Chelsea (H) | Post-Match Thread

chesterbells said:
That eleven have just had the confidence boost of reaching a champions league final; I don’t think they needed any boost today.
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Tricky one isn’t it as the team has had a long run of games for nearly a year without break. So you have to rotate to avoid injury

making soooooo many changes knackers rhythm, partnerships and form tho
 
citymad said:
Nah not having that. Nothing to do with being a crap fan. All most of us are saying is that its reasonable to make 3-4 changes even 5 but that was way over the top from Pep today. We had a chance to give Tuchel something to worry about and wrap up the league. Then we could've fucked about playing the likes of Mendy in dead rubbers but no we hand Tuchel another advantage over us and now we have to wait a little longer for the title. Newcastle wont be easy, you saw how they dispatched Leicester. The rags are somehow getting results and I expect them to keep doing so. (flappity, flap, flap) Just hope Pep has finally learned this lesson of making too many changes. He's a genius but sometimes he try's to be a little too clever.
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He’s got the right to rotate his team. United aren’t catching us, so stop shitting yourself.
 
paulchapo said:
The elephant in the room tonight is rotation. I totally understand why Ped did it and does it but he is now between a rock and a hard place before the championship league final. Even if the rags lose tomorrow does he risk not playing any of our final team in the last three league games in case of injury? This appears sensible but then the team could drop points and confidence, also the players rested could lose sharpness and the team momentum. It's a tough call.

On our fringe players aside from a couple of weak ones I think on the whole they're decent but not all playing together. One or two slotting in amongst the first team and we cope okay, almost a full team then there is an obvious drop in quality and momentum.

I'm a little concerned that our old failing of taking chances this season is going to cost us in the final against Chelsea. I fear their pace and movement up front will hurt us more than ours will hurt them. Of course I pray I'm wrong.
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We've earned the right to play a weakened side.

All eyes now are on the CL final, chill out you'll see the benefits of rotation in three weeks time.
 
madloaf said:
To be honest i feel exactly the same way as you and something has been lost in the translation. I am of the exact same opinion and was voicing my frustration at people on a forum who tell others to shut up, which is antithetical to the whole idea.
I would take that pint!!
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I apologise mate if I misread your post⏲
 
simon23 said:
Yeah of course...but tuchel is a decent manager....this chelsea team is hard to beat...set up and drilled well and have the pace on the break to cause us problems....

strongest 11 vs 11 and we should win BUT it will be a very very hard game....Chelsea under Tuchel are defensively excellent and a real threat and football aint played on paper....
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They have improved dramatically under Tuchel. What we have to take from today going 1-0 up we should of been 2 up within a matter of minutes. Would of been interesting to see how they would react to being 2-0 down today, We will never know.
One good thing is obviously they haven't faced our proper 11...
Going to be a tough game but I expect us to come out on top.
 
ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
For me, this result irrevocably severs the relationship I had with this club.

I am through with supporting City as I am simply not interested in corporate footballl when it entails playing a deliberately weakened side in this manner. This is what Colin Schindler wrote warned us about.

From now on I will follow local non-league sides near me. Couldn’t give a fuck about either the premiership or champion’s league if it gets won like this.
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give over

as for Colin Schindlers book Manchester United ruined my life. Good title absolutely wank book. More about Lancashire cricket club than city .

“couldn’t give a fuck about either the premier league or champions league” sounds like you won’t need to . Enjoy watching FC United in the future with your mate Colin.
 
citymad said:
Nah not having that. Nothing to do with being a crap fan. All most of us are saying is that its reasonable to make 3-4 changes even 5 but that was way over the top from Pep today. We had a chance to give Tuchel something to worry about and wrap up the league. Then we could've fucked about playing the likes of Mendy in dead rubbers but no we hand Tuchel another advantage over us and now we have to wait a little longer for the title. Newcastle wont be easy, you saw how they dispatched Leicester. The rags are somehow getting results and I expect them to keep doing so. Just hope Pep has finally learned this lesson of making too many changes. He's a genius but sometimes he try's to be a little too clever.

*I'm flapping just a little*
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Fuck me man up
 
Compare how we played today and how our first 11 pinged the ball around and pressed PSG in both matches. That's how we are going to play Chelsea in the final!

I just hope Dias gets some rest.
 
ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
For me, this result irrevocably severs the relationship I had with this club.

I am through with supporting City as I am simply not interested in corporate footballl when it entails playing a deliberately weakened side in this manner. This is what Colin Schindler wrote warned us about.

From now on I will follow local non-league sides near me. Couldn’t give a fuck about either the premiership or champion’s league if it gets won like this.
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Haha
 
slick said:
We've earned the right to play a weakened side.

All eyes now are on the CL final, chill out you'll see the benefits of rotation in three weeks time.
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I didn't say we haven't, I just highlighted the possible problems of doing so if we do it for the last three games.
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
Tricky one isn’t it as the team has had a long run of games for nearly a year without break. So you have to rotate to avoid injury

making soooooo many changes knackers rhythm, partnerships and form tho
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Yeah. I mean I could understand the drama if we didn’t have another 3 league games and another 3 weeks to the UCL final. But we do.
 
citymad said:
Nah not having that. Nothing to do with being a crap fan. All most of us are saying is that its reasonable to make 3-4 changes even 5 but that was way over the top from Pep today. We had a chance to give Tuchel something to worry about and wrap up the league. Then we could've fucked about playing the likes of Mendy in dead rubbers but no we hand Tuchel another advantage over us and now we have to wait a little longer for the title. Newcastle wont be easy, you saw how they dispatched Leicester. The rags are somehow getting results and I expect them to keep doing so. Just hope Pep has finally learned this lesson of making too many changes. He's a genius but sometimes he try's to be a little too clever.

*I'm flapping just a little*
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You've always been a meltdown merchant. Maybe you and simon23 can pm each other to cheer yourselves up.
 
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