Chelsea (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[J.G.Blue.]

The fuck is that?

I think its that invisible man we used to sing about, completely took the Chelsea player out!

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Great game. Loved it. Well done to both sides. Fabulous spectacle enjoyed with a nice bottle of champagne and canapés.

I think it’s mainly adolescent teenagers but City fans crying about wether Sterling or Cole celebrated or disrespected us… get a grip you soft arses.

Both great servants to city over many years. Cole who made the club a huge profit and Raz who won tons of trophies for us and got us all our money back from his initial fee. Players like this will always be fondly remembered by true blues.

 

[paulsimpson]

I said it in the game thread, this was like the 3-3 at Newcastle early on last season, it was the worst defensive display of the season, we had no control and everytime Newcastle attacked they looked like scoring, that type of game never happened again last season and Pep will make sure tonight never happens again this season, the Chelsea lads played out of their skins and we still got a point, so we'll take it and move on.

Good post

 

[youngbob]

I felt frustrated during the game because it seemed like we never, ever got control of things, but as soon as the final whistle went it sunk in pretty quickly that it was the kind of game you can't really legislate for or bring to heel. Pep might have taken a long time to notice where we were deficient but even when he made those changes (like bringing Kovacic and Grealish on) it just never calmed down. Chelsea just kept pushing and pushing and pushing and made us react to things when it's normally us that likes to set the tempo. It was a bit of a mid-90s throwback in a lot of ways.

Lots of mixed bag performances from players on both sides, lots of huge performances from players on both sides as well. Rodri, Dias, and Gvardiol all over the place for us, but Foden, Haaland, and Akanji were all brilliant. On the flipside, Disasi, Thiago Silva, and Caicedo were rubbish throughout for Chelsea but Palmer, Sterling, and Cucurella were great. Basically all of the goals in the first half came from shocking defending and errors by both teams, a lot of the key incidents happened out of nowhere. Just a topsy turvy game that was never going to calm down.

So you just take it. A point is perfectly fine. I think, when the season's over, we'll look back on this 4-4 with Chelsea similarly to how we look back at the 3-3 against Newcastle from the 22/23 season - it felt like a disappointing result and a concerning performance in the moment but as the months dragged on and more big teams dropped points there, it ended up looking like a good battle. I imagine we'll feel similarly when Chelsea have finished comfortably in a European position in May and have taken more big points off the teams around us.

If you'd told me in August that we'd head into the November international break one point ahead of some vastly improved sides like Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs (even Villa), I'd have taken it. Everyone knows it takes us until February to really knuckle down and get our heads properly straight, and I anticipated a drop-off after playing so much football and winning so many trophies last season - so the fact that we're still competing after losing Mahrez and Gundogan and blooding in loads of new players, it's very encouraging heading into the Christmas period.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Midfield was over run. No real support for Rodri.
Chelsea played very high tempo and were quick through the midfield, I thought Chelsea would run out steam but no.

Makes a change to see a team go toe to toe with us.

Yep, the defensive contribution of Doku, Foden, Bernie and Julian was poor, Rodri was exposed (but had a very poor 1st half himself) and I think that took a lot of pressure to our defence, resulting in many faults. We only had 1 good defender in Akanji today.

Defending as a team has to be much much better vs top sides.
Also, our 1st half 1v1s were too soft, we were bullied throughout, was painful watching it.

 

[paulsimpson]

Alan Pardew on Talk Sport
"Yeah, he fouled Haaland, but I don't think it was a penalty..."

Such a contradiction.

 

[cheekybids]

The fuck is that?

What it wasn’t was a 2nd Booking.

Only Jeremy booked for a dive.

 

[willipp]

Maybe. One thing for sure, he had a much better game than Doku.

Yep, but he’s allowed one. First half Reece James had far too much freedom to get forward, but doku was better second half. Grealish gives us more control that’s for sure, but maybe doku gives us the unexpected.

 

[Vienna_70]

I'm not panicking, but last year's success was built on us being very, very hard to score more than one goal against.

Funny that Pep was a bit too cautious at Arsenal away and not imo cautious enough here.

Could be a fluke of a game, could be Pep just working out the right balance for this squad, could be cause for concern. Wish we could play the Liverpool game next weekend, this pacing isn't helping I don't think.

It could be that we missed John and Nathan.

 

[The_Maverick]

Scoring from corners isn’t that easy. The stats across the board are about 3% resulting in goals.

The difference between hitting the first man and the ball sailing over all the players is marginal when whipping a cross in.

I’m not disagreeing with you at all.

Just saying that recently we have been poor at corners and today we scored from one.