Match Thread | Chelsea vs Man City (12/11/23)

[Kippax77]

Didn't say anything for about 30 seconds when it went.in

Too busy spewing into the sick bucket

 

[I'm Blue]

As well as Foden is playing, I’d be interested to see Doku up against Cucurella for 10–15 minutes. He’s on a yellow and Doku is a bag of tricks.

Cucurella is all arms, every challenge is a push.
He’ll get away with it whether it’s against Foden or Doku.

 

[platty7]

Wrong set up. Ake and Grealish should have started and Kovacic in place of Alvarez.

Ake is injured agree with jack starting

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

WTF did we do to offend Sterling?

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Didn't say anything for about 30 seconds when it went.in

Scouse twat

 

[remember arthur mann]

Same old Sky commentary, devastation when City score, ecstasy when the opposition score. Spiitty is a cnut.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Few other players before that should be blamed

I think to be honest you can blame virtually the whole defence for that one…

Not our finest moment.

 

[Ellenbrook_blue]

I don't normally have the commentary on, unfortunately today I have no choice. Fuck me it's a disgrace.

Totally agree, that Spitty so want Chelsea to win.
couldnt even mutter anything about the brill header for our second goal.

 

[phargrave]

Great game but that’s was some of the worst defending I’ve seen from
City for a long time ..

 

[Ghostofmerlin]

The Akanji goal was a great example of why short corner routines are a thing. Initially, every aerial threat is being man-handled/blocked, then when the ball gets played short all the Chelsea blockers stop blocking and step up, leaving Akanji free. It’s so simple but it really does show why just whipping the ball into the mixer is not always the best decision. Teams are far more prepared for a standard whipped in corner than they are for a short one, as there’s more variety with what you can do with them.

Read some analysis of corners somewhere on the Internet that said regular corners in the EPL convert at a 3.5% rate, whereas the short corners are roughly double that. Either way, have to take a lot of corners to get a goal.