Where are You Guys????

Oh My God!!!!! Another defeat at the Bridge and that too at the hands of, let me get some fresh air, at the hands of Arsenal.

Gulp!

Only positive being that Gallas wasn't their captain this time and none other that Van Persie scores a brace. But seriously,what is the deal with you guys? Are you too much impressed by the Indian mythology and treating your visitors with utter respect? "If somebody comes to your home, greet 'em with open arms and give them the best gift that you can." No! Quit it. Its good for India only. 86 straight games unbeaten at the Bridge and then, 12 points dropped including two defeats at the same place and none dropped away. Thats so not like Chelsea. Give it a break soon enough or we'll have to regret it. Last season in these three big matches against ManU, Arsenal & Pool we got 7 out of 9 points at home and away from home we didn't get a single point. Well, maybe we're too good to our visitors but I don't think its an easy task to take away any points away while you're playing at Anfield or Old Trafford. It going to cost us dearly.

Its hard to blame bad results at anyone in particular but as always, I'd say that luck is not favouring chelsea this time too. Tell me which club gets so many injuries? I don't think there is any club which is fighting with so many injuries to key players for such long time. Well the list of injured players is so long but there are four players that are so badly missed at this time that you can't just stop calling out loud. Where are you guys?

Ricardo Carvalho: Oh yeah. The player that is missed the most is our unsung hero Riccy. He might not get that much plaudits in the presence of the skipper by the fans but he certainly does a lot more than just complementing JT. The shape that he gives to backline is another thing, most importantly for a defender; he does not commit mistakes and have never been caught out of position in his whole career. His technique, well I must say is flawless. You don't expect him to wrestle out with forwards at the age of 31 and he doesn't. He never needs to do that. And if he ever needs, why is JT? Only to carry out the wrestling and motivating assignment I guess! How many times do we see him covering up the mistakes in midfield or by our fullbacks(or dummy forwards I shall say), how many times do we see him getting Cech out of the jail. I don't know much of the adjectives, but he is something more than just very very important and we need him back very very very soon if we're to get our season back on track.

Michael Essien: The best midfielder of Europe as my bro keeps suggesting me time and again, is, is, is.... am not kiding, he indeed is out with an injury. Well you don't expect someone like Drogba and Essien to be missing out on injuries. They're just too strong for that.But as we know, he is missing and what Chelsea is missing? That commanding figure that guards the back four and more importantly the monster that he is in and around the opponent's box. Mikel is not bad for that position but all he can do is distribute the ball to the four guys before him and thats it. Playing some half a million passes sitting in the circle is not what's needed at this point of time I guess. Someone who has got some thunderous strikes in his pocket to create everything out of nothing, someone who has got some brilliant killer balls to feed to your strikers, someone who has got bags of pace to get back to defend from any position in time, someone who has got the power to wrestle with a bull and hold down players in EPL; such a player is needed. Google it. One results found; Michael Essien. He's got to be back soon or I guess we'll have to do with the feeble attempts of Mikel, who, as Andy Gray suggested, always shoots when he's got a knife on his throat and that too nearing the corner flag rather than the posts.

Joe Cole: My personal favourite. His importance can't be stressed any more now. For me he is the best winger in England after that gay guy(he's gay but anyways a good player). We just can't do without him. This is the only area where we don't have enough players to play. If he goes out, I don't think Salomoun Kalou is the answer to that, rather I don't think he's the answer to any position right now. We need someone to whom great Bosingwa can pass the ball with full confidence that he won't loose the ball. He's one of the only players such as Lampard who rarely loose possesion in midfield or play a wrong pass. And more than that, he's not that interested in shooting as long as he can see a better pass to play to and even more importantly, he can finish excuisitely when required. He matches the likes of Lamps in terms of finishing and we need that desperately easpecially with this Chritmas tree formation and with Malouda wasting more than 4-5 clear scoring chances per match.We need a winger who can finish. Kalou can do that but he can't do anything else than that with such accuracy. The croses that Joe plays in, most of them have Goal written all over it and also he's one of the rare players in Chelsea side who forms a great parnership with Anelka(I must not talk about Anelka at any point of my life). Get well soon Joe.

The Drog: Here comes he. No matter how much chelsea fans hate him for a month or so, he comes back, takes you to a win from a goal or two down and we forget everything that he has done. Thats the story of Great Didier Drogba. Not a lot of people might agree with me over the importance of Drogba as Anelka seems to fill his boots quite reasonably but just take a look at the number of chances that has fallen to Anelka. Give Drog that many chances and he'll ceratinly score more than twice of what Anelka has scored with those chances. However good Anelka maybe, I'll never forget his miss against ManU and however bad Drogba maybe, I'll never forget his two goals against Arsenal and Pool last season and the Upright of the CL's final last season. He was just an inch away from becoming the legend of Chelsea that night and ended up becoming...... Whatever that maybe, the truth is that we need him right now to get back to the old scoring style that we're missing so terribly right now. The style of scoring in the dying moments of the game. We haven't done that this season. No goals after 80 minutes this season. What if you're just a goal ahead and someone scores a goal in 80th minute. Only one man in Chelsea can score then. Now if we need to score, we'll have to play about 30 passes before we can find any opening and playing 30 passes in last 10 minutes is so not possible. What if we play a single ball forward to Drogba and he wins the header for us and Lampard covers it up and somebody then wraps it up. So simple and so like Chelsea. The efficient Chelsea. The team that was able to score at its will. I don't need sophisticated football. I need wins no matter how they come. And I know getting back Drog is one of the very confident moves to do that.