Madness !!!

It was indeed madness as Chelsea took on Everton at Goodison Park yesterday, nine goals in a premier league game, that rarely happens. Goodison Park is always a tough place to visit and come out with flying colors but Chelsea started off brilliantly, in fact brilliant is an understatement. Diego Costa who was reportedly injured started the match and scored in 36 seconds from a perfectly weighted pass from Cesc Fabregas, probably the signing of the season. Within a couple of minutes Ivanovic doubled the lead, well he can surely play as a striker (pun intended) if ever we need one it seems, brilliant in the opposition box. Everyone thought it was game over at that point only but credit must be given to Everton they didn't give up and even after going two down they came out all guns blazing troubling the Chelsea defense a lot, not many teams are able to do that against the best back four in the league. And ultimately their hard work did pay off right at the stroke of half time when Kevin Mirallas headed a ball beautifully past his international teammate. Conceding a goal at the brink of the interval surely didn't do any good for Chelsea, they started the second half slowly with Everton mounting on the pressure, although the first goal scoring chance of the second half did fall to Diego Costa, one on one against Howard, who should have been sent off in the first half itself. The referring was below par to be honest, definitely far below Premier League quality. The game was at a knife edge and tempers started flaring up, Fabregas & Mirallas, Costa & Coleman, things started to heat up and then came the mad period of the match, five goals in ten minutes, Chelsea went 3-1 up courtesy a Coleman own goal and immediately Everton replied with a goal from Naismith, Chelsea again scored through Nemanja Matic and immediately the former Chelsea man Samuel Eto'o narrowed the gap for Everton with virtually his first touch of the ball and within a minute Ramires again restored the two goal lead for the Londoners. Madness, it was sheer madness for those ten minutes of the game. Ultimately it was the man who started things off who finished it as well, Diego Costa scoring after a brilliant back heel pass from Mikel, can you believe it ? Mikel provided an assist. Unthinkable. It ended 6-3 to Chelsea but have to say hats off to Everton as well, as Roberto Martinez said in his post match presser not many teams will score three against Chelsea this season. Jose Mourinho summed up Chelsea's performance perfectly saying Chelsea did make some defending errors but were simply brilliant whenever they had the ball. They played to score, they scored.
In a game of nine goals you would think that the goalkeepers had a nightmare but for me Thibaut Courtois' brilliant save from Mirallas' shot when the score was 5-3 was extremely extremely important at that point of the match where there had been five goals in ten minutes. And for everyone who thought Costa will be a failure in the Premier League, four goals in three games, time to eat up your words.
Three wins out of three, eleven goals scored. Fantastic start to the season Chelsea.