The start we needed

It was indeed the start Chelsea FC needed to the new season. The 2014-15 english football season is back and Chelsea kick started their campaign away to newly promoted side Burnley. An already strong Chelsea squad grew even stronger during the summer with signings like Filipe Luis, Diego Costa & Cesc Fabregas among many more who returned from their loan spells.
With such a strong squad all us Chelsea fans frankly didn't think Burnley will pose a big threat but we all know that these were the type of sides we struggled to get past last season and our worst nightmare came true when Burnley scored first out of nowhere. It was brilliant strike for the goal, simply not savable but the chance came about because of a defensive lapse where the Burnley goal scorer was left completely unmarked inside the penalty box. This certainly wasn't expected from the best defense of last season, but since that goal the back four looked quite solid with Matic there helping them out by continuously intercepting passes from the opposition. Matic's mantra seemed like it was intercept & pass and he carried that out brilliantly throughout the game and him being so strong defensively also helped new signing Fabregas to move further up the field and create all sort of havoc with his precise passes in the opposition box. The link up play between him and Oscar was a treat to watch along with the runs Hazard was making. Eden Hazard was simply too good accompanying Schurrle and Costa upfront.
After conceding early in the first half we saw a Chelsea that we haven't seen in quite a while. There was some sublime attacking football. Pinpoint passing, calm finishing, from getting a perfect strikers goal to equalize to taking the lead through one of the best team goals it was simply awesome football from the Blues. The run from Hazard, the pass from Fabregas, the run and finish from Schurrle, this will be up for the goal of the season competition I am sure. Pretty confident we will still be talking about that perfectly weighted first time pass from Fabregas even at the end of the season. The third goal scored by Ivanovic also came from a Fabregas corner giving him his second assist of the game and also the Man of the Match award for his commanding midfield performance, Arsenal fans must not have liked it. We didn't get any goals in the second half but Chelsea dominated possession and were pretty solid defensively. We saw one great save from Courtois in the second half, the Chelsea goalkeeping future is bright Thibaut looked unflappable throughout the game.
Overall the Chelsea machine looks well oiled and up for the season. The defense will get stronger as the season continues and the midfield & attack will command the league. It was indeed the kind of start we needed to the campaign.