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As for the game it was the most comfortable second leg of a CL tie you could wish for. Excellent game management.

Unless we completely lose the plot and results go south in these last few weeks of the season, sacking Tuchel just because we don't get Top 4 would be a fucking stupid decision from the board...again. Yes, Tuchel was brought in to revitalize our Top 4 challenge but he was also brought in because Lampard didn't have a clue what to do with the team at all. Tuchel has already shown the opposite and given the team a solid platform at the very least to compete properly. Have the problems been solved? No. It's ridiculous to just expect a manager coming midway through a season to just solve all

I have no opinion on Super League, but laughing so hard on Uefa/Fifa crybabies stomping their feet because the stream of dirty money is threatened. How can they throw away teams from CL right now? On basis of what? Twitter statement? What is it, Orwell? Thoughtcrime? Nothing has happened yet and it all looks like childish and desperate money conflict. Even if they'd try to ban anything or anyone right now, potential lawsuits would sink FIFA/UEFA far quicker, than SL would. I wouldn't even be surprised if teams in question in CL would sue for damaging their reputation and potentially

Zero comments on this thread since WBA. How typical? He puts one very bad game and his haters show up. Now 4 great games and not a word.

two very good goals. should have scored more with the azpi header and the pulisic shot but overall good result. weren't threatened much.porto jsut like atletico only were piss poor cheaters and divers.

You can't use the International break as an excuse for Jorginhos Sunday league passing. Fucking fuming with his performance. Absolute joker.

Be careful what you wish for. Just look at Arsenal. That's all I'm going to say.

Meanwhile at UEFA headquarters: ”YAYYYYYY WE GET TO KEEP ALL OUR MONEY AND GREED ALL TO OURSELVES!!!” Parasites, the lot of them.

Nah , we got our club back

Been saying it for years, the Agnelli family are mafia

If Jose spins this that he fell on his sword over disagreeing about the Super League, another master class PR move for himself.

Hello Came back to read what everyone was thinking about this and thought I'd throw in my two cents. I think as several here already said that the initial negative backlash is to be expected and most likely already calculated by the 12 clubs. I also think that UEFA have a lot less power in this than they think and that their initial response basically showed all their cards to everyone. I genuinely think that this will go through and the 12 or 15 will get what they want. Side note: The hypocrisy of the Premiere League condemning a bunch of big clubs creating a break-away leagu

But at the same time, do we really want to watch Chelsea vs Barcelona say 4 times a year? Remember how people moaned in the past about certain clubs always face each other in the Champions League - e.g. Arsenal v Bayern? At some point, the allure of those big fixtures will be gone in the Super League and we'll be looking at those games like Burnley v West Brom. And it's also why our tie against Real Madrid feels big, special etc because we have rarely played them in Europe.

The timing is terrible. all the players now have their heads in the clouds... should i leave the club so i can sitll play the world cup? do we even need to win this? why the f did they not simply wait after the season is over... duds

This is quite possibly the greatest embarrassment in the history of sports.

This is after getting subbed I don't know whether he is in pain or praying for the team on the pitch, but man, I keep saying it over and over again but this man is such a legend that breathes football. And a warrior. Fingers crossed he is fine to face Real Madrid.

4th FA Cup Final in last 5 years

Feels like half time, we have to make this count by winning the final.

its bullshit, always comes against us in Cup semis and finals

Fernandinho should have been off already fuck Mike dean

He does not offer much else when he does not score goals and he is clearly very dependent on his teammates giving him good passes. He is currently nowhere near Mbappe level because even when Mbappe does not score, he is always involved in the game and always dribbles past players or makes good passes to his teammates. Haaland is basically a white Drogba, who reached his prime earlier, but even prime Drogba at 32 years old offered more than just goals. His hold up play was much more solid and elegant, while Haaland has a good hold up play, but it is still very raw. Drogba's link up play w

Yep, even if we don't win it puts our name firmly back on the map. On another note how much better is it having these runs knowing we have one in the bank already?

No offence but the conspiracy theories in this thread are way over the top imo.

There's been signs for a few weeks that our forwards were slowly starting to play their way into form and it appears to be truly happening at the perfect time. If we have Pulisic on the restart form with Havertz and Ziyech following suit we have a very strong chance at achieving our aims.

We play so much better without Werner

That is why Chilwell>Alonso. The latter could not have scored that goal to save his life with his turtle pace. Chilwell just breezed past them all.

Now comes his first real personal test. TT has always been great when things were going well but has a record of losing his patience and temper when players incur stupid losses. Has to get the team back on track quickly. The Rüdiger Kepa bust-up today was a first sign of things going ugly, hopefully he can sort it out. Only team spirit can get us through.

It's hard to come in mid season and un do the damage.. sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. It's next season that be be one to judge on. So many teams have had stupid games this season..this was our one.

1. If we can't beat West Brom without Kante and Mount, then we are really shit. 2. I don't think they are THAT important till the point we can't win most games without them, especially Mount. Only 2 weeks ago, we were lauding this team a lot for beating Atletico Madrid convincingly and that was without Mount. 3. Even if Kante had been fit today, I don't think he would have started considering we all thought West Brom were gonna just sit back and defend and his lack of passing ability would not have been useful. What transpired is a different story. 4. This match also showed I sa

Eh. Why did he let him remain on the pitch for that long. Jorginho is the reason why we lost the game completely. The crucial moments of the game was all on Jorginho.

Great analysis by Joe Cole and I have always maintained this. Our players are just not very bright.

Jorginho off. Like 2 years late.

Alonso is still on and Pulisic was sacrificed for Mount. Wrong call, TT

Unpopular opinion but Oscar was by far the superior talent. His technique was more polished than Mount's. Also Oscar was more creative and capable of extraordinary goals. Still what he lacked was Mount's consistency, hunger and leadership. That is why Mount will probably become a captain and legend for Chelsea while only the more meticulous Blues fans will remember Oscar in 30 years.

beast

Hopefully TT fires a rocket up their arses at HT

YESSSSS FUCKING GET IN

whetever it is worth when we are lacking crucial players at the all deciding end of the season.

HUGE loss. Kovacic is vital for both our shielding of the backline and for the transition to offense. Jorginho cant defend, Kante cant play an accurate forward pass so we are basically blunt in terms of couner attacks which is one of the very few reliable ways to score vs City. We can only hope he is fit for the CL semis.

Can you see this next month ?

As much as I love Reece and he’s 100% our best 2 way fullback, CHO offers a whole different level of attacking threat in the open field. What let’s him down is his final ball. Ironically, if Callum had RJ’s delivery he’d be a world class player. His pace and technical ability in tight areas is awesome.

I hope everyone sees the importance of Kante and Silva now, we dominated after they came on.

we do not like cannibals

Usually I absolutely hate the international but this time I was almost glad for it. Not for the international games but for the breather from everything Chelsea related, it's been absolutely relentless since the restart in June and it was good to get a bit of time to refresh and get set for what could end up being another relentless marathon of do or die games every few days.

@Vesperthose look way too nice to be real. Rumored away shirt below. Always liked yellow away kits.