then curls it into the corner (G - Oscar) vs Juventus Goal 12 - Cole puts the ball in after a flick through by Mata. (G - Cole, a - Mata) vs Stoke Goal 13 - Cahill heads in a goal three minutes in (G - Cahill, a - ?) vs Wolves Goal 14 - Bertrand scores after a pass back from Piazon in the area (G - Bertrand, a - Piazon) vs Wolves Goal 15 - Mata exchanges passes with Ramires and Torres and weaves through for a goal (G - Mata) vs Wolves Goal 16 - Romeu scores from the penalty spot on his birthday after Moses is brought down (G - Romeu, a - Moses) vs Wolves Goal 17 - Torres powers a header in from a Mata corner (G - Torres, a - Mata) vs Wolves Goal 18 - Moses scores on a downward header after a cross from Oscar (G - Moses, a Oscar) vs Wolves Goal 19 - Torres bends leg around defender and scores from a Mata free kick (G- Torres, a - Mata) vs Arsenal Goal 20 - Mata free kick takes the slights of flicks from a defender and goes in from a free kick (G - Mata) vs Arsenal Goal 21 - Torres and Lampard combine to set up Mata (G - Mata) vs Nordsjaelland Goal 22 - Luiz scores a free kick screamer from just outside the box (G - Luiz) vs Nordsjaelland Goal 23 - Mata scores on a pretty play with multiple passes (G - Mata) vs Nordsjaelland Goal 24 - Ramires taps in an Oscar cross (G - Ramires, a - Oscar) vs Nordsjaelland Goal 25 - Torres heads in a goal after a Mata flick back to Ivanovic for the cross (G - Torres, a - Ivanovic) vs Norwich Goal 26 - Torres tries a dramatic overhead kick which is blocked but falls to Lampard who volleys it home (G - Lampard) vs Norwich Goal 27 - Mata steals the ball and counter-attacks and threads a beautiful pass to Hazard who slots it home (G - Hazard, a Mata) vs Norwich Goal 28 - Ivanovic volleys the ball home (G - Ivanovic) vs Norwich Goal 29 - Cahill with a brilliant volley into the net after a poor clearance by Gallas (G - Cahill) vs Tottenham Goal 30 - Mata scores after a poor clearance again by Gallas lands at his feet and is put into the net (G - Mata) vs Tottenham Goal 31 - Mata receives a beautiful through pass from Hazard (G - Mata, a Hazard) vs Tottenham Goal 32 - Sturridge taps a ball into an empty net after a pass from Mata (G - Sturridge, a - Mata) vs Tottenham Goal 33 - Oscar scores a late goal in the 89th after a cross from Ivanovic (G - Oscar, a - Ivanovic) vs Shakhtar Goal 34 - Rooney fouls Hazard and Mata scores a dead ball curler (G - Mata) vs Manchester United Goal 35 - Ramires scores a header goal after a cross from Oscar (G - Ramires, a - Oscar) vs Manchester United Goal 36 - Moses is fouled and draws a penalty which Luiz scores in the bottom left (G - Luiz, a - Moses) vs Manchester United Goal 37 - Cahill heads in a corner (G- Cahill) vs Manchester United Goal 38 - Ramires draws a penalty and Hazard slides a ball down the middle for the goal after the goaltender is drawn the the right (G - Hazard, a - Ramires) vs Manchester United Goal 39 - Sturridge gets a loose ball from Wooten and cooly slots it in (G - Sturridge) vs Manchester United Goal 40 - Hazard threads a pass through to Ramires who evades the keeper and places it in the net (G - Ramires, a - Hazard) vs Manchester United Top Scorers Mata - 7 Torres - 5 Cahill - 5 Ivanovic - 3 Ramires - 3 Lampard - 3 Oscar - 3 Hazard - 3 Luiz - 2 Sturridge - 2 Cole - 1 Romeu - 1 Moses - 1 Bertrand - 1 Own goals - 0 Top assists Mata - 8 Hazard - 7 Oscar - 4 Torres - 3 Cole - 2 Moses - 2 Ivanovic - 2 Ramires - 1 Lampard - 1 Piazon - 1 Not all of the assists match up. If you note anything missing please let me know. Also I will try to break this into 50 goal sections or so. That way it will avoid massive spanning issues.

Be interesting to see how this team play's without the spark of Mata in the squad. He has been our lightning rod for the latter part of this season

8 years since we have played each other and won in 2004 Prem competition. 1-0

Since we were down to 10 both times against the Swans last year, wonder if the refs will be doing us in again.

have to agree, it was brilliant and cheeky at the same time. the lad is brilliant from the spot, no doubt about it. I worry more about Mata actually. He had like three stops from the pen last year I believe

Well I guess they kind of all are for the near future

This game showed in some way, what a classic the Prem game would of been had there not been all the controversy. Shame most of the game was played with reserves though, but I'll take the win as long as the competition does not hurt us too much in the long run. I still do not think this competition matters too much, its nice to win it, but nothing to parade over. Knocking the Mancs out of a trophy competition is always lovely though.

He's injured.

Figure we may as well make a match thread for this classic right aways as well.

Ya I couldn't help you there, all I know is that the stream I watched it on was definitely US. As far as Leeds when was the last time we played them? It certainly makes the tie a little more difficult in that they will likely be up for playing this one a little tighter as well. Emotions will be running high and our reserves will have to be at their best.

Today's stream was on Fox so I am assuming it was televised in the states

I'm going Hazard