Chelsea (H) | Post-Match Thread

[BarnsleyBlue]

I’m frustrated like we all will be right now but I’m personally not too downbeat about it, I think a positive can be took from this game in the sense that surely pep won’t tinker with the formation in the final now considering he’s tried it twice against this lot. As you know you’ve gotta be brave to second guess pep but I think he’ll go with a similar 11 to who played PSG Friday night, back to today’s team Tuesday and the 11 that will play the final against Everton in front of the fans as a bit of a dress rehearsal for the big one, that way he can keep the rhythm going whilst not burning anyone out.

 

[meeesh]

Or draw tbf

Or draw yea,but a loss for them is better for me anyway :)

 

[madloaf]

Fuckall mate I could kinda get behind him if he give it 100% like I do with Jesus. He literally brings fuck all Torres

He's a striker.

 

[super_city_si]

Pep is fucking furious.

 

[coolcity]

If only... I'm not a sports psychologist but getting beat again in a similar fashion as a few weeks ago is rank stupidity. A strong side and a win and the Title -was that not good enough....

....and if we'd have played our strongest and STILL lost, then it gives them a huge boost for the final. For me, this was a free game, it was a must-win for them. If that's all they've got I'll take it.

 

[kanovic]

You probably were saying the same about gundo, mahrez, silva etc etc when they had rough seasons lol

 

[herrock]

pep has let us down today, change three or four, and the out of form players can play their way back into form, change eight or nine and you get a mish mash of out of form players and players that just aren't good enough anymore, that gave us a display like this or the Chelsea semi final and Leeds game. He did the same in the Manchester derby a couple of years back.

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

Pep, Sterling, angry, we will batter them with our full team, looking forward to it more than ever.Anyone describing Serge as a **** kindly do one.

 

[balotellishaircut]

The ONLY good thing about today, and I'll be honest, I'm scraping the optimistic barrel here, is that we will have learnt more about Chelsea for the chumps final than they will have learnt from us.

Their team today was not far off their best. Ours was some Frankenstein monster of a formation.

Even so, ffs Pep!!!!

Someone said they were missing 4 players ?

 

[chaddblue]

Yes but the first goal had an element of luck, most of those don't go in or are saved, and the second one was definitely luck. That and the Sterling pen we didn't get, and it's a different story. My point is if that's Chelsea's best for the CL final I'll take it.

It wasn't Chelsea's best. But it was a lot closer to their best than it was to our best

Today had absolutely zero relevance on the CL final

In fact the only thing that happened today that might impact on the final was the injury to Christensen

Also if you're into stats and odds... I'm now thinking what's the chances of them beating us 3 times out of 3. If we'd beaten them twice I would now be worrying that they're due a win

 

[Bluemanc100]

Raz saying the penalty goes in its all over.

Hes probably right but I’m surprised he said it as it could be construed he’s thrown Sergio under the bus there. I’m probably reading too much into it.

You really can’t defend Sergio after that

 

[oddfellows]

Pep is fucking furious.

Not a bad thing.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

....and if we'd have played our strongest and STILL lost, then it gives them a huge boost for the final. For me, this was a free game, it was a must-win for them. If that's all they've got I'll take it.

Same here.

 

[super_city_si]

Rodri being a twat smoking a cigar on the ball and Aguero thinking he's in training against Scott Carson is a bigger problem than Torres today.

Oh yes, im not balming him, just can’t do the lads confidence any good.

 

[coolcity]

Usual nonsense being written on here and worst of all turning on the likes of Aguero and Pep.

Obviously we have a lot of experts on here but do you ever wonder why pretty much every manager complains about too many games, not enough recovery time etc?

Pep rested players because this match was a free hit for us coming on the back of two tough matches against PSG and 11 matches in the last 35 days. Unlike on here, Pep will be talking to the sports scientists, experts in their field, when considering team selection as well as forging a tactical plan.

Absolutely spot on.

 

[come-on-barney]

On the plus side that was Chelsea at full strength against our mostly 'B' team ;)

But it wasn’t, not sure why people keep saying this.

 

[jimharri]

Where did I say that?
It was on the line today.
We could’ve won it today.

Ask most people what they would take "on the line" to mean. I'd hazard a guess that quite a few would say that anything being "on the line" would mean it could go one of two ways. As opposed to, say, "up for grabs". But I'm not going to argue all night with you on the point.

 

[KennyG]

Pep “We got time to look at where we went wrong”
Rough translation “Get big Sam on the phone”

 

[ID70]

Sorry I disagree. We could have done all the things you said after this game and won the title with a near full strength team. In my humble opinion when you play a game to win the title then that must always be the priority. Peps tinkering changing tactics and 9 players has achieved fuck all because we may have to field a full strength side for Newcastle and possibly the next 2 games after.
It smacks of arrogance to me.

Same as when we could have won it against the rags a couple of seasons ago

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Pep always talks about rhythm, but how he expects to keep it with that many change, I do not know.
I still believe with our full strength side, we will dick this Chelsea side in the CL Final.

Exactly, shades of last season, shouldn’t be changing 9 players, 5-6 max, how do we get the momentum back? It feels like we are starting again