For a few months, Chelsea(Blues) had experienced the worst slump staying fifth in the league since Roman Abramovich undertook so that it appeared they can’t obtain Champions league ticket given to the first fourth places in the league. However, the team has climbed to third, maintaining four league point gap with Arsenal - current second team. In addition, they succeed in advancing to the quater fianl of European Champions League. Since being pre-season favorites to win the championship, they were accused of their poor performance, which also brought Chelsea manager, Carlo Ancelotti, to the edge of replacement.
Chelsea’s unsatisfactory performance that started noticeably from the mid-season was due to reduced form of the key players, including Didier Drogba. Their basic play style was mainly to create space with the continuous movements of the whole players rather than to break the both sides of speedy wingers, and whenever Blues played against a powerful team good at pressure, they relied heavily on Drogba’s ablilty which enabled them to see good results in many competitions, whereas Blues have not had an outstanding mobility compared to other top-class teams. He is strong and fast physically. Also he has an outstanding goal decisiveness.
Along with his slump, Chelsea’s mid-line players like Essien and Lampard also showed disappointing performance recently, and what is worse Ivanovich and Ferreira could not fill the vacuum of defender line. Those factors made Blues being desperate to be in first fourth in the league.
To cope with such crises, Blues took contracts with Fernando Torres and David Luiz this January as an offender and defender. As a midfielder, they hired Ramires last summer, but he seemed to need an adjustment period, as South America players do especially in the English Premier league. Being without a goal, Torres also appeared not to satisfy Blues Fan’s appetite fully. But as true hero appear at a time of crisis, at a big showdown against Manchester teams Luiz’s superb performance bailed out Blues with two fantastic goals.
As the title of this particular column suggests, that Brazilian soccer player, David Luiz was an absolute monster. Contrary to his hapless Spanish teammate at the other end of the pitch, Luiz actually contributed. A lot.
Since he’s joined the Blues they’ve seemed like a different side. He’s brought an intense injection of energy and creativity that should have been brought by Fernando Torres. He tackles like John Terry, makes runs like Ashley Cole, stepovers like Florent Malouda. What else could you possibly ask for?
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