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Just like under Jose. Where is the "Sarri ball", or attempted "Sarri ball" ; And if the opponent is as poor as Southampton was, then in 90 minutes one or two sort of chances will come up anyway. I found myself drifting many times today as I was watching this match and thinking about other things. The "boring-boring Chelsea" chant we were hearing many years ago. This type of display is 100% the manager's fault.

We were appalling once again. We could have won. Morata's goal ought to have stood, also the penalty. But the opposition were useless. Their best chance was a shot going wide and Kepa touched it so it went for a corner. Against such opposition Chelsea was a pain in the eye to watch. Any neutral watching this match would have switched channels in a couple of minutes. I don't understand this slow motion football we are playing. Why was Mourinho's system any different ? The absence of a forward of Diego quality is no excuse. I 've seen other teams with good players all round but a weakness in the number 9 position and they are not a pain to watch like Chelsea is thse days. That Chelsea was an Arsenal from the darkest lagoons.

Saw him yesterday against Spal. Scored one goal -alone, empty net- then missed a good chance or two. I reckon he 's better than Morata but not a great deal.

We 're back on an even keel, as the objective seems to be a limited one, to finish in the top 4. It's a pain in the neck to be 11 ponts behind the scouser team 11 points and 5 points behind Spurs (!). All these things are self inflicted wounds. Yesterday we played with no forward and it's better that way because both Morata and Giroud don't seem to be up to it.

The one thing I did n't like about the Leicester match was the almost total capitulation after they scored their goal. True there were the Rudiger and Alonso chances but they all looked like broken men, one childish mistake after the other. This was not the case in the other defeat, at Wolves. We tried for 20-25 minutes to come back against Wolves. Sarri has to find that psychologist.

Everybody was completely and utterly demoralised in the last half hour - except Kepa.

We could easily have won the bloody match. If one of the first half chances had gone in then Leicester could n't come back. Even if they scored an equalizer it would be different in the last half hour, so we could have won that way. Then everybody here would say "how nice". It was not like e.g. Spurs who outplayed us. I mean to say the dirt is hidden under the carpet even when we win. There are huge problems to be solved.

Vardy is a useful forward. Why is he not in one of the big clubs now ?

With Bats or Remy we might. After the 1-0 the Chelsea team might as well have left the pitch.

Could it be deliberately self inflicted.?

Spurs were lucky against us, with Atkinson a useful addition to their team on the day. We also made some dreadful mistakes. This time it will be different.

RIP

Chelsea just did n't care. It was a question of Vidi being able to produce just a touch of football, which they did. On the plus side the two free kicks - especially from Willian who could n't find the net from set pieces since Mourinho's time. Olympiakos ko'd AC Milan and could be Chelsea's next opponent. I think the strong ones are Chelsea - Napoli - Inter and no one else.

Courtois in Real Madrid

What Stirling did to infuriate anybody ? If thery were ahead and he was walking slowly towards the touch line it could be, but they were never ahead. He is not one of those players entrusted to kick Hazard either. It's a strange affair as much as it is unlikely to be racist abuse. I 've seen racist abuse in football grounds. In the 80s the Greek teams were all white and the first coloured player was one named Inluga, a midfielder and a very good one too. The man heard all sorts of abuse from the hooligans. Later we had Daniel Batista (the poor mens Gullit as he was nicknamed) and others. Daniel became Greek eventually and played for the national team also. But who could say a thing against him ? Non-football supporter hooligans is different. Sometimes they mix with the crowds and create ugly scenes. Greece v. Romania world cup qualifier of 2014 was one such when the racists created ugly scenes.

It does n't make sense. Half our squad our black guys. If it concerns an opponent or one of our players who underperforms, it just does n't make sense even if some in the crowd are racists. I don't believe it. In Paris it was different. It was off the pitch and a company of hooligans were horse playing on the train platform.

There is a blackman in the video who rants as Stirling. It's probably a false alarm.

Fantastic comeback but we 're still fourth.

Roman is selling the team for 3 bil. It's already down to 800 mil.

Prices are already out, 4.00-4.00-1.90. City -1 3.10 recommended City-City 3.00

All these plus we have become too static.

Even there the Bate Borisovs are finished now.

Shameful but expected. I could n't have known if Wolves were up to the task, but I did n't expect any better from us. Our goal was a fluke, then Wolves kept playing defensively and hoping for a miracle, which we made possible for them. Our strikers were useless, Willian and Cesc hit the roof from very good positions. From the rest no running of the ball, no nothing. We could at least have turned back to hold on to the lead and slow things down. We were not clever enough to do that either. Europa league next year, or maybe Balkan cup !

Hazrd was in Spain. Willian would be useful in this match,

Let Chelsea equalize against Spurs and then we would see if they could do it.