Chelsea (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[waspish]

Tonight just demonstrated what the squad is lacking in terms of fitness, pace and mobility.

Chelsea were shit in the first half and not much better in the second, but they kept going and ran us into the ground in the end.

If our passing game doesn’t click, and it certainly didn’t in the second half, then we give possession away too easily and can’t easily win it back because we don’t have the legs or the power in midfield.

We’ve got a lot of work to do to the squad if we’re to be really competing next season. A top four finish this season would be a good outcome.

There under 21 manager made plenty of subs we needed subs on in midfield

 

[Damanino]

we needed a serious reaction to the Sunderland 0-0.

and we fail to beat a Chelsea side who should have been beaten like 3-0 and had manager getting them ready to the game who was some past City youth coach. like someone putting out the cones for EDS lol.

have a feeling Fulham will beat this Chelsea side in 3 days.

players look extremely tired at the worst moment. still lot of games in January, Carabao, FA cup, 2x CL games, and PL games still vs Brighton, rags, Wolves. thats 7 more games until the 28th. likes of Haaland, Foden and fullbacks likely to start all games probably only getting a break vs Exeter.

 

[Earlyriser]

A team that cant run for 90 minutes

A manager being stubborn

Some dog shit transfers

A world class.striker that goes missing in every big game

I'm really nt hav

Time for stones come back ?

And play at an even slower pace if that's possible

 

[robbieh]

Of our squad we have Marmoush and Ait Nouri away. Stones, Kovacic permanently injured, and Phillips unpickable.

Savinho Bobb and Nico G injured. And now possibly Gvardiol.

Throw in he doesn't fancy Lewis and that's a hell of lot of players unavailable which means the others are overplayed.

 

[colorado blue]

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

It’s not gone but we better have a reaction against Brighton because today we didn’t look like Champions. Unfortunately Arsenal are just better than us this seaosn and have depth to spare.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I saw it coming, just like Thursday. We might be struggling to stay in the top four by February

 

[Eaststander1]

Arsenal would have seen that game out tonight. 100 per cent.

Feigning injuries. Time wasting. Tactical fouls etc... they would have found a way.

Yep, I couldn't agree more , they would have done.

 

[waspish]

The bad decision making was from fatigue and pressure to win the game

 

[citymad]

When you look at Arsenal’s squad and the way they can rotate and just deal with injuries, we have pretty much a 0% chance of winning the title. Pep clearly felt the only chance we had was to spam the same team over and over again and just pray that nobody got injured or fatigued. In the short term it fooled some into thinking we were in the race. But it is a marathon not a sprint - a deep squad is needed and we just don’t have enough players that are good enough. As we enter a period of injury and tiredness now, we are going to slip far, far away from Arsenal. We are not at their level right now.

Unfortunately this is the reality. Because of this squad size we will continue to drop points as will Villa and I can only see Arsenal pulling away. Arsenal have Jesus and Havertz and probably Timber back soon.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Feigning injuries. Time wasting. Tactical fouls etc... they would have found a way.

In that scenario let the Pimm’s drinking whining cunts have their 15 seconds in the sun

 

[Sibierskii]

What a depressing game of football I couldn’t wait for it to end.

Crowd were shite again. Pindrop

 

[Fordyboy46]

we were knackered , Rodri was immense and ran out of steam .Had to get Cherki and Foden off and get someone in midfield with some legs .

Pep should've given Mukasa and Mcaidoo some minutes then, but he will never use them unless we're three nil up

 

[waspish]

Brighton Wednesday they’ll run us ragged while being kicked of the park

 

[Tolmie scores]

Tonight just demonstrated what the squad is lacking in terms of fitness, pace and mobility.

Chelsea were shit in the first half and not much better in the second, but they kept going and ran us into the ground in the end.

If our passing game doesn’t click, and it certainly didn’t in the second half, then we give possession away too easily and can’t easily win it back because we don’t have the legs or the power in midfield.

We’ve got a lot of work to do to the squad if we’re to be really competing next season. A top four finish this season would be a good outcome.

I think we definitely need the lad from Bournemouth to stand any chance.... we are pretty poor, no legs at the back..Ake and the like are fked..Bernie can't play two games so close to each other again...he only had the legs to keep dropping a five yard pass backwards (Grealish like) we hardly threatened 'em... and the eitihad was the usual soft touch for away teams who should be up against it...

 

[Ajm1985]

Gvardiol going off was always going to be a huge difference.

It was but we did nothing to shore up midfield and we had a few too many dud performances. We still had 'momentum' and openings after Gvardiol went off but were really lacking.

 

[hilts]

That was soooo predictable, and deserved.

Badly let down by the fwd players in the last two games, Haaland, Foden and Cherki awful.

O’Rielly is not the answer at LB, nor is the guy we tried to replace him with.

Nunes, Silva and Rodri very good.

forgot winning the league just look for incremental improvements.

O'Reilly has been brilliant dont be daft

 

[Ken92]

Stop this they will bottle the league as if we are in position to win all the games.
We still have to travel to Toilet Lane , Old Toilet , And Anfield . And we host Villa too

No, read what people say, we are so so good and savinho will be pne of the best in 2 years, cherki is messi esque and so on, useless to give myself false hope, all can see we are far from great team

 

[ancoats]

I had a feeling that playing the same team week after week was a big risk. Now our first eleven look exhausted, and the situation is compounded with injuries.

A word for Rodri. He was superb in the first half but didn't have the legs in the second half.

The main players in this squad are far too thin on the ground Haaland Foden Cherki Dias need resting, but who the hell is coming in for them ?

City has to be a cup team this season because the title and Arsneal are on another planet to us like it or not
Who is in City's 25-man squad ? 8 or 9 of that squad are not playing for reasons like injuries or just not good enough
We are carry far to many players and what for ?

Look, get them out the deadwood 4 keepers so 2 can leave plus Phillips Stones Lewis Bobb Ake Kovacic

 

[mattyads]

O’Reilly sold himself massively. Awful defending from him.

But he looked fucked so, what can you say??

An absolutely fucking disgraceful result

He looked the same against Sunderland.

I think we are reaching the natural conclusion of the experiment of him at full back.

I could cut and paste from the previous 7 years, “we need a proper LB”

 

[KS55]

Typical City.
Oops, Sorry.