Chelsea - FA Cup SF | Post-Match Thread

[kenken]

Was Pep sleeping or drunk?

 

[kanovic]

Said in the pre match thread about Mendy but people came back saying he played amazing against Leicester etc. Hes who teams TARGET. teams will target that left hand side when he plays Leeds did it. Chelsea did it last time when he played them.

They targeted mendy but score on the other side? Makes sense..

 

[citymad]

I could have made more of a difference than Mendy

Easiest game Reece James has had. It’s one of footballs big mystery is how a regular fun loving bloke can blag his way into a football club and charade as a professional footballer even fooling the great Pep.

 

[chaddblue]

I know Sterling has been shit for a year, but that performance today took it to another level. He’s becoming a laughing stock

 

[Tricky_Trev]

I’d have much rather just lost to Birmingham in round 3. Why throw it in the semi when you can just throw it straight away and have a less hectic schedule?

 

[SidJames]

Said it earlier.

I am not an entitled mard arse......We will lose games. It is football, Defeat makes victory sweeter.

But every defeat when it happens just lately feels like it is 100% on Pep. Rather than it is because we just lost a game with our best 11 on the Pitch. Where you think fair enough we lost, they were the better side.

That Lyon match,and every fucking Derby are my examples.

We never finished any of these games with our best team on the Pitch.

Really wierd.

 

[BlueT]

P.S. if we get through PSG, could quite easily see Chelsea dropping that performance against us in the final. Tuchel got it tactically perfect today.

No a chance mate, we would hopefully be full strength, and wipe the floor with them.

 

[yeseye]

The only good thing to take from that game is thank fuck I didn’t go!

 

[city saint]

Media will be pouring Mike a glass of champers as we speak

ref was fine today we were shite

 

[paulchapo]

Give torress at least 2 seasons. Silva wasn’t great first season neither was mahrez. Too early still. Kid plays great with Spain

Yes night have been slightly harsh on him due to being in a new country and still young but he's shown nothing much so far.

 

[Bald fraud]

Oh god, that was awful, Pep out, no way we will win the league now, why can't we keep playing the same besest team every week until they drop, spurs will wipe the floor with us in the milk cup final, as for psg, I'm buying a bigger settee to hide behind!! I'm so fed up, why oh why did is stop supporting Chelsea all those years ago anyway.. My CharltonbThletic supporting wife thinks agrees with me that we are completely entitled to win everything now.. Its just not fair.. Boo bleedin hoo

Rag

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Try as I might, I just can't get too upset after that. We were shit, no doubt. Kevin's injury followed quickly by Steffen's WTF moment knocked the stuffing out of us.

Have to assume he picked that lineup out of pure necessity, considering how fucked Dias and Kev were and the lack of subs. Had he gone stronger today, maybe we win. But the risk of dropping another 3 points in the league because we have to play our second string is too great IMO.

The quadruple was always a pipe dream with this squad, obvious weaknesses at full back and up front, plus too many who have completely hit the wall. Nobody has ever won all 4 trophies in this country, doing it without a single week's rest was never going to happen. Amazing to get this far, now let's just fucking win this league and as for the others? A bonus.

P.S. Now we know why he rotated against Leeds - the whole squad is fucked, either through fatigue or a lack of match sharpness. At this rate Sergio will get a game.

Also, I'll post this here only because I daren't venture into the Sterling thread:

Hard to watch Raz today, kept trying the right things but they never came off. Had that run in the second half where he beat a couple of men and I thought, "brilliant, he's flicked the switch". Then he struggled even more.

His confidence is through the floor. Talk of selling him is plain silly though - unless anyone thinks Real will give us the 100m plus he's worth in this market? I doubt it. Seemed to play better in an England shirt last month so hopefully he can get his mojo back in the summer.

 

[smallsteve]

So may poor performances. Peps rotation has caused issues now against chelsea and Leeds.......

Mendy -negligent - again. He odesnt defend...he loses ziyech for thier goal by letting him run past him and this happened numerous times....gives the ball away and is brain dead giving fouls away when applying pressure. He also let Ziyech run for the second one that Steffan saved after Dias missed the long ball -Mendy just watches him run past him.

Sterling -awful - needs ot be dropped till next season

Jesus - annonymous again again and again as a goal threat.....his work rate is not enough to keep excusing him

Torres -did nothing.

The biggest surprise however was KDB - even before the injury his approach to the game was unacceptable - I watched him 3 or 4 times in the first half stop running when we lost possession - poor passing

Ferna and Foden (and Gundogan when he came on) where the only ones to come out of that with any credit.

If Pep keeps rotating the league is going to be very close

For me Foden needs to start every match till the end of the season...he is a young kid and willmanage this....

If Aguero is fit he needs to play

Gundogan must start every game as well and Id say Stones over laporte as well with walker at fullback

Mendy, Sterling shouldnt even make the bench for any remaining games.

Could be that KDB was feeling a niggle, but played through it!
It was one point where Sterling lost the ball and then just didn’t even bother to chase and just started walking. I’ve never seen him do that and is clearly something very badly wrong there!
Thought Laporte was OK, but Mendy is like starting a match with 10-men? £50m!!!,

 

[HelloCity]

We keep trying to make excuses or analysing peps the tactics.the guy is a joke.well I don’t mind getting beat ten nil if it’s the right squad the right tactics but time and time again pep fucks it up.

We’re top of the league and in the semi final of the CL you complete and utter moron.

 

[Matt the Giant]

Chelsea were awful and we were worse, embarrassing Sunday league defending for the goal.

Really? I thought they payed very well, organized and solid, made it (as it turned out) impossible for us to break through.
They will be a force next season, I'm sure.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

league and uefa fucking cup will do me nicely.

your living in a dream world

 

[Marvin]

You play your strongest 11 in a semi final. Simple.

There was even a glimmer of hope we would get something today because thats how shite Chelsea are. Fucking West Brom put 5 past them.

Not using Bernardo and Mahrez was criminal.

I was thinking Foden, Bernardo and Mahrez will come on and we'll tear them apart but we took too long to change it. Pep obviously thought he'd rotate the squad but that starting midfield was not good enough and didn't give us a chance to get in the game.

 

[kanovic]

On the plus sign I am not that worried about kdb being out as in most seasons. We played almost better without him when gundo was pushed up.

 

[Bald fraud]

It’s a semi final.

Play. Your. Best. Team.

Nail on head

 

[BLUEinTheUSA]

What's the most galling is that everyone of us here would have put in more effort than some of those players today. Also everyone of us here would have made changes at half-time