Match Reaction vs Palace (home).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Happy we won but it was a very lucky goal from Giroud and not world class.

Agree we should score more but its been that way for over 10 years now.

It was a phenomenal goal, not many players will even try to attempt it.

[Marc Overmars]

It might not always happen for Giroud, but he's always had the audacity to try something ridiculous.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

One of the best goals I've ever seen in my life live or otherwise. Souness and Carragher were desperate not to explicitly praise it oddly.

[Letters]

I remember having this argument years ago when the internet was a mere toddler over the "Nayim from the half way line" goal.
I think the conclusion was it was a mixture of luck and skill.
Giroud could do that 100 times and score one, I'd do it a million times and never score, or I wouldn't even think to try it in the first place.

Good win and important one. Were Chelsea not going mental we'd be closer to the top than we are.

[Maestro]

How was Gabriel's performance today and was he really tested by Benteke?

[Chippy]

I remember having this argument years ago when the internet was a mere toddler over the "Nayim from the half way line" goal.
I think the conclusion was it was a mixture of luck and skill.
Giroud could do that 100 times and score one, I'd do it a million times and never score, or I wouldn't even think to try it in the first place.

Good win and important one. Were Chelsea not going mental we'd be closer to the top than we are.

Chelsea are doing well but don't forget we bottled it against Everton and Man City. That is also why we are so far behind. We will fuck up in the next tricky match, nothing will change.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I remember having this argument years ago when the internet was a mere toddler over the "Nayim from the half way line" goal.
I think the conclusion was it was a mixture of luck and skill.
Giroud could do that 100 times and score one, I'd do it a million times and never score, or I wouldn't even think to try it in the first place.

Good win and important one. Were Chelsea not going mental we'd be closer to the top than we are.

I'd have thought to do it as the little git Sanchez did put it behind him.....but like you I don't conceive of how it would have actually gone in in a million attempts, especially off the cross bar.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Gabs was barely noticeable in a good way and I actually think he was really good against Everton and good against City.

[Letters]

Chelsea are doing well but don't forget we bottled it against Everton and Man City. That is also why we are so far behind. We will fuck up in the next tricky match, nothing will change.

But we didn't 'bottle it' today or Boxing Day when everyone else had won. Had we dropped points today I'm sure people would be saying we bottled it.
The Everton and City games are where we fell behind and that's not good enough but Chelsea are close to equalling our record run of 14 wins in a row and no-one is keeping up with them right now.

[Ernesto]

I think when I try and decide whether it was luck or skill, two overwhelming factors favour skill for me.

Firstly, the sheer audacity to be able to do that on a football pitch, with the full knowledge that your team mates and the fans could be on your back if you don't pull it off (even if it is the 20th minute and you're at 0-0), shows that Giroud had the confidence to want to score from there, from that angle.

Furthermore, the slow motion camera shows Girouds eyes, Bergkamp like (against Newcastle), turn and face the goal as soon as he'd made contact. He knew what he wanted to do the second the ball left Alexis foot.