Chelsea (a) post match thread

i'll happy clap and i dont care:

there were a lot of positives to take from that performance (and a couple of negatives granted) but overall, you replace that team with a defence worthy of top6 (nevermind title chasers) and we walk the league.
 
The guy saves a penalty and he's 'poor' for that? :-0

He saved an extremely poor penalty, instead of pushing the ball out of play or wide he pushed the ball straight back into the path of hazard. Sorry but yes, it's an error.
 
They made us looks like boys for fucks sake. Other than Vinnie we are embarrassingly easy to bully off the ball. Frustrating as fuck to watch and I can't pretend to take many positives from that performance.
Give over - we're only taking positives today.
Everything's absolutely fine and next season we'll be unstoppable - Get with it!


Yes it's glib but some of the glossing over and blind faith on here. Hope the Nelsons are right.
 
Said when pep signed it would be his hardest job, nothing has changed

This summer is going to be huge in the outcome he cannot afford another season like this one
 
Well he needs to stop his obsession with playing out from the back, especially in the UCL - cost us a lot, blunders here and there. Yesterday was the best I have seen us play from the back and that was simply because Kompany wasn't having any of that "play from the back" crap, he kicked the ball far into the oppositions half when we were under pressure.

Secondly, he needs to change his philosophy a bit, a good general knows when to hold and when to attack. Excessive attacking might be fun to watch and is a bold statement BUT when you have done the job at home (The 5-2 game against Monaco for example) you should place more emphasis on holding on to your advantage. A flat back 4 with 2 dm in front of them would have been the reasonable thing to do away at Monaco.
I'm sure he learnt plenty from Monaco,seems he put some of that learning into last nights set up where i thought he got things spot on.
 
Someone needs to say it as it was.

Mancini like Pellegrini had one decent season and the rest was mainly fucking turgid. It wasn't that long ago not to remember the crap performances and defeats yet its like history is being re written on here yet again.

Fans constantly longing for his return are a complete fucking embarrassment and i will tell you why. Not a fucking peep from any of them when things are going well, not one peep yet as soon as we lose a game they are back on moaning and whining.

Some are far more interested in being proven right on an internet forum at times than they are City doing whats required and moving forwards.

We played well last night. Some of the attacking play is on a different level to anything else seen in this league and but for some lax finishing and the final ball, we are not far off. Kun, Sane, Jesus, Sterling, KdB, Merlin gracing the pitch yet its moan fucking moan. "Should have backed Bobby" is the cry yet you all forget one thing. he would have spunked money on Van Persie and whilst it might have won a league, we can only guess he too would have been gone now and those players mentioned Merlin and Kun aside probably wouldn't be here and we would be watching the Ballotelli show week in week out or at least we would when he wasn't suspended.

We need new full backs, a keeper and a dominant CM. We can all see it, we have all said it and we have all acknowledged it will happen this summer when several contracts are up and players will leave that are just no longer up to it. What do you want Pep to do in the meantime? Play players he doesn't have? Chelsea barely mustered a shot 2nd half last night and but for a deflection and some poor goalkeeping and a lucky deflection yet again off the penalty save they have actually done fuck all. They didn't out play us, we out played them for large periods yet some just dont want to see it.

Pep came in and said we are going to change the mentality of the club. Not just the tam, the club and he said on several occasions its going to take time. We are competing against clubs with decades of experience at the very top when in reality we have been there for a few years. We went unbeaten at the start of the season but he kept telling us we would lose game, lots of games and he has been proven right. Maybe he knew then the quality in the squad wasn't of the required standard? He told us it wasn't a quick fix and that his job would take several years. Did anyone actually listen to what he said or was it in one ear and out the other?

Best owner in world football, some of the best talent in world football and without a doubt, the best manager in world football as shown by his record and for those that will harp on its easy when you are with Barca and Bayern, his job here is to turn us into those same sort of elite clubs that for the next 50 years will dominate the game because he has changed our mentality into the same as theirs. Winners!

The fans also need to change their mentality. Its not all about the next game or the next few weeks. it will take time but it will happen because everything our owner planned for when he came in and promised he has delivered and in Pep, he will deliver once more. If you cant see the improvements being made within the club as a whole i feel sorry for you. if you cant see what he is trying to do out on the pitch i feel sorry for you. Pragmatism is thown around here like confetti. You want pragmatism? Watch a Mourinho side or a Pulis side because that's pragmatism. Turgid, crap anti football that harps back to the days of muddy pitches, big lad up front and shouts of "get rid" from the sidelines and "get it up to the big man up front".

No fucking thanks because we are better than that and it might win the odd battle but it wont win the war because we will win the war.

Finally refs and linesmen are screwing us over every single game. See that for what it is and accept it and instead or turning on the team, direct some of that anger at them because they are costing us big time. Such fine lines in football and this season we have been royally fucked over and its costs us so many points its untrue. We get what we where due and the league table looks very different and the mood on here is very different. Its not Peps fault they are bent, nor is it Merlin's or Raheem's and like us, the players are fucked off with it as well but its a battle right now and we all have to take the fight to them and win the war.

Its a passionate game and we all love this club but some of the stuff written after a defeat is cringe worthy and downright disrespectful.
 
Same old story really, playing quite well, not taking chances, conceding out of the blue.

Team looked tired towards the end, not enough strength in depth, lacking in certain positions, lacking off the bench.

Promising signs, but just falling short.

Still optimistic for next season.

Talking out your arse, best team lost today, you're deluded if you think differently.
The point is it doesn't matter how well you play, it's whether you convert it into the three points. We don't even draw when title winning sides win even when they're not playing well
 
Yeah you're probably not wrong there.

I thought we played well but we do need to finish some of our chances. I still think we'll do them if we meet them in the cup. We can't be the better team three times and lose all three surely.

i sort of agree mate but our current defensive frailties means its all up for grabs, we have no wiggle room up front whilst we are liable to concede.
fingers crossed we can outscore the gooners and whoever we may get
 

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