Mourinho and Hazard Show Why Chelsea are Favorites for Title in Thriller against Sunderland

I said it before a ball was kicked. Chelsea may not have the ideal squad or that great striker, but I picked them as favorites to win the Premiership. What you all need to realize is that their star player is not on the pitch. He has a shaved head, is very animated and does NOT like to lose. That man is Mourinho, and rest assured, he will bring back the title to West London. Again, this could have been a match Chelsea would have lost or drawn but with the help of Hazard and Mourinho's constant guiding and coaching on the sidelines, Chelsea showed the kind of CHARACTER needed to last out the marathon that is a season.

Hazard showed against Sunderland why he is one of the best young players in the world. At such a young age, the kid's got SKILLS. There are just some players who just have that old-school natural ability, that raw talent of FOOTBALL. Hazard had that, and put on an individual performance that helped to crush Sunderland. When you have a player that can dribble, is confident on the ball and can take on any defender, it puts your team just that bit ahead of others. DRIBBLERS ARE PARAMOUNT AND ESSENTIAL TO ANY FOOTBALL TEAM. That is a fact, and you need to accept that for those who frown on that skill and think just passing your way around a defensively disciplined team will actually do the trick.
  Chelsea showed they can win pretty but these are the games that I look at. When you are a goal down, things are not going your way, you need a player to take charge of the situation and start making things happen. It's the ONLY way your team gets back in the game if the other team is beating you down. A lot of applause must be given to how Poyet's team went into the lead and fought back in the game and fought Chelsea all the way. If Poyet can get the best out of Altidore and Giaccherini, then they should just about make it out of that dogfight.

Just when Arsenal thought they could extend that lead, Chelsea keep refusing to let up. These are the kinds of matches where the real men with cojones are made. I told you, I don't give three cats about a team winning by five and destroying a team. This was a match that Chelsea should have slipped up on. It's a match that I don't think Arsenal would have been able to dig deep enough to take something from. Somehow, like a few times already this season, Chelsea have come from the brink to WIN, not draw, but to take MAXIMUM CANDY. You could even see the massive grin on Mourinho's face after that match. He knew it was a great game they were victorious in and he senses Chelsea finally hitting their stride.

The problem of a proven striker won't go away. Mourinho will be looking to address that in January and he knows that they are a proven finisher away from REALLY being an unbeatable team.
  Torres put in a few misses and has shown that he is not yet consistently back. I for one have given up hope on him. You can't just play well and score in one match then go ahead to miss open goals in two other matches. That just can't work in my temple.
  Even without a great finisher, Hazard has shown that he and the other midfielders can step right up and deliver the goods when needed for Chelsea to succeed. The danger however, and Mourinho knows this, is that midfielders CANNOT be relied upon to give you twenty g's a season and Lampard is no longer that goalscoring midfielder. So Jose can be happy that they still have Arsenal in their sights, but will be adamant in getting his Portuguese claws on a new Drogba that can finish off teams a lot earlier.



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