Chelsea (H) 06.03.17 - 8pm k/o SS1

Moojor

any streams for this?

thornburyiron

Once again our corner sets up their attack and we concede a goal from it. I think we could be in for another nightmare.

buffybegood

Shocking defending of a set piece

Yeoldhammer

Games over.

thornburyiron

Even their full backs can carve through us.

baracks_a_hammer

Utterly powder puff against virtually every team higher than us all season.

Rolled over and had our tummy tickled time and again.

Yeoldhammer

The tactic of shutting up shop never works eventually the big teams always find a way. Not sure if we got a Plan B

Vorselaarhammer

Why wasn't that a pen???? Fabrages moved towards the ball and it hit his arm....

TwistandShout

Atmosphere sounds terrible, can hear the players shouting ;weep

Yeoldhammer

Ayew for Feghouli
Byram for Noble

Go 4-3-3. my Recommendation anyway

Vorselaarhammer

i know we are 2 down but I still feel we could get something from the game...

thornburyiron

Reid off

thornburyiron

We spend so much time dithering and then give the ball away. Nearly cost another goal

SuzanneClaret

TwistAndShout said:

Atmosphere sounds terrible, can hear the players shouting ;weep

I do not agree, it sounds good on the TV and was getting texts saying that I'm missing a good atmosphere.

SuzanneClaret

I think we've played well, a mistake by Nobes and some very good attacking on the break by them and a mess up at a corner.

We deserve a goal I think.

Yes, we are loosing to what will be the the champions but we are not terrible.

;scarf

Yeoldhammer

This is just stupid we are repeating the same thing over and over and getting nowhere tactically woeful.

SuzanneClaret

Nothing positive has happened all game then?

Yeoldhammer

Heart and endeavour but brains like a siv. Surely Slaven can see crossing the ball is doing nothing, zilch. Cahill / Luiz have had Carroll in their backpocket completely.

TwistandShout

SuzanneClaret said:

TwistAndShout said:

Atmosphere sounds terrible, can hear the players shouting ;weep

I do not agree, it sounds good on the TV and was getting texts saying that I'm missing a good atmosphere.

My speakers must be broken ;hmm ;puzzled

SuzanneClaret

I doubt they are Twist, I think it as I have already said and have had confirmed, Sky turn the sound down when the crowd are cussing.

SuzanneClaret

;goal

Lanzini

thornburyiron

I think the squads being what they are we can rule out anything from the top 6 teams as we are way way behind them.
There were some positives but I think we are far too slow and labouring in everything we do which means generally we lose the ball and teams like Chelsea are at our throats before we know it.
We made very bad mistakes which cost us two goals tonight and you just can't do it against the top teams.

jay_in_cpt

Beaten by the champions elect..
We didn't cave in but didn't create enough, also down to their excellent defending..
Both goals were soft , but not gutted with our performance, disappointed we got nothing, but fair result IMO ..
A few injuries / knocks, just hope they are minor / precautionary ..

EXETERHAMMER

Pains me to say it, but Chelsea are a very good team. We didn't get rolled over, but they were very much in control.

claretandbluesky

I think we played pretty well and the effort and pace of the game which we pretty much kept up shows we have a great attitude at present which means for me that Slav is doing his job well.

The downside is that the gulf in class between top 4-5 and the middle 8-9 is getting bigger once again. We played well and we gave it all we had but we do not have the class players that Chelsea have and that tells over 90 minutes despite effort and attitude.

Imagine if we heard tomorrow we were signing just one of Hazard, Luiz, Costa (?) Willian, Kante, or Cahill, we would be ecstatic, and yet Chelsea fielded them all this evening. I cant fault ourselves but slightly depressed we are so behind the top teams once again after bridging the gap last season.

TwistandShout

I thought we played pretty well. The pitch doesn't suit us at all though, when we lose the ball when attacking its almost 3 vs 3.
The opposition always look like they are going to score as soon as we lose it. I love Noble but he can't play the games at 'home' for me, he's not quick enough for the big spaces.

In the summer we need to spend big on some pacy players

chicagohammer

All in all I think it was good performance, Chelsea are a very good team and had to be really disciplined, they know they were in a game today, the biggest difference to me was how quick they were on the counter, we seemed pedestrian in comparison.

Lanzini should have hit the target in the first half and I think we should have had a penalty when Fabio leaned into the ball, his arm was by his side and if the ball had struck him then I do not think it would be given but he clearly leaned towards the ball and deflected it away.

Randy pulled a worldly save to deny Costa,

To be honest it was a fair result, I saw effortnd I was on the edge of my seat most of the game and I cannot ask for more than that.

That was certainly not a poor performance against the best team in the league.

MIAHammer

It wasn't the first time this season where we've over-committed on a set piece and have been caught out.

NEoldiron

Hants
"Noble dithering"
Who'd've thunk it ;whistle

Pearces_Left_Foot

Chelsea never really needed to get out of second gear they were compact hard to break down and quick on the counter. First goal why did n't Noble cross it ! Andy and the two centre back are up and he passes to a player with two Chelsea players on him ;devil