What a superb performance and an all round great team one.

But special mention to Lamps...he does love this fixture. Azpi, Mikel, Brani and Oscar deserve a mention as well. Oscar just never stops running, his work rate is just ridiculous!

And with Everton, Liverpool and Utd dropping points and Spurs getting absolutely battered, it's been a good weekend!

Played really well maybe as good as we have played for awhile now.

Maybe should have gone on and racked up a City/Spurs like score line but hay cannot have everything.

We are slowly getting there and at the right time.

Did i hear the West Ham fans chanting racist taunts at Frank Lampard pretty much all game?

What is going to be done about it?

Who cares?

Let that mob sing/chant (not that they did much of that during the game).

They will always enjoy giving Fat Frank abuse (they did when he played FOR them) and he will always enjoy ramming his goals down their necks even more so.

Am sure they will enjoy sitting in their half empty new ground (selling tickets on the gate for their biggest game of the season)

West Ham will be back where they belong soon enough, down in the Championship.

Torres has returned to the squad for the Basel trip, Luiz is ruled out though with a knee injury.

Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Oscar, Willian; Eto'o

Subs: Schwarzer, Cole, Mata, De Bruyne, Hazard, Schurrle, Torres

Terrible start what are they doing

Basel are an underrated side and are looking very good tonight, a real dark horse. If we can get a result here we will have done very well, even a draw would be decent IMO

Not good at all so far. Thank f**k for Cech!

Dismal. Not even mustered so much as a shot in anger yet.

Terrible half of football.
Don't know what we would do without Chec.
And now Eto'o injured.
Need to pull ourselves together big time in the second half.

Poor stuff so far. Surely it can only get better.

We haven't settled at all, fair play to Basel that's largely down to their tactics and tempo.
I can't see Basel keeping up the high tempo, pressing game for another 45 minutes. Get the ball down, push it around and play some possession football, that's what I'd like to see. Easier said than done though.

It would be a typical Jose style performance if we were to nick a goal despite playing so poorly, in the past it was that winning mentality despite playing badly that got us all the silverware under Jose.

It would be a typical Jose style performance if we were to nick a goal despite playing so poorly, in the past it was that winning mentality despite playing badly that got us all the silverware under Jose.

Cech aside, I don't think anyone is coming out of this match looking good.

edit: Totally deserved that.

Sucker punch

could see that coming a mile away.

No shots on target

It's not really a sucker punch if the opposition have completely dominated you all game.

Ivanovic was awful there, terrible defending.

Well, a win against Bucharest at home and we are still through right? thats all that matters. Bucharest also drawing against Schalke right now which plays into our hands also.

Edit: we are actually through already, not sure if a win will guarentee us top spot though.

Well, we're through. Utterly pathetic performance though....such a disappointment after playing so well on Saturday. Guess it just goes to show how bad Spam really are.

That was a shocker.

Really awful performance, not one shot on target the whole match.
Not to take away from Basel they wanted it more than us.

Al least we have qualified for the knock-out stages.

You can only wonder what Mata was thinking whilst sat on the bench watching that dross tonight.

Were really struggling to put in a string of good performances.