Chelsea (H) Post Match Thread

[Seedy Ron]

Watched the game back and the pain and bias in the words and manner of Tyler and Ratboy was tangible. They just hate how dominant we are so focus on the other teams lack of ambition to defer from the fact their beloved Rags chances have all but vanished.

That said I really feel Ratboy should be brought to task over some of the comments he has made regarding the desire of other teams when they have played us recently. Sure lots of teams have come to the Etihad over the last 7 seasons with 10 men behind the ball and some have managed to nick a result but we are that energetic/inventive/irresistible this season its just not working and if they had an ounce of even handed professionalism between them they would be concentrating on that fact.

What the horrible little sh*t has said over the last few weeks is just biased, self interested vitriol. As for Tyler's comment about passing not getting you points just proves what I have thought for years now, he's a rag obsessed A hole who has lost all objectivity and should have been retired years ago.

We are awesome and if their little raggies were playing like this Sly would have to order in hand cream and tissues by the truckload for them.

Their pain makes me happy.

 

[NI Blue]

All Sunday morning I was thinking this could be a tough match and a big hurdle to get over. Then the game started and goodness me Chelsea were absolutely terrified of City. What a great feeling to know that the defending champions had lost the game in their heads before kick off.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Great job yesterday albeit against a team that showed absolutely no ambition for 80 minutes. There was that passage of play around 75 minutes where their midfield & defence was in a ‘they shall not pass’ formation about 30-35 yards out from their goal and made no attempt to pressure our players, who were about 15-20 yards inside the Chelsea half and clearly were quite nonplussed. Then Fabregas trots out halfheartedly to stand in front of Silva, who plays the ball sideways, whereupon Fabregas trots back into line. I could understand it if they were 1-0 up or even level but they were behind and really needed 3 points to keep them in the race for top 4. That’s one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen.

As we saw at Wigan, it’s so hard to get past a team that has 9 outfield players in front of you but everyone did so well, particularly Sane, Silva, Aguero and Zinchenko. The only negative was that Kyle Walker had a funny game, giving the ball away via poor passes in advanced areas about 6 times and allowing Chelsea to counterattack. Fortunately they all came to nothing but you could see his annoyance with himself.

Was it boring? Maybe it wasn’t end-to-end but that’s not our fault and I’d strongly disagree that it was boring.

 

[Armaan]

Chelsea fan TV, 100% Chelsea Youtube channels both have match reports worth viewing. Good coverage from the Chelsea point of view

Cheesy's got his Vlog up as well. 'Forever Blue'

Guardian football has some good match reports, and comments. Far busier actually than bluemoon.

Oh my word the woman from that channel is one of the most perfectly beautiful thing on this planet.

 

[Sky Blue]

Oh my word the woman from that channel is one of the most perfectly beautiful thing on this planet.

Yep, fit that Sophie.

 

[TBooksbluearmy]

I was thinking on the way to the match, that this game against Chelsea will be our toughest test at the Etithad to date, how wrong was I. They came with no ambition what so ever, and if I was a Chelsea fan I would be demanding my money back for this shambolic performance. The players didn't need to get out of 2nd gear and just strolled through the game without having to tire themselves to much ahead of the 2nd leg of the Champions league against Basle on Wed.

 

[Zak747]

Commentary on sky is shocking but spare a thought to Neville and Tyler it must burn so bad how good we are and they had to commentate on our last 3 games. Tyler hates us so much he can’t hide it no more

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

"Ironically thought we played better yesterday than last season when we won 3-1. You can blame our tactics but that's how we setup and City failed to make a game of it, they were boring as f**k. If it wasn't for another Christensen mistake and better forward passes from Fabregas it may have been a different outcome."

From the Chelsea Shed forum this morning. I am truly fascinated by human beings' ability to plumb depths of self-delusion, and then go to hitherto unsuspected levels below. LIke a kind of Mariana Trench of self-deception. The part I've put in bold: does he actually realize what he's just typed out? Is it possible?

 

[Deleted member 81382]

It was funny watching both Silva's trying their best not to piss themselves with laughter while talking about Chelsea's tactics.

 

[Custard_Fart]

I was at the game and couldn't believe I was watching Chelsea, the current champions of England, just content to sit back and not compete. It was a what the fuck moment.

Think it's more to do with Conte wanting the sack (& payoff)

It was bizarre taking Hazard off last week when the game was still up for grabs. Yesterday was more puzzling seeing as they really needed to win the game. Every man & his dog knew yesterday that we would press high. He left both big strikers on the bench giving the them no out ball.

Conte has been complaining that he hasn't had sufficient funds compared to both us & the Rags. He then proceeds to leave a £60 Mill striker on the bench. If i was Roman i'd be fuming, especially as it's now likely they will lose out on CL again.