Ten Out of Ten??


I Got Two Babe

By 40 Years A Blue
October 22 2005

Chelsea travel to Goodison Park on Sunday to face a struggling Everton side and go looking for a tenth straight Premiership victory and more goals after their 4-1 and 5-1 Premiership wins over Liverpool and Bolton respectively.

Its amazing how words spoken by our manager seem to get misinterpreted by the media once again. Jose said in his pre match build up that he was worried about playing Everton. Everton immediately jumped on the bandwagon and said that Jose was 'scared.' We will see who is 'scared' after tomorrow.

In fact what Jose was doing, if you read between the lines, was building up the opposition in this case Everton and it seems Jose has done the motivational trick on the Everton players, without David Moyes having to do anything. In fact Jose does it for every game for every opponent. Recent proof in the pudding was the CL game against Betis. Jose said they were dangerous and would provide a serious threat to Chelsea. What happened? Chelsea 4-0 Real Betis.

Last Saturday Jose said that Bolton would be difficult to break-down because they were so organised. What happened? Chelsea 5-1 Bolton. Jose does it every-time and it seems that every player on every team falls for it, to the extent that their ego's become highly inflated and they get side-tracked that they are better players than they really are.

Expect the unexpected I say and the unexpected could happen tomorrow at Goodison. Although Chelsea are clear leaders and defending Champions, I still live on the two words that I was introduced to a couple of years ago. GLORIOUS UNPREDICTABILITY. After all this is Chelsea Football Club.

Unlike the media, critics, fans across the World who believe that Chelsea will go unbeaten throughout this season I don't think it will happen. An unbeaten season has already been acheived by the men in Red over in North London and it was an incredible acheivement, whether it can happen again - who knows?

And with every game Chelsea play, especially now that it has been over a year since they tasted defeat against Man City last October another defeat could happen anytime!!

Everton are there for the taking. Make no bones about it. Three points from eight games and one goal to show for it all. The tide has got to turn for them sometime and as Jose said "I can't see Everton getting relegated, but I can't see them getting into the Champions League."

Last season on their way to the title, Chelsea beat Everton twice 1-0.

Head to Head at Goodison Park

Everton have won 34

Chelsea have won 14

Draws 21

Everton have scored 147

Chelsea have scored 88

Chelsea have won on their last three visits to Goodison Park 1-0, 1-0, 3-1

Although Didier Drogba went off at half-time against Betis on Wednesday night, Jose is confident that he will be fit to face the 'Toffeemen.'

So lets go with this prediction:

Cech, Ferreira, Gallas, Terry, Del Horno, Makelele, Essien, Lampard, Wright-Phillips, Drogba, Robben

There will be latest news and score updates on the message board from 3pm on Sunday

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