Now thats CHELSEA..RIP Liverpool

Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea

Pure Chelsea..I knew it'd happen..Todays was our Best Match and Best Performance of the season so far..Incredible..Two teams at their attacking bests..well and quite obviously our best was better than theirs hence the scoreline..ok now before I go on my customary routine of praising all the players I would like to pay special tribute to Guus Hiddink..He demonstrated Tactical Brilliance which quite clearly outfoxed Rafa..now with Essien having scored twice already after his comeback many would have wanted him to play infront and influence play but Hiddink had other Ideas..he put him on Gerrard..and now except for one poor shot scuffed wide I dont remember Gerrard having any worthwhile contribution to the game..See its quite obvious that Liverpool like to play around their two main men Gerrard and Torres..Hiddink knew that he wiped off Gerrard and Liverpool were in tatters...of course Essien deserves a lot of praise too..He played his role to perfection..afterall Steven Gerrard isnt a man you can mark and keep quiet with ease..Terry could have done a little better with Torres but still the goal we conceded was the entire backlines fault not just his own..today a lot of players played near their respective potentials..Malouda was the same Florent Malouda from Lyon..Ballack was much more better..infact Ballack produced two absolutely killer balls..one of which was wasted by Drogba and the other one which led to the third goal..The guy with the Black headgear was actually Petr Cech only..coming out jumping and claiming crosses before the opposition even knew..Kalou was a little quiet but whenever he got the ball he seemed to do well enough..Lampard was a little down from his usual best..but we all know who the man was for us anyway..Brainslav Ivanovic!!..The Corner Lord..he took both his goals really well..now intially I was a bit skeptical about Mancienne not playing(instead of Alex with Ivanovic Centre Half) but Alex too like many others was much better than normal although he's still nowhere near Carvalho..Now John Terry got a yellow card..so he'll miss the second leg..but I guess its good..we're in a great position so I'd rather take the suspension now rather than the Semis..plus Carvalho should be back next week..ok now i know Drogba wasnt at his best yesterday so I'll not really say much about him..Basically I feel Liverpool had started to experience this new found self-belief after beating substandard teams like Real Madrid,Man Utd and Aston Villa..well Fulham gave them a jitter..and now I guess Rafa is already thinking of the BPL only..where he'll finish third no matter what happens..well unless Man Utd can beat even their level of low performances..

Now this simlpy means that Liverpool are out of the Champions League..not even by their standards can they score 3 goals at Stmdord Bridge..not with Hiddink at helm in any case..he's going to know perfectly what to do..this is why the home return leg has an advantage..now the intelligent will have noticed that I havent talked about Bayern vs Barcelona..and if you know what happened in the Nou Camp you wouldnt really blame me..Barca were better no doubt..and there too its more or less settled..we're getting a Chelsea Vs Barcelona Semi Final..Epic in the making..