Chelsea Thread - 2023/24

[SebastianBlue]

Lol just seen the highlights arguing over taking the penalty lol

 

[Scaley]

Listened to it all and I think every football fan should, saying 6/7 clubs could fall foul of all this FFP, Leeds could be fucked if they get promoted it’s a shit show and I don’t think anyone knows a way out of it.

That’s easy, they’ll just blame us…or the SAS.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Over the last month or so I've watched these about 5 times and each time they've been fucking awful. Game before us, they get their shit together..typical. Any other time I'd be supremely confident, but with our, fixtures looking like they are and Pep having form playing depleted sides in semi's I'm not sure.

 

[Haaland94]

Never seen anything like it at this level. Madness. Palmer gets fouled, Madueke aggressively trying to take it, fighting (wrestling) with Jackson, Thiago Silva tries to calm them as the most senior player, Cole Palmer stands up after being fouled and thinks he is taking it as a designated penalty taker (8/8 before that), basically gets attacked by Madueke and then Jackson, and Gallager sorts it out as the captain in the end. It was 4-0 up at that point, but against the rags, none of them wanted to take it. Madueke and Jackson acting like clowns.

 

[jimharri]

Dele has come across as a bit of a dick at times during his career. But he's spot on there, referencing the utd game when Chelsea got a stoppage time penalty to equalise. There was no sign of Jackson or Madueke fighting to take that one. It's easy to take one when you're 4 up. No pressure. Didn't Sterling pull rank earlier in season, took the penalty and missed?

 

[waspish]

Over the last month or so I've watched these about 5 times and each time they've been fucking awful. Game before us, they get their shit together..typical. Any other time I'd be supremely confident, but with our, fixtures looking like they are and Pep having form playing depleted sides in semi's I'm not sure.

If we win tomorrow pep will play a slightly weaker team also benefiting Chelsea

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

If we win tomorrow pep will play a slightly weaker team also benefiting Chelsea

This is my worry. But how weak? Only 3 days turnaround.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Most of them are actually pens. There have been some right iffy ones like Madueke vs United and Mudryk vs Burnley but mostly the pens we've been given are actually pens. In fact there are a few more situations I felt were stonewall pens that weren't awarded to us :)

Nothing iffy about that Burnley one. It was a downright disgrace. One of the worst penalty decisions I've ever seen, you almost sound like ten Hag describing a united defeat.

 

[waspish]

This is my worry. But how weak? Only 3 days turnaround.

To be fair our weak team is still capable of beating cheslea likes of Doku Alvarez Lewis and Bob

 

[Vialli98]

Dele has come across as a bit of a dick at times during his career. But he's spot on there, referencing the utd game when Chelsea got a stoppage time penalty to equalise. There was no sign of Jackson or Madueke fighting to take that one. It's easy to take one when you're 4 up. No pressure. Didn't Sterling pull rank earlier in season, took the penalty and missed?

He is wrong though, because Madueke was actually seen discussing/arguing with Palmer about that United penalty. Its crazy how random narratives form around an incident without any evidence, and just because someone said something. Madueke wanted to take that United penalty because he was the one who 'won' the penalty. Last night he probably thought he won the penalty again as the ref blew the whistle as he fell over, but it was actually Palmer who was fouled. The big problem here isn't that these guys wanted to take the penalty. It's that Poch never designated Palmer the penalty taker so it was always up for debate so to speak.