Dean Goddard tells us why Chelsea's defeat at Sunderland had been coming and how this year's Premier League's title is there for the taking...
Anybody who thought retaining the Barclays Premier League was a mere formality for reigning champions Chelsea need think again after Sunderland blew the title race wide open with an emphatic 3-0 victory at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
Form students can be forgiven for thinking three points were in the bag for the home side, when you consider that Steve Bruce's side were tasting victory away from home for the first time in the league this season.
Chelsea may point to the fact they had several key players missing including Michael Essien, Frank Lampard and perhaps more importantly captain John Terry, but that would be just making excuses for what was a truly woeful display.
Sunderland themselves had to make do without their top scorer Darren Bent, who is currently nursing a hamstring injury, but it was his replacement and club-record signing Asamoah Gyan who proved the chief architect in Chelsea's downfall.
The powerful Ghanaian star was a constant nuisance to Chelsea's makeshift centre-back pairing of Branislav Ivanovic and Paulo Ferreira, expertly finishing the second of his side's three goals and taking his own personal tally to six goals in all competitions for the Black Cats.
Rather worryingly for Chelsea's fans and backers was the fact that their own forward line never looked at the races on Sunday and after scoring twenty-one goals in their first five league matches, the Blues have now managed only one in their last three.
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Anybody who thought retaining the Barclays Premier League was a mere formality for reigning champions Chelsea need think again after Sunderland blew the title race wide open with an emphatic 3-0 victory at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
Form students can be forgiven for thinking three points were in the bag for the home side, when you consider that Steve Bruce's side were tasting victory away from home for the first time in the league this season.
Chelsea may point to the fact they had several key players missing including Michael Essien, Frank Lampard and perhaps more importantly captain John Terry, but that would be just making excuses for what was a truly woeful display.
Sunderland themselves had to make do without their top scorer Darren Bent, who is currently nursing a hamstring injury, but it was his replacement and club-record signing Asamoah Gyan who proved the chief architect in Chelsea's downfall.
The powerful Ghanaian star was a constant nuisance to Chelsea's makeshift centre-back pairing of Branislav Ivanovic and Paulo Ferreira, expertly finishing the second of his side's three goals and taking his own personal tally to six goals in all competitions for the Black Cats.
Rather worryingly for Chelsea's fans and backers was the fact that their own forward line never looked at the races on Sunday and after scoring twenty-one goals in their first five league matches, the Blues have now managed only one in their last three.
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