So happy

 

Edited March 18, 20179 yr by mojo

What a great result.  I think we limited them quite nicely, and even when they put us under some sustained pressure in the second half, I didn't feel uneasy.  The defending that Conte has this team doing is a joy to watch.  Luiz, who'd have thunk it?  He has been exemplary all season and could be in the running for POTY were it not for Kante.

 

That winner was the sort of scrappy goal you see the underdog scrape an upset with, very sweet end to a difficult match.

We're proving effective against pretty much every "style" our league opponents bring to the table. Very satisfying.

Now just hope this international break flies by!

The last time we looked this relentless was 2006.  Away to Stoke, infamous goons of the league.  A late winter chill in the air, gale winds, Hazard ruled out at the 11th hour - yet we grind out the 3 points in the dying minutes when we would have been forgiven for resting on the laurels of our 10 point cushion.  Conte has reforged this team with a cast iron spine, and imbued it with a steel blue soul. 

After that I'm beginning to get a sniff of something special this season.

33 minutes ago, Xfaxtor said:

So... is there any teoretical chance of us clinching the title at OT?

I have just scribbled out a rough idea and by my reckoning if we were to win all ours and City and Spurs were to lose all of theirs, by the end of the Manure game we would be 22 points clear with 21 points left to play for......

So, unlikely but wouldn't it be sweet!

I see a lot of people on this thread complaining about Stoke City's play, but what did we really expect? We knew coming in here that they would play their famous rugby style, however the ref let it go on - whoever that guy was sux

15 minutes ago, robdog said:

I see a lot of people on this thread complaining about Stoke City's play, but what did we really expect? We knew coming in here that they would play their famous rugby style, however the ref let it go on - whoever that guy was sux

agreed - and also a lot of people here gave some of our players a fair deal of criticism throughout the match. it was a dog fight, it almost always is against Stoke and when the opponent plays the game the way they do it can't be easy to produce your best

great result, we march on

 

Also I felt Alonso was amazing today. Excellent performance. Very important player for us.

Brilliant win tough place to go away, the young boys doing the business against the spuds too great start to the weekend, oh and Bardsley is a c**t. UTC.

 

I love this f**king club.

Massive goal from Cahill. Stoke are just a horrible club.

31 minutes ago, ashwin said:

Also I felt Alonso was amazing today. Excellent performance. Very important player for us.

shame he didn't score off that brilliantly taken free kick

So glad that Fabregas didn't get badly injured at the end. With the break now I hope everyone comes back injury free

how did luiz play? a lot of fans online saying he was motm. 

4 minutes ago, enigma said:

how did luiz play? a lot of fans online saying he was motm. 

Peerless 

2 hours ago, Xfaxtor said:

So... is there any teoretical chance of us clinching the title at OT?

Hope so I got a ticket would be awesome just to see Jose,s face lol

3 hours ago, Drogbaholic said:

Our new special one 

 

Cirque du Soleil are going to poach him 

Over the years the one major gripe i had was our mental stength late in games when losing or drawing, even our 04-10 lads couldn't crack it and i could be wrong but i think we got about 7-12 late (80 minute plus) winners and probably even less late equalizer's and it was infruariating. That's the one big mentality change Antonio has brought, 8 points this season alone have been won in the final 10 minutes (its likely only that little due to how much we are winning) and its the difference between us being miles ahead and this being a close race.

got us playing Italian

3 minutes ago, luckywerthers said:

got us playing Italian

He did something much better, got us winning again.

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Absolutely love a late winner like that, few better feelings in a football match!

I was on a train heading down to London from Sheffield when the match was on, had patchy wifi during the journey, checked at half-time and saw it was 1-1, then during the 2nd half was refreshing to check the score every 30 seconds practically, got so tense and frustrated! Then when I saw that Cahill got the winner I couldn't help but exclaim my delight and fist pump, got certain odd looks from some other passengers, didn't care though, when saw update for full time confirmed I was just buzzing, carefree!

Such an important win, credit to the players for showing that determination and persistence to never give up and get the three points, it is wins like this in difficult matches that are so key to winning the title! (Stoke away often seems to be one of those tricky ones, and we got away wins at Stoke in the title winning 2009-10 and 2014-15 seasons as well)

Just so happy we got the win after a tough match, fantastic feeling, I think every Chelsea fan's emotion today was expressed in the brilliant passionate celebration of Conte - KTBFFH and on to victory!