Chelsea - FA Cup SF | Post-Match Thread

[chesterbells]

It’s a semi final.

Play. Your. Best. Team.

Except when it’s the 3rd most important competition you’re in, and we are playing every 3 days. I can’t be arsed putting this reply as one word sentences, but please take them as given.

 

[GY.Blue]

Thanks Sterling for what you have done in the past,but hate to say it,you are absolutely a million miles off being a decent player for us,and how Pep kept you on the whole game is an absolute fucking mystery

 

[HaughtonGreenBlue]

What the fuck are you on about ?

Every post is pep got this and that wrong. Maybe he did but i think he gets most things correct that's why we were in for all comps.

 

[BlueT]

We have had Sterlings best years.
Hopefully we can get 50 million for him.He is done here

50 million euro's

 

[bluemc1]

Really pissed off

haven’t called Pep in all his time here, not once, but the was a disgraceful team selection for a semi final

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

oh brilliant

 

[warringtonblue]

May as well play the kids and go out in the early rounds as put in a spineless performance like that at the business end of the competition

 

[BlueMojito]

How disappointing was that? The line up lived upto what we thought, resulted in woeful performance. Never really got going, lacked passion and some shocking individual performances. Got what we deserved today, fuck all.

 

[hinchcliffes bulbous conk]

Like spoilt kids on here. The squad have done incredible just to be in all 4 comps at this stage of the season. We are on the verge of winning the league, Semi CL and another final. Today we were poor but FFS give them some fucking slack. Fans of other clubs must cringe if the read some of the comments on here.

I get what you’re saying and yeah we are lucky to be in the position we are. But that felt like a huge opportunity missed and we bowed out with a whimper. Pep left players out there who were fucking shocking and if you did your job that badly, you’d have been told to fuck off for the day. We had history in our sights and are constantly told ‘it’s one game at a time’ but that performance in the semi final of the oldest cup competition in the world was unacceptable.

 

[abu13]

I suppose if we had to sacrifice one competition at this stage then the FA Cup is the one, still sad to see us go out the way we did.

 

[super_city_si]

We can do without him for 10 days. Lest hope its not bad and hes back for PSG

 

[andypandy]

Chelsea are a decent team under Tuchel
You cant carry anyone as a passenger in a tough semi final, yet we managed to carry at least 4 or 5.
Sterling, Mendy, Torres were the "pick" of the worst.
Apart from KDB we have no pace in central midfield at all.
Really think its now time for 3 or 4 out and same numbers in.

 

[eyalluvitt]

I don't think we deserved any more than a loss today but there's no excuses that bent performance by Mike Dean... he was annoying me every bit as much as Sterling and Mendy were. Azpilicueta buying free-kick after free-kick, their goal coming after a free-kick that should not have been given, waving play on after our players get taken down like it was his favourite thing to do. Fuck off Mike Dean.

He let him Kung fu kick Foden four times before reluctantly booking him

 

[dubblue]

Felt like 3/4 players didn’t have the desire to win that game, very disappointing.

 

[Green18]

Finally, something worse than our performance today..... the dross that bbc have put on after it......utter garbage.
whatever happened to Summertime Special??

 

[WestGorton]

I think everyone in my family knew the moment that team selection was announce we were going out.

Awful from Pep. I mean in a semi final of the FA cup and you choose that.

My ex Mrs messaged me the same haha

 

[BlueRockape]

That team should have walked all over Chelsea. If player can't be arsed, what he do?

BUT they didn't. .he keeps saying one game at a time then drops SIX players.
Fukin pack it in and win the games

 

[ProofMCFC]

I think everyone in my family knew the moment that team selection was announce we were going out.

Awful from Pep. I mean in a semi final of the FA cup and you choose that.

Fucking piss poor, he’s done it again

 

[chesterbells]

May as well play the kids and go out in the early rounds as put in a spineless performance like that at the business end of the competition

Next year, I think we should, in both domestic cups.

 

[vmsuhail]

Pep cannot play four competitions with KDB, Foden, Bernardo, Gundo, Mahrez playing every single game. When he put this team against Leeds half the forum was having a heart-attack. Now if he decided to prioritize PL over FA Cup folks are getting upset again.

I won't complain about rotation, we have rotated all season. The difference today is we rotated 8 players instead of 4 or 5, and that proved a disaster.