Tottenham vs. Chelsea
Tottenham and Chelsea (away) played a thrilling game resulting in a 4-4 tie. Dider Drogba scored the opening goal which was soon matched by Jonathon Woodgate. Joe Cole and Michael Essien earned Chelsea the next two goals. One may have thought that Tottenham would be discouraged by the 3-1 score and by the 3 recent losses they suffered, but they must’ve thought about their victory against Chelsea last month. Tottenham was spurred on by their fans and finally Berbatov scored with Huddlestone following suite soon after. Joe Cole was consistently creative and showed his true potential; he scored a few minutes after Huddlestone as the game neared its end. Soon after however, Joe Cole was taken off, “We wanted to play more in midfield, have one more in midfield because we knew they would play a direct ball. We wanted to pass the ball better. That’s why we took him off.” said Grant. Keane proved to be the match hero for the Spurs once again as he scored the game tying goal in the 88th minute. Grant said that Chelsea’s weak point was set pieces, “In the last two games Tottenham have scored six against us and five were from set-pieces. It is unusual for us.”
Grant became defensive about having lost and now tied to Tottenham, and having lost to a Championship League team (Barnsley in 17th place) during the FA Cup. Every game in which we drop points is a big game,” said Grant. ‘If we won would it have been a big game? We lost against Barnsley and it became a big game. Every game we drop points is a big game.”
Chelsea could have tied Arsenal for points, who are only 3 behind Manchester United the league leaders.
We’re closer to Arsenal now than we were before,” Grant said. ‘We’ll be at home and we’ll come to fight to win the game.”