my personal viwes re .The match between Burnley against Chelsea .

[davemanu2000]

The match was shown live in Mauritius . Being a very rainy day ,majority of us stayed at home and watched the interesting match . My personal views are as under :
1. It was a high profile match.
2. The expectations of the public was high .
3. Many Mauritians of the new generation hardly know Burnley and may have watched a very handful of matches in view that we always see more the London or lancashire clubs .
4. Chelsea were superior to Burnley only for the first 15 minutes where they scored a goal .
5. The new player of Burnley levelled with a fantastic goal . The Chelsea GK accepted that only his fingers touched the ball but the ball was very wisely struck .
6. The home players could not retain the balls for long .
7. Passing of balls was not of a good standard .
8. Too easily they lost of balls . Hardly they could recover a ball from their adversaries .
9 , Except for the first 15 minutes , Burnley could deal successfully with all their attacking balls . For the rest of the match the defence was sublime .
10. Our forwards were poor in handling the balls . They had their chances to score the winning goal but their strike force was too weak to overtake the opposing GK .
11. It is usually said that building of a strong team start with the defence . Burnley did it perfectly .
12. The midfield was good . Most of the time the players were in the defensive .
13. Our Gk was imperial . He was not to be blamed for the goal .
14. Burnley have gathered momentum for the high team fighting spirits which other clubs have not .
15 . With the actual squad of players ,they may improve . Winning away matches is not far .
16. If the squad continues along that line ,nobody will be amazed if they will be among the first five or six best clubs of the Premier League .
17 . Congratulation to the great Manager ,the coaching staff ,the players and the last not the least the driving voices of the fans crying at the topmost of their voices : COME ON BURNLEY .18 . Jai Ho!! Burnley . Long live Burnley .

[Lowbankclaret]

if we had a Defoe we would have won.

[davemanu2000]

I do agree with you . Defoe is a great striker despite of his advancing age .

[Belgianclaret]

Can you summarize that for me please Dave

[MACCA]

Don't tell the truth Dave, people of this board may try and abuse you or worse...