cosmicway

There ain't such a thing. It's Mourinho ball after Eto left the club.

If Brooks f*cks you do you become f*cking pregnant ?

Watching Spurs ... the ordeal.

Pedro also missed a very easy one early in the game.

For which one pen out of the eight you felt 100% certain it was going in ?

Arsenal tv star

Claude told us everything about him.

Seiously this tie should have been 1-3, 6-1.

The Jorginho dance !

Since they are our principal opponents, a draw keeps them at bay. But it's not the result we look forward to, against the weak post-Wenger era Arsenal. Let's hope something will happen to make hammers go in the transfer window by that time.

All football teams attack using the wings. Other types of attack situations are the product some opportune situations. But we have opted for the passing game and it does n't work all that well - because we don't have five Hazards in the team. This is how Chelsea were playing under Mourunho, Conter and now (with the famous Sarri ball).

Most unconvincing.

we are playing shit

Yesterday we produced fnal efforts, albeit some were very poor like the shot attempts by Barkley and Jorginho that sent the ball sky high. The reason I feel we can't be seen to effect inside the box is because our midfielders are taking it easy and always look for the easy pass. But if they run the opposition, then they can pull defenders out and make things hot up front. The passing game is good but you need to have 3-4 Eden Hazards up front to dance through the eye of the needle (like Barca does in the shape of Messi - Iniesta - Suarez).

The biggest refereeing con in the days before var: Watch what happens. The no 2 standing next to the post handles. But it appears the ref has blue players infront of him and the 4th ref behind the goalmouth also has his view obstructed by the post, If that is not outrageous enough, the tv shows two (2) replays while the two refs were still conferring. The tv crewe -known for their bias in favour of the red team- admit of course it's a penalty and a sending off. But after the end of the replays we see the ref giving a corner kick - no pen ! The match was a cup final - 2 million viewers. A similar thing happened during Concacaf 2015 when Peru scored a handball against Brazil. The only difference was that the Americans did not broadcast the replays while the refs were in conference. But they showed them afterwards. The refs had no right to call the tv studio for advice in both cases.

Water polo was always being refereed like that. But yesterday the VAR officials were cretins.

Bl**dy circus clowns !

The Mark Spitz dive:

Not really. Against Leicester we were paddling. This was a case of bad luck and the ref could have given us a pen too.

No, we had final efforts tonight but the ball was n't going in. Still we have no forwards worthy of the name.

Spurs were fcuking lucky. Their penalty was an offside by a mile.

Against City last season was two tearful affairs. Against City couple of seasons ago we won 1-0 at the City ground after the defense performed heroics but it was n't parking the bus ! We hit the woodwork 3 times and failed to make it 2-0. You call that parking the bus ? I missed very few matches the last eight seasons, The only cases where we indeed parked the bus on purpose were those two & with 10 men in the case of Barcelona. But that's neither here nor there. When a team has to approach a match that way they should do so. I did not comment against our opponents of two days ago for doing that but because they are a very poor side and we should be winning 5-0 against such opposition. About Leicester I did not say the same things, because they put up a very good performance.

Incidentally we never played that way ! Only against Atletico in the semi of 2014 in Madrid. Against Barca, the 2-2, we were down to 10 men after Terry was sent off. I do not criticize, but that does n't make Soton a team worth talking about. Look at their table position.

Good in parking their bus. Okidoki. Maybe PAOK also, had they not been left with ten men ...

Sarri ball: About Sarri ball a description is given here: https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/what-is-sarriball-how-chelseas-tactics-could-change-after/pqijnswg5x3x1lpvp5yulnab2 It says this: So the tiki taka passing is meant to confude the defenders so they leave a gap somewhere, for the attackers to exploit. As such it's not something new. It's what Jose Mourinho said he was going to do back in 2014 (and he did win the premier that year in fact). So it's Mourinho ball ! It does n't work because our players bar Hazard are slow like Thames barges. So the vertical tiki-taka more often than not becomes the safe pass backwards, as if we are playing to slow things down. In addition when the gap is finally found, it's Morata at the receiving end who has managed to place himself in an offside position. With some other players or with some other level of opposition it might work. From all those systems, I prefer the Conte system, when we also had Diego Costa in the team.