The-Dogs-Pollocks
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Baffling. I think Garcia could have had more game time as well, no doubt we will palm him off on loan somewhere and bring in a £20mil up and coming midfielder to take up his spot.
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Chelsea (a) post match thread
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Baffling. I think Garcia could have had more game time as well, no doubt we will palm him off on loan somewhere and bring in a £20mil up and coming midfielder to take up his spot.
FantasyIreland
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Leave him be pal,let everyone see how pathetic he is.How much to get rid of your whiny arse for the night?
uteblue
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Right so kompany was partly responsible for the first goal a delp did fuck all of note in the game other than play for the first time in ages, very complicated stuffAhh, right. You're a simpleton, sorry pal I didn't realise.
Yes good points but this is Conte's first season and this is Pep first season. Last season Chelsea finished 10th. Both new managers, both in first prem league seasons. Why has Conte pissed so much on us and we are 14 points behind. Sorry simply not good enough and our team has regressed from MP and is arguably worse than last season and given we have the so called worlds best manager are we not entitled to be a little pissed off?
Conti hasn't got a bunch of geriatric playing week in week out or has to play against 12 he has had referees on there side all season and the main one was at our place!
cucumberman
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Yes good points but this is Conte's first season and this is Pep first season. Last season Chelsea finished 10th. Both new managers, both in first prem league seasons. Why has Conte pissed so much on us and we are 14 points behind. Sorry simply not good enough and our team has regressed from MP and is arguably worse than last season and given we have the so called worlds best manager are we not entitled to be a little pissed off?
Conte hasn't had to deal with CL.
For us, on top of the CL, we had to deal with a few months of poor goalkeeping so much so that we now rely on our second keeper, which I believe played a big part in our home draws and loss. Trying to figure out the defensive pairing for many months didn't help either.
whos_kompany85
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With our comparative squads it's unbelievable we are this far behind. The fact that you'd take 3 reasonable but far from world class defenders highlights how poor we are in that area.They're not shite though are they. I'd take about 4 of their first team in place of ours. Rose, Walker, Vertonghen and Alli.
I'm struggling to get my head around a fair bit of what is being written here. It's obviously frustrating that we lost, all the more so coming on the back of essentially tossing two points away at Arsenal. But the performance today was far better. First half, some of the football was excellent, and we were cutting through their lines almost at will. Conte was obviously worried about it, hence why he brought Matic on. But we played into their hands by gifting them two goals through poor individual mistakes (as ever).
Once they managed to get in at half-time ahead (undeservedly) and make the sub, it was always going to be difficult in the second half as they just dropped deep, closed off any space behind and tried to keep us at bay. And it's something they're fucking good at- it's one of the reasons they've been pissing the league since Autumn. The idea that we should be able to carve them open at will when they're playing like that is unrealistic. And yet we did still create opportunities - Fernandinho missed a gilt-edged chance, Stones did too, and had a clear header he should have done better with, Vinny hit the bar, and Aguero had the chance at the end. That's five good/very good chances in a single half against the top side in the country, away from home, when they're just set up to defend. And it leaves aside the other 'half' chances where we got in, put balls acroos the box but they were dealt with through good defending.
So the criticism today seems a bit misplaced to me. There was nothing naive about the way we played - had we been more 'pragmatic', defended deeper, stuck Fernando in midfield to 'shore things up' etc., there's still every chance that Willy would have been called on to try to save a simple shot straight at him, or Fernandinho to judge a tackle in the box. No system is ever going to stop that.
You could perhaps argue that he might have made the subs earlier. That's fair enough. But we were well on top, and there was fuck all space for Sterling to try and run into anyway. So I can understand why you would want to keep on those players who can produce something from in front of their defence - i.e. Silva, De Bruyne.
Shit, even the criticism of our set-pieces, which is usually warranted, wasn't tonight - three of our chances in the second half all came directly from corners or free-kicks.
Once they managed to get in at half-time ahead (undeservedly) and make the sub, it was always going to be difficult in the second half as they just dropped deep, closed off any space behind and tried to keep us at bay. And it's something they're fucking good at- it's one of the reasons they've been pissing the league since Autumn. The idea that we should be able to carve them open at will when they're playing like that is unrealistic. And yet we did still create opportunities - Fernandinho missed a gilt-edged chance, Stones did too, and had a clear header he should have done better with, Vinny hit the bar, and Aguero had the chance at the end. That's five good/very good chances in a single half against the top side in the country, away from home, when they're just set up to defend. And it leaves aside the other 'half' chances where we got in, put balls acroos the box but they were dealt with through good defending.
So the criticism today seems a bit misplaced to me. There was nothing naive about the way we played - had we been more 'pragmatic', defended deeper, stuck Fernando in midfield to 'shore things up' etc., there's still every chance that Willy would have been called on to try to save a simple shot straight at him, or Fernandinho to judge a tackle in the box. No system is ever going to stop that.
You could perhaps argue that he might have made the subs earlier. That's fair enough. But we were well on top, and there was fuck all space for Sterling to try and run into anyway. So I can understand why you would want to keep on those players who can produce something from in front of their defence - i.e. Silva, De Bruyne.
Shit, even the criticism of our set-pieces, which is usually warranted, wasn't tonight - three of our chances in the second half all came directly from corners or free-kicks.
TheRisingoftheNorth
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Not saying Mike Dean is biased against City - just that he is a completely crap ref and shouldn't be anywhere near a PL game.
Blueknows
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We will ...cant see us missing out with the run we have compared to the rags and arselonaAre the posters saying I hope we don't get too,four just trying to be controversial or are they really that dim?