Chelsea (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

IronsideKozuch said:
Great game against quality opposition at their ground. Chelsea were up to task after a great and a bit random mental boost on Monday against Tottenham.

Chelsea play one game a week, they have incredible conditions for best fitness etc.

Chelsea probably will not play better game all season. For instance, it was Sterling's best game since transfer to Chelsea easily. On the other hand few really unlucky mistakes for us, like Dias air kick for first goal or Gvardiol lack of awareness for second.

I love threads after games like this. So many idiots to mark up and put on ignore. Game management was crap, Pep's fault, Grealish should have started over Doku etc:D Zero perspective with judgments. Zero information about team's preparation and factual background. You can just feel this near to zero ability to present proper way of reasoning. Actually great entertainment, but dont loose too much of your limited life time for them.
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Hindsight is wonderful.
 
paulsimpson said:
Yes Doku was taken off too early i think. Another 15 minutes with him and we might have scored another. He also gave us an out all game as he's the fear factor for the opposition who have to deal with him constantly and takes pressure off us.
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I felt for Doku. Chelsea targeted him during the first by having Palmer & James double up on him, with Disasi moving across as a deep lying blocker.

Doku's good. Doku's dangerous. But even prime Messi wasn't getting past those three, especially as Gvardiol seemed to lose confidence after being skinned a couple of times & gifting Chelsea a goal, because he couldn't sort his clown feet out.

I knew Palmer would physically put himself about in a way he wasn't able to in a City shirt. This tactic by Chelsea nullified Doku because as soon as Bernardo moved across to help him, it left a gaping hole in the midfield with only Rodri & Akanji playing the hybrid role to deal with Chelsea's midfield three.

We were just out-thought, but made good adjustments in the second half. However, there's nothing you can do about unforced errors & shite defending.

It's not the draw that gets me, it's scoring 4 away & still being held. As a neutral I'd have loved it. As a City fan, I'd have felt better with a 0-0 & knowing our defence held firm.
 
Just watched the game again. For the TV audience this must have been one of the best matches they've ever seen and I think most Chelsea fans are pleased with their side's performance, but City were some way short of our best. Our ball retention was much poorer than normal and our passing lacked its usual sharpness and precision. We had some good fortune with our fourth goal but we more than made up for this with Chelsea's goals. Their first appeared to be the result of Thiago's clever, late near post run but what VAR (!) should have picked up was that Cucurella pushing and pulling Rodri out of position made the space for Thiago to run into. Their second was the consequence of a disastrous piece of defending by Gvardiol and their third followed Eddie pushing out a shot straight Jackson. It was not helped by the failure of our defenders to respond to his parry. Not for the first or last time was our defence half asleep. Their fourth followed some good play by Broja (?) but agai Dias seemed half a yard slower than he should have been. At no time had City seemed able to control the tempo or even dominate the possession and Chelsea seemed able to run through midfield with comparative ease at times, but, in the end we came away with a point and so nearly had all three from what always looked a very tricky game.
 
Great game that went by in a flash, apart from the var bits
Think i'll need to watch it again before writing about it. What i can now though is Foden is a joy to watch and Dias was overheated.
 
blueparrot said:
Yes it was ,but in a weird and unusual way. Everything about us lacked the usual control. Even at 4 3 normally we'd see the game out keep the ball in their half. Just a freakish game all round.
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They put another winger on and switched sides. Sterling switched flanks and Gvaridol(SP) got no help. We should have had a back four in place before that happened.
 
Dribble said:
I felt for Doku. Chelsea targeted him during the first by having Palmer & James double up on him, with Disasi moving across as a deep lying blocker.

Doku's good. Doku's dangerous. But even prime Messi wasn't getting past those three, especially as Gvardiol seemed to lose confidence after being skinned a couple of times & gifting Chelsea a goal, because he couldn't sort his clown feet out.

I knew Palmer would physically put himself about in a way he wasn't able to in a City shirt. This tactic by Chelsea nullified Doku because as soon as Bernardo moved across to help him, it left a gaping hole in the midfield with only Rodri & Akanji playing the hybrid role to deal with Chelsea's midfield three.

We were just out-thought, but made good adjustments in the second half. However, there's nothing you can do about unforced errors & shite defending.

It's not the draw that gets me, it's scoring 4 away & still being held. As a neutral I'd have loved it. As a City fan, I'd have felt better with a 0-0 & knowing our defence held firm.
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Bang on Dribble
 
Fantastic game of football draw the right result
On looking at the game every Chelsea player was 8 or 9 out of ten on the day
Some city players 6 or 7 Chelsea needed every player to be on it they were but still only got a draw
Had city players been a bit better we'd win comfortable on the day
Chelsea players wouldn't be at that level together again on a constant basis
Don't underestimate city result another day 5-2 city win
 
Having watched the game again and my thoughts on Pep's setup in the first half, it got me thinking.

Why have the club and Pep not addressed the left-back/wing-back role and signed somebody who plays in that role?
It's the missing piece from completing this jigsaw, Yes we have players who are very good in that role, but yesterday we were crying out for a left-back who is like Walker on the right,

Note to the City Board, Phillips wants game time, so sell and bring in a left-back
 
kinggoat64 said:
Fantastic game of football draw the right result
On looking at the game every Chelsea player was 8 or 9 out of ten on the day
Some city players 6 or 7 Chelsea needed every player to be on it they were but still only got a draw
Had city players been a bit better we'd win comfortable on the day
Chelsea players wouldn't be at that level together again on a constant basis
Don't underestimate city result another day 5-2 city win
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Let’s not forget that this Chelsea side lost 2-0 at home to Brentford two weeks earlier. I thought whilst an entertaining match, we were poor by our standards and some of our players at the back were less than a 6. It wasn’t a great result given we had the lead 3 times. I agree Chelsea played pretty well but we did have an off day at the back.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Let’s not forget that this Chelsea side lost 2-0 at home to Brentford two weeks earlier. I thought whilst an entertaining match, we were poor by our standards and some of our players at the back were less than a 6. It wasn’t a great result given we had the lead 3 times. I agree Chelsea played pretty well but we did have an off day at the back.
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We lost to Brentford last year so no pointers there.
 
MillsyTheMosher said:
Imagine accusing Palmer of having a poor mentality when he’s playing at the highest elite level at the age of 21 having just been bought for 45 million pounds. If he had a poor mentality he wouldn’t have made it anywhere near city’s first team in the first place given the competition in the academy. To then ask to leave due to lack of minutes shows an insane self belief/mentality at such a young age. Possibly the dumbest shit I’ve ever read on here that @Dax777
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My apologies. I meant poor footballing mentality. As in a poor tactical brain. I am a fan of his self belief and support players backing themselves. That confidence is his best quality.

As I've said many times,, I don't think young players should stay at City picking up 10 minutes at the end of games. Better you go to a mid table team and make yourself worthy of being paid top dollar to bring back by the big club when you show your class at the midtable team. So in that respect, i love what he did. And he want to another top club for that matter.

But as a footballer, I find his decision making to be generally average to poor. That's what I was trying vto express. I should have said poor tactical football brain.
 
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