There's no way they'll go from 50% fitness to 100% in a week. He's got the plans for pre-season wrong. Our world cup lads started training a week or 10 days before theirs knowing they'd be about 80% for the CL qualifiers and 100% for the league game.
10. He had players in his squad who weren't at the world cup or were knocked out early who should have been at a higher level of fitness who he chose not to pick.
None of the Chelsea players did much apart from Shevchenko. Kalou produced a couple of flashes of skill and Essien worked hard and got his tackles in, but Robben, Lampard and Drogba were anonymous
Another "uncharacteristic" error from "JT", he's a fantastic player, one of the best CBs in the world, but he's not quite the rock he's made out to be, he lose s concentration from time to time.