closed Chelsea 2-0 Brighton

[Vesper 27,282]

fucking Spuds, grrr 2 1 with 10 men for ages

[Muzchap 8,966]

Well played today.

Thought some good performances 

Barkley was dogshit- he's just too slow and can't get his head up.

Willian was wasteful but scored so will let him off

Tammy did well and another good game for his development- he will get better and better.

Good to see CHO back

Azpi is definitely weak link - but I love his commitment - but let's hope he gets phased out at some point 

Really need RLC back from injury - he would have dominated in this game 

 

The future is bright- the future is blue 👍👍👍

[killer1257 3,282]

Nope we are still porous. Our problem is facing player like Jota, cantweel, Madison. If Brighton has such player we would have been in more trouble 

We dealt pretty Good with Mane and Salah

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[MoroccanBlue 5,194]

Papers over the cracks a bit. Brighton don’t hit the post after the immense pressure they built, don’t think we would’ve got the 3 points. 

Something to build on I suppose. James needs to be starting soon. Clubs continue to exploit our right side 

[Superblue 6,331]

Great result today. I thought the performance was measured, controlled and professional by and large which is a big plus because you can't go and outscore teams all the time without clean sheets.

Get a string of results and build some momentum and I think top 4 could be extremely attainable this season.

Set pieces are still a concern because that was Brighton's only way into the game today.

[1905didierblue 748]

1 minute ago, Costa19 said:

Why should i? Dont tell me you sat silent the whole game only to quote me after Willian scored what will be an own goal? 

Small-minded person haha 

Atleast I was not moaning like a bitch and criticizing before a ball was played. 

Willian scored an own goal, but we fully deserved the win. Like we probably did against pool too. So now please go and find someone else to moan. Surely you would not be able to do the thing you love here today.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Don't get too excited. Brighton have scored 1 goal in 5 matches.

Who are we playing next?

Oh and if you criticised Willian you obviously support Accrington Stanley (I'd love to take blame for that one, but I thought he was good today).

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[Vesper 27,282]

Jorginho MOTM for me

Tomori 2nd

 

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Jorginho was quality. Spraying some passes out there like he wears a magic hat

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[Magic Lamps 11,446]

7 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Florentino from Benfica would be a superb buy, but he will be £90m to £110m. 

That's too much given we usually play with Jorginho as no. 6. The dm would just need to be a backup. I actually think any midfield three that does not feature Barkley is fine.

Is there not a promising DM in the youth/dev squad?

Btw Tomori clearly MOTM today. What a rock. Seldom seen such an explosive CB. Restricted them to 2 chances. One of which was again a poorly defended corner and we got lucky, still aint got that down pat.

Defensively this was our best performance of the season albeit vs a team that has only once scored in their last 5 games.

Offensively, Pedro (unforgivably) and Tammy (still learning) each missed a hattrick of the easiest chances imaginable. Alonso and Barkley with another 100% miss each so this makes it 8 chances from which we surely should have scored. The goals we actually scored were rather accidental at that. Finishing besides set-piece defending still our biggest issue. Azpi on the other hand was fine at once.

Next up Lille in CL. Should be doable. Lille and Amsterdam are actually so close, they hardly count as away games.

 

[ZAPHOD2319 3,870]

It got pretty when CHO came in. Before that it was 1-0 with a lot of blown chances. That may get it done against Brighton, but our players have to start putting those sitters in the net.

 

Very happy for the win.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Please - let's not fight against each other.

The last few years have been really tough and we all have scars...

Let's celebrate a win, an improvement from the team and potentially 6th place.

We are in great shape - on another day could have been 6 or 7 for us...

But we are playing well and creating without Hazard- nobody expected that at the start of the season 👍

[Superblue 6,331]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

Jorginho MOTM for me

Tomori 2nd

 

Agree Jorginho was superb today. How he's playing under Lampard is ironically what I expected from him under Sarri.

Tomori is first choice now for me, he seems to be getting better every game.

[communicate 2,703]

4 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

We dealt pretty Good with Mane and Salah

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Salah and mane are channel runner. Madisson, Cantwell play between the line 

[Muzchap 8,966]

Fucking Spurs 😡

[Jase 43,479]

@milan.cech you still haven't answered my question! 

[Milan 17,835]

We have a positive goal difference!!  

[Hutcho 8,443]

Enjoy the win! We played well, deserved the win and should have scored more.
Hopefully we've turned the corner with more players coming back than getting injured which will be a big boost (great to see CHO back)

Let's keep it rolling and get a win in midweek and next week before the international break and start putting some good performances and halves into more victories!