Now what was that people were saying about never wanting to see Drogs in a Chelsea shirt again?

Show me a clean sheet and I vote for a defender. Ashley Cole played out of his mind, shut down his side which is where Valencia wanted to attack us. Nod to Big Pete, Branny and Didier.

One swallow does not make a summer. No one denies he can play the problem is it tends to be when he wants....

Not given much plaudits but Romeu MOM for me, he was awesome tonight...

Didier played one of the finest matches seen at this club in sometime. I'm really not sure how anyone could entertain voting for anyone else.

who won skys man of the match? drogba?.. i watched the stream but switched off too soon

also anyone have link to post match interviews?

Drogba can play when he wants too, why cant he just have this attitude all the time!

I so want to give the MOTM to Romeu because he was bloody fantastic today.

1st DROGBA

2nd Team collective

3rd Romeu

4th Mata

where do I have to place Ramires?

Romeu immense!

I remember saying this time last week after the loss to liverpool that no one would give a monkey about that mickey mouse cup if we went and won our next 3 games. 2 down and 1 to go and I have a good feeling about monday even though I think we will miss luiz!

Great performances tonight especially from the big man up top! I must admit I am a big torres fan and have been gutted he has not started the last few games but if drogba continues the form he showed tonight I don't think I can justify starting torres. I would love to see a drogba, torres fully firing partnership but why change thngs up when it's starting to go so well? Only thing I will say is avb can be sometimes to slow in taking drogba off when it is clear his legs have gone although that was not the case tonight.

UP THE BLUES!

Drogba -- 2 goals and 1 assist.

But the whole team played well. Not one person had a bad match.

A special call-out to Romeu. A young man, not much experience, thrust into the cauldron of a must-win Champions League match and he showed why he's so good. 2 small mistakes the entire match. His timing and tackling are perfect, his strength is fantastic. I hope, oh how I hope, that Barca doesn't think he's worth the money to buy back. Because he's already one of the best players on the pitch.

I voted Luiz not because he was the best player but he did not f-ck it up this time.To me Drogba was the man today well done to all the team ::clap2::

Drogba for me!! was fantastic, but definetely the team work was immense, would like to see Studge be less selfish but apart from that a great team performance, the MDF 3 were great and the defence an absolute rock!! Loved it

Drogba fought as hard as possible. And he did that for AVB and for the club, i'm sure. No one can say that the players are not behind AVB, because in that case Didi wouldn't have fought. I loved this tonight. Great night.

This is incredibly difficult.

Drogba is the easy one, today reminded us why for a number of seasons we had the best striker in the world. Long may it continue.

Romea was immense as well, always finds a man with his pass (or header) knows when to put his foot through it or when to keep it ticking over.

Marelis controlled the midfield, dont think he gave the ball away and made the passes that we have sooooo been lacking and actually im going to say it... Modric who?

And then we have Ivan the great or Ivan the horrible as most attacking players would probably call him, this guy is such a competitor just hates to loose so much,

I have given it to marelis Just he added that bit of silk to our midfield that we really do lack some times

That was something like Oriol's fifth first team game, for both us and Barca.

Frightening.

Drogba, hands down. I saw him beat away 3 defenders at once for a chance. I was thinking "we are going to have a hell of a job on our ahnds trying to replace him." Even the argument that we need slow measured build up to suit Drogba, and that's why Frank needs to be in the side, were thrown out the window tonight. He was everywhere, scoring, defending, setting things up, there is no other striker like him.

Put it this way, we will need to change our play when Drogba does in fact leave.

Scott

I should also mention, complete honourable mention to all the midfield three. Very fluid and Romeu is a true gem. The way we moved the ball about coming out of defence and leading into attack was impressive, and Mereiles was everywhere even after the change in formation late on.

DIDIER DROGBA - what else can I say?

didier...I still say we should get rid...in a couple of years!!

Drogba by a country mile

Drogba, just turned back the clock 3 or 4 seasons with tonight's performance, hope he can keep this form over the Christmas period, despite watching him do nothing special this season until his brace & assist this evening - I feel really bad about calling for him to be shipped out in the summer now, hope he continues to keep the egg on my face

Drogba. Two goals and one assitence.

Romeu (again) for me, the lad is class & so calm on the ball. Obviously Drogba had a great game too. I thought Ramires was brilliant for the time he played well.

Drogba was absolutely immense, as JT pointed out in the post-match interview. A distant second was Ramires for me.

Drogba would of got it for the first 30 minutes alone!