Stoke 1-1 CHELSEA: Review

Well, if Carlo Ancelotti regarded this as the first of nine finals, we probably shouldn’t worry too much about the next eight. Against a resilient Stoke side, we were lucky to come away with a draw in the end and that’s all credit to them. The fightback United mounted yesterday – something we might have done a few years back – wasn’t on the cards for us and once we’d gone a goal down and left ourselves everything to do, couldn’t actually do it.

Anyway, here’s what’s being said:

Football365 thought both sides sparkled in the draw

Teamtalk thought we were lucky to get away with a draw

The official CFC site think the result was tough but fair

The Express want to lay it on Luiz

FootballFanCast just give us it straight

And Goal.com bring us their player ratings