Well the 1st Champions League match between Atletico Madrid and Chelsea at the Vicente Calderón Stadium on Tuesday night was a tight tactical affair which arguable Jose Mourinho took a slight advantage home to London with him thanks to the Blues’ disciplined, defensive performance which stifled the Madrid attack and starved the Spaniards of so few chances on the Chelsea goal and despite Mark Schwarzer was forced to come on to replace the excellent Petr Cech in early in the 1st half, the Australian keeper played his part and kept a clean sheet and also JT was lost to injury late in the game and might only make the CL final if we make it.
The bad news, according to TEAMtalk is that Jose Mourinho, Rui Faria and Ramires have all been charged with misconduct by the powers that be at the FA. Mourinho has been changed with answering the comments he made after he endured his 1st loss in 78 games – dropping his home record to 77-1 in the League at Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho’s, assistant coach Faria was banished to the stands after losing the plot and almost attacking the match officials after Sunderland’s late winner which left the linesman and 4th official no option but to see him removed well away from the field of play after his “emotional explosion”.
Mourinho really had to forcefully drag Faria away from fourth official Phil Dowd as the assistant coach Faria was well out of order and certainly over-reacted, I would be surprised if he does not face at least a fine and maybe more.
The last of the Chelsea transgressors was Ramires who is being quite rightly charged with violent conduct for appearing to strike Sebastian Larsson with a flailing arm to the face – an act which was a childish, violent over-reaction and the Brazilian should know better and needs to eradicate this foolish petulant streak from his game before it starts to cost him more money and more importantly positions in important games as Jose will start to lose faith in him.
Referee Mike Dean took no action at the time as he was it was blocked from his view but FA disciplinary officials have reviewed the footage and he now faces retrospective punishment. Suspensions which the Blues could definitely do without!