Chelsea (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

city warrior said:
Bernardo on the 2nd half was dribbling everyone including himself. Every time he had the ball he slowed the attack trying to dribble the same player several times. Sure, it was pretty in the eyes, but ineffective. Foden was just as bad in the 2nd half as the 1st. Grealish and Mahrez are just better in the last 2 weeks, and it's up to Foden to get his place back.

I still think most of our level is up to the planification and we should be getting at our peak form soonish
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Moments before being taken off Bernardo skinned Cucurella twice and set up KDB (who should have scored)

grealish and Mahrez are no better at all.......look at their whole performance in that second half not just the 5 seconds to score a goal where the keeper should have easily collected the cross for a start
 
coolcity said:
Great to read a positive post. Cannot understand the rest, we can't win every game in a canter. Some seem to think the players are robots who play brilliantly to order. It doesn't work like that.
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I think most of us know how good we are or can be. And that we cannot win every game. But most also kniw when we are not playing well. And at the moment we are not.

This game we played well from 45 till the 1-0. We should be better than that. And it is the fans utmost privilege to moan about it.

In the end every City fan is happy with a win. But don’t blame them for moaning when it simply was not a good performance. And showed again the inconsistency so far this season.
 
The 1st half was a Pep brain fart. The 2nd was below par. The only good thing was we won.
Kev - WTF were you doing?
 
Hank said:
Pep masterclass?
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Stones and lewis somes as Right back, then lewis as midfielder, sometimes stones-akanji and Ake as back three.

Pep is genius but his new tactics will kill the momentum we had and our tempo
 
Vital win, but worrying performance for me.
Formation in the first half wasn't working, it left us with no control in midfield and our front 3 not in the game at all, and Cancelo seems like he can only play as a left full back now!
Hopefully we don't see that formation again.

Early second half was a lot better and then we worked a good goal. Afterwards we lose control of the game again against a half-arsed Chelsea side who've brought on 3 or 4 kids. The city of old would have gone on to win that 3-0

Even small things like keeping the ball in the corner flag at the end like we used to be great at.

The game had me thinking that we were a better team the last 2 years when playing without an out and out striker. For all Haaland's greatness, at City he will mainly be a penalty box striker, no space to run in behind or into the channels on the counter like we saw at Dortmund. It leaves us almost with a man down from previous seasons when we'd a false 9 who dropped in and gave us more control. I suppose this will take time though

Stones immense

DId anyone else think Ake was very shaky at times.
 
Made the job harder than it was with the bizarre system in the first half, we were instantly better after the half time switch, however the lack of control after the goal was alarming and hopefully Pep will sort that out, anyway that's a big 3 points in the title race.
 
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