Chelsea (a) post match thread

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

It may be effective but no way I would love us to play that way, and if we did we would be looking at suspensions every other week!. One false move from Conte and the whole thing at Chelsea will implode again.

I don't think so. Conte is in control. The players know their individual jobs and they are deadly serious of making sure every one of them does it. Defending isn't about buying the best defenders. It's about drilling the team to defend as a unit. Drilling, drilling, drilling. We've got too many fancy Dans who don't want to do the hard work. Sterling, KDB, Yaya, Stones, Kolarov to name a few. Silva isn't in that list because he's a legend.

 

[chaddblue]

I wouldn't say we were the better team in the second half, that second half went exactly how conte had planned it to go.

I agree that Chelsea's plan was to sit deep and hit us on the break but we had enough chances in the second half to get at least a point. Dinho, Vinny, Sergio and Stones easier to score than miss chance

Doubt their plan was to allow us to have so many excellent chances to score

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

This IS the worst side we have had since 2011
Can say pretty confidently I would back mancinis title side to slap this team around in every way possible 8 games out of 10
Would certainly be backing that side too, with more fight and guts to carry the fans passion and expectation in equal measure

Tonight we rolled over and died, with some impressive passing thrown in to cloud over the abysmal mentality we now have firmly installed

Alas, all we can do is hope we do what we should do, and secure the wins against the lesser sides to secure top 4.

Ha haaaaaaaa.......wum

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

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 inherited a strong squad that won the league only 18 months ago , Mourinho f*cked up completely last season , Guardiola inherited a weaker and older group of players , can't say i am skipping at the moment , but i watched our brilliant youth team on Monday night and i just think the club is moving steadily in the right direction. Never expected Pep to take the Premeir League by storm in his 1st season , your disparaging marks about the "so called" world best manager would be more accurate maybe at the end of next season if he has won nowt , he needs a minimum of two to three transfer windows to sort the club out

 

[Phil1]

You're so witty, typing on a cell phone and it auto enters something you didn't right and you pointed that out, why don't you go through hear and correct everyone that'll be a scream

Through hear? Hear what? Listen, if you can't take Kompany coming back as a positive(even if we lost) and be happy that Delph handled himself well away at the champions elect then there's not much else we've got to talk about. You asked for positives I gave you mine. Disagree if you like but saying "we lost so they can't have been that good" is opening yourself up for a bit of comeback.

 

[Juan King]

At least your not alone though.

Keep believeing the hype. Tell me how we have improved?

 

[abu13]

Fuck me, we really should let a couple of hours pass before opening up the post match thread, give people time to think before posting.

 

[borassic]

You could get a job with Sky or BT do you know that?

I'd go as far to say he could get a job at the MEN

 

[aguero93:20]

I'm thinking more long term.

The Silva - De Brunye CM partnership doesn't work. They are too similar and neither make any forward off the ball runs. That's why we need someone like Isco, or like you said Gundogan. We also need a top class midfield pivot who can defend and pick a pass.

IMO there will be no room for KDB in the central areas, however his delivery is world class and he could be utilised out wide in a more effective manner.

That would mean sacrificing Sterling or Sané, both long term options, as is Kev, I'd rather just push Silva back deeper and get Kev closer to the box where he's most effective (as we saw last season).

 

[blue wang]

I'm thinking more long term.

The Silva - De Brunye CM partnership doesn't work. They are too similar and neither make any forward off the ball runs. That's why we need someone like Isco, or like you said Gundogan. We also need a top class midfield pivot who can defend and pick a pass.

IMO there will be no room for KDB in the central areas, however his delivery is world class and he could be utilised out wide in a more effective manner.

It does work, its just de bryne has been a tad bit suite as of late.