Please use this thread to comment on the match as it progresses.
UPDATE: The team selection is about as strange as you could have imagined:
Green
Spector Upson Gabbidon Daprella
Ilan Parker Kovac Behrami Dyer
Mido
But the bench isn’t bad!
Stech, Cole, McCarthy, Tomkins, Collison, Diamanti and Stanislas
To be quite honest, Malouda was just world class today. Hard to believe how badly he struggled when he first arrived at Chelsea.
hes only playin against spector id look world class against him
Not a bad performance all round despite the scoreline – despite Chelsea being the better teamsloppy defending has cost us again!!
Ilan off – Diamanti on
too late to make a difference
Should have been 4-1 – Lampard off the post!
4-1 Drogba
to be honest we have played well ….score line doesnt reflect the performance but zola is starting to be selfish the sooner we get rid !!! ilan instead of cole ………parker was a rock
get zola out he aint got a clue wot his doin
I'm not sure what to say really…The line up looked absurd but we came off at half time at 1-1 so who could complain about that? We just lost to a far better side in the second half. Chelsea are both physical and skilful who threw far too much at us to cope with. Any positives? At least none of the ex West Ham players scored and Gabbidon and Daprela showed that at least we have two more options at the back. Zola out? Maybe, but not based on todays performance.
Total mismatch today. There seems to be a gulf between us and some other premiership teams – sometimes class, sometimes skill, sometimes passion, sometimes all three.
We need to start finding each other more often when we're moving the ball. For heavens sake we're West Ham and the West Ham way is to pass the ball.
Man for man I think we had a good enough team today to do better job. A defeat against some teams somehow feels bitterly painful – I hate loosing to them (I can't bring myself to even write their name).
Let’s face it too many poor players being picked by a poor manager. Kovac, Spector, ilan, mido none of them are good enough and don’t be kidded by the half time scoreline we were as poor in the first half as we were in the second. The selection of the starting 11 was bizarre and other than deprella to make those changes was bizzare. If we do stay up the davids need to make a decision about Zola as he isn’t up to it. Other than burnley and Portsmouth all the other teams around us are either picking up points or playing well and we ain’t doing either. Next week will be even worse as chelski were poor today and scored four so god help us if the arse play a 50% capacity next week. Hold on fellow sufferors as the rest of the season ain’t gonna be pretty !