Chelsea 2 - 0 Hull City: A job well done?

Chelsea finally opened the scoring through Oscar after once again, Chelsea’s movement off the ball unlocked the door. Eden Hazard played the ball wide left, held off the challenge and came back inside. At this point, De Bruyne had come off the right wing and inside to the edge of the box. Hazard spotted his run and played the ball square to him.

Oscar opened the scoring against Hull

As this happened, Oscar who had drifted towards Hazard, made a move in between the defenders and towards goal. De Bruyne spotted his run and slotted the ball through the defenders legs and onto the run of Oscar. Through on goal, Oscar managed to poke the ball under McGregor as he came off of his line, to make it 1-0 after some fantastic interplay.

Now as we all know, Frank Lampard would have been critical of himself for missing the penalty earlier on but that never deterred him from adding his name to the scoresheet. Fernando Torres went over after a “challenge” from the defender around 35 yards from goal (even though replays showed he dived) and Lampard stepped up to smack a fierce drive that moved in the air, beating the keeper all ends up to make it 2-0.

Chelsea were in total control now and you thought at the time we would go on and score three or four but it never happened. Chelsea created some more chances in the first half and McGregor made two more outstanding saves to deny Lampard and Ivanovic right on half time as he first blocked his header and then parried the ball off the line and clear of danger.

The second half started and you expected Chelsea to dominate the game and score more goals but as stated already, with the game virtually won, we took our foot off the gas and played in second or even third gear.

We created a couple of half chances and Frank Lampard blasted another free kick wide but nothing of real note again.

During the second half it was good to see the introduction of Andre Schurrle, Romelu Lukaku and Marko Van Ginkel with the game won. It was a nice touch from Mourinho as it gave them all a run out to sample the atmosphere at the Bridge.

Of course we would have liked to see Chelsea go for broke in the second half but with Aston Villa visiting the Bridge on Wednesday, after their impressive performance and result at “The Arsenal” on Saturday, you can’t blame the team for going easy.

At the end of the day a win is a win. Three solid points on the board ahead of a busy week as the Premier League gets back into full swing.

It was a fantastic atmosphere yesterday as we celebrated Jose’s return and the beginning of Abramovich’s tenth season in charge.

What did you think of the team selection, performance and the result?

Carefree & KTBFFH!