Sparta Prague 0-1 Chelsea: Fatty Gets Away With It.... Just!

Terrible, torture, turgid a complete yawnfest. That was Chelsea. Sparta were no better but they had an excuse, this was their first game since their winter break began two and a half months ago. Crying out for a bit of ‘magic’ or something better than what had already been seen, Fatty played his first sub card bringing on Benayoun for Marin. What?!? Yossi for Juan. How the hell does that work?

To be fair to fatty (only just), he didn’t have an awful lot to play with and as for a plan b, plan c or even plan d or just another plan please!!!!! There isn’t one. Fatty is totally inept.

Ba is cup-tied, Moses and Obi have just returned as African Champions and David Luiz was suspended plus 22 players are out on loan at various clubs throughout Europe.

Nine minutes from time, someone fed a penny into fatty’s head.

The penny dropped and with the clock ticking, Oscar came for Mata and Oscar made an immediate impact, ala Zola in the Cup Winners Cup final against Stuttgart, picking up the ball, playing a clever one-two with Hazard before slotting home inside the area into the bottom corner of the net.

There isn’t too much more to report unless you want to read about misplaced passes after misplaced passes.

Torres sadly, fluffed his lines on a couple of occasions until he ‘livened’ up when Oscar came on, which makes you wonder what would have happened if fatty had brought Oscar on earlier.

Prague’s ‘keeper Vaclik pulled off a flying save to deny Torres in the dying minutes, tipping the Spaniards shot high round the post.

Tomorrow (Friday) 15^th February 2013, the U18s continue their attempt to retain the FA Youth Cup with a home tie against Barnsley at Wheatsheaf Park, the home of Staines Town, K.O.7pm.

The game is being shown LIVE on Chelsea TV and there will be LIVE updates on the message board from 6.30pm with team news and anything else that happens.

On Wednesday 20^th February 2013, Chelsea are away to Barcelona in the NextGen series and subject to work commitments (the game kicks-off at 5pm), there will be LIVE updates on the message board.

Sparta Prague: Vaclik, Zapotocny, Svejdik, Holek, Hybs, Husbauer (Bednar 86), Vacha, Matejovsky, Kadlec, Lafata (Kweuke 75), Krejci (Pamic 80).

Booked: Husbauer 66

Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Bertrand, Ramires, Lampard, Marin (Benayoun 68), Mata (Oscar 81), Hazard, Torres.

Goal: Oscar 82

Booked: Cahill 40

NEXT UP: Brentford (H), FA Cup 4^th Round replay, Sunday 17^th February 2013, k.o. Midday

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