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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Turns The Ship Around
It’s hard to imagine how gloomy the situation would have been if Rafa Benitez wouldn’t have made the changed that he did early in the second half, and Chelsea wouldn’t have forced a replay. But Eden Hazard did come on, and Juan Mata did play wonderful football, and eventually, there were a few centimeters away from a huge win.
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Chelsea FC – Demba Ba Rises Above Managerial Hate
There’s nothing Rafa Benitez can do to end the hate and protest directed at him (for fear of the owner) but win a league title or the Champions League, but that won’t happen this season. All he can do is win matches and finish in the top 4, and with Demba Ba scoring again, that shouldn’t be too difficult of a task to accomplish.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Shines Again While Fernando Torres Keep Missing
There’s a good chance that if it was up to Fernando Torres, Chelsea would have been still looking for that equalizing goal. Instead, in a performance filled with chances but a lot of disappointing and bad football from the European champions, it was Eden Hazard, coming off the bench, that became the hero of the day.
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Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Makes All the Difference
For about 55 minutes, Juan Mata was denied space and freedom, and Chelsea looked like a team that might lose to a league one side in the FA Cup replay. But then he scored, and floodgates opened for Chelsea, and Mata helped Frank Lampard look better than he really is, and gave Rafa Benitez a few more days of relaxation.
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Chelsea FC – Oscar Hides the Terrible Fernando Torres
No matter how many chances he gets, it seems that anything Fernando Torres had going for him earlier this season and then again from time to time has almost been depleted, with both Eden Hazard and Juan Mata, despite countless tries, failing to make the broken Chelsea striker to work like before. Luckily, Oscar does have some football to overcome his physical adaptation to Europe.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Gets a Near Perfect Comeback
After becoming a villain in the minds of ball-boys across the United Kingdom, it was time for Eden Hazard to come back and do what he was brought for; play and score for Chelsea, and maybe even more for Rafa Benitez, who needed 3 points more than anyone would like to admit.
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Frank Lampard Continues to Get Lucky
If Chelsea do want to finally start some new era without the relics of the past, the wise thing would be to let go of Frank Lampard. Don’t let the goals distract you from the fact that Lampard hardly does anything on the pitch anymore, and his winning goal for England in the friendly match against Brazil doesn’t change his age or diminishing abilities.
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Don’t Mess With Swansea Ball Boys
The FA have charged Eden Hazard with improper violent conduct for kicking the Swansea ball boy in the Swansea – Chelsea Carling Cup Semifinal although in truths, by “real world” rules, nothing Hazard did was so inappropriate.
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Chelsea FC – Losing Eden Hazard to Pure Stupidity
Sometimes emotions get the best of people, and obviously football players. Eden Hazard killed off any chance Chelsea had of making a late comeback by simply not thinking, and his sending off for kicking a ball boy might have long term implication on the league as well, as the team lost another chance to win a title this season.
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Eden Hazard Kicks Ball Boy and is Sent Off
If it wasn’t bad enough that Chelsea were knocked out of the Carling Cup after a 0-0 draw against Swansea (lost 2-0 in the first leg), they lost Eden Hazard to a red card and probably for a very long time after the Belgian player kicked a ball boy while trying to retrieve a ball.