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Manuel Friedrich headed home an injury-time winner as Bayer Leverkusen defeated Chelsea 2-1 at the Bay Arena and prove that Andre Villas-Boas’ Chelsea side are a team in crisis.
There is a virus sweeping through London at the moment. The origins of the virus are somewhat unknown although its undiscriminatory nature and effects are clear and can be seen by everyone.
They include most notably, a severe lack of self-confidence, a lack of an identity, the absence of direction, as well as an enveloping aura of confusion.
The virus first emerged in August and quickly gripped the youths of London as they proceeded to riot across the country’s capital as anger at a myriad array of detestable political decisions and frustrating social injustices exploded uncontrollably.
Having wreaked its havoc for a full three days, the virus then found a new host. A larger, more significant one at that; Tottenham Hotspurs football club.
Spurs were the first of the major victims of the emerging virus as their nailed-on victory for their start-of-the-season clash with Everton at White Hart Lane was cancelled.
There followed two extremely difficult tests against the Manchester giants which Harry Redknapp’s men failed miserably, the virus of course being a key reason as to why this was the case.
Having now shaken it off, the Premier League’s third placed side are now soaring with confidence, belief, conviction with a Herculean display of strength also in abundance.
The virus then moved a few miles down the Seven Sisters Road and inflicted Spurs’ near neighbours Arsenal who truly suffered in their attempt to conquer it.
Battles were waged, heavy defeats (such as that at Old Trafford) were painfully dished out from which the will, fortitude and qualities of the Gunners Commander In Chief Arsene Wenger were seriously questioned.
It took almost two months and non-stop besmirching from all angles of the media, as well as fans for Arsenal FC to finally find the anecdote to cure this most unwanted of virus. That anecdote began with R, the middle initial is V, and it ends in P.
Defeated by a flying Dutchman with a sweet left-foot and an even sweeter eye for conquering his opponents, the virus has made another move – this time to South-West London.
That the virus has found its new host in SW9 rather than, say, SW15 may be accidental, or it perhaps just be a dose of fate.
A quick reminder of the symptoms of the virus will leave few in any doubt as to the club in question here. Chelsea are quite simply racked by a lack of self-confidence, a lack of an identity, the absence of direction, as well as being enveloped in an aura of confusion.
Three successive defeats all in must win games and a young, inexperienced boss who is already begging not to be sacked does not bode well.
The virus has crippled a previously resolute Chelsea defence, given their first choice strikers in Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres a bad bout of Amnesia, caused senior players to go sour and eventually wither away (John Terry, Frank Lampard, Florent Malouda and Petr Cech), and to make matters worse, the virus appears to be getting harder to diagnose.
Blues fans be worried. The crisis virus is firmly within the team’s system and the longer it stays in there, the worse things will become.
As if that was not enough cause for concern enough, Chelsea fans and manager Andre Villas-Boas needs no reminder that trigger-happy owner Roman Abramovich will not hesitate to amputate another part of the body at the slightest whim if the Russian feels things will turn for the worse.
‘AVB’, you have been warned.
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