Chelsea(A) - Post Match Thread

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Only just got home after staying in London after the game.
Still struggling to recall such a professional, assertive, dominating performance against the League Champions on their own ground.

 

[Danish Blue]

Was jn a hotel in jaipur, game kicked off at midnight and when the goal went in we woke half the hotel up. Few apologies at breakfast, luckily they seemed to see the funny side of the mad Englishman and his lad.

 

[Dribble]

Anyone who can turn Delph into a mini Roberto Carlos against Chelsea deserves to win the Manager of the Year, full stop! Stones too, so cool and calm under pressure, the polar opposite of him last year.

Delph has been brilliant and as I've always said, he's a very underrated player. Hopefully now he'll be given a chance to prove his worth to us.

https://www.mancity.com/citytv/features/every-touch/every-touch-fabian-delph-v-chelsea

 

[shemnel]

played lads. played.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Quite simply a stunning performance playing football I've not seen before, I certainly didn't see that coming & am embarrassed to say I doubted the team.

Fair play pal,takes balls to admit such.

 

[Mike N]

Was jn a hotel in jaipur, game kicked off at midnight and when the goal went in we woke half the hotel up. Few apologies at breakfast, luckily they seemed to see the funny side of the mad Englishman and his lad.

Good stuff!

 

[mccity]

Pretty sure that was off Rudiger’s shoulder, mate. From what I saw, Rudiger knew virtually nothing about it. He just happened to be in the way.

i don’t know when I last saw defending champions play at home as though they were playing away. I understand them, mind you. This current City team can really hurt the opposition, at any point in the game.

I'd go one further, bastard was trying to duck out of the way!

 

[OB1]

I was gonna say that, but I thought I'd be labeled a pussy! Lol :-)

I wasn't so bothered about us losing Aguero, because strangely enough, it had the feeling of Mad Mario & the fireworks incident. As someone alluded to earlier, we played the same against them last year, but the difference between then & yesterday was our comical defending & being unable to take our chances.

I still think we have a long way to go and more purchases to make before we're properly there, but the progressive signs we've shown are very promising. Conte's shell shocked look on his face said it all, BUT he should consider this..... We dominated them twice last season, & Chelsea only had the league & FA Cup to concentrate on. This season, we've now seen the real difference when the playing field is levelled.

Conte can bang on about have 24 hours less to prepare, but they had 24 hours more to prepare against Athletico & were at home yesterday which gave them the home advantage of more fans & no travel. The fact he also mentioned how much money we spent in the summer also goes to show how desperate he was to find answers to what happened yesterday.

Another thing I noticed was how animated Pep was in his post match interview. He was a man who was trying to restrain his delight with finally beating Chelsea, never mind with them being the reigning champions & the match being at Stamford Bridge. The fact that not ONE RAG has called or text me to brag about their astounding win over pointless Crystal Palace, goes to show how profound yesterday's display was.

If I were the fan of another club, I'd be shitting myself.

At nil - nil in a game like that, anything can happen and crap decision by the officials can cost you; the important thing in those games is not to lose so, big picture, I'd have taken a point. However, to dominate them three times in a row and not get a win would have been both unusual and disappointing.

I agree that we have some way to go before we get to where Pep is aiming for but the progress is there for all to see.

 

[hfc]

Brilliant Article on our defence. http://footballunderlights.com/2017/10/01/manchester-city-and-their-defending-problem/

 

[cyan]

Other than Fernandinho's harsh booking how did we all rate ref Atkinson? He has to take credit for allowing us to play Chelsea off the park. It also helped not having the antics of Costa and Side-show Bob on show. Otamendi's needless argie-bargie yellow would have been welcomed if he had taken Fabregas out and not Willian.

Fernandinho had been warned already and committed a foul that stopped Hazard running at the centre backs - it was a yellow card.
Otamendi was stupid.
My gripe with Atkinson was that Chelsea were using rotational fouls to stop our players - and no one was booked - there should come a time where a referee says I don't care if that is your first foul - its the third on Silva/Sterling/Sane by your team and you are paying for it - works in Rugby, would cause the whole team to be wary of making the next challenge.