I know I know, we were poor

I would have voted Joe Cole for making some sort of difference when he came on. But after that. After throwing away our last remaining shot at the title like THAT .. and let's be honest about this, we've done the same thing again and again this season. Too often we've been lucky and got away with it. And tonight, not one of them gets my vote.

Joe Cole why oh why was he not on for the start

Chris Kirkland was good I thought, can't say the same for many Chelsea players though.

Essien for me. Played well and showed why he shouldn't be playing f*cking right back...

Which is where im sure he will be shunted again for the CL game.

Joe Cole.

Loz, you're great, but don't waste your time typing 'Malouda' into the options, Sheva deserves it more than him. As did Pizarro.

I went for Joye, but I thought Mikel had a really good game.

And for the record, Malouda didn't do one thing right tonight. He was wrong even breathing

Joe Cole.

Cole will win it as he normally does when he plays a game where he completes one successful pass , but tonight no doubt the man of the match was Essien.

Just think we could have been watching this match last Saturday !

Went for Essien, not because he scored, but because he was trying hard, fighting for the ball and generally being everywhere on the pitch (the opposite of a lot of others who were nowhere)

I thought Obi had a very good match. Also Essa and Joey.

Mikel was our best player comfortably.

Unfortunately Ballack didn't turn up and Essien was poor until the last half hour.

Joe had an immediate impact when he came on and was really determined but by the end he was dragged down like the rest of them. I'll be interested to see if he gets the same slagging for shooting selfishly that Drogba got the other day - I don't suppose so.

Anelka will have more chance of scoring if he gets somewhere near the goal.

essien...was everywhere for the whole game...if joe had been on for 90 he would have got it, but that's a certain a grant's fault...i don't think we played as badly as some have made out...boro was a lot worse than this...we had the chances but didn't take them...

I was there and I thought essien had a game in keeping with the majority of his season (and perhaps even the majority of his time with us as a central midfielder)... i.e. nondescript and pointless.

i went for mikel

alex was rock solid, essien was superb driving forward, and joe cole was excellent when he came on

but over the 90 mins mikel was solid, apart from 1 mistake he missed nothing

when people look at it most of the players had a good game last night...cech, bridge, jt, Alex, Essien, Mikel, Ballack, J cole (when he came on) and apart from failing to take chances - a big problem I know - Anelka did contribute to passing moves and attacks. we should have won that game...they didn't kill it off

KIRKLAND! KIRKLAND! KIRKLAND!

However, Essien for Chelsea.

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Heskey may have grabbed the headlines with his last-gasp leveller, but the Austrian centre-half was just as instrumental.

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