It was a good perofrmance by Roma. They deserved their easy victory.
It was another dire away performance by Chelsea in the CL. Creating little going forward and with several mistakes at the back. Pretty little triangles and sweeping cross field balls all look nice but are not always effective. We need our real hard men of the team back. Ballack, Drogba and Essien are not always pretty players, but they can drive teams with their power. Chelsea are missing this. Obviously we missed Carvalho and A Cole at the back as well.
Anyway, no excuses, Roma would of won anyway. It looked to me a case of what Tim Sheens would call "One team wanted to win and the other had to win". Chelsea looked complacent and lacked concentration. Still Roma were clinical and deserved to win by probably more then 2 goals.
There is no need to panic. We are still top of the group, although there will be serious alarm bells ringing if we lose in France in 3 weeks time. I Doubt it though, this seems to happen every group stage with Chelsea, We turn in a couple of turgid away efforts before winning the last couple and sailing through in top spot.
At the moment we are belting all the small teams but struggling badly against sides that offer us little space and play a counter attacking game. Scolari needs tot hink about his tactics and his use of substitutions.
Anyway im expecting us to win at Blackburn on Sunday and win in France in 3 weeks to stay top of both the PL and the CL Group.
