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Made a triple sub on 59th minute. Look at the stats after then. Chelsea: 0/3 Shots on Target, 10 Touches in Opposition Box, 38 Passes in Final 3rd, 44% Possession. Villa: 8/9 Shots on Target, 14 Touches in Opposition Box, 41 Passes in Final 3rd, 56% Possession. This is what happens when you spend the best part of £2.5bn on shite and/or unproven players & appoint bang average managers, sporting directors 👍 Been saying it for about 18 months now. Piss poor at all levels. There will be stories of Palmer & Caicedo will be wanting to leave next summer if things don’t improve, any self respecting top elite player who could have their pick of teams, would be looking to do so anyway.

Played him into the ground. I know Hato hasn't been great yet but still.should be used more to find his feet and most important for now,avoid Cucu getting burnt out or injured.

Should sell Tosin,Badi and Gusto if anyone will take the first two.Gusto has had a few decent games so should be interest and maybe teams won't have picked up on his fatal flaw of being a dracula when somebody brings a cross.

Maresca injury update on regular starter could be terrible news for Chelsea – one game out at least https://Chelsea.news/2025/12/maresca-injury-update-regular-starter-terrible-news/ Enzo Maresca has just taken his press conference after Chelsea’s defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League this evening. The manager had to address a few topics, including how his team had been unable to complete their win despite a dominant first half performance and a lead. “In this moment it’s difficult to analyse because we need to understand again why when we concede a goal we struggle to manage the game in a better way,” the manager said. “Again, it can be experience or it can be that we need to analyse and we need to understand that.” Maresca has bad news update on Cucurella after sub Also on the agenda was Marc Cucurella, who was taken off in the second half as part of a series of changes which really took the wind out of his team’s sails and altered the course of the game. “Because he was complaining about hamstring, so we don’t know if it’s an injury now or not. So he asked for the change,” Maresca said. Cucurella has been played to the limit this season, and it’s quite amazing that he hasn’t already picked up an injury. Even if this is just a minor bit of soreness, they surely have to now rest the Spaniard on Tuesday night. Otherwise they risk losing him for more time just as things start to get busy. So even in the best case, we will be looking at a game out for Cucu. In other news… Maresca also spoke about the decision to take off Cole Palmer, who reacted with some frustration to the decision. Despite Chelsea dominating (and despite scoring their goal), Joao Pedro was just not good enough for Chelsea in the game, failing to create enough threat for his team.

‘Leave Him in 2025’ - Chelsea Have Moved on From 5/10 Dud After Aston Villa Nightmare https://www.givemesport.com/Chelsea-aston-villa-benoit-badiashile-should-be-left-in-2025/ Benoit Badiashile Endures Torrid Evening vs Villa Although Chelsea were very impressive in the first half and good value for their lead, everything slowly started to shift in the second 45 minutes. Gradually, Maresca's side began to lose control of the game as Villa poured forward, with the Blues losing momentum and ultimately three points. A huge reason for that was because of the frantic nature to their defending following the introduction of Ollie Watkins. The English striker gave Emery's side someone to play off and he started to cause problems for Benoit Badiashile, who went from composed and calm in the first half to lost at sea for much of the second. It was the French international's mistake which ultimately led to Villa's equaliser, as he gave the ball away in a dangerous area, which then allowed Rogers to play Watkins in for the equaliser. But there was plenty more to dislike about his performance, with him giving away possession six times. There's been a widespread consensus that Chelsea's depth at centre-back simply isn't good enough to take them to the next level, and Badiashile's performance on Saturday evening helped confirm that the Blues need better options to challenge for the league. Handed a 5/10 in GIVEMESPORT's player ratings from the game, Maresca will want to see much improved performances if he's to retain faith in the 24-year-old. Chelsea Supporters Want Badiashile Gone While the club hierarchy and coaching staff might be willing to give Badiashile time to prove himself for the remainder of the season, Chelsea fans have had enough of him. Some have called for him to be sold when the January transfer window opens, with one writing on social media: "We need to leave Badiashile in 2025. Genuinely one of the worst defenders we’ve ever employed." Those thoughts were shared by many other furious supporters. Another added: "Badiashile starting is at least at a -1 handicap in every single game. Prove me wrong." One more said: "Sanchez did all he could, Badiashile with another bozo moment. Totally unacceptable and unnecessary." And a fellow Blues supporter, writing after Villa's first goal, stated: "All of that came from Badiashile. Get rid of this guy, why does he actually have fans in this fanbase?" Journalist Hugh Woozencroft also joined the debate, writing: "Badiashile. How on earth can he start games of this magnitude. He's been playing tennis for the last 15 minutes and inevitably plays a loose ball which leads to the Villa equaliser." And a final supporter summed up the general mood towards the centre-back, stating: "I don’t want Badiashile to start for us ever again."

Wish the media would question him on these decisions, but that wouldnt be a newsworthy story

Villa XG in the first half was zero

Wish they would stop rotating the back 4 so much. Unfortunately Clearlake have equipped Maresca with an army of data analysts that encourage him to slot in squad players like Badiashile and Tosin whenever possible

Started so well, but you knew if the chances weren't executed, they'd wait and score. Irony is Sanchez has been impeccable of late, just the keystone cops in front of him...

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Meanwhile Emery going home with the 3 points and 12 wins out of last 13 PL games while this lightbulb still makes subs all over the place and showing fuck all.

Just watched the highlights back, we got a proper number done on us here....Emery pro active, Villa stayed at it and in the game and schooled us, just like we would have done years ago. Now we just cower in a corner

Emery exposing this bald fraud nothing new.

Hahaha I have also a life, Chelsea results and bro’s posts on an internet hardly influence me. Neither should you. Get a life, bro.

We must have dropped a fair few points from winning positions so far Just looked 11 at home. Not sure away

I was dead wrong about Delap. For the tiny price (by today’s standards) that we paid for him I figured there was basically zero downside and we may even get ourselves a bargain. Was under no delusions that he’d be prolific or anything but that he’d at least get us 12-15 PL goals like Nico Jackson did from his sheer determination and aggression. But he looks completely out of his depth in this team. Looks like he was at his level at Ipswich where there’s zero expectation on the team. Joao Pedro is a decent player but is nowhere close to a top level forward. He’s the sort of player who if you are Man City or Arse you’d see as a super sub or rotation option for a genuinely world class forward. We now enter yet another summer with a massive gaping hole up top and basically no obvious solutions out there. Not that these jokers up top would spend what’s necessary on a proven striker anyways.

Jackson feels like messi right now. Atleast he missed chances.

Youngest age and have a feeling these directors will want to keep it that way. They want Chelsea to be a better Brighton. Churning out players like Madueke for profit,.and luring fans with a false promise of genuine trophy challenges.

Dodged buying a top class striker and have done for years, goal came from it hitting Pedro on his boxer shorts and our two leading the fight for goals are Delap and Pedro.... Close the door on the way out

oldest average age side in the EPL (Villa) versus youngest (Chels) and they are not 'ancient old' they have a lot of players in prime years or near it and they (and Emery as well) do not often panic 18 games in to the league, they have taken 18 points now from losing positions

I’ve been as harsh on Maresca as anyone else here but for me that result wasn’t on him. At least not even close to the majority of it. We looked outstanding in the first half and continued to look comfortable up until the hour or so mark well into the second half. We were creating good scenario after good scenario in both flanks, we allowed nothing at all from their midfield who have been great lately, and Sanchez had nothing at all to do. Trev and Badiashile swept up any little minuscule opportunities Villa had on the break. We were toying with them and should’ve been multiple goals up. You could even see multiple Villa players getting super frustrated and annoyed because they couldn’t get a sniff. And then yet again we gift the other team a goal and collapsed afterwards. This for me is all on the mentality of the players themselves and not the manager. We have a team full of mentally weak babies with only a few exceptions.

what a load of bollocks I never claimed to be right all the time you are the one who went snowflake because you cannot apprently handle Villa getting some credit I blame us (board, players, and Maresca) but I also give Emery and Villa credit both things can be true, it is not an 'all or nothing' thing not my problem that you cannot deal with that

Everyone around us are picking up points even United We are going south and quickly, we will be mid table in a blink of an eye Watch Palmer's reaction we he got dragged, players are sick

I am not a snowflake, I think I can live with you being a hero on a forum and banning me. Go post a useless 12 pages long article then.

It does seem their wobble is over. However there is also Man U to contend with! Theyre not all bad bad at the moment