After going five games unbeaten, many Stoke fans began to believe Stoke were unbeatable. Even betting that they could pick up a win against Chelsea, despite their 76 game unbeaten run under Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge.
Needless to say yesterday’s game was not what was expected, having never taken any points from Stamford Bridge in their Premier League career and only scoring the one goal (Rory Delaps) most optimistic fans knew that it wouldn’t be an easy feat.
Doing the double over Chelsea, that was something I as a Stoke fan thought I would never hear and worse than that, I brought into it. I actually thought Stoke had a chance. Boy was I wrong. They were lucky to only lose by three goals, if not for the linesman it would have been four. Eric Pieters had a really bad game, Wilson Palacios was picked about Charlie Adam and Peter Odemwingie’s only real effort was an easy catch for Petr Cech.
Hopefully this was just a blip in what has so far been an incredible season for Stoke. The Potters still remain in 10th position with Newcastle at The Britannia Stadium on Saturday, before the trip to Cardiff to hook back up with Kenwyne Jones.
A home game against Tottenham ends April, in what could be the hardest of our remaining fixtures before the last home game of the season against Fulham and the curtain closer away to West Brom on May 11th. Out of all of these games the only unwinnable one is against Spurs and I still feel Stoke could take a point from them at Fortress Britannia.
Stoke fans all knew Chelsea wasn’t a winnable game before hand but all still hoped like they usually do. No one expected them to open the defence up as easily as they did and Stoke paid for it. Now the Potters mus dust themselves off and continue the way they always do. With four remaining games that are winnable and they could still manage their highest ever finish. Bring on Saturday.
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