Chelsea (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[madloaf]

Well fair to say we'll never be picking the team again

You mean Rodri at centre back, Bernardo as a defensive midfielder, walker as a right centre back with cancelo outside him and ake as a left centreback, left back and left midfielder? Lets hope so.

 

[peter.evans]

I don't think that'll surprise many :-)

Exactly! Loyal fans stay to the end.

 

[yankblue]

You mean Rodri at centre back, Bernardo as a defensive midfielder, walker as a right centre back with cancelo outside him and ake as a left centreback, left back and left midfielder? Lets hope so.

and Rodri doing whatever the fuck he was doing

 

[KirkhamBlue62]

Pep quotes: 'I read Bluemoon and they told me to play Cancelo, Walker and Foden. So I play them and look at what happened first half'. But I didn't tell Bluemoon I would play the team in different positions'. Second half I play my team and we win'.

This is it exactly. To me it was a bit like ‘I will play the people the fans want but in such a formation they will be really poor. Then I will take a couple off, play a proper formation and vindicate myself’. Think we were treated poorly tonight. Walker and Cancelo should have played where they usually do, that 1st half totally different. Peeps thrown Walker, Cancelo, Foden, Silva under a bus tonight.

 

[PragueBlue]

Well fair to say we'll never be picking the team again

Hope Guardiola doesn't pick that one again either.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Only Stones and a few of the subs coming out of that with any credit, include Pep in that

Going to need to be much much better against United and Spurs in our next 2 league games

Pep did well, i thought Ake did his defending job well. He is not a natural ball player but led by example by challenging and putting in the effort, that definitely encouraged others to roll up their sleeves and try and block / intercept and challenge (unlike Everton game)

 

[madloaf]

Hope Guardiola doesn't pick that one again either.

Imagine he picked that team again, and didn't throw all the names at the floor and say "play where you land"

 

[PragueBlue]

Imagine he picked that team again, and didn't throw all the names at the floor and say "play where you land"

I did kind of mean team and formation.

 

[coolcity]

I was, I was half way down Wembley way when we went two down, a copper said it's 2-2 lads, we ran back to the stadium and we were let back in for extra time, pens

Hopefully you know by now that you never leave before the final whistle.

 

[Dave El Magico]

Agree with majority of the posters on here that 1st half performance was shocking. The Cancelo/Rodri experiment backfired and it left us badly exposed in midfield and on our left hand side. 2nd half was much better and Lewis made a fantastic contribution in this. Stones was a class above tonight and it is great to see him back to his best. I agree that this is not the best of Chelsea teams this season, but it is still a difficult away game. We got the 3 points which is the most important thing and if we can do that when not playing at our best, it puts us in a good place for the rest of the season.