Chelsea (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[citymad]

Well done Chelsea, dirty bastards but they deserved the draw. We were lazy, complacent and very poor up front. We basically through the title away today. There’s no way with that second half attitude we can go on and challenge what is turning out to be an Arsenal juggernaut moving along with purpose. Pep will be furious and rightly so.

 

[vmsuhail]

Instead of trying to kill the game we played like cowards against a poor managerless Chelsea the entire 2nd half. Deserved result.

It wasn't like we sat back. We tried for the goal, just poor in the final third. Tired at the end and a sequence of mistakes, starting with the Bernardo foul.

 

[HolisticJim]

We forced to play everything through Haaland, ignoring everyone who was free to score. Cherki, Foden are both guilty of forcing everything through Haaland. We were wasteful and foolish in this match. Poor decisions from Haaland, Cherki and Foden. They kept on piling the bad decisions. The wanted Haaland to score so bad at an expense of a draw!

For me we don't play to Haaland strengths. The amount of times a ball over the top would release him but we play backwards and sidewards.

We miss KDB putting those long curved balls across their defence into his path and as a result he has little impact. Even when he scores it's not because we're playing to his strengths.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Very frustrating having been ahead for so long but it seems the team were exhausted. Rodri deserves a medal for playing 96 minutes. I'll keep believing the title is on...so many games left. Up the blues...keep the faith.

 

[cookster]

Ye absolutely nothing to do with losing your best two CBs.

Lol

Lol all you want. Make better decisions in attack and the game isn't in doubt.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

He can sub him or tell him to stay central & help rodders instead of bombing forward

And you know he didn’t say that how?

 

[mattcity5]

Thanks to the lack of squad planning we are done in this title race. Foden and Cherki poor, Haaland poor finishing and everyone else just knackered. We probably win that if our main CBs stay on but there are no if, buts and maybes just absolutes. We should just aim to win the FA and EFL Cups from here on out.

Needed to give Ait-Nouri a game or two early December to give O'Reilly a break. He's totally knackered, but he'll have to carry on playing a bit longer now.

 

[ufo]

Shit happens but bowl cut jar jar binks and son of a long ball thrower are both cunts

 

[Ric]

Disappointing performance and result. The squad is far too stretched at the moment to seriously compete for the title.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Awful performance against a disinterested and mediocre Chelsea side. 2 points dropped and Arsenal are now well in the ascendancy for the title.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Foden was disappointing, I thought Cherki was our main source of creativity. He will be a very important player for us. Foden seem to take the wrong option time and again but hopefully he will bounce back.

Foden and Cherki between them wasted so many good opportunities. We should have put the game to bed long before they equalised.

 

[Winchester]

Predictable Inept performance

 

[Blu1]

And you know he didn’t say that how?

Then he must of ignored him on what I watched

 

[dhruvblue]

Those academy lads on bench wouldn’t have done any worse than Cherki or Foden today

But again manager simply refuses to use them

 

[ALDN_Ko]

lol at people saying that the league has gone with a 6 point gap but 4 points and we’re still in it.

We look more likely to drop points than Arsenal. It’s not really a performance thing just injuries. We don’t have the squad for it. Arsenal have rice out and they have merino, Eze or norgaard. If Silva gets injured the only option is Reijnders who is poor off the ball.

 

[ufo]

Time for stones come back ?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Is Dias injured? I’m not up to date on the injury status of all our defenders nor on the talent available beneath them.

But just to be clear, regardless of the above, I’m not advocating moving him out and leaving us a player short, I’m suggesting bringing a quicker defender in to replace him.

He sat down on the pitch after the Khusanov/Delap incident. It looked like he went off injured.

 

[Beanhead]

Football can be cruel.

 

[paulchapo]

Fine margins. With a bit of luck and more composure ( Cherki/Foden ) we would have been 3-0 up at halftime. 1-0 is never enough for this side. Our squad is threadbare, what was there, five youth players on the bench? As a result our first eleven is being flogged to death and picking up injuries. No way Arsenal blow it from here, in fact i see them running away with it now. They have the strongest squad which has enabled them to keep on picking up points even with injuries to key players.We have to keep on strengthening and be ready to mount a serious challenge next season.

 

[colorado blue]

TV talking like it was a Chelsea master plan. I thought they were awful and got a point because City players decided not to kill the game off