Chelsea Thread - 2023/24

[M18CTID]

Bloody hell. What a game. I actually felt we should have won that.

But a point against the best team in the world is a good point.

Not a bad advert for the Premier League between 2 plastic clubs with no history who didn’t exist 20 years ago ;)

Seriously, Sky will be dining out on that match for years to come! Your game against Spurs was fun to watch for many reasons but this was a true classic. End-to-end from start to finish and great to see a team go toe-to-toe with us. Some of the lesser teams have done it to be fair and to their credit have occasionally gotten a result but because they don’t possess the same quality of players that Chelsea have they’ve often found themselves on the end of a hiding. I look at all the money United have spent and they still play like an underdog team even when it’s not against us but you had a real go yesterday. I was disappointed that we couldn’t hang on in the end but even after going 4-3 up it always felt that there was another goal in the game.

I think a title challenge is out of reach for you this season as you’re probably just too far adrift already but next season may well be a different matter, and you could have a huge say in where it ends up this season given your results against the top sides so far.

 

[mexico1970]

Chelsea had their cup final yesterday, leaves them solidly in 10th.

 

[mancityscot]

Clearly a side on the up, but i cant see them finishing higher than 7th or 8th this season.

They wont have many games as open as that yesterday and against other sides that defend and play on the counter i think they'll still struggle.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Bloody hell. What a game. I actually felt we should have won that.

But a point against the best team in the world is a good point.

I thought you played well. Particularly your press. Palmer and Sterling were v good. I thought Raheem was motm.
Bit open at the back but bloody hell not as bad as us. Dias looked like he had been at his Christmas night out on Saturday evening. Hope you play like that and take points from others particularly the red shirt cartel.

 

[Vialli98]

I thought you played well. Particularly your press. Palmer and Sterling were v good. I thought Raheem was motm.
Bit open at the back but bloody hell not as bad as us. Dias looked like he had been at his Christmas night out on Saturday evening. Hope you play like that and take points from others particularly the red shirt cartel.

I also thought we played around your press effectively. It was great because players like Gallagher who were notoriously awkward on the ball have become really press resistant and we often had zero trouble playing through your press. If only we had more cutting edge up front, which sounds crazy to say in a game we scored 4 goals but we had you in 4v4 or 3v3 situations quite often and failed to capitalise.



City looked uncharacteristically wobbly at the back. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Dias that bad. 3 of our goals came from direct City errors, which seemed very unlike you.

 

[Mon Autre]

Feel like a few people are jumping the gun regarding them starting to gel etc. They were obviously always going to improve given the talent they have and woeful start to the season they've had. But the damage is already done for them this season. They took a massive gamble on making top 4 and that's highly unlikely at.this point. Is that going to leave them needing to sell next summer and start the season in transition again? They're still without a win at home all season and yesterday was pure chaos from both teams so I'm not sure we learned a whole lot about either team. Last game before that they struggled to beat 9 men. They're still all over the place for me.

 

[Bluewonder]

Feel like a few people are jumping the gun regarding them starting to gel etc. They were obviously always going to improve given the talent they have and woeful start to the season they've had. But the damage is already done for them this season. They took a massive gamble on making top 4 and that's highly unlikely at.this point. Is that going to leave them needing to sell next summer and start the season in transition again? They're still without a win at home all season and yesterday was pure chaos from both teams so I'm not sure we learned a whole lot about either team. Last game before that they struggled to beat 9 men. They're still all over the place for me.

Agreed, they were horrible at the back and spared a hammering by 3 ridiculous individual errors from our defenders and goalkeeper.

 

[Vialli98]

Agreed, they were horrible at the back and spared a hammering by 3 ridiculous individual errors from our defenders and goalkeeper.

I thought we were OK at the back. We conceded a meh penalty and a deflection. I don't feel City created too much outside of the other two goals (Haaland's 2nd and Akanji's free header) except that one Haaland chance that Sanchez saved. It's City, you're bound to create good chances, no-one can really stop you doing that but I thought we contained you well enough for the majority of the game. We weren't spared a hammering at all.

 

[bluemanc16]

Not a bad advert for the Premier League between 2 plastic clubs with no history who didn’t exist 20 years ago ;)

Seriously, Sky will be dining out on that match for years to come! Your game against Spurs was fun to watch for many reasons but this was a true classic. End-to-end from start to finish and great to see a team go toe-to-toe with us. Some of the lesser teams have done it to be fair and to their credit have occasionally gotten a result but because they don’t possess the same quality of players that Chelsea have they’ve often found themselves on the end of a hiding. I look at all the money United have spent and they still play like an underdog team even when it’s not against us but you had a real go yesterday. I was disappointed that we couldn’t hang on in the end but even after going 4-3 up it always felt that there was another goal in the game.

I think a title challenge is out of reach for you this season as you’re probably just too far adrift already but next season may well be a different matter, and you could have a huge say in where it ends up this season given your results against the top sides so far.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Can anyone tell me if Cole Palmer shown any respect to the travelling blues?

This will form my opinion on him forever