Your team are quite good at containing.

Be interesting to see what'll you do against Citeh in Feb.

I will take that. Arsenal fans can call us boring all they like, but we are the team that created the most chances and if we ever learn to be more ruthless we will be on to something great.

Anyone who wants us to win the league playing like this is not a true fan of football!
Tedious shite like this will only drive fans away in the longterm.

It's becoming almost embarrassing to see a team have so much money spent on it being reduced to this. Sam Alladyce couldn't make us anymore boring!
I cannot believe Roman will tolerate this for too much longer!

Happy with a point in atrocious conditions.

More solid, but f**k-all going forward. No matter how many shots the stats say we had I never believed we were going to score.

A point would be good if I saw Arsenal as serious title contenders, but I don't. Like with the United game our opponents were there for the taking, but we played on reputation rather than based on what was in front of us.

Yeah right. We could play pretty football like Swansea and end up fighting relegation.
Arsenal are supposed to be a "footballing side" according to the pundits, but we still ended up creating more chances, and more shots on target. If we had a Suarez or an Aguero, we would be romping away with the Premiership.

Or how about a Rooney?

Are you paying the price for spending too long trying to sign him in the summer, and not having a plan B, then rushing to get Eto'o, who hasn't really done that much since he signed for you?

Possibly Bats. I think Jose thought he had him.

I doubt you would have called that boring if we had taken our chances.

Yes, I think you're right there. To be honest, I think we handled the whole deal (or attempted deal) badly.
We tried to get him on the cheap instead of going in with a sensible offer from the start. That understandably annoyed United, making them determined not to sell, and things just dragged on and on throughout the summer.

I compare it to how we were with Cesc, we thought that we could get him, made a low ball offer, then were left to scramble and buy Fellaini.

Both clubs are seeing what a poor summer window can do to a season.

Yes, though many of us thought Fellaini would be the answer to our problems at Chelsea. Strange how it's turned out really, I was envious when you signed him, but so far he's not found the form of 12/18 months ago.

Of course MOTD were going to side with Arsenal over the Mikel and Arteta challenge. They both dived in for the ball at the same time, they both got the ball, Arteta got more of it, but still they both went in 50/50.

And Danny Murphy is an idiot. He says he could see it in Mikels eyes that he wanted to do more than just get the ball........what the hell is he on about ?

See it in his eyes ? I've heard it all now. But then again, Danny Murphy has never been the sharpest tool in the box, has he ?

Arsenal were ever bit as turgid as we were, but they've gone off the boil at the mo.
My point is Jose really doesn't give a toss about quality football.
He'd be quite happy to see us become the most boring team in the world if it meant us winning the league. It wont bother him that already neutrals and those in the media are already calling us out.
It wont bother him that Chelsea played in front of 20,000 at Sunderland.
It wont bother him if the Chelsea away support goes back to the often embarrassingly poor numbers that followed the team when he was in charge.
Jose, nor his teams are a draw. They are a turn off for all but some hardcore home fans.

Well, I never considered us boring when Mourinho was the manager previously, so it's difficult to argue against your opinion. I enjoy watching good football, but that to me includes every aspect of the game. People used to say Italian football was boring, but it was just very technical. Players with great levels of skill who knew how to play a percentage game. I used to enjoy watching that once in a while, though the English game was admittedly more exciting.
Basically, good players will always play good football. I can't imagine we will ever see the day when Chelsea just resort to lumping the ball upfield to some lamppost CF, but there are probably fans who would find that exciting.

I diddnt think we were that bad, in the first half we were definitely on top and looking likely to score. They came back into it in the second half and by the end were on top of us, Jose made subs to defend a 0-0 which im not 100% sure i agreed with.

Nevermind, a draw isnt a terrible result and its good we kept a clean sheet. But i still think the game was there for us to win but Jose was more concerned about not losing rather than winning.

Also i still think a top striker is what we are missing really. I dont think any of the 3 strikers we have are good enough. We would walk this league if we had a RVP / Rooney / Aguero / Suarez sadly. Why Jose settled on Eto'o in the summer ill never know.

Yes, I agree with every word of that.
I've never understood this "boring football" stuff. I've never left a game saying..we won, but it was so boring. I've equally never left a game saying..pity we lost, but it was very exciting. As a fan, all I care about is the result. As a neutral it's different, but I can still appreciate a hard fought, goalless draw.

We started to get a bit boring towards the end of Mourinho's third season, but we were fantastic in both season we won the league under him. Madrid didn't do too badly entertainment-wise, either.

I can see the logic in going for a hard-fought draw when your opponents are playing well, but twice this season we've settled for 1 point when all 3 were there for the taking. I find that frustrating, but I suppose it's understandable when you have no strikers and a leaky defence. Something has to be done about our spine in January - at least 1 player needs to come in and improve either attack or defence. Matic seems likely....would prefer him to the other guy.

The tactics (a dirty word I know as well should play 8-1-1) were spot on to play a team like Arsenal, and with another 5% more quality and 3% more luck we would have won that game.

We had to get at least a point 0 points at this point would have been a disaster and that was how we set our stall out, Yes we could have gone all gung ho in the end and just as easy let one in then score one, This is not Hollywood where "fortune favours the brave".

We dont have the quality at the moment to turn these types of games from a draw to a win so we have to do the next best thing, We have to ensure these draws dont turn in to losses. While yes we have played games when the other team where there for the taking but on the same hand, We was there for the taking as well.

Xmas week 2 points from the 1st at anypoint during the last 2 seasons would have been greeted with naked dancing down the Fulham Road while singing "I wanna be a Chelsea Ranger", Now we can either take that as a sign of how much we have improved or as a sign of how crap we have been for two season, Either way its a improvement and the only teams that improved that much this season I would say are Arsenal and Liverpool, Not bad company to be in

Exactly. We did a job last night, it's not in our brief to supply entertainment for Sky..though sometime in the future that wouldn't surprise me.
Man City play Liverpool on boxing day, Arsenal are away to West Ham. We have a winnable game at home to Swansea. If things go our way, we will be back to 2nd.
Then we have a couple of tough games, Liverpool at home and Southamton away. Man City have an easy couple of games at the same time. It's not going to be easy, I can see Man City pulling away in the new year, we have to try to stay with them. But it's not a time to throw caution to the wind in an effort to " entertain".

Yes, Man City are still the team to be most concerned about. I'd be happy if Liverpool beat them on Boxing Day, then we beat Liverpool on Sunday.

As for last night, if we win our two upcoming home games then we can look upon it as a decent point.

So you'd rather we'd lost 6-0?

If it gets the job done it's fine by me.

I am quite happy to play entertaining football when we are good enough to and when it wont cost us points,

Yes in the perfect world we should be at that stage by now but we are not, Its not use liking in a "should be" world as if we are, I should be going home to Kelly Brook and Kylie instead of going home to wrap xmas presents

Agree with most of the posters in that last night was there for the taking but better to come away with a point than none at all.
Also great to see a comfortable clean sheet.

Just want to wish all my fellow Chelsea Fans a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.