Chelsea (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[WEMBLEY76]

Could be a vital win to set us off on a run of hopefully wins and playing back into form at a crucial stage of the season.Stones was fantastic,trust Pep to get this team going again,he has history...

 

[M12Blue]

am rattling already, god help the blood pressure machine ? I think I may just blow the thing apart hahahaha

Keep safe blue

 

[hilts]

I realise it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but I think if he read Bluemoon he'd have left years ago. Why would you put up with the shit spouted on here?

I can think of a few million reasons tbh:-)

 

[Norbiton]

Funnily enough the weird first half formation could have worked, Cancelo was left in acres of space down the right and was fed the ball at every opportunity. Unfortunately he was completely off his game, dithered, couldn’t pick a pass, couldn’t beat a defender. Probably not an experiment worth repeating

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I lost count the amount of times he made a run in behind and wasn't found. A simple little slide rule pass and he was away. But i love how happy he is when someone else scores and how happy he is at full time when we win.

Simple and slide rule in the same sentence? If it was that easy it’d actually be that easy………..

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Akanji was great when he came on. Another very assured display.
Absolutely brilliant signing.

He’s like every centre half for us and for England, in that he’s much much better when he’s playing next to an in-form John Stones with Slab-head being a brilliant case in point.

 

[grim up north]

Ederson, 6 - what did he have to do?

Walker, 5 - clearly not fit yet, but wasn't completely awful
Stones, 9 - MOTM, classy throughout and made that great tackle in the first half
Ake, 7 - solid without being brilliant, starting to look comfortable now
Cancelo, 5 - played out of position and didn't look ready but wasn't horrendous

Rodri, 7 - was asked to play in two different positions first half, looked settled after half-time
De Bruyne, 4 - whatever's going on with you Kev, just shake it off please
Gundogan, 5 - quiet, wasn't helped by that strange formation Pep played from the start

Foden, 4 - what's up with him? Starting to become a problem now
Haaland, 6 - should have buried both his chances, looked alright otherwise
Bernardo, 6 - another one not helped by the strange formation but played alright

Subs
Lewis, 8 - came on and looked very composed, helped change the game
Akanji, 7 - came in and played quite well, helped us get back to normal
Grealish, 9 - did exactly what was asked of him, provided the one moment of genuine quality
Mahrez, 8 - got that goal and looked dangerous otherwise
Phillips, N/A - hope he plays more

Lol

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Thought that was a pretty mad game last night. First half we were awful, all of worst habits we have on our bad days, slow, indecisive and generally ponderous in possession and no where near aggressive enough without the ball. Lost count of the amount of 50:50s we lost.

At half time our mad genius manager took off our first choice right back and our right winger to be replaced with a centre back and a teenage full back. Suddenly we were transformed and took the match by the scruff without creating enough chances. Bernardo has his best moment of the season so Pep subs him and the two subs combined for the winger.

Don’t think we were anywhere near our best but we won a tough away match through muscle memory. Arsenal know we’re still in this title race.

 

[youngbob]

Lol

Yeah?

 

[Craig]

Well he did have 2 clear chances and 1 was an open goal.

He also had like 3 chances in the previous games so he's not exactly been himself either with the high amount of misses.

Open goal that he couldn’t reach properly?